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The article is very vague on how the radioactivity allows detection of leaking gas.

The video at the bottom explains from 7:50 in. Gas pressure pressing on a spring holds a radiation shield in place. If the gas leaks the shield moves and the radiation can be detected.

Life in the moment is a lot easier if you don't second-guess yourself. I think this is why many people (and probably ~all people, if tired) crave simplistic solutions.

I like to make a subagent take the "devil's advocate" take on a subject. It usually does all the arguing for me as to why the main agent has it wrong. Commonly results in better decisions that I'd have made alone.

Asking the agent to interview on why I disagree helps too but is more effort.

Overeating is often a coping mechanism. It’s really hard to displace unless your life is going fantastic. Even with GLPs.

What we're doing at Cloudflare (including some of what the author works on) samples adaptively. Each log batch is bucketed based on a few fields, and in each bucket if there's lots of logs in each bucket we only keep the sqrt or log of the number of input logs. It works really well... but part of why it works well is we always have blistering rates of logs, so can cope with spikes in event rates without the sampling system itself getting overwhelmed.

It’s worth remembering that the status-quo is itself expensive.

GOV.UK Verify, the example I know best, burned through a lot of money trying to do digital identity without actually doing ID cards.

> if they can't explain what they want to do clearly and why, it probably shouldn't be done. Quality goes up by slowing down.

I kind of agree. Without what you describe, teams often get lost. But I’ve also seen that approach keep teams stuck in comfortable local minima. Sometimes you’ve got to take risks.

I agree, it's an interesting view. I found it quite positive about the culture in that part of Splunk. The writer parachuted in, threw their weight around, bruised a bunch of people, but lost out to another manager who openly acknowledged the contributions of their people.

> provides the vacuum for better processes to grow back into

Or worse. Or no services at all.

> I've been wondering for a few decades now if we shouldn't create a rendezvous site outside of all the countries that require a visa to work

There's always Svalbard

The effect is really cool. I like the idea of visualizing data flowing through work systems like this. I think I'll go for 3D-printed or laser-cut panels instead though - would work out cheaper. Thanks :)

I saw that without any spoilers and it was one of the weirdest movie experiences I’ve ever had.

Ordering satellite imagery and counting cars is just a weekend project. The last time I looked at ordering imagery, the main obstacle was the minimum order size, so it'd actually scale better for monitoring every store car park than for looking at a single car park.

> You can’t form relationships that way

Plenty of millenials and Gen Z can

We've been building groups online ever since we were little

It's pretty normal for ordinary government workloads in the UK, or at least it was at GDS. Using niche suppliers who cater to government paranoia is expensive, and they're usually much less mature than hyperscaler platforms. It's also open for debate whether those niche, inflexible suppliers result in a genuinely more hardened target or not.

Anecdotally, I know several teams likely to adopt OpenTofu when state encryption ships https://terrateam.io/blog/opentofu-feature-preview-state-enc...

Umm, GOV.UK uses Google Analytics, Fastly CDN, AWS containers, and I believe is developing an app.

(I worked at GDS until two years ago.)

Influx is a full time series database. It's less opinionated than Prometheus.

That looks like a misconfiguration by HIBP

Indeed. Working from an office without daycare would be similarly unproductive.

(Not a scientist, just a hobbyist.)

Red phosphorous is an ingredient in the original paper’s process.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6110438A/en claims that black phosphorous can be made from red phosphorus using a vacuum and hundreds-of-C temperatures. Both of which people have done.

Seems very possible.

Agreed. Even the 100K zero-resistance claim isn't holding up to scrutiny https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686895266329174016 https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686901855358427136 https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686832552252784641

https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686895266329174016 claims a linear representation of the same data. Still no convincing discontinuity visible.

I hear what you're saying, but it's not like the sample would need hand couriering a great distance. They're in Seoul, home to a large number of universities [1]. If the discovery is real then I'd hope another university there validates it soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_and_colle...

Agreed. It reads like they opened the fridge for awhile to remove the cardboard and that cooled the room down. Problem being that the fridge will then heat the room more to cool itself back down.

> Do you pay your entire team enough to afford 3 bedroom spaces adequate for a family in the city?

It's critical for their careers to not have families. Instead they can have beers with their colleagues.

> good middle ground is to move to the outskirts of a smaller town with some sort of draw

Things can be different in Europe to the US but this is still key. If you move to a low cost of living, relatively anonymous town then things are going to be pretty average. If you’re an educated, intellectual engineer than can be kinda stifling. You need people you can relate to, which basically puts you back in MCOL/HCOL.

Typical reactionary nonsense from The Register. Obviously big tech isn’t a charity, but the article talks about 600M without even electricity and then effectively claims they’d be better off without infrastructure investment.

They have been extremely clear in their support of Ukraine https://clickhouse.com/blog/we-stand-with-ukraine