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EB66 commented on USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas   usgs.gov/news/national-ne... · Posted by u/antidnan
silisili · 10 months ago
37th/50 isn't good. But people never clamor on about how awful California is every time it's mentioned(well, rarely). This same ranking puts states like South Dakota and Indiana ahead, which I'm sure many would object to all the same.

This is the second day in a row I've watched threads about Arkansas of all places devolve into these nasty generalities(yesterday's was about WalMart and Bentonville). I don't live in Arkansas or anything, but I think we as a community can do better than devolve into it over and over, unless the topic at hand was the problems of a state.

EB66 · 10 months ago
I'm not saying that 37 out of 50 is good. I'm saying that 47 out of 50 is bad. Your data source doesn't refute the OPs argument that Arkansas is not a great place to live -- it actually supports the OP.
EB66 commented on USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas   usgs.gov/news/national-ne... · Posted by u/antidnan
silisili · 10 months ago
Here's another list -

Highest poverty rate?

Lowest literacy rate?

Last in opportunity?

8th worst in public safety?

If you guessed California, you'd be right.

Sweeping generalities and handpicked metrics do not tell an entire story.

EB66 · 10 months ago
You are citing the US News "best states" ranking. In that ranking, California is ranked #37 overall and Arkansas is ranked #47 overall. Even your own hand picked data source supports the OP...
EB66 commented on Companies need junior devs   softwaredoug.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
softwaredoug · a year ago
You have to be OK getting rid of productive assholes that mess up this culture. The hint of a senior not being open to criticism will instantly halt any ability for a team to have a safe, open dialog.
EB66 · a year ago
Yeah, very true, when we're hiring we'll sometimes skip over the most talented candidate and pick a candidate who we feel would be the better communicator, easier to work with and fit in with the team. Easier said than done, but we at least try to hire for that.
EB66 commented on Companies need junior devs   softwaredoug.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
EB66 · a year ago
This is a really interesting phenomenon that I've experienced before myself but I hadn't fully understood or appreciated as clearly as the author has.

At my company we put a big emphasis on code reviews. We encourage devs to pull request code fairly regularly to keep PRs relatively small (when possible) -- before so much code has been written that it's not really possible to change course without blowing up deadlines. We encourage our junior devs (who might not be capable of identifying bugs or proposing fixes on code written by a senior) to ask questions in their code reviews -- to verify assumptions, to request an explanation of how something works, confirm that a particular edge case has already been considered, etc. It can be hard to get a junior dev comfortable with doing this (questioning a senior dev), but even if the junior isn't identifying bugs it will often lead the senior to better understand their own code and the architectural concepts that underpin their own coding decisions. Like the author points out, this only happens because the senior dev endeavors to explain their work to the junior dev (Protege effect). Also, a good many times it leads the senior dev to re-consider how they wrote something and they might add a revision to address a possible edge case not previously considered. I hadn't thought of it this way before, but this is the Socratic method that the author talks about.

We also put a big emphasis on in-code comment writing -- largely following the commenting principles laid out by John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design". These comments are of course for long-term maintenance purposes, but they also benefit team learning. Class, method and variable naming are obviously important too. Our internal code reviewing mantra is that 'I want to be able to read your code like a story book -- when I get to the end, I at least want to be able to understand what happened'. Not always possible, but a good goal. Writing comments and choosing class/method/variable names in pursuit of that goal massively contributes to the learning of the team. During our code reviews, one of the most common requests by reviewers is for the author to add a comment explaining something that was very difficult (or impossible) for the reviewer to grasp on a first read.

This approach has worked very well for us. Everyone learns and our product quality improves.

EB66 commented on SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud   databasearchitects.blogsp... · Posted by u/greghn
Aurornis · 2 years ago
> It's no wonder that many people nowadays, esp. those who are so young that they've never experienced anything but cloud instances, seem to have little idea of how much performance you can actually pack in just one or two RUs today.

On the contrary, young people often show up having learned on their super fast Apple SSD or a top of the line gaming machine with NVMe SSD.

Many know what hardware can do. There’s no need to dunk on young people.

Anyway, the cloud performance realities are well know to anyone who works in cloud performance. It’s part of the game and it’s learned by anyone scaling a system. It doesn’t really matter what you could do if you build a couple RUs yourself and hauled them down to the data center, because beyond simple single-purpose applications with flexible uptime requirements, that’s not a realistic option.

EB66 · 2 years ago
> because beyond simple single-purpose applications with flexible uptime requirements, that’s not a realistic option.

I frequently hear this point expressed in cloud vs colo debates. The notion that you can't achieve high availability with simple colo deploys is just nonsense.

Two colo deploys in two geographically distinct datacenters, two active physical servers with identical builds (RAIDed drives, dual NICs, A+B power) in both datacenters, a third server racked up just sitting as a cold spare, pick your favorite container orchestration scheme, rig up your database replication, script the database failover activation process, add HAProxy (or use whatever built-in scheme your orchestration system offers), sprinkle in a cloud service for DNS load balancing/failover (Cloudflare or AWS Route 53), automate and store backups off-site and you're done.

Yes it's a lot of work, but so is configuring a similar level of redundancy and high availability in AWS. I've done it both ways and I prefer the bare metal colo approach. With colo you get vastly more bang for your buck and when things go wrong, you have a greater ability to get hands on, understand exactly what's going on and fix it immediately.

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EB66 commented on NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter   space.com/nasa-loses-cont... · Posted by u/basementcat
londons_explore · 2 years ago
Is flying in a thin atmosphere harder?

Sure, there is less lift... But there is also less drag. So your rotors can go far faster with the same power input - and, roughly, it looks like the power needed to hover (for a craft of a given mass and size) is actually less on mars due to the lower gravity, despite the rotors moving super fast.

EB66 · 2 years ago
> Is flying in a thin atmosphere harder?

Yep. Setting maths and motors aside... it's why helicopters have service ceilings and why no one has built a helicopter that can fly away into the stratosphere.

EB66 commented on Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year   younganimator.uk/winner/1... · Posted by u/countrymile
yieldcrv · 2 years ago
What were the merits judged by the competition?

No need for goal posts if we dont know what they were

EB66 · 2 years ago
I'm not interested in the competition rules and criteria. I'm just curious why the OP views Impetus as "better".

u/EB66

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