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afrodc_on Indiana lost more than 260 acres of wetlands since rolling back protections

What percentage of wetland is it?

(I missed the wetlands text. Disregard)

afrodc_on Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast

Doesn't it lose a lot of money and its usefulness is directly correlated with its current massive usage.

afrodc_on Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings

I don't know about you, but with tech salaries, rent is the least for my concern. I think that's true for most people that don't live in ridiculously high cost of living areas.

afrodc_on Ask HN: Is all code crap?

I mean the reason we write code in business is to make money and continue to provide features/fixes at an efficient rate to continue to make money. If you can do it right the first time within the confines of the time allotted, go for it. But if it comes at the cost of making money/spending time, we aren't doing it for an esoteric reason.

afrodc_on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

How would you even enforce this? You'd require a minimum of 10 companies at all times and mandate user distribution? That wouldn't work

afrodc_on Heaps: A free, open-source and cross-platform game engine

I had no idea Dead Cells was made in this. That game is incredibly sharp. Need to play around with this as it seems relatively simple.

afrodc_on Kazakhstan internet shutdown blow to global Bitcoin mining

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Committee_...

> The NSC was created in accordance with a law passed by parliament in July 1992 which authorised the establishment of an agency to replace the KGB, the old national security apparatus of the Soviet Union.

This would be the KGB offshoot. Belarus also has a KGB as do other post Soviet countries, I believe.

afrodc_on South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

Man this is the most non constructive response I've heard. I'm looking for a resource of data showing hospital utilization and you come say me with this nonsense.

afrodc_on South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

Where are they packed? Genuinely curious to see some data about this.

afrodc_on South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

That's not how drafting for a war works at all. There's extensive training for all the positions, unless you're considering the mythical notion of how Russia sent bodies to war with no weapons

afrodc_on eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars

This. Header trace propagation is a godsend.

afrodc_on Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

Alternatively, it would be like kicking out the person trashing the place or screaming obscenities and making everyone uncomfortable, which is generally accepted in the real world.

afrodc_on Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

This is so true. Anecdotally, my dad worked in FABs on chips and stuff in the 90s during the dot com boom before they stripped all those jobs away to outsourcing and it basically destroyed him as an older man. Funny how we're desperately trying to get the silicon manufacturing back after we sold out.

afrodc_on Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

To the untrained eye, it definitely is a huge cost center. Devs and smart people get premium dollar for their work, as they should, but for the bean counters, execs and bad managers, it's extremely difficult to simply quantify the work in such a way to see it as a value add. Especially in an executive excel sheet/powerpoint

afrodc_on Court Dumps Texas's Social Media Moderation Law as Clearly Unconstitutional

Why do you think social media platforms should be common carriers? Generally curious.

afrodc_on Apple announces Self Service Repair

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

This is the latest example and they have had previous lawsuits before about intentionally throttling devices which leads to people buying the latest devices.

Their earnings reports depend on volume of iPhone sales, so the incentive exists to push for more.

> I've never seen them as a revenue growth chasing business

Apple is always chasing revenue growth. They're notorious for it. Most businesses are..

afrodc_on A terrible schema from a clueless programmer

Generally authentication is authn and authorization is authz

afrodc_on Governments turn tables on ransomware gang REvil by pushing it offline

Did they fail to arrest anyone? Or are you just making up stuff to be snarky?

afrodc_on My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

Is there a reason you shelled out with a subprocess versus using a library like ldap3? Just curious

afrodc_on Where are the robotic bricklayers?

Yes I think what you're saying is accurate. My apprehension is the lack of concrete data we have for comparison at the time to whole heartedly put my life in the hands of engineers, for this particular thing. I do, however, look forward to a well vetted, tested and regulated, automated driving future.

afrodc_on A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

18 for consensual actions, barring abuse and trafficking

afrodc_on Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill

Can you expand on this? What about crypto will make it such that you can afford a home? That more people throwing in more money will increase your valuation such that you can exit to fiat and leave the bag for someone else to hold for them to hope people throw in more fiat?

afrodc_on Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to big infrastructure bill

So that points to it not being a fiat currency issue, but more something along the lines of labor exploitation? Excluding some industries, there has been no forcing factor to increase wages and the outsourcing of labor just taking money off the table entirely. That's in stark contrast to incredible year over year profits for corps.

afrodc_on Where are the robotic bricklayers?

Sorry for the delay. I don't get notifications. Not sure how people are so active on here with communication. Maybe you or someone could recommend a way?

Anyways:

> But what do you mean by 'across the board'?

By that I mean across all of the people driving in the US and their rate of incidence. For example, average miles driven, the amount of drivers and the rate of accidents. I think the most intriguing detail could be drawn from the rate of fatal accidents, since that's the most concerning, ignoring accidents that cause a casualty as I don't know the method for gathering that data off hand. One could glean a lot of info from that. Here's some rough numbers I gathered, and please forgive the naive approach to my data gathering to express a point:

Average miles driven/person[0]: 13,000 Average fatalities/year[1]: 37,000 Approximate number of licensed drivers[2]: 231,652,000

I don't have numbers for self-driving cars and the number of accidents, but regardless, would it perform the same with the same number of miles driven per car. Keep in mind that self-driving cars currently aren't navigating in all circumstances and will beep to make the human take control again. At least with Tesla.

[0] In 2019, there were almost 229 million licensed drivers in the United States. (Source: https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/) [1] Over 37,000 Americans die in automobile crashes per year. More than 90 people die in accidents every day. (Source: https://www.thewanderingrv.com/car-accident-statistics/) [2] https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2018/10/number-of-licensed-dr...

afrodc_on Where are the robotic bricklayers?

I've heard the opposite of this in that self driving cars underperform compared to human drivers across the board. The sample size of self driving cars doing everything a driver does is also miniscule. Do you have a source?

afrodc_on Where are the robotic bricklayers?

I think this has more to do with cost and convenience more than being a better representation of what it's actually like driving on the extremely varied state of a track. You can see this with the practice laps being extremely important because of the way the tire compositions, weather and car set ups change the dynamic of the cars drastically. The simulators can't replicate this effectively.

afrodc_on In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

They also lost the war

afrodc_on Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

> Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

> If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting, that's not a K8s problem.

Also whatever load balancer/service mesh you have can be configured for 503 rerouting within DC as necessary too.

afrodc_on The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies

I mean you eventually run out of people to shoot to take bags from if you can't reasonably create more of the currency through economic activity and war is prohibitively expensive. It's also not likely the persons holding the bags that can already pay for their own troops wouldn't do so.

afrodc_on Generate a Git repository with 2^28 commits—one for every 7-character shorthash

It's usually a shorthand reference to figure out what commit your image is built from. Unless you're implying something else