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remh··on Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport
As per the linked website: " If the airplane reaches a peak speed of only 10 knots beyond V 1, the brakes must now dissipate 20 percent more energy than had the abort been initiated at V 1. Beyond the fact that there is no certification requirement for the brakes to be able to absorb any energy beyond that existing at the highest weight and V 1 combination demonstrated, there also is no performance data to know how much runway would be needed even if the brakes are able to handle the extra energy. Adding to the chaos, one brake must now absorb all the energy of the aircraft, as the blown tire’s brake has been rendered useless."

Basically you'd be unlikely to get the airplane to stop before the end of the runway because brakes are not designed to handle breaking at such speed (keep in mind that an airplane lands at a slower speed than it takes off thanks to the flaps).

remh··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
If that's all you need checklyhq.com (not affiliated with them) free plan should do it!
remh··on Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
Been thinking about that as well. Can you add contact details to your profile?
remh··on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?
In python it actually depends on the data type!

    Python 3.10.8 (main, Oct 13 2022, 09:48:40) [Clang 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> def f(d):
    ...     d['foo'] = 'bar'
    ...
    >>> a = {}
    >>> f(a)
    >>> a
    {'foo': 'bar'}
remh··on Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth
That would make for a great movie, could be titled like it's the end of the world. Maybe Apocalypse Now?
remh··on Hackers stole EuroNews channel and made over 40k USD running crypto scam(so far)
The account was created in 2008 and has hundreds of Arabic Euronews videos. Seems like it could indeed be the official account of Arabic Euronews?

I can't find sources to be 100% sure though.

EDIT: It has euronews videos that were uploaded in 2012 (likely there are some older ones). Does look like a hacked youtube account.

EDIT 2: See lzooz's reply. It likely is the official Euronews arabic account.

remh··on Who thought putting a casino in everyone’s pocket was a good idea?
How do you know it's correlated?

I'm in a state that is in the process of legalizing it but it's not done yet but the social degradation and rise in crime is also happening here.

remh··on Why we’re pausing our Pay Later program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
remh··on Ask HN: How can I start a business to generate electricity?
Pretty sure this is a cult. If you google kryon engine, the main website would reference Kryon https://www.kryon.com/ as "Kryon supports Humanity in many precious ways - not only by dropping hints about upcoming revolutionary technologies based on magnetism".

Please be serious.

remh··on Citroen 2cv pages
You'll love this (french) subreddit: https://reddit.com/r/giscardpunk
remh··on Ask HN: Burnt out developer trying to move out of Iran, advices?
Hi. Not in a similar situation whatsoever but I've worked in both Europe and the US.

1. Yes you can, developers are still in high demand meaning the relationship employer / employee is not as one sided as in other jobs. That being said, if you get a visa sponsored by a company it can change that relationship. There are still lots of good companies out there though.

2. Depends on your specialty, some aspects of tech do evolve much faster than others. Frontend development tooling is one of them and it does require to stay up-to-date-ish. But usually it's not that hard to learn a new framework if you have solid experience in the domain. Backend, infrastructure development tends to have longer cycles.

3. If you are already cash constrained I wouldn't. Can you build your resume from your work experience?

4. COBOL is a niche technology, not dying anytime soon but you would constrain yourself to a small number of industries and companies. I'm biased by my own industry but web development (typescript) or backend development (go/rust/python) seem to be skills that would cover a broader set of companies.

5. Not sure how it is in Iran but in the US / Europe software development is likely one of the cushiest jobs you can get and one that has the biggest chances of being sponsored for a visa. Sure there can be lots of pressure from time to time, bad managers, crunch etc, but overall we have it easy compared to lots of other industries / jobs.

6. If you actually believe that "Iran is on edge of economic/social/life-basics collapse." my advice would be to try to get out asap. It will likely be a couple of years of hard work (to apply to companies, get a visa etc) but will be worth it down the road.

Good luck.

remh··on In Moscow, McDonald's packs up, radio falls silent and the brain drain begins
From the top of my head there was a counter example in the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel.
remh··on uBlock Origin 1.41
It would cause issues for websites / apps using HSTS / Certificate pinning (a.k.a. most big websites)
remh··on ‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm
Started watching the show, it is way too dramatized but still interesting.

The actual demo of Terravision is indeed mind blowing if you remember how powerful computers in 1994 were: http://www.joachimsauter.com/img/big693.mp4

remh··on Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
You are being disagreeable. Requirements are requirements, sometimes they are easier, sometimes they are more complex. But you dismissing an engineer who successfully shipped something on production that met their requirements because you think you have "industry advice" is pure arrogance.

Every piece of software is written with the actual requirements in mind, defined (usually) by the people who know the context they are working with the best. Not by armchair specialists.

remh··on GitHub, fuck your name change
Agreed. I'm not defending the lack of ethnic statistics. Just offering the perspective from the other side. I strongly believe you cannot improve things you do not measure.
remh··on GitHub, fuck your name change
I was not replying to the article but to conradfr.
remh··on GitHub, fuck your name change
I'm also French (but living in the US). How is that not selection bias if you only ask your friends which I presume you met through school or work? These friends have already overcome the hurdles that minorities have to go through.
remh··on GitHub, fuck your name change
Less crazy when you learn why: "There are no public policies in France that target benefits or confer recognition on groups defined as races. For many Frenchmen, the very term race sends a shiver running down their spines, since it tends to recall the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the complicity of France’s Vichy regime in deporting Jews to concentration camps. Race is such a taboo term that a 1978 law specifically banned the collection and computerized storage of race-based data without the express consent of the interviewees or a waiver by a state committee. France therefore collects no census or other data on the race (or ethnicity) of its citizens."[0]

tl;dr: such data was used during the Nazi occupation and France helped deportation

[0]: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/race-policy-in-france/

remh··on Ex-President Sarkozy Gets Jail Sentence for Corruption in France
It's interesting to note how slow the French justice is. It took 7 years between the evidence being found by investigators and the trial. It's going to take a few more years with the appeal and in all cases he will never step foot in prison, which is ironic given that Sarkozy was a huge proponent of Zero Tolerance policies.

Similarly, Jacques Chirac was condemned in 2011: 11 years after what he did became known, 16 years after he left the Mairie de Paris. At which point, his mental and physical health was so poor he didn't even stand in trial.

remh··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
Not to downplay the issue in Europe but there are 111 inmates per 100,000 people in the EU. In the US it's 698.

That shows the amplitude and the spread of the carceral problem in the US.

remh··on Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data
Makes more sense. Thank you!
remh··on Facebook open-sources LogDevice, a distributed storage for sequential data
Am i the only being puzzled by

Scalable

Store up to a million logs on a single cluster. ?

This sounds pretty confusing / low volume.

remh··on Ask HN: How do you deal with application logging in a web service?
Datadog can definitely ingest application logs (you can send any tail any log file and send it to DD).
remh··on Open-Sourcing Our Incident Response Documentation
That's a really well written, extensive guide. Thanks to the pagerduty folks for sharing this.
remh··on No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep
Damn I feel sorry for you. Although I'm an engineer, I know many many doctors around me (admittedly not many in the US). Most of them (especially the new generation in their mid 30s) are curious, innovative, hard working and do the extra mile for their patients. They work long hours because: they love what they do and don't see themselves doing any other thing and because they care about the outcome of their patients.

I agree that not all doctors are like that, but saying that all doctors are what you are describing is false and insulting.

remh··on JRE 8 needs more codecache than before
Not sure about jvisualvm, but it will definitely be visible in jconsole
remh··on JRE 8 needs more codecache than before
Datadog employee here, you don't need to run your own collector to collect codecache usage. As it's exposed through JMX, the JMX collector can collect it http://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/java/ . It doesn't by default though, so you'll need to configure it to collect the metrics from the "java.lang:name=Code Cache,type=MemoryPool" bean. We should add that in our default configuration.
remh··on French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service
Execs, Managers, etc. should be sent to jail when they break the law deliberately. Fines are not enough as if the benefit of breaking the law is higher than the fine, then there is no incentive to stop.

We've seen that happening with all the big corp cartels that just provision money from those benefits to pay the eventual fine.

The fact that the French Law here may be bad or wrong is not relevant to this point.

remh··on Should Mapcodes Replace GPS?
(The idea of mapcodes is great though. I've been to a few countries where even cab drivers don't know the proper street names)
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