bythreads (u/bythreads)

bythreads commented on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers tokyodev.com/articles/wor... · Posted by u/zdw

bythreads · 6 days ago

Worked for years in japan, beg to disagree.

Love japanese and japan but their work culture is horrific - Japanese are inefficient and the veneer of looking to work "hard" is more important than the hard work itself. People often stay until ridiculously late just to show they "put in the effort" which is more important than outcome.

Then again that happens in many other countries as well ...

bythreads commented on People who know the formula for WD-40 wsj.com/business/the-secr... · Posted by u/fortran77

legitster · a month ago

If it wasn't eminently obvious, most of these "secrecy" programs are marketing fluff.

The actual ingredients are literally on the safety data sheet: https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-a...

The company can brag that their formulation has a special blend of herbs and spices, but someone who wants to can obviously make their own special formulation and say that theirs is secret too.

More importantly, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And there is nothing particularly special about WD-40's formulation anymore. WD-40 consistently performs worse than nearly any other available penetrating oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUEob2oAKVs It's a terrible long term lubricant (because it's designed to evaporate, it actually concentrates gunk and grime).

WD-40 themselves have come out with improved "Specialist" formulations that mostly just copy other, superior products.

bythreads · a month ago

Afaikr, wd-40 was never supposed to be a lubricant - it was created to remove moisture in rocket assembly - plain oil is probably a better lube

bythreads commented on Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018) hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/y... · Posted by u/moultano

moultano · 2 months ago

This essay was in part an inspiration for my (much more upbeat) essay which was on here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452763, and I linked it at the end, but I thought it deserved a submission on its own.

bythreads · 2 months ago

I liked it, made me reflect and consider - not always easy these days.

Happy new years and thanks

bythreads commented on Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors spectrum.ieee.org/ultraso... · Posted by u/rbanffy

gamblor956 · 3 months ago

The keto diet is also very good for this because many (but not all) cancer cells can't metabolize ketones. However recent research from Columbia Medical School suggests that it can promote metastasis.

bythreads · 3 months ago

Edited for politeness:

Cancer metabolism isn’t a 2-bit meme. Tumors adapt. If they couldn’t, they wouldn’t metastasize.

bythreads commented on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons alinpanaitiu.com/blog/dev... · Posted by u/alin23

bythreads · 3 months ago

Check out volvox and auro products

Works well for me

bythreads commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell

_heimdall · 6 months ago

That approach passes values in JS rather than the DOM, right? I read the go comment as talking specifically about DOM attributes which can only be strings (well, you can have boolean attributes as well).

Web components can be passed objects in JS, but its news to me if that is available in HTML.

bythreads · 6 months ago

Neither can react

bythreads commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell

rhet0rica · 6 months ago

https://i.imgur.com/7ITZb7d.jpeg

Aren't web components a pain in the ass to use?

bythreads · 6 months ago

Nope

Lit.dev

bythreads commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell

squidsoup · 6 months ago

Curious if has anyone had much success using web components within a react UI library? When building a component library on a bespoke design system, I'm quite pleased that I can rely on a headless library like RAC to ensure that the base component implementation is accessible and works well on touch devices. I can see theoretically that web components could be a complimentary tool, but in practice I'm not certain where they're best used.

bythreads · 6 months ago

Did duetds.com

bythreads commented on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone" greeneuropeanjournal.eu/m... · Posted by u/robtherobber

IFC_LLC · 6 months ago

It's all fine and dandy until you realize that economy pays a big buck for faster and more comfortable ways of transporting a body. (And it's been this way since time memorial).

You either transport your body fast, or you are missing out. And the greatest thing to miss out is an opportunity. While programmers can live in one room for years and just use Zoom for everything, others can't.

Sorry to say, but most of my European friends who were much anti-car, have changed their opinion after... buying a car. Being able to move in whatever direction at whatever time and being able to carry some stuff in your trunk makes your life convenient. Add to that the privacy and your personal AC and you won't be able to top it off. In South Africa personal vehicle means security at night.

The only places where this works are the places where: 1. People live for retirement and pleasure. 2. The road infrastructure is just straight hell. (Like Portugal. It's bad in Lisbon. It is terrible in there). 3. Where you are not under any circumstances can be robbed by a random person on a street.

So, the so-called cars problem is not something solvable. You just have to handle other factors to and cars will follow. I've seen cities where improvement in economic and social conditions led to the development of nice pedestrian and bike infrastructure.

bythreads · 6 months ago

In any city the shortest distance in total time spent is by bike.

Even if it is widely dangerous to do so (most american cities i've ever visited)

You can hem and haw - but its pretty bang on

When you then add finding parking at the ends of your trip to it it is crazyly more efficient timewise.

Now even copenhagen denmark has rain causing many more to take a car or public transport (that works).

But it is very clear that the time argument is simply not true.

Now you can argue convenience at the start of the trip vs agony in the end (finding that parking space)

Or for "need to lug an ikea sofa across time"

Or even for "my kids and familiy needs to go as well"

That's super fine, and all true - but 70-80% of ALL trips in cars are by 1 person sitting in 1 car. So moving just 10% of car users to alternate means free up a tremendous amount of space in the city.

I love my car, my bikes and my public transports and each does something nice for me - but seriously do you think cities like l.a. are even livable on a human scale - people don't even walk if the distance is over 1000meters.

I certainly agree with the idea of "uhm lets try to plan for otherthings than cars going forward"

bythreads commented on The National Design Studio is a scam chrbutler.com/the-nationa... · Posted by u/delaugust

belZaah · 6 months ago

Former CTO of a country here. Anything GDS did filled me with deep envy: it was beautiful and made so much sense and I had none of it at my disposal. Then Brexit. I was there in GDS offices a few weeks after the vote and the organization was being dismantled under my very eyes. See, the trick with such endeavors is not what you can drive centrally, it’s what you can make others implement. Reporting to the Man is a good way of creating pressure, but as the current examples in both UK and US show, you can’t sustain that pressure for, say 30 years. Also, centralization neither scales very well nor is democratic as it centralizes control and removes responsibility from the service owners. So how do you have something placed fairly low in the government working horizontally effect meaningful change in other organizations? Have tried it in a few countries, have a few answers and many questions, AMA.

bythreads · 6 months ago

I've done the same for a multinational with 1000 franchises-like subcompanies - trying to get them to conform to horizontal guidance. It is an impossible task, noone takes it that serious and are focused on imminent kpi and okr's.

My only success has been internal reviews of wcag compliance and the threat of fines if found lacking.

But for non digital design its embarrassingly hard