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site-packages1 commented on Decision Fatigue   antipope.org/charlie/blog... · Posted by u/ZeroGravitas
dzikimarian · 3 years ago
You need to:

* Apply security patches - there's thousands of dependencies.

* Manage hardware/cloud resources according to volume of data you need to handle.

* React to the changes in operating systems/browsers you run on.

* Fix bugs - they are there, because simply there's not enough time, money, and need to write "perfect" software. Competition will not do that and will beat you to the market.

There's no internet connected software, that can "just run", because world around is changing and you must catch up.

Fells a bit weird to explain that on HN :-|

site-packages1 · 3 years ago
This is all needed to continue to iterate on software. It’s not as needed for the ossified state Twitter has been in for many years, as the parent pointed out. Acknowledge there is _some_ work needed, maybe refreshing certs (though software systems I have built have always been set up to do that automatically), apply security patches, keep an eye on dashboards. But this is a job for a skeleton team, not 7500 engineers or whatever. It’s honestly kind of sad it took that many people to basically “keep Twitter up” all these years.
site-packages1 commented on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website   reviewjournal.com/news/mi... · Posted by u/SirLJ
runjake · 3 years ago
Happened where? At "range 72"? That was what the comment I was replying to claimed.

F-117 and HAVE BLUE testing primarily occurred at Area 51, not some place called "range 72". They were developed and built at Lockheed in California.

I don't believe I was particularly aggressive. The commenter posted a bunch of incorrect information. I called them out. That's how it should work. I see far worse on HN when it comes to programming language/editor wars.

site-packages1 · 3 years ago
To be fair, I did look at this in the best light possible and took your overly aggressive tone and hanging your hat on a scriveners error like putting a “2” instead of whatever other number when it was clear what the poster was talking about to be an EQ gap on your part and not malice.
site-packages1 commented on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website   reviewjournal.com/news/mi... · Posted by u/SirLJ
runjake · 3 years ago
You don't know what you're talking about.

- What is "range 72"? I know of a Range 75 and 76. I haven't heard of a Range 72.

- The F-117 and HAVE BLUE aircraft, while similar looking, are substantially different in both design and size. And HAVE BLUE doesn't exist anymore. Both crashed.

- Red Flag is an USAF exercise. You probably meant the Red Hats squadron.

- SDI/Star Wars, as civilians know it, is dead and was never really a thing in the first place. It's a whole other ball game now. Hint: a player just landed this week.

site-packages1 · 3 years ago
F117 and Have Blue were both developed there, or at least tested. It’s been a while since I read Skunk Works. Maybe they’re not there right this second, but I took the comment to be giving some examples of secret things that have happened there, not necessarily things there right this second, because we really can’t know what’s happening there this second because I assume that’s secret.

Otherwise the comment is unnecessarily aggressive for no reason, and I think I detect a tone of condescension, which is unwarranted.

This is why I downvoted.

site-packages1 commented on Notion AI – waiting list signup   notion.so/ai... · Posted by u/antouank
site-packages1 · 3 years ago
I was a user of Notion for a while but ended up moving to Obsidian, which solves a similar set of problems without the bugs. I’m seeing in this announcement that rather than focus on making a better product or fixing things that are broken, they’re jumping into the AI hype train. Seems like I made the right decision to switch to Obsidian, and over the last year have really enjoyed it.
site-packages1 commented on Signal Introduces Stories   signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/mikece
tao_oat · 3 years ago
My gut reaction to this was disappointment that Signal is working on yet another not-messaging feature a la their crypto integration... But the longer I think about it, the more positive I feel. I actually enjoyed using stories on other social media platforms before I left them. The idea of something similar, but end-to-end encrypted, is actually exciting!
site-packages1 · 3 years ago
I had the same thought process. I still use Instagram, but only post stories. It’s fun and less pressure than posts, and get to share fun and irreverent things with friends.
site-packages1 commented on Mastodon Explained   mastodon.ie/@Ciaraioch/10... · Posted by u/ano-ther
EGreg · 3 years ago
It’s not.
site-packages1 · 3 years ago
From your own site this seems like another crypto scam:

“QBUX is currently an ERC-20 token running on the Ethereum protocol. In the future, versions of QBUX running on other protocols may be developed, exchangeable 1-1 with the current QBUX token.”

Maybe you’re not willing to cop to it being “crypto” but it’s in essence the same.

site-packages1 commented on Ask HN: “Contact Us” Pricing    · Posted by u/mrtomservo
yellowapple · 3 years ago
I mentioned this in a different HN thread today, but I'm gonna say it again anyway: if I can get a publicly-available "standard" price for launching something into outer fucking space¹, it's absolutely ridiculous that I can't get the same for something multiple orders of magnitude cheaper. Will that "standard" price be negotiated? Sure. Whatever. Just throw out some number instead of forcing the buyer and seller to mutually waste each other's time on basic information gathering.

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¹: https://www.spacex.com/media/Capabilities&Services.pdf

site-packages1 · 3 years ago
I think the comment you’re responding to answers your response. Pricing isn’t opaque because they cannot determine a standard price, but because they don’t want to scare people away.

I’m expecting spacex is different because we already know intuitively that launching something is expensive and we know there are only a small number of vendors with which to do so. So space launch companies probably don’t have the same issue…

site-packages1 commented on Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading   businessinsurance.com/art... · Posted by u/hhs
site-packages1 · 3 years ago
What’s the enforcement for these anyways, when a company insists on enforcement? “Cease working for your new employer or else”?

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