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Yeah sorry I have an issue with mass paranoia. Also you banned me before years ago TBH. I deserved it but tried to be decent since then.

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I'll say this from my experience as a coding kid. If you find your kids have programming interest don't treat them like children when they come to you for help.

I taught myself several languages when I was ~11 but my parents always treated my interest as a curiosity. When I went to them for help they bought me kids books. This held me back because it never went beyond the basics and never explained the fundamentals I was missing like algebra and pointer math. Almost all the kids stuff is "cookbooks" that will give you a working program without explaining why. My biggest breakthrough was getting "the Perl Bible" and a bunch of orielly books on Java for Christmas.

The best kind of teaching is 1:1 tutoriing. Assuming you know programming since you asked this on HN, I think the best thing you could do is train your kids personally as if they were in a CS101 course.

I would teach them just like you would teach an adult. The only difference is they're going to be missing some math and data structure basics. Find their gaps and fill them in, and I think you'll be surprised what they're capable of

In modern times we have the X37 hanging out in space for a couple years at a time doing God knows what.

My completely unsubstainted guess is that it can change orbital parameters by skipping off the atmosphere like a rock. It seems to move around a lot more than you would expect for something that needs to make it back to a specific runway

Using GitHub as a versioned file storage. I know it's not the best option, not even good, but it's usually so easy if your files are less than 100mb.

If they're bigger, you can abuse their "release" logic to upload files up to like 2gb.

Yeah there's S3 and stuff but the GIT CLI client makes it much easier to tape some shit together in a pinch. Bonus for raw.github serving for files over vanilla http

This neglects the failure modes of nuclear power. The biggest danger, by far, is overheating, fire, and melting.

Paradoxically, a nuclear plant could be made extremely safe if it just dumped all the fuel into the ocean at the first sign of trouble.

With ulimited cooling the fuel can't melt so it will be safely contained within the rods/pellets.

Yes the radiation near to the fuel would be insane, but water is so dense it would be safe to swim around maybe 50 feet away.

There's never been a bad accident in spent fuel pools even though they contain orders of magnitude more fuel than operating reactors. This is just because it's really hard to melt something sitting in thousands of tons of water

How is this any different than filling a parking garage with trailers? There's just so much impractical about this. Any kind of open air "stack" would fail fire code horrifically if nothing else. Accessibility... Each floor needs ramps or elevators. You need booster pumps and PRV's so you get usable water pressure.

The price per square foot of mobile home is far higher than traditional buildings. This alone means we're probably better off with the pre-fab we already have. I can't see how this is economically viable on any way.

The closest were going to get is prefab building segments. Disney tried this years ago with their Contemporary resort. The rooms were all slid in from the sides and designed to be removable for refurbishment in the future. But Disney never did it because it's economically unviable

I've been taking finasteride for nearly a decade. No side effects for me and costs $40 a year. Haven't lost an inch of hairline since I started. My hairline is frozen at mild temple recession that looks "age appropriate" now that I'm older.

Yes I do have to keep taking it but I'm fine with that. Can't even imagine being completely bald at 30 which I would be if I hadn't started it young

Very true. Newer languages seem to be moving back towards native binaries. The promised advantages of JIT compilation have faded with improvements to compilers and profile driven optimization.

Go and Rust are interesting to follow. A highish and low level language both using lightweight runtimes

Haha yeah it might be a PITA. Unless your app is huge it shouldn't take more than a couple days though.

Basically a compile run fix reflection loop until you stop getting errors :'(

IMO LINQ is still better because of how integrated into the language it is. JOOQ and QueryDSL were basically designed to replicate it as much as possible but not nearly to convenience levels of LINQ + Entity Framework

Yes. But it's done in a different way than C#. C# supports fields and field references so you can pass them directly to a function.

The Java code "looks" like they do the same because they generate code to simulate method references instead. It's pretty clever and Javas code generation support for Annotation Processors is excellent and makes it possible to do this in a cross-ide cross-build-system way

LINQ and JOOQ/QueryDSL all work on plain data objects with fields. But with Java you do it on a pseudo object generated from your existing classes

It's not built in to the language, but JOOQ and QueryDSL come fairly close.

I do miss LINQ though. The Java options are all clunkier because the type system isn't nearly as flexible

This doesn't make jive with disaster being averted by a third pilot. Assuming the third was totally dedicated to checklist vs preventing the plane from diving, it was only his insight that stopped the plane from going down.

The MCAS system apparently increased downward trim without any speed considerations, to over 2.5 degrees in 10 seconds. I don't have the full flight control details but it sure sounds like pilots would lose control within minutes at most. In the LionAir crash the pilot reported control problems and asked to return to airport within 3 minutes, and they slammed into the ocean in 12.

Not sure where you're getting this info but I'm more than sure they knew something was wrong in the last 2 minutes (while they were heading into the earth at almost the speed of sound).

You really think they have ten minutes to react when by then everyone on LionAir was doomed to die?

Yes perhaps that's true. I ask you to consider some c++ to java conversions though. Usually the syntax is almost identical, whereas COBOL is clearly terrible

The fact that "AoA disagree" light and logic was an optional feature seems criminal enough to me. A sensor with no failover unless you pay for an option. Who the hell thought this was a good idea or approved it? WTF!

500 people are already dead. Boeing should be brought to the coals. It probably takes longer to go through the checklist than it does for everyone to die.

I promise if the audio recordings are ever released from CVR they will be absolutely damning. Pilots trying to make it through a loss of control checklist as they dive to their doom. A lot of those checklists have 50+ steps. Imagine trying to make it through that while fighting the plane and descending at over 3x "maximum design descent rate".

I'm sure the fucking alarms we're blaring and pilots cursing the system carrying them toward certain death.