letitbeirie

8 ms·

31.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
> tying OKRs to bonuses Goodhart's Law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_
32.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
I think it was something like |---]/[---[ONS]---[MOV]---|
33.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
The most haunting comment line I've ever seen was buried deep in an Allen Bradley PLC: > I don't know why this rung is needed but delete it and see what happens for yourself Did not fuck around; did not find out.
34.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Probably harder in a practical sense - its signal doesn't travel through walls or most commercial windows so the intercepting sensor would have to be located in the same room (if indoors) or have a heroic signal/noise ratio to avo
35.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
This is pretty cool - being able to identify/segregate traffic by its physical room seems like it would be a useful tool for anyone in security, university professors giving exams, etc. I can't really see it totally replacing Wi
36.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Does he want to call it "Operation Dark Storm" by chance?
37.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
They have a version (LMDE) based directly off Debian. It's slower to get updates (because Debian) but it's pretty much the same apart from that.
38.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
> What if your cable provider removed a bunch of channels you pay for, but haven’t watched yet Isn't this about people getting upset over Rockstar removing cars they didn't pay for though?
39.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Yeah even if the bacterium magically took care of gum health, it would need to somehow be able to dissolve tartar (calcium phosphate) without dissolving teeth (also calcium phosphate).
40.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
I think that's a pretty astute observation. Visiting the UK (from the US) it was pretty clear that the social boundaries were different, but the general nature of the game was the same - we're both guess cultures: you have to figu
41.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
It also buys you that support in the driver libraries. I ran into this last year - storing them as UUIDs works great, unless all of the drivers for the language you're using (Go, in my case) try to cast/validate those bytes as a
42.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Postgres supports UUIDs natively
43.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
> at some point monoliths can get large enough that upgrading libraries or runtimes becomes an incredibly difficult problem Some languages (e.g. Go) make this easier than others by allowing two versions of the same import to coexist, but
44.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
> 2.5 hours of entertainment in a climate controlled and comfortable environment I watched probably half of the movies I've ever seen during my last summer of college because the house I lived in didn't have air conditioning an
45.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Basically a digital dead drop.
46.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Suddenly? No. Gradually? That's roughly what's happening in Denver right now - nobody's been building anything but luxury castles for years, but we saw our average rent drop last quarter for the first time since the recession
47.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Whenever an app that has no business knowing my location asks for it, I always wish that iOS "Always Share/Share While Using/Share Once" modal had the additional option "Share Fake Location." I get why it doesn
48.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
It's good to have the occasional reminder that the letterboxing modern websites use is not, in fact, a total waste of screen real estate.
49.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
Not to mention the other metals that go into EV batteries - switching to 100% EV production means jaw-dropping increases in demand for copper, zinc, nickel, chromium, molybdenum, graphite, etc. Then there's the fact that Russia is a to
50.
by letitbeirie 3y ago
My favorite part is the "[Don't share with candidates]" (helpfully shared with the world) at the bottom
51.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
Oblig: https://xkcd.com/927/
52.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Top Gear has used the exact sound of the siege tank from Starcraft going into siege mode a few times before.
53.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
> No shit smart people are studying coding instead It's hard to come anywhere close to software money as a licensed EE designing the electrical things, let alone as the one building them.
54.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
> hostile to other workers It's also hostile to the practitioner if they last long enough at the same company. I end up reinventing my "clever" (until I forget the context at least) hacks more often than I care to admit an
55.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
Depending on where the furnace is located, it can be cheaper and have a lower carbon footprint. In my area of the US for example, gas costs 32￠/therm, which equates to 1.1￠/kWh. Electricity on the other hand costs 6.4￠-10.9￠/
56.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
If you're using `json.Marshal`, you're using `reflect` [0]. It's slow and it's an absolute gold mine for runtime errors, but sometimes it's the best tool for the job. [0] https://cs.opensource.google&#x2F
57.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
> Create a culture that allows employees to come to you when THEY need to. This is great advice in general but regular 1v1s give you a forum to proactively ask employees how things are going, which can help you detect problems quieter
58.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
> running them more successfully The time scale that success is defined on is important here. The root of the issue seems to be that manager types don't view profit as the market's reward for making a good product; they view it
59.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
That's unreal. One bad year for admissions and the administrators will outnumber the students.
60.
by letitbeirie 4y ago
At those temperatures you're up against the flash point of gasoline, which is already the lowest of any (liquid) fuel I can think of.

More ›