brianpan · HackerTrans

Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble.

But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos.

Really interesting investigation!

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Jurassic Park had a Thinking Machines CM-5.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15

"The lights flash just like they do normally, although it's hard to understand why a theme park needs a supercomputer."

:D

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3/4/5G/LTE networks and 802.1x predate their 8 years in aerospace. I worked on some of those 25 years ago. If you're not an EE, maybe you also didn't consider the lead time of working on HW to its adoption.

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You should not be touting magical health benefits on a sample size of one either way.

There are already plenty of studies available to be found.

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Like a person playing the piano.

If your arms are resting, then your fingers and wrists are doing the maximum amount of reaching as you type. If you use a wrist rest you are encouraging your fingers/wrist to reach up (bend in your wrist) instead of neutral or reaching down (more natural position).

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4개월 전discuss

Optimal line length is a thing.

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5개월 전discuss

This is a way to tell if something is social media or attention media.

"Surfacing the best comments" is only a problem at scale. And attention media demands scale whereas your social circles break down at scale. Commerce sites (like Yelp or Amazon) also demand scale, so they also have a "surfacing the best" mechanism.

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5개월 전discuss

It's a cost-benefit analysis like many other things. There are limited resources, they should be spent on investigating cases that have a chance of getting closed.

Cold cases might get reopened because of advances in technology or other changes over time.

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6개월 전discuss

Late reply, but did your colleague go from ICE BMWs to an EV Model 3? For me, zero maintenance and no more stopping at gas stations (you need a charger at home) were HUGE advantages to switching to an EV. So I also really liked switching from ICE to Tesla EV.

But I also much prefer my EV BMW to my previous Teslas. Nicer to drive, nicer features (better sound, HUD, sunroof), hardware controls, door handles that you can open with either hand, better in weather (no rain in the trunk).

My family complains the i4 has a smaller cabin, but the driver's seat feels just fine to me. :D

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6개월 전discuss

Not saying please or having to be polite is often simpler.

Knowing and using etiquette is often more effective.

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If we're comparing notes, I traded in my Model 3 for a BMW i4 and I couldn't be happier. It's a nicer car and more fun to drive!

JD Power and Consumer Reports both rate BMW above average.

BTW, my impression of BMW maintenance from prior decades is expensive and not great reliability. I care about it less now with EVs because there is so much less regular maintenance. No oil changes, no brake pad changes, etc.

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You said: alcohol can be an amazing way to clean screens.

It's still true that: alcohol is a very good way to destroy the old glossy screens.

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"Universal design" or "design for accessibility" will give you lots of examples of constraints that are not "commonly" needed ending up having much wider application and benefiting many other people.

Some oft-cited examples are curb cuts (the sloped ramps cut into curbs for sidewalk access) and closed-captioning (useful in noisy bars or at home with a sleeping baby).

There are many examples from the web where designing with constraints can lead to broadly more usable sites- from faster loading times (mobile or otherwise) to semantic markup for readers, etc.

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7개월 전discuss

I felt really silly that the answer is just adding a "-i".

But then I tried it and...WHAT?! Git is an endless rabbit hole of complexity.

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7개월 전discuss

I think you're thinking about git as a separate thing from the IDE.

I love using IJ + git because there are no seams in between edit and commit. For instance, with IJ, I could easily split every other line of a change into separate commits.

Maybe there's a way in git to stage only certain parts of a diff, but I'd have to go an learn another flag or command that I'm going to forget by the next time I need to do it again.

Also with IJ, I just glance at my main branch tab and the highlighting tells me what commits aren't in my checked out feature branch.

Two small examples but there are many more and it adds up.

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8개월 전discuss

You're right. A good postmortem/root cause analysis would START from "unwrap" and continue from there.

You might start with a basic timeline of what happened, then you'd start exploring: why did this change affect so many customers (this would be a line of questioning to find a potential root cause), why did it take so long to discover or recover (this might be multiple lines of questioning), etc.

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8개월 전discuss

The diffs are the biggest reason I use it (beside the 3-way diff, I can't live without: blame, optimize imports, all the editor functions inside the diff, diff files/commits/branches).

Beyond that: separating into change lists (staging changes by line inside a file) and the graphical presentation and filtering of the commit history (highlighting what commits are in/out of your branch, show the git history of a section or line of code, show repo files at a commit)

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8개월 전discuss

I don't think the distinction is animate/inanimate.

Submarines sail because they are nautical vessels. Wind-up bathtub swimmers swim, because they look like they are swimming.

Neither are animate objects.

In a browser, if you click a button and it takes a while to load, your phone is thinking.

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8개월 전discuss

Even potluck parties tend to be better on average when someone or a few people are "in charge". In my experience, even when people are just getting together for dinner out, there are people who step up more to organize.

Are you sure there aren't certain people driving these "informal" parties?

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9개월 전discuss

I think you are restricting social media by defining as what it became (at the time driven by "eyeball" metrics), instead of defining it by what it could or should be.