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by praptak 2y ago
...now back to my hourly check of HN frontpage. Gotta be diligent and keep up with the industry news.
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by praptak 2y ago
Duh, obviously I want "shipping the roadmap" in the OKRs. OKRs should capture everything you plan to do, otherwise what's the point? Obviously I don't want the whole roadmap, just the part we commited to. You probably
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by praptak 2y ago
Part of the eradication effort was hacking this mechanism by convincing humans to use a closed container of water when this happens. The contaminated water can then be safely disposed thus breaking the cycle.
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Everything would be porn by that definition.
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by praptak 2y ago
> It only turns into a Waco when you accumulate a following of sorts. You don't need a Waco for many people to die a violent death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
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by praptak 2y ago
It was MPs from both parties: Adamczyk (PiS) and Sowa (PO) who opposed the investigation[0]. When it comes to "helping the business" both parties act the same way. [0] https://www.wnp.pl/logistyka/chca-by-sp
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by praptak 2y ago
Newag, the company from the presentation is still getting fat government contracts: https://en.railmarket.com/news/rolling-stock/25459-newag-s-g...
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It's a huge ecosystem which turns 30 in May. Yes, it accumulated lots stuff that was cool back then and isn't so cool now but overall is doing pretty well (COBOL was 36 when Java got public).
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The latest update I found is [0] but there aren't any substantial updates about the criminal part of the affair. https://kolejowyportal.pl/dragon-sector-newag-wprowadza-opin...
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It seems AGPL but also has a paid tier which makes me wonder what their business model is. Is it only the hassle of self hosting that stops potential customers from having the paid features for free?
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It might get tricky. Midsummer already has a spending stimulus. Summer vacation is when people spend their money on tourism.
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Related paper on automating the process: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340467372_Efficient...
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by praptak 2y ago
Have enough of such sites and you have prevented establishing a civilization that doesn't care about radiation.
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The initial simulations might give you a slightly wrong idea about the shape of Moon's orbit around the Sun. It doesn't form any loops (you can see that in the later more precise simulation) and is in fact convex (this one is a bi
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And a full environmental collapse is not even strictly necessary to end civilization. If the climate perturbation is large enough it will cause a mass migration and an economic disaster, either of which is enough to cause a war. Can humanit
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What does it have to do with anything? What I want for my future self now is obviously 1. having the choice and 2. reasonable care so that the choice isn't forced.
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If time is infinite then the argument from exponential complexity doesn't really work as a counterargument to Boltzmann brains. It might take Rayo's number of years plus five for a good measure but it is still bound to happen with
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by praptak 2y ago
I want the ability to answer such questions with an accuracy slightly over 50%.
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by praptak 2y ago
Yes, it is a counterintuitive aspect of mathematics that "for all x in X ..." is always true if X is an empty set, just like "A implies B" is always true if A is false. I once passed a midterm by abusing the latter. The
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by praptak 2y ago
That's the same principle which makes it wise to first do some copy pasting before you abstract stuff into a common library. Gathering some (more than two) concrete use cases before you factor out the common functionality makes much be
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111 was also easy to butt-dial on cellphones that had physical buttons.
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It's an attempt to make the phone receive-only, a cost cutting measure. I know about the switchhook trick from friend's father who actually used it to bypass this measure on a phone installed at his military unit during the mandat
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by praptak 2y ago
A fun fact about pulse dial is that you can dial a digit d by quickly tapping the switch hook d times (zero is 10 taps). This is useful for dialing from a phone with the dial intentionally disabled or removed.
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by praptak 2y ago
It's not only misguided job security. Silos is what you get by default. You need additional effort to prevent silos rather than some nefarious additional effort to lock information up. People who are uncertain that they're still a
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by praptak 2y ago
"As is the fact that around the same time others also warned that one common consequence of mass layoffs is they tend to turn internal systems into black boxes because everybody with a deep understanding of them has left." Direc
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This is the point. It is very desirable for sabotage to look like standard corporate inefficiency. Smash equipment, waste thousands and get caught. Delay a big project, waste millions and nobody notices.
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by praptak 2y ago
Linux C style guide has this summarized pretty well: "The maximum length of a function is inversely proportional to the complexity and indentation level of that function. So, if you have a conceptually simple function that is just one
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Combine this with a large timezone difference and you get a (literally) slow motion disaster. Imagine waking up and finding your change thoroughly reviewed but not approved because of a triviality. Not a great day.
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Author's point is not that it's too simple but that it is not relevant. It's not similar to asking a mathematician to do first year math problems, it's asking them to, dunno, remember obscure regulations on accounting.
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The conclusion is similar to the Greenspun quote "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

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