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Diesel555··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
What do you mean by auto imports? If you type a function, type, or other token in VS Code that is not part of the scope, but exists in the environment, it will suggest and complete an import for you. At least for Typescript.
Diesel555··on Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
I keep seeing discussions on a full IDE vs an editor like VSCode. People are claiming VSCode is poor with autocompletions and other features only a full IDE can accomplish.

I use Pycharm, Webstorm, and VSCode and I don’t see the huge difference. Is it more apparent on certain languages?

They stated in their blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/09/a-picture-of-java-in...

> In the web space it is understandable to use an editor as web developers are typically working with dynamic languages, and often use other tools like browser plugins to give them what they need. But in Java, especially professional Java, you really get a lot out of a good tool that has integration with the application server and you can really use the analysis and refactoring and everything.

> VS Code is growing which is concerning, not from a competitive point of view but actually from the point of view that there is clearly a lack of understanding of what an IDE gives you

So my main question is what do full blown IDEs do that an editor like VSCode cannot?

Diesel555··on The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
This is true. You also can't discount advocating for your product. If you want funding you have to show it off at times. Per the original argument the demonstration teams wouldn't exist. They serve no military purpose if you forget about recruiting and promotion.
Diesel555··on The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
There is nothing more worthless than runway behind you, altitude above you, and gas you already burned.

Don't worry about what you don't have, worry about capitalizing on what you do have. And don't waste what you have.

Diesel555··on The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
Some aircraft don't buffet much when they get slow, while other aircraft may buffet a lot (slow as a simple term for high angle of attack (AOA), but high AOA can occur from G-forces - back stick pressure - as well).

Those aircraft also use a digital flight control system that commands G instead of direct deflection of the surfaces. Therefore the aircraft feels the same at the speeds in which it is capable of delivering the G it is asked to deliver. The same back stick pressure delivers the same G. This is much different than a mechanical system in which you get more G if you are faster.

The F-16 is one such aircraft. It feels very similar at 250 knots and 650 knots.

Of course an experienced pilot immediately recognizes when the aircraft hits the G-limit due to speed. For example, at 200 knots it can't pull 5 Gs. But that only occurs when you are pulling on the stick and not in straight and level flight.

The angle of attack of being slow (just being more leaned back in the jet) is more subtle and and doesn't usually present itself until you are already really slow. The automatic flaperons and leading edge flaps, which give the wing more camber automatically, are partially a reason for this.

Point is, the slowness maybe not be as obvious as you think.

Diesel555··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
I almost listed this as mine. The design is still really good for the cost. Ease of use / cleaning / disposing of grounds is a smart design. I accept that the seal will wear, I actually think not over-engineering the seal and making it triple the price adds to the design.
Diesel555··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
My most useful watch for daily life and my job (pilot) has been a Citizen Navihawk JY8035.

I have many styles between the Apple Watch and a Garmin Fenix to a 5$ Casio. The functionality is amazing both day and night.

Features I wanted:

Automatic time updates to the second

Analog face

Digital second readout

Solar

Visible at night

Secondary time without any button presses (I use UTC)

I list it because it is the best designed watch I’ve used. I’d use it over a breitling any day for functionality. However I would gladly give up one of those circular dials for a date readout. It takes one rotation to switch between the secondary time and the date currently.

https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Eco-Drive-Navihawk-Timekeepin... (Deal of the day..)

Diesel555··on The ER charged him $6,589.77 for 6 stitches, cost that led his wife to avoid ER
Healthcare is ripe with market failures - everything you are describing is well studied. Those who argue for a completely unregulated market, in my limited interactions, have not usually studied economics or the concept of market failures. Market failures are generally associated with public goods or government regulation.

To name a few with healthcare:

Information Asymmetry. It should be expected that a patient does not know what a Level IV emergency is and the complete ins and outs of how they are going to be charged. I'd argue that the industry has intentionally amplified this market failure. Furthermore, patients are often left with the final decision, but who is going to disagree with a trained professional on their required treatment? It's like going to a mechanic when you have no idea what's wrong with your car. You kind of are trusting the mechanic isn't taking advantage of you (and that is regulated). Or you have to reduce the asymmetry by learning about the basics of cars.

Medical research has the attributes of a public good: Non-excludability and non-rivalrous - when something is discovered it's generally known to everyone without dropping in supply and the information is available to everyone (yes the product which results is rivalrous and excludable in the same country, hence it works as a private good - but then that product has non-competitive markets).

Non-competitive markets with respect to rural areas are also mentioned in the article. Much like the issue with utility companies and broadband providers (the latter of which was shown to be a partial public good in the US with the infrastructure bill).

Diesel555··on AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives
I believe Safari is underrated these days. I really like the tab grouping and syncing that they just released. Except for dev, I still use Chrome/Brave and Firefox for that.

I also use the three technologies you mentioned. Fast mail has been great.

Diesel555··on Culture shock
Agreed. This post comes from DC. I live there now. The obesity level, at least those in my public view, are much better than the other parts of America I have seen.
Diesel555··on As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
I never like the arguments that state we should not care about `a` because `b` and `c` are equally bad or worse and we have done nothing about them.

Can we just talk about an issue as its own issue? Maybe `b` and `c` are really hard to solve, but `a` is easy to solve.

Many arguments against action are usually framed in this comparison structure - I think it is a weak argument unless you explain why `b` and `c` out prioritize `a` for shared resources.

Diesel555··on An unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
This is a lesson on policy and rhetoric. As a programmer I always assumed people thought like me. But they don't. Studying policy mid-career is one of the most eye opening things I have done. Like it or not, if you want to advance policy you have to set up an organized plan that evokes some emotion. This is opposed to applying only logic which would motivate me if I were the audience. Apply to reason alone and you will lose.

> Then our hero enters, and decides to coordinate and plan a persuasion campaign to get the rule changed. Here’s how I think this went down.

Diesel555··on We analyzed 425k favicons
That article was a fun read! There was one sentence that bothered me though.

> I recommend that browsers ignore these hints because they are wrong much of the time. We calculated a 6.7% error rate for these attributes, where the size is not found in the image or the type does not match the file format.

I think of much in this context to mean at least more than 50% of the time. So I had to look up the definition of the word. One definition from Merriam is "more than is expected or acceptable : more than enough." So I guess the usage is acceptable!

I always enjoy finding I have a slightly wrong definition in my mind for a word. Many arguments, or much arguments, fail to move forward due to the differing, unidentified, underlying assumptions relying on words with slightly different definitions, both people having a slightly different question they are arguing in their mind.

Diesel555··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
> HDMI used to be useful for plugging into a projector for presentations, that use-case is now nearly non-existent now that all meetings tend to happen over zoom, webex, teams, hangouts, etc. even when in-person.

I'm not sure you have the information to make the claim that the use case for HDMI is nearly non-existent. We use HDMI all the time. Availability bias is a thing. I find that people drastically underestimate how much they don't know about a subject or use-case of a product.

Diesel555··on Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
I agree. And if they weren't, I get tired of arguments on the merits of argument "B" that states because "A" is wrong, you cannot point out that "B" is wrong too.

The danger is the mentality that we should not solve any single problem unless we can solve all of the problems. Pointing out the hypocrisy to invalidate the argument can lead to inaction.

Diesel555··on The Perils of an .xyz Domain
> we would occasionally get feedback from users and prospects that the .xyz domain felt unprofessional

I had a .xyz domain. I thought it was easier, the domain was short to type.

I was completely wrong. I asked a few non-technical friends. They said they would never use my site because of the .xyz, it felt like a spam site. I redid the site on .net with a longer domain name - much better results.

Diesel555··on Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot
If you want more information on this from former president Obama himself, read The Promise Land. He discusses this issue and he narrates the book.
Diesel555··on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
These arguments have already happened. You are arguing about paternalism. These debates are common in policy classes, specifically about libertarianism. Clearly, people that believe in the freedom of choice would hate this. However to your questions:

> parents to not leaving their kids alone in a car

Infringes on the freedom of the child to live or not endure conditions beyond what a normal person should endure

> sending their kids to school

The other questions start getting more into removing the freedom of the parents to choose at the expense of the best interest of the individual being affected (in the government's point of view).

There is a lot of academic material with well defined terms about these subjects. Americans will err towards individual freedoms rather than the government directing more than will European countries (and obviously communist countries; yes you can find specific examples to contradict this statement, it's a generality, an average of all policies). But Americans are trending towards more paternalistic policies over the last fifty years (Standard disclaimer: To those who will derive an intent out of this statement, it is not supporting or not supporting it, simply an observation).

Diesel555··on Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
This reminds me of the WWDCs. Tim Cook is there to introduce the products, but their engineers (or management of the individual product) are the ones to demonstrate it.

But, I guess Apple probably has people with better salesmanship skills in each product team than the startup had below the CEO. I'm arguing with myself.

Diesel555··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
I agree. I'm running the new OS. There were some UI changes that frustrated me. But when I thought about why I was frustrated, the reason was simply because the UI was new and my old habit patterns didn't work. When I took the time to learn the new UI, I liked it more. The event was a learning experience in why people hate change. It takes effort to realize the benefit (if there is one), otherwise without the effort just frustration (unless the change is bad).
Diesel555··on Immediate skin-to-skin contact with unstable newborns improves survival chances
Person not alive in the 70s here (and not researched it), but curious why our heath care system is so bad. Could you elaborate on your point / give some sources? It seems interesting to me.
Diesel555··on Truly unified inbox – BlackBerry got it right and nobody has since
This was my favorite feature of Windows phone. I thought it was innovative and was the first thing I thought about when I saw this article. On windows phone a person was a person. When you clicked on them you got information from every service tied to them. It was pretty cool.
Diesel555··on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop
I also was missing it, I'd ask how did you know it was there?
Diesel555··on Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
I do the same thing. The only problem I have is with my mail server. Any email that comes from my dynamic IP address auto goes to junk for everyone. I send probably one every two weeks for password resets.
Diesel555··on All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
>The disk filled up, and that's one thing you don't want on a Linux server—or a Mac for that matter. When the disk is full nothing good happens.

I found a bug with time machine where it wouldn't delete local copies properly and filled my hard drive until I couldn't do anything. The OS slowly stopped working. At first I couldn't copy or save anything, then deleting files made more files. It was so bad that the `rm` command eventually wouldn't work from recovery or the local OS. I could do nothing. I had to format.

It happened again and I learned to manually delete the time machine local snapshots, but it was crazy how hard it was to recover once it took all my storage. That bug is fixed now.

Diesel555··on Spy pixels in emails 'have become endemic'
> Emails pixels can be used to log:

> if and when an email is opened how many times it is opened

Can someone explain to me how these work? Do you load remote content from a server so it knows that the email was opened? Does it re-download this image every time it is opened?

Diesel555··on An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013)
I think it’s pretty interesting to read about pilots shot down in WW1 over enemy territory. They were brought into the enemy’s squadrons and treated with respect. They would talk and laugh. The book The Aviators talks about this a bit.

It also talks about how Rickenbacker didn’t want to kill the people in the airplane he shot down (well it got bitter after Lufbery died). He just wanted to shoot down the airplane and accomplish his mission.

I think fighter pilots don’t have a hatred for the others across the line. They study their skill to have an advantage over the enemy’s systems. It’s not all athleticism. It’s science. As Rickenbacker said “Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.” I would assume the same goes for the SA-3 Low Blow operator.

Diesel555··on How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
I disagree. But the context is what you are comparing it to. I think boxed wines (Bota Box mostly) easily beats most 10-20 dollar bottles (reds) at <1/5 the cost. If you are comparing it to a 20-50 dollar bottle, yah, you are right.

Also, your comment is US centric. I lived in Italy for several years and the boxed wine was fantastic. Same quality as bottled, fixes the issues presented, and viewed as better for the environment.

Diesel555··on Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle
It's in my favorites. Great resource, thanks!
Diesel555··on How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

> To access your data on a new device, you might have to enter the passcode for an existing or former device.

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

I didn't realize messages was an exception to storing the key on local devices.

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