foobarian

It's literally like reading a guide "How to kill yourself with an MRI machine" and following it step by step

I have a solution, talk The Rock into running for the dems. Wrestling and fame taken care of in one fell swoop!

I guess the ancients were on to something when they used to let out the bad humors

Yeah, or, let the partner have the easy period before they are mobile, and when they sleep half the day, and then join the fun when they can walk off into the craft supplies/pantry where sugar/flour/etc. are stored/the workshop with the power tools etc., and when they drop the naptime and instead start waking at 5am and asking you to play Roblox with them.

Either option is priceless :-)

Even 5k for a house and some land seems like a pretty decent deal. What are the strings attached? Is there local mob extorting you if you move there?

> We live in extremely safe times compared to

This sentence in a HN article from a day ago caught my eye [1][2].

> Second, between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s, the US maternal death rate fell by 94 percent, according to Sarygulov and Arslanagic-Wakefield. Early antibiotics in the 1930s, followed by the mass production of penicillin in the 1940s, “drove down incidences of sepsis, [which were] responsible for 40 percent of maternal deaths at the time, and made caesarean sections safer,” they write.

94 percent!

[1] https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-caused-the-baby-boom-wh...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572527

Was wondering, how feasible is it to immigrate for a humble 老外?

> Keywords: ROTATING PARTS

There are no rotating parts in the OP tool

> "GTFO and come back at dinner"

Right, this is what I am wondering, is the reason people were comfortable doing this the fact that there was a weekly touchpoint with the community? The church visits might be stifled but if they establish a relationship with that large group of people then that might enable more free roaming at other times.

Is it because of less churchgoing? Church is basically one large standup (and sit down, and stand up, x a few times :-) ) for the community.

Or maybe kidnapping paranoia fueled by years of crime news programs?

I think the Internet full of sewage with phones as delivery funnels has destroyed society. I would ban it all if I could

This wasn't on my radar until... now! I will take up your banner with glee

Absolutely, it can work well when there is a team devoted to the schema registry and helping with adoption. But it needs to be worth it to be able to amortize the resources, so probably best for bigger organizations.

I've seen some systems with a lot of pieces where teams have attempted to avoid repetition and arranged to use a single source of schema truth to generate various other parts automatically, and it was generally more brittle and harder to maintain due to different parts of the pipeline owned by different teams, and operated on different schedules. Furthermore it became hard to onboard to these environments and figure out how to make changes and deploy them safely. Sometimes the repetition is really the lesser evil.

I've been doing web development for more than a decade and I still can't figure out what REST actually means, it's more of a vibe.

When I think about some of the RESTy things we do like return part of the response as different HTTP codes, they don't really add that much value vs. keeping things on the same layer. So maybe the biggest value add so far is JSON, which thanks to its limited nature prevents complication, and OpenAPI ecosystem which grew kinda organically to provide pretty nice codegen and clients.

More complexity lessons here: look at oneOf support in OpenAPI implementations, and you will find half of them flat out don't have it, and the other half are buggy even in YOTL 2025.

Sounds like you are going through the classic transition to management

I assembled the mk3s from kit. It was long but at least I have a mental model of where things are, and what to remove first if I needed to exchange parts.

South Slavic languages have 1-1 mappings thanks to an engineer in disguise [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87#Linguis...

Let's not forget the Y axes not starting at 0!

Maybe a brute force solution would work just like it did for text. I would not be surprised if the scale of that brute force was not within reach yet though.

> I think you might be living in a bubble, if this is the "most evil" thing you have heard of a big tech company doing. Go read up on IBM's history, especially in the 30s and 40s. Or a more contemporary example, read up on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Or Amazon's mistreatment of workers in both corporate and warehouse settings. Or Meta scraping data off your devices without permission to train AI.

I wouldn't count the IBM thing because I don't see it as part of the vernacular "big tech" of today; however I do think it's the most evil so far in this thread.

The others? They are mostly aggressive competition, especially the MS stuff, and altogether I don't see them as more evil than Apple's exclusionary UX. What's at the bottom of it for me is that it harms users directly, e.g. what others said about kids getting shamed for having a non-Apple phone. The one thing not mentioned yet that would qualify for me would be Meta's product altogether with its impact on teenagers; and various gambling simulators like Roblox.

I've done this for a little while, it was fun. Something I didn't expect going in is that 90% of my time was spent in removing parts that were rusted stuck, or hard to apply torque to (e.g. a bolt in the middle of an engine somewhere with very little clearance)

Not to mention how much more functionality present day cars have. (mentioned in a couple comments elsewhere, but things like airbags/backup cameras/other sensors etc).

I wonder if a generalized machine would have an advantage from scale, and then putting all the specialized stuff into software. We have seen this play out before.

Reminds me of the opening in a war story in the "Algorithm Design Manual."

> That look in his eyes should have warned me even before he started talking. “We want to use a parallel supercomputer for a numerical calculation up to 1,000,000,000, but we need a faster algorithm to do it.” I’d seen that distant look before. Eyes dulled from too much exposure to the raw horsepower of supercomputers - machines so fast that brute force seemed to eliminate the need for clever algorithms; at least until the problems got hard enough.

> threshold effect: keeping bedroom sound levels beneath the low-60s dB (roughly the volume of normal conversation)

A common source matching this description would be having a TV on in the bedroom.

Guessing that code doesn't mind the footings if they don't stick out, and then whatever is on top is removable.

It was a lot more invasive than that in those days. The border agents would rifle through our groceries and occasionally things like dried meats or booze would magically go missing. Other times they would be officially confiscated, or customs levied.

Wonder if it's just that, or whether there is a more sinister mindset in place that would gladly see the country slide in reverse towards a backward theocracy that would be easier to control.

> keep dropping bombs into the same bomb-hole

I wonder how practical this part is.