maxbond

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1. 631.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   Anyone who does on-call should look into aviation disasters. Crew resource management, the aviate-navigate-communicate loop, it's all very applicable. ('WalterBright is an excellent source of commentary on applying lessons from th
2. 632.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   I just want to call out that, whatever the facts of this case, pilot heroism is way more common than pilot murder. This is off the top of my head, so don't quote me on the precise details, I'm probably misremembering some things.
3. 633.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   There's precedent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8qCTAjsDg [30s] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT58pzY41wA [15m] The Cirrus system is deployed by rockets, allowing it to function at a very low al
4. 634.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   Encoded JPEG data is random in the same way cows are spherical.
5. 635.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   Sorry if I touched a nerve, wasn't my intention. My question was genuine and not intended to needle or carp. I hope you have a nice evening as well.
6. 636.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   > It’s a big deal to me not to spread misinformation or be mistaken in a situation like this. Then why not either wait until there's more information or temper your remarks by acknowledging there's still ambiguity? That would d
7. 637.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   > there is no way to enforce access controls (I thought this was a fun puzzle, so don't take this as advice or as disagreement with your point.) There is the option to use functions with SECURITY DEFINER to hack around this, but the
8. 638.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   FYI there's a "delay" setting in your profile that allows you to make your comment invisible for up to ten minutes.
9. 639.▲
   by maxbond 1y ago

   You've no obligation to answer, no one is entitled to your time, but it's a reasonable request. It's not sealioning to respectfully ask for directly relevant evidence that takes about 10-15m to get.
10. 640.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    > Ultimately everything eventually becomes predictable if analyzed deeply enough. How would this apply to hash algorithms, but not CSPRNGs?
11. 641.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    I think we should use more nuclear energy, I think nuclear powered container ships are under explored for instance. But it's not so simple. Nuclear energy programs can become nuclear weapons programs. A larger uranium mining and proces
12. 642.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    I had missed that, thanks. That is whack. (The input to fibonacci() is it's last output.)
13. 643.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    > The sequence it follows is 2, 1, 1, 1, ... I just ran it, and as long as you start counting at 1, their code works fine, outputting `1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ...`. (Not sure why they say the Fibonacci sequence starts with 2, that's odd.)
14. 644.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    If all else is held equal, then yes, that follows. But the debate is more or less that some think it will hasten that timeline (through nuclear warfare and accidents) and some think it will delay it (by reducing pollution/climate chang
15. 645.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    "Exception" comes from hardware/state machines, and the name reflects that they may not be error cases. For instance, if an embedded device is waiting for a button press, then pressing that button will put the MCU into an exc
16. 646.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    I knew someone who started a farm of Spirulina (a microscopic, edible algae [cyanobacteria]) in a very different climate from where the seed culture originated. They did really poorly for the first few days, they were the wrong color and th
17. 647.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    A bridge for deer isn't any easier to build than a bridge for pedestrians, even if you don't care about deer being on a bridge that collapses there's a highway underneath. Cars would be crushed and traffic disrupted. So we&#x
18. 648.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    NB: He didn't jump (and apparently didn't necessarily believe ChatGPT either?). The phrasing in the TFA made me think he'd jumped.
19. 649.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    (No affiliation, just what I've picked up.) HN doesn't depend on Firebase, the HN API does but HN isn't built on top of it (and presumably the API is down). HN is a monolith which uses a disk as it's database, it goes do
20. 650.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Yep, you have to be explicit when coordinating across timezones. I never say "how about 11" in that context, I say "how about 11ET." If you want to do that by using UTC as a lingua franca and everyone does their own conv
21. 651.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Pragmatism is compromising lesser principles in service of higher principles.
22. 652.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Different parts of the world are at different times of day, that complexity doesn't disappear if you ignore it. The more distributed your team is, the more important this becomes. People keep saying timezones only exist because of iner
23. 653.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Sometimes people interpret the complexity of the world as something to be eliminated rather than confronted and managed.
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    by maxbond 1y ago

    > Also the same principle applies to all life Actively maintained equilibria abound, but this is not typically the mechanism. Different species in adjacent niches aren't better or worse versions of the same organism to be evaluated
25. 655.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Sometimes the best way to respond to a question is to address it's premise, and I was more responding to the second question ("what were people doing before"), but see my later comment for a more direct answer.
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    by maxbond 1y ago

    My biggest problem with them was that they were painful, my hand would start cramping and such. I think the benefit of it being bound is a.) they don't want you to use your own paper because it might give you an opportunity to cheat an
27. 657.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    It's not a replacement for a math exam, it's a replacement for an essay. You get some sources and a topic and have an hour or two to write an essay, by hand in the exam room. The alternative being to have the proper time to think
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    by maxbond 1y ago

    I think "apophenia" (attributing meaning to spurious connections) or "pareidolia" (the form of aphonenia where we see faces where there are none) would have been good choices, as well.
29. 659.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Gjengset was very helpful to me as a beginner, and the "Crust of Rust" and "Decrusted" series are aimed at beginners, but mileage varies and there's room for more suggestions if anyone has them.
30. 660.▲
    by maxbond 1y ago

    Interesting idea. I suspect that you could figure out someone's "pruneprint" from their fingerprint, but that's just a hunch I have no evidence for.