manarth

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931.
by manarth 11y ago
You just have to look at Therac 25 for the risks of relying on software interlocks alone. One of the prevailing pieces of feedback was the lack of hardware interlocks - whether that's possible on anesthesia machines I don't know
932.
by manarth 11y ago
Genuinely, in road safety, the company typically considers and weighs the cost of fixing an issue, vs the cost of lawsuits in the event of death/injury. One paper on the topic talks about the Ford Pinto fuel system design: http:/
933.
by manarth 11y ago
"What do you mean you can't be bothered to run the automated test suite that I have handed you on a silver platter on your build server?" As devil's advocate, why not just run this for me (e.g. on every commit/every
934.
by manarth 11y ago
"An Italian boy who fell into a canal…" "The 14-year-old, who is said to have jumped off a bridge in Cuggiono…" It sounds very much like 'journalist-speak'. When they start with "He fell into a canal"
935.
by manarth 11y ago
McDonalds might call themselves a restaurant (and I'm sure many others also do, Burger King, Wimpy, KFC, etc)…but I'm sure most people wouldn't describe them as a restaurant - it's a convenient marketing term, nothing mo
936.
by manarth 11y ago
The main difference is high-pressure water (espresso/keurig) vs low pressure water (drip coffee). They taste very different (e.g. whiskey vs beer). You could even argue that there's less waste in espresso-style…people make a singl
937.
by manarth 11y ago
"Are these machines radically more convenient than the alternatives?" Yes. Drop the capsule in the machine, press the button, come back a minute later. A noticeable difference in effort when you drink a lot of coffee. Slightly les
938.
by manarth 11y ago
I do buy takeaway coffee, and at a burger place, I might use ketchup sachets if that's all they have. But for use at my home, I buy bottles of ketchup, not sachets. Given a choice, why would I choose to succumb to waste? It's lik
939.
by manarth 12y ago
FAA permitted "PED" use (Personal Electronic Devices) for passengers from late 2013: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?cid=TW... Other countries are slowly following suit.
940.
by manarth 12y ago
To add to the comments about immobilisers, in a number of countries (UK and Germany, amongst others), from 1998 all new cars were required to have an engine immobiliser. Most manufacturers simply made them standard for all countries, so nea
941.
by manarth 12y ago
I worked for a medium-size web agency who used a third-party marketing company. That marketing company cold-called companies on their database, kept track of things like when they last had their website rebuilt, what technology they used, t
942.
by manarth 12y ago
Ahem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491060 :-D
943.
by manarth 13y ago
You think making a bike is /more/ polluting than making a car?
944.
by manarth 13y ago
Something that's not been mentioned much is the impact on the benefits system - and specifically the cost. Presumably this would completely replace all benefits - everyone gets $X a month, as a universal benefit. No specific claim for
945.
by manarth 13y ago
The article describes a policy that is /absolutely/ that: "being paid for being alive". The policy described doesn't require you to work full-time, part-time, or at all. "Every month, every Swiss person would r
946.
by manarth 13y ago
Three critiques: 1. Browser auto-completion of forms will break, because that typically uses the form name to identify the data that's expected, and this plugin hashes the form name. 2. The page would not be cacheable, because the hash
947.
by manarth 13y ago
One hypothesis: what if (genuine) civet coffee is so good, because the civets' nose smells out the very best coffee cherries, and only eats the best? Therefore, if it's crapped out the arse of a civet, it was a very good bean.
948.
by manarth 13y ago
Unfortunately, some of the side-effects of experience are distrust and paranoia. These are very effective experiences in software development. If this theft happened to an experienced pro, then their data is encrypted and backed up, so all
949.
by manarth 13y ago
The comment was referring to "gas fired bath water heaters", which appears to be a specific type of heater fitted in bathrooms for heating the bath water…hence the potential for increased CO risk in the bathroom. My hot-water +
950.
by manarth 13y ago
I've never heard of such a thing, let alone actually seen one in a bathroom. I've lived in the UK for all (bar a couple of years) of my life. [edit] I found an academic paper that discusses the safety of these heaters - dated 1973
951.
by manarth 13y ago
My point about hyperbole was that it's "an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally ". To be fair, I hadn't come across Brett's work before…but anyone writing with degree of det
952.
by manarth 13y ago
Um, I suggest you look up the definition of the word "Hyperbole". I understand that as a Googler, you wish to defend a fellow Googler, but please differentiate between the arguments of "I disagree with the premise of your arg
953.
by manarth 13y ago
Thinking about it further, it's an interesting question. A typical HTTP system has 3 roles: the client, the intermediaries (proxy/proxies/CDNs/caches), and the application (which combines the server, and any edge devices
954.
by manarth 13y ago
PUT /user/123 { id: 123, following: { foo, bar, baz } }
955.
by manarth 13y ago
I'm sorry, I must have missed the <hyperbole> tags. Yes, the comment is embellished, but the only place where GET and POST are the only verbs is in a basic web browser. Step outside that world, and the other verbs are in use ever
956.
by manarth 13y ago
Don't we stick everything into the body of a JSON object in a GET request these days?
957.
by manarth 13y ago
"Practically speaking there are only two HTTP verbs: read and write, GET and POST." And thus spoke someone who has never built a REST API, never used curl -I, and probably hasn't used anything other than a web browser to acce
958.
by manarth 13y ago
An $80M yacht sounds impressive…but if it were a tanker full of crude, the outcome could be rather more newsworthy.
959.
by manarth 13y ago
Many countries consider whether something is a job based on what it should be paid (accounting for typical pay, minimum wage, etc), rather than what someone is paid. This is to prevent abuses such as shipping in workers from a poorer coun
960.
by manarth 14y ago
"It has been my goal to start a business since ever I can remember." "This is my chance to turn the boat around, and realize my goals." Make lemonade, sell it on the streets at weekends. Voila! You have a business, and realised your goals.

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