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That’s the weird part. I doubt they’re using the space so this strikes me as “think of the money we’ll save on hours” bean counting

Vegas makes a fuckload of money off everyone who thinks they’re smart but doesn’t understand statistics

Coding is a really interesting field in how quickly it's developed, and I think there's a lot of people who assume their environment is the only environment and it should be that way for everyone.

Spending time digging through commit messages when tooling and design makes it harder, not easier, is a risky proposition if it turns out it was all fucking useless and you didn't find anything worth reading and are now even farther behind. Either due to the quality of the messages or a lack of your ability on your end to find what you need.

I'd love to work in the sort of environments these people seem to but it's just not been the case. I'm at a smaller company where I get to wear many hats, and coding/development is just one of them, but I know plenty of people at very large companies who also don't really do things like that because "putting in the effort" isn't rewarded as much as whatever arbitrary metric they're graded on.

I honestly don’t think this would work. The number of “well why should I care if they have the data” conversations I’ve had is just depressing.

Yes but I think the courts would instantly shoot down having the NSA collect everyone’s garbage and sift through it for anything incriminating

This is a void that should be filled but is akin to tv or news paper of the past which were as close as you could get to breaking and also privately owned.

The tech is there now for the government and other entities to distribute with open protocols or things like rss, but Twitter never was that

I think being missed is more than that:

> The warrant authorizing the raid expressly forbade federal agents from engaging in a "criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety [sic] deposit boxes."

and then

> Under typical FBI procedure, the boxes should have been taken into custody until they could be returned to their rightful owners. But those "supplemental instructions" drawn up by the special agent in charge of the operation told agents to be on the lookout for cash stored inside the safe-deposit boxes and to note "anything which suggests the cash may be criminal proceeds."

So no judge was involved in the decision to seize cash. It was an agent on the site who came up with supplemental instructions. There are a million reasons this should be illegal.

For the record the point was it already handled the fans and tvs fine, but having it store garage codes as well would make it that much more useful

I thought so at first by my initial reading left me somewhat confused on if there's a private key that only certain remotes have or something like that?

The part I don't get is even if you flash the firmware, does that mean you can make sure it doesn't make all other remotes fail? My understanding of the whole rolling code system was that you could get a few uses and then you were screwed.

If that's not the case I really need to do this because having it handle my tv's, ceiling fans, and garage door would be a nice trick.

Well we had this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-twitter...

(full opinion here): https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1365-trump-twitter-s...

which while resolved, really opens more questions than it solves (which is fine because legislating from the bench shouldn't be the norm...)

There need to be very clear laws about how social media and modern tech is used to present information. Hell for the first time the government should have the ability to directly release information and not be reliant on normal privately owned distribution, and that should be investigated as well.

This whole thing is a giant can of legal worms anyways, and it only gets worse because our legislative branch has decided to devolve into high school popularity contests and just let the judiciary sort it all out.

I'm aware which is why I mentioned that.

The big issue is you can't be banned from newspapers, radio, and news channels. And there was still some question about "can you just announce this on the news or is that going to be unfair to people who don't own TV's". You can absolutely be banned from twitter.

There's also the standard of keeping records. The government is supposed to have immaculate records of these sorts of things with a whole shitload of legal nonsense involved in it. Twitter has complied with this under recent presidents but it's a big question of "do they need to?" and "what happens if they don't?".

For starters it like violates the FOIA, which is a serious thing.

We really really really need some legislation about governmental agencies using privately owned companies to announce things.

There was already some for radio/early news, but the landscape has changed so much, and it bothers me a ton that these platforms are being used.

Which seems totally irrelevant given that we're talking specifically about Boeing failing to meet US regulations (and a bunch of international ones as well).

Selling a car without an airbag in a country that's decided you don't need airbags is the choice of the country. If you wanted this to be similar it'd be selling a car in a country that wants you to have airbags, but yours don't work. Which would be a company I'd avoid.

When a plane crashes, twice, totaling 300+ dead, people are right to get skeptical.

When the investigation into those crashes reveals a shitload of corner cutting on safety regs, people are right to get skeptical.

When another version of the same plane made by the same company has an in flight blowout and the fleet is grounded AGAIN (yes i know just the 9s but remind me how many other companies have had entire lines of their plane grounded in the last 20 years), then yes I think it's reasonable to want to avoid any of their newer plane models as clearly the level of safety and quality appears to be declining.

Flying is still safer than just about any other form of travel, but that's basically because we mandated a shit ton of regulations and safety to make sure that even penny pinching corner cutting corps wouldn't have people dying in droves. Boeing has clearly decided to push that envelope and they deserve all the bad press they get for it and I fully understand people who already have a quasi irrational fear of flying freaking the hell out over this.

I would certainly not buy a car from a company that's clearly disregarded safety so badly, and would prefer avoiding being in one for any other reason (friends/rideshare/whatever).

Hooooooooly shit you weren't kidding.

For unrelated reasons i've had to hop back in to tweak an app we made a few years ago that's been buzzing along in production ever since. Last time I touched it was more than a year ago.

The actual editor interface is horribly unresponsive, but it seems to fix itself if i close and reopen the browser (firefox). Still it gets worse with time and it used to be no where near this bad.

As bonus points, functionality that is working in production no longer works in the editor! I found that I had to add yet another clause to all my functions because for some reason it no longer pulls all data from a sql table unless you use show columns to specify you do in fact want all of them.

While i'm still extremely skeptical there's anything to this, especially with the total lack of professionalism in the initial "discovery", I'm not sure something this big is within their ability to control, at least if they're not right on the cusp of it.

This kind of science is almost inherently international, and I don't think they could possibly keep up "keeping quiet" all the potential successes.

That said, if there was one, I do think they'd at least try and fail.

I used PowerApps.

It is so so so close to being a silver bullet tool for quick front end crud that can use your AD to authenticate.

Instead though, it’s got the most absurd pricing model that even their own reps don’t understand and is missing critical or basic features, requiring strange workarounds (fucking UTC dates vs what’s actually in the DB).

They USED to have no way to reuse code as well but they fixed that.

I feel like the issue is they’re still too married to basically low/no code environments.

Having a “I’m going to need to do a custom script in whatever” option would smooth out the edges so much

Basically for the same reasons they don't let you buy other toxins/dangerous materials with almost no alternative use?

There's the "uber sleep" method or whatever it's called. Made the rounds in my circle of friends in like...2007ish?

Basically you force yourself to only take 4 15 minute naps a day. A utterly hellish thing to do, but eventually your brain figures out that you've decided to terrorize it and will instantly dip into REM the moment you fall asleep, and you'll wake up feeling rested and only need to sleep an hour a day.

I personally tried this for a bit and it kinda sorta works, but it's awful to get started, and the first time you sleep more than 15 minutes you're going to break the trend and revert, and who knows what long term effects it has on people.

Sleep in general is one of those really interesting areas of biology that we still don't get.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Otherwise I hope this isn't totally accurate. Not because i like musk/tesla, but because it'll be just another case where i'm galled by the fact they were even allowed on the road in this state, and the complete lack of safety standards and consequences.

My god people still post worthless sarcastic crap like this?

Multiple can range from 2 to 2 million and magnitude matters.

How many is multiple? The only information I can find says it's 4 a year

https://raisedbyturtles.org/bowling-deaths-double

It's even better when supposedly one of these deaths occurred due to "Extreme bowling" which apparently involves a half pipe. So yeah, this comes off as extremely misleading and just for clicks.

You'd probably save more lives banning all the beer and unhealthy food served at the alley, or by banning sports with a higher death toll, like soccer.

Strikes me as a way for alleys to operate cheaper by several magnitudes, and then just cover that up in safety rather than say "look people don't want to pay enough to bowl with machines"

> If you are holding up the approval because you want someone to rewrite the code the way you would have written it, get out of the way.

While I'm being pedantic here and get your point, I do think it's important that code is following proper styles.

I get that there's a bunch of nitpicky nonsense that goes into code review, but making sure it follows the same style so in 6 months when someone else has to dig through it you don't have to teach a totally different pattern/method or figure out what arcane bullshit they did is important.

And again, I'm sorta assuming this was implied but wanted to throw it out there since it's one of the most annoying things i've ever had to deal with.

Yeah i've come across a few names that are code terms and cause major issues if you're not doing things right. No special characters required.

Part of the issue with this is that people get attached to their characters, but 5e doesn't actually have a rule set that works super well with that, in the world it has.

It's moved over the years from the meat grinders of the early editions to the much more character focused ones now, but some things haven't really kept up.

The big one being character death becoming trivial midway through, and the combat kinda being centered around that. Death doesn't mean much when you just keep reviving them, and it's left up to the DM to figure out how to balance that (since the 5e economy is a mess).

5e long ago should've adopted a downed/injured system like much of the competition, with death being much more rare. Then again there's about 100 other things they should've done, and it's pretty clear they won't, so meh. Guess it just sits on the DM's

And might have been had we cared at all as they rebuilt it way larger.

Then to my limited understanding that's less "pure" than haskell isn't it, which doesn't allow side effects and thus forces monads?

So i can't check this at work, but have we seen the document they've all been signing? I'm just curious as to how we're getting this information

I glanced at the example code and it looked like it allowed side effects, but maybe I was wrong. I haven't had much time to mess with it and seemed to be able to hard crash the repl doing some testing so it's something i'll have to look at later.