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One red flag that stood out for me is where the blog says the team considered all apps to be the same and hadn’t looked at any of their logs, only infrastructure stuff.

When they looked they saw all apps were not the same, and it was only a few kinds of apps that were affected.

When a big incident hits, you need people drilling down not just across; and hopefully people who know the actual apps in question.

Maybe this was DevOps people too far into the ops side and not as much on the dev?

I was really surprised and happy to be able to take a picture of my son’s hand written Christmas list and the phone made the text selectable with very few errors.

I do consulting for a lot of different companies. The older ones who did not religiously use PK/FK constraints have databases that are nightmares to maintain. The data will start to rot surprisingly quickly, devs will react by writing weird code to compensate, and your life will not be fun.

It literally did nothing at all.

Before I started using Flonase for my congestion, real Sudafed was the only thing that would work when I had to fly. If I forgot, take off and landing would be miserable because my ears wouldn’t pop.

Visiting the school once in a while is not the same as seeing daily class activity.

It was certainly true for us that Covid allowed us as parents to see into our children’s daily class lives. Some of it was good, much of it…was not.

Not everything at Costco is a win price-wise, but if you do even a small amount of research you can find a number of items that are huge wins.

A pint of pure vanilla extract for $9.99. Dog treats at about half the price of pet smart or online stores. Kirkland brand Flonase is about 75% less than you can get at a pharmacy. Kirkland brand Claritin is ridiculously cheap, 365 tablets for under $20.

You very rapidly get back your yearly fee.

Actually my focus was less on poor people and more on the incorrect assumption in the article that true check fraud was non existent.

This started out as a good narrative on the history of checks, but quickly devolved into a political rant about poor people being victims of banks, and no real criminals write bad checks.

The first is true, but the second is not. Check fraud was a very big deal for years for criminals. I don’t know if it is anymore given the progress in electronic payments.

The curriculum consists of reviewing the history of comic books, reading a lot of comic strips, and watching several graphic novel driven movies such as Superman and Watchmen.

It is a consumption course. Kids don’t actually learn how to write graphic novels. That might actually might be worthwhile.

It’s nonsense because this is a public high school, government mandated and paid for by taxes.

I want to know what world this author is from. High School math in public schools has been dumbed down repeatedly over the years.

Calculus in High School? Increasingly rare to non-existent.

What we need is the opposite - a return to traditional curriculums, and stop non-sense like a 5 credit course in graphic novels (a thing in our district school).

Agree with all this. The key is to make it relatable to the students in some way.

My son was struggling with Romeo and Juliet because of the archaic language, and the teacher never explained what many of the words and phrases meant. I would sit down with him and explain a scene in modern terms eg “OK, so basically the boys are going to a party, and one of Romeo’s friends is telling him not to be a stick in the mud and sulk off in the corner, but to actually have fun and talk to people”.

At the beginning the play was completely alien to him. By the end, working together, he came to understand that the play engaged in timeless themes that are as true today as they were 400 years ago (love, prestige, ego, jealousy, anger, despair, remorse, etc).

“If you have no skin in the game, don’t comment”.

I’m sorry, people who aren’t Jewish or Palestinians are not allowed to have opinions on this?

I’m sorry, but Israel can’t just pull out their “anti-Semite” card at will and do what they want without the world reacting.

The Israeli government - like any government - can make mistakes. And can be criticized. Criticizing the government is in no way anti-Semitic. To believe otherwise would be to believe the Israeli government is divinely chosen and can do no wrong, like the Pharohs of old. Sorry, but they are people and people can make mistakes.

Which again does not excuse Hamas.

But Israel cannot wage unlimited war on the people of Gaza at will forever.

Thanks. No, I don’t hate Jews or Israel. I am very critical of the Israeli government at the moment, which is hardly a unique view.

I get your point, but at the same time dragging anti-semetism into the argument weakens the voices of those who really are not anti-Semitic at all, but genuinely question the Israeli government response to the Hamas attacks.

Which is, I suspect, the point - to weaken those viewpoints.

And to address others in this thread around US actions around the world, I am critical of the U.S. war on Afghanistan and the second Iraq war as well as the Israeli attacks on Gaza.

One can be critical of a government without despising it.

It is interesting to me how your narrative went from somewhat reasonable to talking about “imparting hatred” and concluding it is anti-Semitic.

Which is kind of what the article is talking about.

I’m not holding them to a higher standard.

Imagine if you will someone going to start large scale bombing NYC. Or London. Or Rome.

The Hamas attack was unprecedented and horrific. I don’t know that it justifies declaring all out war on and entire city.

I can say that without being anti-Semitic.

I have no skin in this game.

What I have seen is a confusion (perhaps intentional) between anti-semitism, and protesting Israel’s behavior since the Hamas attack in October.

Criticizing Israel’s response is not anti-Semitism- it is literally just criticizing the response.

Agree. I am not an expert on AGI, but I suspect this route is a dead end because I believe true AGI requires interaction with an external environment to learn eg there needs to be a feedback loop to external things that it can interact with and learn from.

“You learn best from your mistakes” comes to mind here.

And not just shallow feedback loops but bigger, more profound ones eg “I didn’t go to work for a month and so I was fired and and now I have no money and it will now be hard to be hired again”.

I was incredibly lucky that my college way back in 1987 gave all engineering students a PC XT loaded with things like Turbo Pascal. So much better than being stuck on a time sharing system in a lab…

I agree. The commenter seemed to be targeting older kids though.

Covid quarantine showed us that extremes should be avoided. You can get quality time without destroying your career.

Yes, spend time with your kids, but try not to smother them, and ensure they have a diverse set of interactions with a range of people.

I noticed the yearly revolutions seemed short. Then came across this line in the article “The entire system could fit inside the orbit of Mercury”.

That is a very crowded space in orbit close to this star!

No, it was caught by our trading ops guys. A few minutes after I hit enter I got. Rather chilling phone call from them. So that part of the system worked

At a major brokerage firm I accidentally hit prod with a testing script that did several millions of dollars of fake FX test trades.

The first thing mentioned in the post mortem call was “No one is going to blame the guy who did those trades. It was an honest mistake. What we are going by to do is discuss why a developer can hit the production trading API without any authentication at all”.

With only two weeks left to go, why was a multimeter completing the telemetry circuit?

Part of the allure of trains is much higher volumes of passengers. Part of the value prop would be many more people willing to take a train then fly.

Flying has huge friction to engage in, as OP indicated Japanese trains have almost none.

This is of course the correct answer - it depends on the context of your code. A single dogmatic approach to testing will not work equally well across all problem domains.

Simple stateless components, hitting a defined wire protocol or file format, utilizing certain API’s, testing numerical stuff, implies unit testing will go far.

Stateful components, complex multi-class flows, and heavily data driven domains will often benefit from higher level integration/end to end tests.

What are the implications of the AGPL license for this (if any)?