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GitHub: http://github.com/luciotato

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucio-tato-826557

http://www.tecnogob.com managing partner - public sector large software projects - Argentina

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lucio··on The world pulls the Andon cord on the 737 Max
Agree. Not having 3 sensors is an objectively bad decision.

Why did they keep the system on with diverging data?

It will be nice to know what are the risks when MCAS is off. Maybe x% of pilots used to the old 737 consistently stall the plane on the simulator.

lucio··on Show HN: Clio Programming Language
why is "targeting decentralized and distributed systems"

It's not clear why it is a better choice than others.

What can you do in Clio that you can't do in other langs?

lucio··on Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?
>the differences between Java and C#

Not much.

lucio··on My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
beautiful.
lucio··on The AI Threat to Open Societies
So? let's make any modern-ish technology illegal?
lucio··on SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
Congrats, excellent work, I'll be exploring...
lucio··on Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
If that holds. Intel will sue AMD into the ground. "The 8086 API and instruction set, is an original, curated taxonomy of classes, methods, and interfaces, organized by authors"
lucio··on Special Cases Are a Code Smell
Isn't the "better" code wrong in the first example?

instead of "result = (1...padded.size-1).map do |i|" shouldn't be "result = (1...padded.size-2).map do |i|"?

lucio··on Special Cases Are a Code Smell
Let's say the array is 1m elements...

the "ifs" inside the loop will be correctly predicted for cases 2..999,999

the processing is not "blind" to the new special case: "the array is padded", the loop is 1..size-1, which I think it's an error. Shouldn't be 1..size-2?

lucio··on Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time
ICQ did that. It changes the experience significatively
lucio··on Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
>the welfare of society outweighs the freedom of the individual

That's one of the supporting principles of all totalitarian regimes. The problem is who defines what's the "welfare of society" (Normally is "the Party" or "the Leader").

Individual freedom is an inalienable right, and should not be curtailed, unless you're physically hurting others or infringing on their own freedom.

lucio··on CSS grid garden
start counting at 1 instead of zero, ok, its valid.

column-end means really "end+1", why?

problem: when you go from left-to-right: column-start-3,column-end-5: means column #3 is included

when you go from right-to-left: column-start-3,column-end-1: means column #3 is NOT included

So if you read "column-start-3" you don't know if column#3 is included or not, it depends on column-end.

"column-start-3,column-end-5" should include column 3, 4 AND 5

This is from level 10:

>For example, grid-column: 2 / 4; will set the grid item to start on the 2nd vertical grid line and end on the 4th grid line.

What's the correct interpretation of "start on 2nd and end on the 4th"? shouldn't the 4th be included?

lucio··on Don’t Want to Fall for Fake News? Don’t Be Lazy
The example is silly. There are several sources of the same video. If it's not a funny meme, a normal person will look for the original video. In all of the videos he applies pressure on the intern's arm, you can see it by how her body moves. To shift blame to Sara Sanders because she shared a GIF instead of a video, is the "spin" that reveal bias. You can put the original video instead of the GIF and the Sanders tweets stands: "[We will] never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern" The article falsely claims that Sanders cite the GIF as grounds for revoking Acosta's press pass. The mentioned grounds for revoking Acosta's press pass can be seen in all videos and cameras. (touch the arm, apply pressure). It's not the GIF, it's what happened. The article implies that the GIF was intentionally modified, but the truth is that:

>At BuzzFeed News, Charlie Warzel dug into the creation of the Infowars clip, establishing that it was made by zooming in on a GIF excerpt from the original video. GIFs can drop frames when constructed, and video-encoding methods can introduce other changes. In the end, Warzel couldn’t decide whether the video had been doctored or not. Citing experts, Motherboard concluded that the video wasn’t doctored, but that it was "altered" —a distinction that might confuse as much as it clarifies.

The article also falsely claims that "The events described in Sanders' tweet simply did not happen."

So, if this article plus its title is meant as an "Study on Irony", then it's a great article.

lucio··on Google Earth for live radios
No radios in China. Looks like those satellite night of NK photos
lucio··on How to Design Software Good
I bet the cost/benefit for the company is positive, and as long the clients are happy and paying, how this guy works is irrelevant. he was rewriting a huffman compression algorithm by himself because he's bored and he wants to learn and experiment. I bet is not a good life he's living. There's a great disorder in working from your home at odd hours, it's not healthy. He would be happier working normal, fixed hours, and with a manager to guide him.
lucio··on Why We Need Innovative Nuclear Power
Add NIMO to the list of social blockage
lucio··on Google staff walk out over women's treatment
so all managers are exploiters?
lucio··on We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
Should we do the same with TV and billboards?

>Plus, less money raised and spent by political campaigns.

lucio··on Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin
Then next great "innovation" is to speed-up transactions for USDC by using a centralized server. /s
lucio··on Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years
Amazing. Right click on Milkdrop window, full-screen... I'm amazed this is a web app
lucio··on The Deal of the Art
It looks like it backfired on him. I don't think it was the intended effect.
lucio··on The Deal of the Art
So the the amorphous "commercial" blob Banksy despises won this round
lucio··on Arguing against using protobuffers
I see protobuf as being designed to be serialized fast and with a low footprint by not too complex assembly or C or Go. All the trade-offs are correct with that mindset. Maybe the author is looking at this from an academic type-theory perspective, and that's why he can't see the "why" for each one of the trade-offs.
lucio··on A real estate company's simple way to offer the homeless a house and a job
Good idea, but something in the article irked me.

>The turnover rate for entry-level employees in the industry is around 50%. For the formerly homeless people hired through Shelters to Shutters–who may feel more loyalty to the job because of their circumstances–the retention rate is more than 87%.

>–who may feel more loyalty to the job because of their circumstances–

That's a blatant lie. Their home is directly tied to their job. That's the best explanation for retention.

edit: this is not a critique of the good idea of employing homeless.

lucio··on Why I’m done with Chrome
shouldn't you use different OS users?
lucio··on The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model
The banks are owed all the money plus interest
lucio··on The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel business model
"Banks create money" (from thin air). That's the concept a lot of people struggle with.
lucio··on The Dangers of DNA Testing
Isn't clickbait?

"The Dangers of testing DNA mixtures" should be the title

lucio··on Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
It depends on how stable is the Kernel, the rate of external changes (e.g. new processors), new discovered vulns, and the capacity of the new leader.

If all of those things go in the wrong direction, Linux could lose its reputation. For example, imagine a new vuln discovered and Linux failing to fix it for more than a year, or imagine Linux becoming slower than other alternatives in new processors

lucio··on Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off
don't spin it.

He wrote:

>I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted

"retroactively aborted" is a dark joke, if you have a sense of humor, and conveys how bad a decision Linus think is to make a system call to read each byte.

saying "should die as a baby" is a spin. To be precise is important.

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