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by doctor_eval 2y ago
After the first accident, Boeing was said to be blaming the pilots, in private, despite knowing about MCAS but not revealing it. They deliberately misrepresented the design (and in particular they minimised the severity of the failure modes
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
What are you talking about? From [1] in 2021: > The airplane manufacturer broke the agreement by “failing to design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughou
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
There were two crashes. The CEO most certainly should have known about the problems after the first one. It’s the CEO’s job to ensure that sufficient measures are in place to prevent failure. They should not be punished for accidents; they
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> Who is ultimately responsible for management at a company though? Technically the board is ultimately responsible for management. It’s the board’s responsibiity to hire delegates and to monitor their performance. That’s how it’s suppos
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
My experience has been that users like to include a lot of information that's not relevant to the application I'm working on. My application couldn't really care less about customer names, for example. But the people who buy
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I’ve been doing some reasonably serious playing with the idea of using jsonb columns as a kind of front end to relational tables. So basically, external interactions with the database are done using JSON, which gives end users some flexibil
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I got nerd sniped by this and asked GPT some questions. Given a 45kg RTG plus the weight of the drone itself, you’d need to be able to lift, say, 60kg. Energy required to hover 60kg using a 4-rotor drone at 70% efficiency is about 10kW - ac
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> That's one of the reasons I would like to have a more algorithmic society with human in the loop calling the final shots and placing the rationale on top But isn’t that what the rule of law is supposed to be? A set of written rule
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I am Australian too, and share your discombobulation. That said, I lived in Toronto for a while, many years ago, and enjoyed the “Aussie Chips” they served at some pubs - despite never having had chips with cheese on them in Australia.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I don’t work in the field at all but > it will actually out-compete us for resource control. And will no longer be a tool we can use. I’ve never been convinced that this is true, but I just realised that perhaps it’s the humans in charge
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> That seems like a nightmare. I sure don't want to go through the trouble of making 10 different orders just to save 10%. If I wanted to jump through that many hoops I'd pick it up myself. I believe GP is saying they don’t car
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
No, it was walnut and pecan (they are related, it turns out). Some other minor reactions but those were the big two.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Yeah I was a huge fan of Svelte 4. I haven’t used react at all, but I took one look at svelte 5 and I just felt sad. I’ve gone back to Vue for now.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Are you talking about svelte 5? (Serious question)
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I’m compelled to make a couple of comments: 1. I feel that one big and important aspect of devops that isn’t mentioned is that smaller releases are less likely to have killer bugs. If you can release one change a day rather than 100 changes
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
A month or two is nothing. Go back to it after 5 years.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Fair enough, though I was really just saying that simply because they are doing something simple doesn't mean that don't (or, more importantly, won't) do something complex. In the LWN article discussion it's mentioned th
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I can’t answer for sesame, but my kid has an allergy to a specific nut, that we discovered after mum picked baby up after handling said nut, leaving bright red welts on their little body. No ingestion required. Subsequently, immunology depa
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
You’re assuming that’s all they are doing, and that it’s all they will ever do, but neither assumption is supported by any evidence. Apple is saying what test broke, not that other tests aren’t running.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation, however I was more curious about why ARM would have an advantage over x86. I think the sibling comment explains it - x86 makes memory consistency promises that are increasingly expensive to keep, suggesting that
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I don’t have strict view on nuclear but the link I posted goes into detail about why the current proposals are nonsense. There is zero chance that the technology being mooted will be available in the given timeline. The purpose of nuclear p
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Yes, and apparently we will soon be the world’s largest user of small modular reactors*. I can’t wait. * nonsense Australian opposition talking point intended only to extend the life of fossil fuels in this country. https://renew
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I know next to nothing about CPU architecture so please forgive a stupid question. Are you saying that the x86 memory model means RAM latency is more impactful than on some other architectures? Is this (tangentially) related to the memory m
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
> Seizing 100% of a person's economic output is slavery right? This is a ridiculous argument. Just because the statement is true, doesn’t mean it follows that you can measure enslavement as a percentage of economic output or that an
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
You can’t have it both ways. This: > freedom to do whatever the hell you want > Yes! Cannot be followed by this: > My rights to wave my fists around end where your nose begins. because the latter can only be prevented through eithe
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
Of course. But at least try to minimise the damage. Don’t do anything you’ll regret.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I’ve been gaslit, I ended up walking away from my company. It was extremely painful. > Doing a little damage might be cathartic. Please avoid the regret. Do something kind instead. Take the high road. Take care of yourself.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
I don't disagree with that, the main problem is that such a service doesn't exist, and so it goes to the public purse instead.
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
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by doctor_eval 2y ago
TFA is explicitly about Facebook externalising its support costs to small claims courts. If RPI was accused of the same thing, I'd feel the same way. Anyway, as I understand it, RPI externalises support costs to retailers. I can certai

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