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Coming soon to Netflix: The Wrath of Tardigrade.

There isn’t a database of every US citizen’s fingerprints.

Call me cynical but this just sounds like a hook for their new service, Google Séance.

It’s economic pain for coal miners.

Sort of an inverse James Bond story. In this case, a reclusive billionaire was helping the spies.

Was it the transition that made things worse, or was it something intrinsic to the new addressing scheme? If the latter, can you elaborate on why it was worse?

In Lisp notation that would be (In List Rust) or maybe (In Rust List).

Hopefully Uber won't have to maintain their forked Go compiler for too long.

Something I just learned: there is an awk debugger! From the above page: “Beginning with version 4.0 in 2011, gawk provides an awk-level debugger: dgawk, which is modeled after GDB. This is a full debugger, with breakpoints, watchpoints, single statement stepping and expression evaluation capabilities.”

Sorry if it came across as pure snark; my real point was that there’s a huge difference between a single study on mice that doesn’t seem to have been reproduced yet and a drug that is proven to rapidly repair age-related memory loss and improves mood in people.

Great. I’ll buy some for my old, senile mouse. Maybe.

Yes I will. In the mean time the most recent photo is always here: http://imgur.com/a/BqbwqRG

Nothing wrong with pointing out the Raspberry Pi’s tradeoffs. Of course someone could write an article about the tradeoffs of any single board computer. For most of them, the list would start with “More powerful but no community to support it.”

I own several Raspberry Pi’s. One of them is taking time lapse photos of a skyscraper going up two blocks away from my office. It had trouble uploading the photos every morning around 7am. It tended to catch back up at night. The problem went away once I replaced my 2amp power supply with a 2.5amp model. Day photos produce larger image files than night photos. My theory is the Raspberry pi had trouble processing and uploading the larger image files while running under voltage.

I wonder how many other times an engineer advised NASA to delay a flight.

But only with a modified MySQL server.

That only scales to a point. Other side-effects of a larger population, like increased traffic, are harder to address than just building more houses.

“Lime recently indicated their latest scooters have an average lifespan of 4 months.”

I wonder what happens to the scooter after that. Landfill? Recycle?

Is is possible that a similarly light-weight process would have been used if the correction had been submitted in a typewritten letter or over email?

Part of the market will be bike enthusiasts with disposable income who are attracted to the novelty of a wooden frame. The frames are beautiful. Time will tell whether that market is big enough to support a business.

On a related note, I see Renovo Hardwood Bicycles shut down earlier this year.

Indeed uses an LSM tree based key value store for its data about job postings: https://engineering.indeedblog.com/blog/2013/10/serving-over...

It means that in English, too.

From the article: “K12 education spending in the US has increased by 2-3X per student per year since 1960.”

That can’t possibly be correct.

Quitting my job at an enterprise software company. I worked for a series of companies that wrote software that they didn't actually use (or at least their operations didn't depend on using it). Not eating their own dog food meant they could get away with selling software that didn't work very well. It was demoralizing to be told we had to prioritize making new things over fixing what we had.

Now I only work for companies that use their software to provide a service. There is more of an incentive for the software to actually work.

Of course they could, but as the article mentioned toward the end, the school district no longer has the political capital to pursue rearranging school schedules. The superintendent lost his job over this. I imagine votes were angry with the school board.

If I were considering running for President in 2020, and I owned a large media company, I might publish articles like this, too.

That aside, you can't tie all of life expectancy to health care. For example, diet, life style, genetics, and environment are all factors too.

If there isn’t a steampunk novel featuring this technology, there should be.

I’m sorry your experience with the federal government was so bad. The article was more focused on government at the local and state level.

This really belongs in XKCD.

I agree that some scenarios are more important than others, but that seems to be orthogonal to the claim that I was objecting to.

I also disagree that whether an integration test can cover some part of your code is the litmus test for whether the code is relevant. There are types of errors that are relevant but complicated to simulate in an integration test, or at least in an automated integration test.

An example would be a network partition. It's involved to code a test to cause the partition, wait for the various timeouts to take place, then heal the partition, then wait some more for things to start talking and recovering. And depending on who owns the test environment and how your organization is managed, you may need to negotiate with a DevOps / Operations / Security person to get permission to run iptables in the appropriate machines.

On the other hand, unit-testing what happens when a connection fails is probably pretty easy.

"This is because an end-to-end test covers a much greater area of the code base." I disagree. A single unit test will cover less area than an end-to-end test, but unit tests in aggregate will cover a greater area.