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Closing the Software Understanding Gap

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2 points·by uudecoded·el año pasado·1 comments

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uudecoded
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Agreed. The community orientation is great now. I had mixed feelings about them after finding and reporting a live vuln (medium-severity) back in 2005 or so.[1] I'm not really into social media but it does seem like they've changed their culture for the better.

[1] I didn't take them up on the offer to interview in the wake of that and so it will be forever known as "I've made a huge mistake."
uudecoded
·el año pasado·discuss
For what it's worth, based on somewhat frequent posts to r/cruise and Cruise Critic, travel routers are very often confiscated by ship personnel and held for pickup until departure day. They appear on major cruise lines prohibited items list (but curiously are banned on Carnival but not their subsidiary [name-redacted]).
uudecoded
·el año pasado·discuss
You'll be fine. BUT be sure to keep your live card out of a testing environment, because that's a PCI violation.
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
My list of seven things I wish I would not hear as an autist:

1. Loud refrigerators / appliances / computer fans

2. ICE engines with mechanical problems / modified exhaust

3. Smoke alarm replace-battery beeping

4. Noisy airflow (bad air gaps / glass insulation) in vehicles and rooms

5. Bad electric noise (bad AC/DC converters)

6. Emergency vehicle sirens that are too loud (I think this is a US phenomenon)

7. Television commercials that increase in volume over ordinary programming

I'm sure there are many more out there
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
Generally, but also especially when the position is "WordPress".
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
Thank you for sharing - I misunderstood - this is a javascript visualizer, and has no additional analytic capability beyond visualization, or did I miss something?
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
I read your profile and see that you are a CTO of a fintech. Given that, by what method do you navigate that tool's [explain.dalibo.com] assertion of "It is recommended not to send any critical or sensitive information"?

Is there an explain plan sanitizer that is helpful for this situation?
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
How long does it take to break even on the carbon output of asphalt demolition and haul-away vs carbon input of optimal density trees planted in the same space?
uudecoded
·hace 2 años·discuss
Has anyone noticed that there are now 78 comments on this post and no Rioters checking in? Have I missed something?

On any HN corporate layoff post, we should expect some volume of named company FTEs or impacted folks commenting. There seems to be a pattern here that has been ebbing and flowing over the last few years.

Should this be a titled phenomenon/effect? I see at least 3 options here:

1) Named company employees do not read/post on HN (if true, is this HN content? divergent topic...)

2) Named company employees are coerced or otherwise compensated to not comment on these matters, even if they do not directly impact them

3) Named company employees do not care about this n% layoff and are withholding comment

edit: formatting
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
This is great! I wonder how long until we see GPT-assisted decompilation.

Taking a peek at the source, it's so interesting to see the a piece of history. For example, this was released in Japan in 2000, then internationally months later. As I recall, there was awareness building around the idea that vibrating controllers (here, the N64 Rumble Pak accessory) cause RSI or carpal tunnel. Since the developers shortened the rumble length outside of Japan, it looks like they were aware as well: https://github.com/nanaian/papermario-dx/blob/main/src/rumbl...

I wonder what led to this decision being made at the exclusion of the JP release.
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
In Seattle (since Boeing was the largest employer in the state until Amazon succeeded them), there was a common line:

"if it's not Boeing, I'm not going" (See '79 bumper sticker: https://www.ebay.com/itm/332131135342)

Starting to look like it might be the other way around...
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
It's probably because they technically have to make that job posting and let it sit before handing it off to a contract firm for $300k.
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
This is a fine simulation, and, as described, it does not account for overhead baggage handling, and as mentioned in other comments: families traveling together.

If you have ever taken a commercial flight, you have seen it: the individual that needs two people to team up (or one highly capable one) and lift up or down their 40-50 lbs (~20 kg) roller from the overhead. Half the time, their help is in their party, but it slows things down.

I would estimate that this happens at least once every 4 rows on a fully occupied 6 seat wide aircraft.

Given this, forbidding passengers to bring carry ons aboard that they can't overhead lift themselves would be the only way to speed things up regardless of boarding/deboarding strategy.

Is that practical? Probably not.
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
Are those scare quotes or irony that isn't clear? Why link a CNBC article from 2020?

Here's a paper from last year: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9321237/

Yes, it's Omicron, but 32.4% asymptomatic infection is not very rare.

Asymptomatic carriers are 75% as infectious as symptomatic individuals: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
What if I want to live an AND life AND an OR life?

This post finds reasonable fault with false dichotomies as "OR life" then reifies the structure of false dichotomy in the title and proposition as positivist thinking.

I think the constructive equivalent is "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Or at least be mindful of the false binary trap, even in your personal life...
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
As a 25 foot Class C RV driver, I've encountered what you describe from heavy trucks, Class A's, other Class C's, Priuses, and Teslas. It's all over the place. I have to have a certain calm about it, especially on summer weekends on 101/SR2/SR20/etc in Washington.

The thing people don't realize is that speed limit advisory signs (on turns or downhills usually) are essentially mandatory for high CG vehicles - to avoid rollover risk.

To help you understand some reasons to refuse a pullout, here are the conditions that I think must be true for an RV or heavy truck to safely and practically use a pullout: (Maybe I'm missing something)

1) Vehicle is slower than the speed limit or lower than the safety speed advisory by more than 10 mph. (Yes, this is annoying for people that want to exceed the speed limit, but they can use passing lanes.)

2) Pullout must be visibly paved and clear for entry in advance of safe braking distance. (This is often a problem.)

3) The pullout must have good visibility behind it so the vehicle can safely get back up to speed from 0 after stopping. (Sometimes a problem.)

4) Traffic must be light enough such that rejoining the travel lane is feasible in less than a couple minutes. (This is often a problem.)

5) The pullout must have a safe path to return to the travel lane. (I have had to balk pullout attempts after nearing the pullout because this is not always immediately clear at a distance.)

6) Most importantly, the vehicle must not be followed either at an unsafe distance or by someone driving erratically. (I am not going to risk damage to my vehicle by braking for someone following too closely.)

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uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
I am going to go ahead and trust Tom Lane on this one, over someone who is working on "serverless Postgres". Godspeed to the forthcoming fork.
uudecoded
·hace 3 años·discuss
I believe that SF hotel occupancy is down, but it's not for the typical reasons that are fanned around: there are numerous South San Francisco hotels that are MUCH cheaper, 15-20 minutes away, and have free shuttles to the airport (SFO).

A lot of these SSF hotels are new and close to a quite a few ex-SoMa tech companies now in Oyster Point.

Apropos of nothing, on a 3 day trip, I did see a man, minding his own business walking, get "ride-by" assaulted by a mentally ill bicyclist in the marina. I think this fits with what I'm hearing about not prosecuting that type of thing there. Other than that event, the areas in SF I saw seemed cleaner/safer than it was pre-covid.