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dbt00··on Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'
It's hard to be too upset about this stuff in a competitive landscape that includes Reddit and Twitter.
dbt00··on Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?
I find it actually quite relieving that he doesn't have any new nuclear incidents to document.
dbt00··on Ask HN: What's your opinion on weekly 1:1s?
For junior folks I like weekly. For senior folks where I already have good rapport, I prefer bi-weekly. Everybody knows they can come interrupt me when something is bothering them, but taking temperature regularly is important.
dbt00··on FAA seeks public input on drone operations
That is literally a federal crime in the USA. I do not recommend it at all.
dbt00··on CheerpJ 3.0: a JVM replacement in HTML5 and WASM to run Java on modern browsers
They were. Microsoft Outlook Web Access was exactly that, it's why Microsoft invented XHR. Google Maps later got a lot of credit for kicking off "Ajax", but OWA laid the groundwork.
dbt00··on Tesla Vehicle Safety Report
Are you kidding me? One of the several times autopilot tried to kill me was when it randomly tried to flat stop on I-80 with a semi driver following me. No way he could have stopped in time if I hadn't disengaged and slammed on the accelerator.

(Absolutely no reason to stop and no weather or afternoon sun for confusion. My best guess is that flaky vision systems thought a semi truck was entering my lane, but I really don't know.)

dbt00··on Tesla Vehicle Safety Report
Right, like when they tried to blame Walter Huang for FSD veering directly into a barrier US-101/CA-85. "Autopilot was disengaged when it crashed." Yes, because the driver grabbed the wheel when autopilot veered directly into a gore point.
dbt00··on Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF
That's not... that's not at all what that letter says.

Her deal is that they won't prosecute her for anything else related to these crimes except that they can't promise she won't be prosecuted for tax fraud.

Her deal is also a sentencing recommendation that a judge is very likely to accept.

dbt00··on Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are cooperating in the criminal case against SBF
I noticed that too, I imagine it was given to the press with an embargo until SBF was on the plane.
dbt00··on People took some potassium and lost some weight
FWIW I did the potato diet in 2018 (Penn Jillette's book).

6'1.5" 250#.

Lost 17# in 2 weeks. Lost 35# in 2 months.

Stayed off as long as I was eating vegan, high-potato diet.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to stick with it for other reasons and I've since regained the weight. I need to cook for people for whom it's not a reasonable diet and enjoy eating meat too much.

The conceptual model here intrigues me. I'm pondering maxing potatoes but also eating whatever else I want and see if it helps.

(My coworkers literally called it the martian diet. It was funny. I would come to meetings at work eating a baked potato like an apple.)

dbt00··on Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed
First, click polls are garbage and alllllways have been, second, he runs the platform with no dissent the poll will say whatever he wants it to say.
dbt00··on No Other Options: Newly revealed documents depict Canadian euthanasia regime
I don't have a problem with people getting MAID, but I do have a problem with medical practitioners pushing it on people who want to live but can't get basic resources to deal with very manageable disabilities.
dbt00··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
I'm sorry you lost access to your github account, but let's be fair. This is not a legitimate application for managing your stars, this is a page that was committing fraud and probably requested access to your account in exchange for committing further fraud on your behalf. You were already logged in. Why did you log in again with github? Because it asked you to, and promised you more rewards if you did?
dbt00··on Idiot Proof Git
You can, 99.9% of the time, emulate linear history with first parent history, which is a post-hoc tooling choice that doesn't remove context.

Developers shouldn't try to merge branches with wip/wip/wip/wip histories either, that's just garbage. Commit messages are documentation, fix your documentation before you publish.

dbt00··on Twitter now asks some fired workers to please come back
He's always been bad at dealing with people. Twitter isn't a technology company, it's a people company.
dbt00··on Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable
From the original comment:

> "The campus provides workspace for about 2,700 employees (including three of the university’s eight vice presidents) working in critical areas such as the School of Medicine administration, libraries and archives, business affairs, human resources, development and Land, Buildings & Real Estate. Stanford will be the city’s third-largest employer in Redwood City."

Administration for the school of medicine is literally the first group cited.

Stanford Medical is everywhere around here.

dbt00··on When to use Bazel?
I've used bazel at medium size (100+ engineers, multiple languages) and tried to use it at a small size (20 engineers, almost all go with a tiny bit of C) and I think the "never" and "unless there's no other way" answers from this interview are pretty good.
dbt00··on MySQL Raytracer
http://sqlanywhere.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpublished-mysql-fa...

for those of us who are old enough to remember actual internet flame culture, this is an amazing late example.

dbt00··on Winning a London Garden Allotment
Some US suburbs put them in park areas, I live in Palo Alto where there are a number of such community gardens.

In bigger cities there have been various community garden projects, but they often are wildcat projects using vacant lots and constantly facing eviction by property owners to avoid insurance and adverse possession claims.

dbt00··on Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
I've known many more devout Christians that are not Don Knuth than are.
dbt00··on Facial hair tracking for high fidelity performance capture
Heh. Always means I have an upper respiratory infection.
dbt00··on Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To (2010)
True, and olive oil also dates back that far. The soybean, corn and canola/rapeseed represent the majority of cooking oils used today. They're fairly modern inventions.
dbt00··on Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To (2010)
Flaxseed oil is garbage, just use animal fat like your (great great) grandparents did. Cast iron was perfected when people cooked with lard and tallow, not vegetable oils, which are a 20th century invention.

Vegetable oil works ok too, but honestly use that trimmed fat from a beef roast or something, render it to liquid, and then season it the same way you did with vegetable oil and see how it compares.

dbt00··on Two envelopes problem
Every program has bugs, every program has inefficiencies. Therefore every program can be eventually reduced down to a single instruction, which will be incorrect.
dbt00··on EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule
They sit in the press box unless a goalie gets hurt, then the equipment guys get the EBUG a jersey and he gets into his gear just in case he gets called in, but he has to stay in the locker room until or unless that happens.
dbt00··on 100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers
I'm sorry for what you and your friends have been through. I'm curious why you cite Monsanto here? A thyroid cancer cluster is far more likely caused by exposure to radioactive iodine than a pesticide.
dbt00··on I used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS tracker to watch my husband’s every move
In my case by talking to my teens about choices, consequences, and how to plan for good outcomes. It helped to start having that conversation long before they were teens.

We had an ios family group set up with location sharing enabled, which was great when they were 12 and losing things all the time (using a phone as backpack lojack isn't necessarily cost efficient, but it was a nice accidental outcome). When they got a little older, they figured out how not to share with us. I was peeved, but proud. Privacy respected.

dbt00··on Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
Yay, fewer people dying of preventable diseases!
dbt00··on Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)
> It's a closer match to Python than Go

I like Kotlin, but I really think of Go as the most probable outcome of someone saying "I'd like a staticly typed, concurrent/parallel Python", and then mumbled "but I hate exceptions". Go is very close to python in many respects.

dbt00··on Log4j RCE Found
No reason to think that it is -- it's related to a specific implementation of a java technology, it would require completely a completely hypothetical parallel track.
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