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by mcculley 3y ago
> Since then, the number of severe crashes has climbed. It is hard to say exactly why. I (unfortunately) have been doing a lot of driving on highways at night during the last four years. There is a noticeable trend in people watching vid
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by mcculley 3y ago
It won in places where one does not need to express an integer larger than 2^53. Lots of us have harder requirements.
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by mcculley 3y ago
This remains an unconvincing argument.
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by mcculley 3y ago
When I ended up in the tugboat business I was surprised to learn that there are markets for sand in both directions between Florida and The Bahamas. We export some types of sand from Florida to The Bahamas for use in concrete construction.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Yeah, I was specifically wondering about n>2. Your approach seems reasonable.
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by mcculley 3y ago
From the commit: “The values used were chosen such that it takes a large number of bit flips to change from allowed to denied. Using random values doesn't really protect against this attack.” It would be neat to see an algorithm that g
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by mcculley 3y ago
This does not match my experience. Can you provide some clear explanation or examples of why having less power to express a schema is desirable?
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by mcculley 3y ago
You think that is a conspiracy and not emergent behavior?
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by mcculley 3y ago
Not to me. I have lots of data exchanging going on where the format is expressed well in XSD and in JSON Schema it is expressed through documentation, code, and a history of angry emails.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I had a similar problem 18 years ago. I had bought a house with a heat pump connected to the water heater. When it failed, I could not find a local technician competent enough in both plumbing and air conditioning who would touch it. I ende
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by mcculley 3y ago
> JSON with a schema is strictly better than XML with a schema. I am baffled by this assertion. XML Schema (XSD) is much more expressive than JSON Schema.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I enjoy JSON for internal stuff and where it does not matter that JSON is not very expressive. JSON Schema is a poor substitute for a proper schema. For anything where I am interfacing with another person or team, I send them a DTD or XSD,
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by mcculley 3y ago
Indeed. I get a lot of value out of my strongly typed XML documents. I generally have code that validates them during writing and after reading. Those who don’t understand XML end up learning why it is verbose when they eventually add all o
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by mcculley 3y ago
Very cool!
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by mcculley 3y ago
While I agree that I don't want to hear about some things in the workplace, I don't know how to define that. Many decisions a company makes are inherently political.
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by mcculley 3y ago
What were you developing or working on with them? My only exposure to Symbolics was as part of a simulation system.
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by mcculley 3y ago
The people who attend council meetings are not at all representative of the general myopia that results in so much regulation. Yes, I have also attended such meetings and interact with NIMBYs. They are part of the problem. General myopia is
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by mcculley 3y ago
> There tends to be belief that housing regulations exist to limit supply. It is often more the case that limited supply is an unintended outcome. People just don’t think ahead.
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by mcculley 3y ago
Nobody needs monster trucks either. People will continue to use ridiculous machines as they become more affordable.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I seem to remember that the limo driver in the parking garage had one.
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by mcculley 3y ago
It has been presented as evidence (e.g., https://corrcronin.com/2023/05/never-off-the-grid-how-to-fin... )
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by mcculley 3y ago
I was not synchronizing with anything but iCloud. Before the recent update that fixed it, I was in the habit of disabling WiFi when on battery so that my laptop would not drain my battery. contactsd definitely was doing something dumb aroun
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by mcculley 3y ago
I am certain that it is because I have a large address book and one or more cards exposed a bug. I expect that people with simpler address books (almost all users) never saw this. I reported it to Apple and never heard anything back, as exp
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by mcculley 3y ago
contactsd was burning 100% of a core for years for me until a recent update.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I rent often and almost always from Hertz. They have recently been trying to push me into renting an EV, which would not work for the ranges I drive. I have waited in line behind other customers arguing about not wanting an EV.
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by mcculley 3y ago
I did not argue for "storage of all voice recordings of the flight deck in perpetuity". I argued against what is "accepted by the crew" being considered.
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by mcculley 3y ago
> "Idle chat" is important for safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_flight_deck_rule I agree that the crew should feel free to chat. And when there is an accident, they should expect that the reco
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by mcculley 3y ago
Passenger rant? If ICAO can require keeping 25 hours why should a crew get to choose 2?
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by mcculley 3y ago
I operate tug boats. It is also remarkably boring for much of the time. The crew knows that they have no privacy when in the wheelhouse operating hundreds of tons of steel. They do have privacy when not on watch. Regardless, decisions aroun
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by mcculley 3y ago
It is reasonable that passengers know that the desires for the crew to have "idle chat" are less important than safety. But t0mas88 made clear that what is reasonable is less important than what is "accepted by the crew"

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