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eweise commented on Revealed: Face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave cam.ac.uk/stories/shanida... · Posted by u/thunderbong

Beestie · a day ago

I'm just glad that the dumb idea that Neanderthals were dumb, club carrying knuckledraggers is finally being laid to rest. I hope we eventually learn what happened to them. They survived the choke point of 75,000 years ago only to disappear 30,000 years later. So cool to put a face to the name :-)

eweise · a day ago

I never thought they were dumb once I saw that they could power a car with their feet.

eweise commented on Let yourself fall down more ntietz.com/blog/let-yours... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

eweise · 3 days ago

My grandfather fell down, broke his leg and then died in the hospital.

eweise commented on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional cbs12.com/news/local/flor... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

rootusrootus · 5 days ago

> how do you currently solve the latter one?

Same as parking enforcement. Goes against the car, not an individual. So the financial responsibility will be assigned, but no punishment.

eweise · 5 days ago

Does the car get points on its record?

eweise commented on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional cbs12.com/news/local/flor... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

cromka · 5 days ago

Not the same. They know the car was yours so, by extension, you should be aware of its whereabouts at any given moment. If it wasn't you driving, you know who. An illegal activity was committed using your tool and you know who did it. They have every right to question you. If you do not know, you testify as such, but then again you need to plausibly explain why was someone operating your car while you were not aware of it.

> In light of this, seems like a no-brainer no one could disagree with.

If someone shoots a person with your gun, you gonna say it wasn't you and expect them not to question any you further? Not very no-brainer, is it?

This is how it works in Poland and, I assume, most/all of EU and the rest of the world.

eweise · 5 days ago

Four people in my family drive my car. I'm supposed to track that? sure.

eweise commented on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer magicalmushroom.com/index... · Posted by u/microflash

jcims · 19 days ago

Just a side note. I started growing mushrooms a couple of years ago.

Very interesting and fulfilling hobby, they are incredibly interesting critters. Takes a little bit of dedication to get started but once you start seeing them fruit and making your own substrate it's quite inexpensive and a lot of fun. I have a feeling lots of folks in this community would really like it.

Basic starter package is a 'monotub', selection of spores, grain for spawning, substrate for fruiting and miscellaneous bits and bobs for handling, hydrating, maintaining temps and cultivating. North Spore and Midwest Grow Kits are both reputable and reliable suppliers.

Tons of resources on YouTube as you might expect. One of my favorites is Southwest Mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/@SouthwestMushrooms

eweise · 19 days ago

they grow in my yard without any effort.

eweise commented on Kernighan on Programming · Posted by u/chrisjj

agentultra · a month ago

So is reviewing and verifying code. Maybe not twice as "hard" if you're skilled in such things. But most programmers I've worked with can't be bothered to write tests let alone verify correctness by other means (good tests, property tests, types, model checking, etc).

It's one thing to point out small trivialities like initialization and life time issues in a small piece of code. But it's quite another to prove they don't exist in a large code base.

Kernigan is a good source of quotes and thinking on programming.

eweise · a month ago

I haven't worked in a codebase in 20 years that didn't have some sort of tests.

eweise commented on Painless Software Schedules (2000) joelonsoftware.com/2000/0... · Posted by u/MonkeyClub

SyneRyder · 2 months ago

I liked this idea when it came out, and there was some software that implemented it. Mr Schedule by Andrew Pietschy added outliner functionality to Joel's idea, so you could see how much time a group of subtasks would take (and if you should maybe drop that feature group to make your deadline). It had some keyboard driven shortcuts that made it faster to move around in than Excel, while making things simpler.

Unfortunately Mr Schedule and the pietschy.com website disappeared. I made my own recreation using REALbasic / Xojo at the time, but never released it and faded from using it.

Joel Spolsky expanded the idea later with Evidence Based Scheduling:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

That takes the estimates from Painless Software Schedules, but runs a Monte Carlo simulation using your estimates & data on actual time taken, to create a confidence distribution curve graph of when you'll be finished.

eweise · a month ago

Here's a real schedule: CEO: we need to launch x end of Q2 PM: Here are the four monthly milestones Engineer Mgr: Let's estimate the stories. Now put them into eight sprints Go!

eweise commented on The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala scala-lang.org/blog/2026/... · Posted by u/bishabosha

frakt0x90 · a month ago

This is exactly what turned me off. It supports so many paradigms that every line of code I wrote I had to sit and think if I was doing it the "right" way and it was miserable.

eweise · a month ago

Part of that I think is the culture and not the language. Personally I try to use the least powerful method that gets the job done and that usually keeps me unblocked. In practice that usually means using it as a better Java and not going down the functional monad path. I know scala has gone through a rough patch and maybe migrating from 2 to 3 is painful. But if you try starting a new project now with the latest Scala 3, I think you'll find that its pretty nice. Even IDE support is pretty good.

eweise commented on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready waymo.com/blog/2026/01/mi... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

nerdsniper · 2 months ago

Those all eliminated the work so that no one had to pay for it anymore, which freed up that money to be spent elsewhere in the local economy. Waymo is not cheaper than Lyft/Uber. So it's more of a direct wealth-transfer than the most cursory analogies were.

eweise · a month ago

If Waymo is not cheaper, I don't see how it replaces Lyft/Uber. I imagine that not having to pay drivers and the deal with the associated liability, will eventually be cheaper so will free up money.

eweise commented on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready waymo.com/blog/2026/01/mi... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

nerdsniper · 2 months ago

It will also funnel large amounts of revenue out of every city into s/SF/Bay Area. Currently around 35% of the money spent on Uber/Lyft stays in the local economy. Waymo in SF still employs a large number of highly paid engineers who are paid the money which used to move through SF via Uber/Lyft. And those SF engineers spend a decent chunk of it locally on food, art, entertainment, and various other services - so it has (somewhat) less of an effect on the city's overall economy/total employment.

Waymo in Miami won't be locally re-spending nearly as much of Miami's money as Uber/Lyft did. Significantly more of it will be removed from Miami with each ride. This might be even more pronounced for cities like Houston, which don't attract tourism from Waymo staff.

eweise · 2 months ago

Isn't that how it always is when new technology disrupts an existing market? We no longer have telephone operators, toll booth agents, gas pump attendants, etc