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I agree that automation is ideal. But let's face it: most companies haven't.

The goal of a business is not to have perfect engineering practices. It is to fulfill customer requests. When there is an outage in the middle of the night, I'd argue that a degraded system buys time to address the issue.

Regardless of the mechanism, having a sudden, complete breakage is not ideal for a business.

Cert Expiration is a problem that needs a better solution when a company does not renew it. These were internal certificates. Still important but not user-facing.

One possible solution might be having the client introduce an artificial delay of 10 seconds or some other time when it encounters an expired cert, or adds an additional second of delay for every day it is expired. This degrades the connection but does not immediately break anything.

I distinctly remember an interview on Win95 launch day where the local news was interviewing a guy in a computer shop about his thoughts. He was unimpressed. He said something like, "Mac* already does this and much better".

When the iPhone launched, my reaction to it was essentially the same as the guy in the computer shop. Boy were we wrong about the impact both would have on the industry!

(* Edit: can't remember if he said Mac or OS/2)

> it was dead bodies lying in the streets

I remember seeing these videos in January 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Young, healthy-looking people, too. I'm very surprised that there were not similar instances outside of China.

It is thought provoking to think that the USA's interest in Taiwan is more about protecting TMSC than protecting a democratic state in East Asia. By this line of thinking, building capacity in Arizona, or anywhere outside Taiwan, is good for TMSC and for the USA but weakens Taiwan.

This is still a little bit rumor so it is not clear if it was a fat finger mistake or intentional. I would like to see an official comment from GoDaddy or the site owner.

I don't own guns, don't care for them, couldn't tell you the difference between an AR-14 and a AR-15, but the forums on that website did show up on Google search results quite often. There were some interesting non-gun discussions that I found via Google Search, kind of like Hacker News.

If GoDaddy nixed the site for a political reason - which is still not clear - I wonder if Hacker News could ever get similar treatment in another country, in the basis that "Hackers" and "hacking" has a criminal connotation.

I click on the ads of products I dislike so that the company gets charged for the ad. If you wanted to inflict the maximum damage, then click on the ad and install the app. Uninstall it later. I think the ad gets charged more as a "conversion".

I worked at Macromedia with many people who worked for Elop before he rose to executive heights. All had very nice things to say about him. One speculated that he might even serve as Canada's prime minister one day.

Reading him branded as the worst CEO in the world makes me feel bad for him considering all the nice things I've heard about him. It is easy to throw around insults and labels, but let's remember that the truth can be nuanced and not so simple to explain.

Edit: fixed the political title based on comment below

I very much dislike Prometheus, but the fact that AWS is offering it as a managed service means I am in the minority. I attribute much of Prometheus' success to the influence of ex-Googlers. They joined other companies, had a lot of clout, and sought out a tool that was similar to what they once used.

I understand that the Google version of Prometheus is deprecated but there is no commercial equivalent.

Android frustrates me on many levels, but I appreciate having the source code to dig into. If the same issue happened in an iOS device, Netflix would need to do the workaround.

Call independent repair shops in the Bay Area that specializes in Macs. I could not get the name of the GPU repairer because the repair shop earned a hefty fee being the middleman.

I had the same issue happen recently: replaced the battery, GPU soon failed. My trackpad also stopped working.

For the GPU, I took it to a repair shop here in the Bay Area. They were able to quickly diagnose and sent it to another shop in the area that specializes in it. Was told it was a simple soldering fix. Apparently a guy makes his living doing this since he knows exactly where to solder.

GPU issues aside, I think the submitter wanted to draw attention to the fake charger posting about a hotel fire. It sounds like a much more interesting story than this battery GPU issue.

After reading articles and anecdotes about the way Amazon treats its employees - warehouse and office - I tried to stop giving my business to Amazon. It is hard. Amazon offers a much better customer experience. Trying to place an order at Best Buy or Staples or others, I often encounter random website issues or distribution issues (bad packaging, out of stock despite showing available) that I never had with Amazon. So it costs me more time. Amazon is also cheaper where I live but I'm willing to spend a little bit extra on the alternatives.

What scares me is that Amazon is getting so big that there will be a future where some products will only be online and only on Amazon. It will be too expensive for local retailers to carry them. Amazon will control distribution and supply. That is not a future I want so I put up with the inconveniences of not support Amazon, even if I am tilting at windmills like Don Quixote.

1) If people are really interested in the topic, they should read the source material and draw their own conclusions.

I thought the article's characterization of Westervelt's tweet was incorrect. The author claimed that Westervelt "inadvertently revealed how the fear of being tarred by association motivated (Westervelt) to turn on (Roost)". Instead, Westervelt's opinion comes across as more nuanced.

2) I am happy I keep semi-anonymous accounts. In an age where it's easy to be the internet villain of the day, I thank the heavens that Natural Language Processing hasn't reached the point of deanonymizing me yet.

I looked at purchasing a home in another cheaper locale and also came to this observation. This area has regular floods. New neighborhoods had flood problems. Old neighborhoods did not. The areas without flood problems, and close enough the to main job corridors, were priced high enough to defeat the benefits of moving for the sake of a lower cost of living.

Thanks for the link. I'm not familiar with that case so there is some further reading for me to do!

Unfortunately I get the impression that this is how you get proper support from Facebook or Google. Make a Reddit or Hacker News post, get a few upvotes, and someone with influence inside the company files an "Oops Help My Friend" support ticket or contacts another person with the right authority to take a look.

I get the impression that this is an opportunity to paint a political story that makes your side look better (other side is suppressing the vote, therefore my candidate lost!), or perhaps in this specific case, to poke fun at America as it is a favorite international past time.

The data I see shows another possibility: voter turn out has increased by a large amount and the government is struggling to meet the demand. Over 20 years, the number of voters in a presidential election has increased by more than 30 million. That's more than the entire population of the state of New York.

We must not rule out the possibility that rogue apps are siphoning data for ad targeting, especially given AT&Ts Privacy Policy: "We do not use the content of your texts, emails or calls for marketing or advertising".

AT&T _could_ choose to violate this policy but I imagine it would open them up to legal risk that they would not want.

For those who have been directly affected, file a complaint with your state's attorney general. For California, here's a link: https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busine...

I would think that Attorney Generals love clear cut cases that affect a vocal and voting portion of their constituencies.

Second, what are the better alternatives? I use Namecheap and so far have been happy with them. Proud to say that a domain name I was researching months ago is still not registered.

There is a lot of "idolization" in the this industry. Those who have accomplished much are sought out for their opinions on all types of subjects, 1) because they are influential, and 2) there is some belief that the methods which led to their success in one field are applicable in the other fields they ruminate about.

I have no doubt Paul Graham has (or had) an anonymous account here. I'd love to see the responses to his comments there. I expect to see a bit of downvoting and people dismissing his (anonymous) ideas.

PS: The website design is excellent!

Get started with any exercise is difficult! Soon after I commence, I find exercise-induced injuries that force me to rest until the pain goes away. A younger me would ignore the pain bit now I'm not so invincible anymore.

More exercise also necessitates more sleep, which can be hard to do when there isn't enough of time.

A lot of Boeing's current dilemma is the failure of executive management. A commonly written story is that the competent executives at Boeing, who were focused on solid engineering, were pushed aside by the political McDonnell Douglas executives.

McDonnell Douglas was purchased almost 25 years ago, so perhaps it may be a little unfair to ascribe all of Boeing's current problems to that one event. Still, as an engineer, I can't help but notice executive management operate in similar politically-bent ways at some tech companies I've worked at.

Also told on Page 34 of Ron Insana's Traders Tales: https://books.google.com/books?id=NyeVNsWvJHAC&pg=PA32&lpg=P...

Exactly, I am not attempting to contradict the article, I'm just providing another opinion related to ER visits during this time.

The article doesn't address the opinion that my doctor relative expressed: there were a lot of ER visits, not trauma related, that probably didn't need to happen.

There is also another opinion: that many people go to the ER who don't really need to go there.

I had to visit the ER recently. I did not want to go but my doctor insisted. A family member who is also a doctor also insisted I go.

The ER was eerily empty. The ER doctor saw me immediately. There were only a couple of other patients that I could see. This contrasts to prior experiences in the ER where there is a long wait as I get triaged, with lots of people waiting to be seen.

Fortunately my situation was nothing serious. When I returned home and told my relative, he said his hospital's emergency department was also very light. In his opinion, there were a lot of people going to the ER who didn't need to go in the first place.

Edit: I am referring to non-trauma related admissions to the ER. E.g. I have a headache and I am going to the ER to be seen now.

With the world explored and mapped, it is hard to fathom new cities being built. Nevertheless, that will certainly happen in the future.

What will the catalyst be? Will it be nuclear war, which devastates and contaminates an area for decades? Will it be disease that makes existing urban areas less desirable to live in? Will it be economic opportunity, as we discover new uses for land or a new way to use land? Space Travel?

I see a small parallel to startups: it is easy but dangerous to say "there are no new ideas in that industry". Yet often some of the primary companies are those that survived the early "land grab" of customers.

This brings back so many memories. I graduated with a Comp Sci degree from a well-regarded university. I had friends who graduated a year earlier return to school for a different degree because there was just nothing available with a degree in CS. So demoralizing.

I graduated a year later and took a job making a little over minimum wage. At that time, the most influential executives at my workplaces said software engineering in America was dead, to be replaced by cheaper outsourced Indians, and then other countries once they became too expensive. It set the course of my career. I am in tech but not a Software Engineer. Had I graduated a year later, I am sure I would be a Software Engineer today.

The fear and feeling of instability in this industry never left me.

There are going to be a lot of fundamentally good businesses going under because they mismanaged their cash flow. There are going to be a lot of promising products cancelled because their companies needed to shift resources back to their main products.

If there is any silver lining to the economic destruction happening right now, in a few years I hope to see strong businesses that were started during this time.