mweatherill (u/mweatherill)

mweatherill commented on Life After “Calvin and Hobbes” newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/voisin

The most magnificent thing about Calvin and Hobbes is ..... Calvin and Hobbes.

The second most magnificent thing is Calvin and Hobbes was never licensed.

The third most magnificent thing is it stopped whilst it was awesome instead of being wrung out for every penny.

There's no films, no sequels. You can't buy a licensed tshirt with Calvin and Hobbes on it. There's no licensed merchandise. No one has made it into a live action movie. Calvin and Hobbes are not available this month on MacDonalds cups if you buy a second whopper burger. You can't buy plush toys of Hobbes. There isn't a Christmas special TV show. Giant balloon figures of Calvin and Hobbes do not appear in city parades.

Imagine if Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit had been kept so pristine.

mweatherill · 2 years ago

Though there are some fantastic bootleg strips. This is probably the most famous: https://imgur.com/pGeiHgt

mweatherill commented on I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997) rd.com/article/how-honest... · Posted by u/mgh2

programmertote · 2 years ago

Same thing. I am always good with flossing twice a day, brushing teeth twice a day (in fact, I spend ~10 mins brushing teeth gently and carefully every day). But the dentist in SF I visited 10 years ago "saw" 4 cavities and he showed me the X-rays, which I didn't know better I should have looked at carefully. But I got 4 fillings. Credit to him, those fillings never had any issue for the last 10+ years.

But I went to a new dentist in FL a few months ago, and that guy told me to refill them because according to him, they are starting to crack (not sure how he saw them in grainy X-rays; he tried to show me one, but I couldn't see it) :D Anyway, I agreed to have them refilled since it's been a while and the cost was reasonable. Now one of the fillings he redid in my molar makes me feel uncomfortable when I chew things with it.

I wrote up a more detailed experience about this in another comment in this post. I hope people see it and learn from it to not trust their dentists easily (esp. the ones you are visiting for the first time).

mweatherill · 2 years ago

So you had fillings which lasted 10 years which were replaced for reasonable cost. The dentist, an expert at reading radiographs, could see something that you couldn’t. What exactly were you expecting here?

mweatherill commented on Red Light Green Light jamessevedge.com/articles... · Posted by u/aseattledev1234

gmiller123456 · 4 years ago

As a kid my mom ran out of gas several times, and it was always on the same road, which had a gravel shoulder. We'd be riding along, she'd pull off into (what I call "the rocks"), the car would stop and she'd say "we're out of gas". Since the car was moving along fine before pulling off the road, and I had no concept of how cars worked, I made the connection that pulling into "the rocks" caused the car to run out of gas. After making that connection, I used to scream not to pull into the rocks when she ran out of gas. My parents eventually made the connection as to what I was thinking, and instead explaining how it worked used to tease me with it well into my adult years.

mweatherill · 4 years ago

When my daughter was 5 she told me off for driving too fast to school. She was annoyed that whenever I drove fast she would be late for school.

mweatherill commented on Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app abc.net.au/news/2021-06-0... · Posted by u/ferros

9wzYQbTYsAIc · 4 years ago

Qantas was just implicated as being corrupted from within, complaining that no one had told them who or what corruption until the day before this was announced.

There isn’t much of a stretch of the imagination required to see that there is a deep rabbit hole that just got filled with cement.

mweatherill · 4 years ago

I was thinking about that same story when I saw the mention of “trusted insiders”

mweatherill commented on A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite blog.jupyter.org/a-jupyte... · Posted by u/Tomte

Koshkin · 5 years ago

This looks nice. Now if only somebody wrote a Jupyter kernel for (power)shell.

mweatherill · 5 years ago

Have you seen Azure Data Studio? It uses the same code base as Visual Studio Code and has first class support for notebooks. It includes a PowerShell kernel

mweatherill commented on Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps? · Posted by u/node-bayarea

x3haloed · 5 years ago

Does this help?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/saas-dbp...

mweatherill · 5 years ago

I was going to post this same link. Great docs from Microsoft

mweatherill commented on Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm towardsdatascience.com/ju... · Posted by u/JA7Cal

wayneftw · 6 years ago

> SQL kernel

I've never heard this term before and a brief search for it did not bear any definitions.

Can you expand on what exactly makes an SQL kernel?

mweatherill · 6 years ago

Whilst jupyter notebooks are often synonymous with python code, the languages are actually pluggable by using a different kernel. Microsoft have implemented an SQL kernel which means you can write SQL queries directly in a notebook.

mweatherill commented on Jupyter notebooks in the IDE: VS Code vs. PyCharm towardsdatascience.com/ju... · Posted by u/JA7Cal

mweatherill · 6 years ago

Microsoft have released another IDE with notebook support called Azure Data Studio. It uses the same underlying code base as VS Code but is targeted at data driven tasks such as connecting to databases.

Strangely, it uses a different jupyter notebook implementation to VS Code. I found it avoids some of the annoying bugs mentioned in another comment.

It also introduces a SQL kernel which I’ve found useful for organising my queries.

mweatherill commented on Computer intrusion inflicts massive damage on German steel factory itworld.com/article/28616... · Posted by u/Evolved

ArchD · 11 years ago

I never understand why people need to connect industrial plants to the Internet. Do they actually need to control them over the Internet instead of on-site?

And, if they need to use the Internet on-site, can't they make an air gap and segregate the computers that can access the Internet from computers that can access the plant machinery?

mweatherill · 11 years ago

It is very unlikely that the process control network is connected to the Internet. However it is almost certainly connected to the corporate Intranet. Think about all of the metric data available on the process control network - that is needed by engineers for analysis, ERP systems for financials, asset management systems for maintenance etc. With an air gap, you can't do any of that in real-time.

mweatherill commented on Computer intrusion inflicts massive damage on German steel factory itworld.com/article/28616... · Posted by u/Evolved

superuser2 · 11 years ago

The terrifying part of this is that computers with Windows Media Player installed are running critical infrastructure. Shouldn't that be a stripped-down Linux machine with perfectly understood characteristics and close-to-zero attack surface?

Yes, your scenario is bad I can totally see it happening, but the problem is not that an employee plugged in his phone, it's that you are using a desktop OS for office workers for controls that really non-optionally need to always just work.

Maybe it's not a Windows Media Player launch, but what happens if Java shows up in the taskbar wanting an update, or your anti-virus software (yikes) wants to bug you about updating its definitions, or a modal dialog from the OS comes up? The fact that those are even things that can happen is pretty scary.

mweatherill · 11 years ago

Windows has overwhelming market share in the process control industry. Microsoft has long standing partnerships with the majority of the process control vendors. The attach surface argument was never relevant when networks were physically isolated. There is a slow shift towards Linux however many systems have extremely long lifespans.