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Wald76··on Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
Sorry to be pedantic, but the wonderful “planning” quote is actually from Dwight Eisenhower (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#From_the_...).
Wald76··on Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova 'snatched from street' in Minsk
Belarus’s human rights abuses and crimes against humanity (as defined by the ICC) are highly relevant no matter whether its government signed the statute or not, or whether its government trolls consider it a “toy court”.
Wald76··on Merkel demands answers from Putin over Navalny's attempted murder
It’s interesting that (a) a military grade nerve agent was used, (b) the dosage given was sub-lethal, and (c) Putin had no qualms about releasing Navalny to German care. Makes you wonder if this was all about sending a message.
Wald76··on On All That Fuckery
I’m so sorry people have to suffer from such awful behavior.

Last year a troll at my company Slacked his friend a horribly misogynistic remark about a women’s mentorship group meeting. But by mistake, he sent it on the general channel. Within minutes he was fired and escorted out the door by security.

Wald76··on The most remarkable legacy system I have seen
That’s what I understand too. (I worked on the Quartz Core team for a couple years at BAML.)
Wald76··on The Unix Operating System (1982) [video]
I bet he just aliased commands for expository reasons: “uniq” aliased to “unique”, and “tr A-Z a-z” to “lowercase”.
Wald76··on A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
This is also a great way to keep several squadrons of reasonably capable fighters maintained and in operation. In a time of national emergency they (and their pilots) could be drawn on.
Wald76··on What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
That’s correct, the US population density correlates fairly closely with the average annual rainfall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...
Wald76··on Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
It’s there:

> Chemical effects are especially problematic at the decomposition stage. Additives such as phthalates and Bisphenol A (widely known as BPA) leach out of plastic particles. These additives are known for their hormonal effects and can disrupt the hormone system of vertebrates and invertebrates alike. In addition, nano-sized particles may cause inflammation, traverse cellular barriers, and even cross highly selective membranes such as the blood-brain barrier or the placenta. Within the cell, they can trigger changes in gene expression and biochemical reactions, among other things.

Wald76··on Software Disenchantment (2018)
Safari on iOS would not render Nikita’s article until I killed and restarted it, nicely illustrating one of his key points.
Wald76··on I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry
No but he wins 10 times more often.
Wald76··on On Counting (2017)
You are so right, thank you!
Wald76··on On Counting (2017)
Awk is named after its authors at Bell Labs: Aho, Williams, and Kernighan.
Wald76··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
Generally you generate a random UUID which is quite difficult to enumerate.
Wald76··on Will Speech Syntax Markup Language (SSML) Become the New HTML?
VoiceXML uses SSML to mark up text to be spoken to the user, and in fact the two standards were developed in parallel by the W3C’s Voice Browser Working Group.