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ethbro commented on App Review process updates   developer.apple.com/news/... · Posted by u/BigBalli
ehsankia · 6 years ago
I don't think the problem here is with the QA workers. This is clearly a bug in the underlying internal test framework, which the QA workers have very little info about. And the likelihood of a given worker seeing enough of these errors for them to realize it's an issue with the system and not the app is fairly low.

The real issue is that the engineering team who maintains the internal app checking system 1. needs to have infrastructure to detect abnormal amount of a given error and 2. need to notify the QA team so the QA team can communicate it with the devs, rather than just blaming the apps.

ethbro · 6 years ago
You'd think people would look at the initial healthcare.gov mess and make some conclusions.

One of which should maybe be "Don't strictly isolate teams, with unowned space between their output and the next team's input, and no method by which post-delivery failure reflects back on them."

ethbro commented on The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet   electrek.co/2020/08/27/te... · Posted by u/evo_9
Jtsummers · 6 years ago
A “fire extinguisher” company makes many of the fire/smoke/overheat detection and suppression systems used in commercial and military aircraft. These kinds of companies are massive and have a lot more depth to them than you seem to realize.
ethbro · 6 years ago
Wait until they learn a jar company makes aerospace parts...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Aerospace_%26_Technolog...

ethbro commented on Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps   rockpapershotgun.com/2020... · Posted by u/danso
mhh__ · 6 years ago
DCS is quite like that, in that if you want to learn the systems there are some decent lessons for some planes but none of them cover things like BFM or (server!) etiquette. Luckily there is a thriving online community to help you learn the ropes, although it is rather annoying sometimes to be just fumbling around.

The F-14's AI RIO "Jester" can actually guide you through startup, which is very cool

ethbro · 6 years ago
DCS? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/ ?

(It's been Janes-90s since I sim'd)

ethbro commented on Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift   sfchronicle.com/business/... · Posted by u/CaliforniaKarl
acdha · 6 years ago
This doesn’t work as much on most of the west coast but any city which was big a century ago probably has nice railway suburbs which are walkable because they were built before the one person, one car assumption became the foundation of American urban design.

I think areas like that will see an uptick in interest from people who weren’t keen on an hour+ daily commute into a major city but are far more willing to consider it if you’re talking a few times a month.

Before we bought we looked around in a few cities and were really struck by the quality of life difference it makes when you drive occasionally but not by necessity. Even the younger residents in newer, pricier suburbs tend to pack on weight and health problems unless they’re absolutely rigorous about going to the gym and have the schedule to support it. The white-flight suburbs built in the decades after Brown v. Board are often actively hostile to a healthy lifestyle (no sidewalks, winding roads, transit happens in other zip codes).

ethbro · 6 years ago
> winding roads

Don't get me started on the folly of single-path, non-grid road planning. It's literally encoding the assumption "There will never be more than X people living here" into the city fabric.

And then in 10 years people wonder why traffic is so bad...

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ethbro commented on Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf]   vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p318... · Posted by u/ngaut
kccqzy · 6 years ago
As someone interested in PL theory, I've long found the query language exposed by Monarch surprisingly interesting (briefly discussed in section 5.1 but the description doesn't quite do it justice). It's a functional language, a breath of fresh air compared to "real programming languages" in use at Google like C++, Java, or Go.

The most interesting idea is that its native data types are time series of integers, doubles, distributions of doubles, booleans, and tuples of the above. This means that the data you operate on intrinsically consist of many timestamped data points. It's easy to apply an operation to each point of the data, and it's also easy to apply operations on a rolling window, or on successive points. This makes the language have the feel of an array-based language, but even better because the elements are timestamped and the array can be sparse.

Furthermore the presence of fields in each data point adds more dimensions to the level of aggregation (not just the inherent time-based). Now the language has the feel of a native multi-dimensional array language. It feels amazing to program in it. You can easily do sophisticated queries like figuring out how many standard deviations each task's RPC latency for a specific call is above or below all tasks' mean, for outlier detection.

ethbro · 6 years ago
Haven't read the paper yet, but could you expand on the tuple use? It seems like the odd person out in that list of primatives.
ethbro commented on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35   newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/fergie
rzzzt · 6 years ago
Same here. I read this before getting home and made a mental note to save the comment (also to forgive myself).
ethbro · 6 years ago
I'd include the addendum that wisdom is holding mutually-exclusive truths at once, and deciding which governs in any particular circumstance.

But I've found the previous to be right, more often than not.

Hope the inspiration helps you get out of your own way. :)

ethbro commented on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35   newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/fergie
BeetleB · 6 years ago
> Finish things. No matter how ugly it is. Even if you have to half-kill yourself to drag it that last inch over the line. Congrats, you've beaten everyone who never finished.

With the caveat that you should abandon things you've realized you don't value. I've seen far too many people spend too much time to "finish what they started" as a principle, even when they no longer valued the goal. Time is a zero sum game. All that time you spent on it is time you could have been spending on the other goals you have.

People like me have more goals than time. Gotta pick wisely.

> Any action is greater than no action. It doesn't matter how much you suck at something. Do it. Congrats, you've beaten everyone who never started.

Similar comment :-) Too many times in my life I was glad I didn't act (where all choices involving action would have led to negative consequences).

> That's not who you're competing against. You're competing against the pool of real people a company / project could afford to hire, who are available to hire.

Depends on your goals. For most of my projects, I'm competing with myself, not with others.

ethbro · 6 years ago
I considered including all the caveats you mentioned before posting, but decided the base points cover more circumstances. ;)
ethbro commented on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35   newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/fergie
severine · 6 years ago
Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209297

Effect of Exercise-Related Factors on the Perception of Time (frontiersin.org) 65 points, 9 days ago | 9 comments

ethbro · 6 years ago
I think I found that paper. Posted in a reply below.
ethbro commented on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35   newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/fergie
Dylan16807 · 6 years ago
By reset, you mean the effect lasts after the nature time ends?

Because if not, while walks are nice, my goal isn't exactly to have twice as long of a subjective experience but 60% of it is parks.

ethbro · 6 years ago
Yes. The gist was that your brain gets caught in a loop in which your perception of time was continuously skewed, leading to a constant feeling of hurrying / lacking enough time.

Spending time in nature essentially jumped your brain out of the loop, even after you returned from nature.

Think it might have been a summary of this: "Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being" (2012)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2083257

u/ethbro

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