The language pattern the author refers to is called litotes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes), but to say that English doesn’t use them is… not quite right.
Readit NewsBurritoAlPastor commented on The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void suggger.substack.com/p/th... · Posted by u/Suggger
BurritoAlPastor commented on A computer upgrade shut down BART bart.gov/news/articles/20... · Posted by u/ksajadi
They should fly everyone who works at BART to a conference in Tokyo for a week and make them ride the subways until the shame sets in.
When they return to their hotel rooms at the end of the week they should find a cutely wrapped Hello Kitty fruit knife waiting for them so they can contemplate saving their honor.
I don’t think BART employees really have any say in where BART stations do and don’t go, or how many trains they get. Try city councils instead, although none of them take BART anyways so they won’t know the difference.
BurritoAlPastor commented on Waymos crash less than human drivers understandingai.org/p/hum... · Posted by u/rbanffy
The wait times have gotten better, they're getting freeway approval shortly which will be nice, the price is still at a premium (but worth it imo). I only take Waymo in SF now.
The only time I take Uber in the bay area is to the airport (and when they approve Waymo for SFO I won't take Uber then either).
I generally find that Waymos are cheaper than Uber/Lyft including tip.
I’ve also seen that, although Uber and Lyft peak times seem correlated to each other, they seem uncorrelated to Waymo peak activity. But this might be stabilizing as Waymo ridership increases.
Since Know Your Meme doesn't give the reference for why it's a lake, maybe not everybody is familiar with british lore:
The mythical Lady of the Lake:
Probably best known via Monthy Python:
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
In short: She teaches Lancelot arts and writing, infusing him with wisdom and courage, and overseeing his training to become an unsurpassed warrior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnigmaticEmpower...
Note that, at least in Thomas Malory’s telling, the arm holding Excalibur out of the lake is not the Lady Of The Lake, who is nearby on the lake. The arm holding Excalibur is neither named nor explained.
BurritoAlPastor commented on Things unexpectedly named after people (2020) notes.rolandcrosby.com/po... · Posted by u/prawn
>Main Street in San Francisco was named after Charles Main.
I feel this might be a bit of a cheeky urban legend, or at the very least a coincidence.
"Main st" has been used in western city's and towns for a lot longer than SF has been around.
San Francisco’s “Main Street” is in no way a major artery, however. Market Street served that function.
Here’s an 1853 map https://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g3463000.html in which today’s Main Street is only a block long. The map calls it Front St, although there’s another Front St nearby which kept the name – perhaps it was renamed Main to disambiguate once the streets connected?
BurritoAlPastor commented on P**fectionism Isn’t Your Problem taylor.town/perfectionism... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
> You can’t control your taste.
Author might not be able to, but it's hasty to generalize this to everyone. I, for example, can. It's simply a matter of knowing one's self enough to know where taste originates and what principles and beliefs it's founded on.
I had to stop reading at this point as I couldn't take the rest of the piece seriously.
Ooh, we got a doxastic voluntarist over here!
BurritoAlPastor commented on Hollow City: Edward Hopper’s portraits of urban alienation thebaffler.com/latest/hol... · Posted by u/prismatic
As a painter and a painting teacher, Hoppers work is a real problem for me.
On one hand, his paint handling is terrible. He spreads paint on the canvas like icing sugar on a cake. All the nuance of application I teach he happily ignores… no scumbling, glazing, tonking etc. The way he paints figures is also terrible. They look stiff and unnatural, like they have been stuffed.
On the other hand, he is a genuine poet. But His visual poetry owes nothing to European traditions. It comes from the cinema and from photography, a true American creation. A classic.
The outcome is an artist who is easy to like but hard to learn from. He succeeds on his own unique terms and by a narrow margin. I sigh when one of my students discovers him. I have to find a way to say that hopper could pull it off, but almost certainly you can’t.
Clement Greenberg wrote that "Hopper simply happens to be a bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist".
BurritoAlPastor commented on A step by step guide on how to become a DevOps engineer github.com/milanm/DevOps-... · Posted by u/mooreds
As someone that has never worked at a startup before, this seems to be the list of skills a startup might find reasonable for a 'DevOps Engineer'. Every other place I've interviewed or have worked has DevOps Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer being distinctly different roles (SRE focusing on monitoring and logging and DevOps engineer focusing on pipeline and build).
There are also other places like where I am now where every team that works on backend infrastructure (Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Networking) also works on their own automation for their platform. We do have a Platform Engineering team that focuses on K8s and Dev tools such as Artifactory, Gitlab, Puppet.
I have an opinion that if a company has a specific role of 'DevOps Engineer' they are doing DevOps wrong. Also Jira and Scrum are absolutely not needed at all to do DevOps.
As a careerlong DevOps guy, I’ve heard many times that “if your job title has DevOps in it, your company is doing DevOps wrong” – overwhelmingly from people with “DevOps” in their job title, delivered with a mordant laugh.
BurritoAlPastor commented on Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023 theregister.com/2022/09/2... · Posted by u/Bender
> It's actually extremely rare for your average person to get locked out of their Google account
It’s also extremely rare for an average person’s house to burn down. Or extremely rare for a 500 year flood. Or an asteroid hitting the earth. Should we not prepare for, avoid, and mitigate these risks?
It’s not telling people to store flat files in the cloud. It’s encouraging sustainable protocols that decompose to strong flat files in the cloud.
Story time is when ynab originally just write their files to a file structure and used Dropbox to sync. Then they switched to saas, charged people a monthly fee and store customer data in their proprietary cloud. One day ynab will go away and so will their data. Their earlier method will last forever because of the portability of flat files.
Customer lock in makes companies more money.
People are also not really expected to be individually responsible for mitigating flood or fire risk; they buy insurance. People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account. We’re currently in a “well it’s your own fault for not owning and furnishing a second house in case the first one burns down” situation for digital property.
BurritoAlPastor commented on The elusive future of San Francisco’s fog nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/anyonecancode
Nice to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
I do live there. I can hear the foghorns from the bridge at night. It’s nice!