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3 years agodiscuss

If there is any chance that human error contributed to this disaster (either via the people there or maintenance deferred or done less than perfectly), then "a more humane work schedule" would have made that less likely due to everyone involved being well rested.

4 years agodiscuss

Not OP, but you could have a priority queue where you acknowledge each element as up/down/neutral and the change in score that you provide would affect it's location in other people's queues.

4 years agodiscuss

Optimal isn't the right way to think about it. It's a tradeoff. Hub-and-spoke is usually better at getting you to your destination in less absolute time given the same number of total flights since you can have more frequent "shuttle flights" that travel to the hub, exchange goods/passengers, and shuttle back. Point-to-point on the other hand, is better for minimizing travel time since you go directly to the destination.

7 years agodiscuss

Health data is scary because of HIPAA (and the equivalent in non-US jurisdictions) not because it's inherently special or hard to make sense of.

7 years agodiscuss

There should be some punctuation in the title. The tool is named "Help". A quick skim doesn't make it seem like the author is in need of urgent assistance.

7 years agodiscuss

Bob seems to be using pronouns that are associated with both genders. Seems to be their thing. In any case, Bob seems like a fairly competent hacker and that's all that really matters here.

7 years agodiscuss

>they are not enforced ... widely, rigorously and thoroughly

That's a major source of the danger. If they were being consistently and equally enforced, then it would be obvious when there were issues. In the case with selective enforcement, the government can point to the law and say they're in the right, but only apply it when it suits them. This lets the people making the rules and the people who are in their good graces do what they'd like due to selective enforcement and not face the consequences of their actions.

7 years agodiscuss

"UAV" has stronger military connotations for me. I'm not sure it's inherently better. Maybe something entirely new is better? "AAV" Autonomous Ariel Vehicle, or something similar?

7 years agodiscuss

One thing that does bother me about the Bechdel test is that it is represented as "passing is good enough". The Bechdel test intentionally sets a laughably low bar. Just because a piece of media passes, doesn't automatically mean that it is good representation for women, just that it is not so horrendously obviously unbalanced.

7 years agodiscuss

Continuity seems like a good reason. If you have a team that has expertise in mainframes and need a new service, it is potentially cheaper to build a new mainframe than it is to hire a new team to run your new service.

7 years agodiscuss

According to the wiki article, the sentences aren't mandatory. They're presented as a choice where one choice is a period of time in jail and the other is an action in the community and a shorter period of time in jail.

IANAL but, I suspect that since the full length jail sentence is considered neither cruel nor unusual and is an option for the convicted person, that should mean that if they choose a different option, it can't be cruel because they found that option more pleasant than one that is already determined to not be cruel. I guess this assumes that people will tend to choose the less cruel punishment given two options, but that seems like a safe assumption.

7 years agodiscuss

I type relatively quickly (95 wpm) and I didn't even notice the delay until "really not great" (100 ms) and it didn't bother me until "we're done here" (200 ms). I think it has more to do with expectations than it does anything else... A "slow" text box just isn't that annoying. I'm usually waiting for my fingers to catch up with my brain anyway, so there being an extra few ms doesn't change much. It's a little disconcerting to see the text all catch up at the same time and back spacing at the slowest setting was annoying. But still not seeing what the big problem is.

7 years agodiscuss

Edit your terminal's font settings. Without knowing more about the setup you use, I can't be more helpful.

7 years agodiscuss

How does driving as a quadriplegic work? What are tools and modifications that make it possible?

7 years agodiscuss

Is there a source with the explicit ban rather than a link to the wikipedia page?

7 years agodiscuss

I'm gonna disagree on this one. When you're just starting, the installation process can be nontrivial and the terminal window is scary. Having less friction there makes it easier to start and build some confidence. Once you have some idea of what you're doing, you can realize that you want different versions of the language.

7 years agodiscuss

Cmd+Shift+N reopens the last closed window

7 years agodiscuss

Since there is a quote calling it "natural gas" later on, I'm guessing this is a typo on the city "Freemont", since that's where the gas is coming from.

I've since been corrected... Seems I didn't read closely enough.

7 years agodiscuss

This one? https://www.xkcd.com/844/

7 years agodiscuss

I think knupunk has a better ring to it, and is still a palindrome.