reactor

1,783 karma · joined April 16, 2011

reactor··on Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

In Singapore, many MRT (Mass Rapid Transport, a.k.a Train) lines are fully automated, there are no drivers to drive them around.

reactor··on You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

Programming is like playing chess, the move only takes about seconds, but what to move takes time.

reactor··on Ask HN: What Is the Best/Worst Purchase You Have Made During the Quarantine?

Would you mind telling how does she do it?

reactor··on Greatest Java apps

That's nice. Here's another one https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:Atlantis_event_display

The Atlantis event display is a visualization program [1] [2] for the Atlas experiment, the largest, general-purpose particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN

reactor··on Ask HN: Micronaut vs. Quarkus

https://jdbi.org/

You just create a wrapper for the handle (initialized) and inject it wherever you need.

reactor··on Ask HN: Micronaut vs. Quarkus

Hibernate is optional. I'm using Quarkus with JDBI without any issues, works flawlessly.

reactor··on April Unemployment Rate Rose to a Record 14.7%

No, https://slate.com/business/2020/03/federal-reserve-bond-mark... explains well.

reactor··on Ask HN: Best Free Python Editor?

https://www.spyder-ide.org/ quite nice.

reactor··on Ask HN: Possible benefits of Covid-19 pandemic?

Bit cleaner air.

reactor··on Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?

Mainframe it is then.

reactor··on Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

This, wish I could upvote this more.

reactor··on Ask HN: React Native or Flutter?

I dabbled with Dart for sometime, got an impression that a competent Java/C# developer can pick up Dart in no time, I think hiring shouldn't be an issue.

reactor··on JavaScript Is the CO2 of the Web [audio]

May not be exactly what you are looking for, but take a look at https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead if you haven't seen already.

and this https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao

reactor··on Self-distancing can help you make better decisions

Owning Home is a liability, not an asset unless you see it as an investment. Finding a job and/or Study -> Settling down is something you should be considering.

reactor··on India Imposes Complete Ban on Solid Plastic Waste Imports

I read that Singapore waste management/disposal is top notch, those plastic would most likely end up in incinerator and eventually to man-made offshore Semakau Landfill which itself is an attraction spot.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/a-rare-glimps...

https://thesmartlocal.com/read/semakau-landfill

reactor··on ArangoDB: Multi-model highly available NoSQL database

thanks, thats kind of reassuring.

reactor··on Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR

I think part of it's due to the perceived privacy i.e you can 'text' at anytime without bringing any attention from surroundings, but that's not possible with 'calls' when you are in the office or when surrounded with friends/parents/relatives etc.

reactor··on When Too Cute Is Too Much, the Brain Can Get Aggressive

hah, this is so true, I've never given much thought as to why its happening, but I have got a newborn about a month old, he's very cute that when he with me and wife is not around, I try to bite or squeeze him :)

reactor··on How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control

Thanks, make sense.

reactor··on How the pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 lost control

From the article, "Outside the plane, one of the plane’s angle of attack sensors falsely indicated that the plane’s nose was pointed too high, and the aircraft could stall."

I'm not in any way eligible to comment on aviation systems, but why that equipment needs to measure the angle of airplane be outside? Couldn't something like gyroscope mounted inside do the job?

reactor··on Quora User Data Compromised

In addition to what others mentioned, hackers usually got very high patience, it pays over time.

reactor··on Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax

Part of its via Fiat money, i.e debt it and print it.

reactor··on The Evolution of Reddit’s Architecture (2017)

The executive(s) who were/are responsible for their re-design must be shown doors.

reactor··on Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

I still don't understand how come the CEO of reddit is okay with the redesign? It's worse enough that I had to install plugin to redirect to old.reddit.

reactor··on South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork

I think most of us keep working because we are lazy to live a life.

reactor··on Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?

Not technical, but Money/Finance http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money

reactor··on In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete

Its better to have some privacy.

reactor··on Please Make Google AMP Optional

I have been looking to do the same, but so far no luck.

reactor··on The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (2010) [pdf]

This is spot on from my experience.

reactor··on Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+

They mentioned it is in ALPHA, give it some time.

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