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sharing this because I thought it was very interesting that firefighters in CA affected the legislation to prevent cell towers from being installed on fire department facilities.

>> (3) The small cell is not located on a fire department facility. [0]

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

try posting during 9am-7pm Pacific time

For me it's been seeing the clear skies.

The singular of data is "datum", for those out there wondering.

>> The lack of drainage caused unpleasant living conditions, and standing water harbored pathogens that caused numerous epidemics including typhoid fever and dysentery, which blighted Chicago six years in a row, culminating in the 1854 outbreak of cholera that killed six percent of the city’s population.

I think that's the key point right there. Action was taken only after six percent of the city was wiped out. I'm sure we could (and will) be able to do any number of things when faced with an existential crisis of that magnitude.

My hope for the present crisis is that it gives us enough pause to reflect on what we are capable of when our lives are on the line, and extend this into tackling our other social ills -- healthcare, or lack thereof, homelessness, poverty, education.

Search is unusable on ProtonMail because they can't decrypt your emails to search through them. I've raised this issue with them and they responded that the (current) solution is to use a local mail client to download all your emails and search them using your client.

> There is clearly a deeper ideological issue infecting the entire West.

Amen.

Well, the intelligence was there, but the President was not. I think the author's point is that the covid-19 outbreak is the worst presidential failure in U.S. History. But FP is probably not capable of publishing that headline.

because environments everywhere have adapted to a rhythm of temperature that will no longer exist due to global warming. a good definition of damage is "harmful change."

This is a good rant. The anger is palpable and I dare say righteous. Good on you, Steve.

The CDC needs to clean house.

You don't escape the minotaur, you slay it.

sure, but that's not the point of the letter. I've just finished reading the whole thing, and it honestly seems to me that those unfortunate enough to have been named Alexa by their parents should have their names legally changed. It seemed funny at first, but now it just seems like a travesty.

I've never wanted a CEO to listen to something more than this.

Maybe someone here can come up with a better, non-human name?

Personally, I think "Slavebot" would be fairly appropriate.

I think the better tl;dr is: "Our results support the theory that abolishing time changes completely would improve public health," said Vetter.

Do you use protonmail? I do, and I'm finding it actually refreshing to see spam and phishing emails in my inbox. At first I thought, why aren't they blocking this? Then I realized, "oh right, that's because they aren't reading it".

> Do you believe proton mail can keep state level actors like Russia, China, and the United States out of their prod infra?

No, I don't believe they'll be able to keep state actors out of their servers indefinitely. But it's more a matter of what the state actors find once they've gained access. As I understand it, the architecture of the service is what prevents protonmail themselves, as well as any intruder, from reading the encrypted mail files[0].

[0] https://protonmail.com/security-details

Thanks for posting this. It takes a bit of courage to write what you have. The hardest thing (for me) is to detach mentally/emotionally from the job when you're not there. You've just spent all day in an office, and it's difficult to be truly present when you get home. All I can say is that I struggle with similar issues, and I'm trying to work on setting more firm boundaries between me and my job. I wish you and your family the best of luck (and strength) in the coming months.

It's amazing. It can be difficult at times, mostly due to peer pressure, but I think that part of what's great about it is that it flexes your resisting-peer-pressure muscles.

The question mark is absolutely unnecessary, and gives credence to the idea that the site admins are somehow biased in Google's favor. I would like to see this stop as well?

> Sodium fluoride is a neurotoxin

Indeed. So now we need another science website with a different agenda to go and measure IQ points there.

... because you don't control the server?

But the internet is a political and social arrangement. It's easy to forget in cyberspace the very physical situation of electrons and photons moving through wires and air. All this exists in pipes on the surface of the earth, in satellites overhead, and in undersea cables. These are all owned by somebody, or some thing. If you want to really get at the root causes of the issues TBL is raising, you're going to have to address the idea of private property. TBL isn't doing that (as far as I can tell), and so of course everyone (and thing) is on board.

> dance floors.

Holy shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXrLZmnQ_M

I don't think there is a traditional way of writing distributed apps. The whole field is extremely young(/aka immature), and the ways are still being discovered. The actor model is just one way, but it lines up fairly nicely with what Joe Armstrong was doing with Erlang. I think they both deserve high marks.

Not sure, but "hubris" sounds pretty good.

> Both "code rot" and "technical debt" are concepts that, unlike their real-world analogs, are only problematic in context of ever changing environment.

It should be taken as a given that code (and everything else) exists in an ever changing environment. Computers are physical machines; they run down over time. Capacitors need to be replaced, and you've got to blow the dust out of your fans once in a while.

Especially in web development, the environment changes quickly. Who could have foreseen that the authors of the JavaScript spec would introduce their own "remove" function? Not me: I left my code unchanged, and it broke. Or, more technically, it rotted.

> Email is all about reputation: it can take a lot of effort to build trust, but just one bad move and it's all gone.

In my experience, the email blacklists and filters are somewhat forgiving. I accidentally configured my email server as an open relay (didn't know what that was at the time), and for a brief period was sending a not insignificant percentage of spam worldwide.

Once I discovered my mistake and corrected the issue, I was able to submit domain removal requests to the various blacklists, or just wait for my domain to fall off the radar. I expected it to be worse, and was pleasantly surprised to find that this kind of "forgiveness" is really an industry standard.

But then, that was just one bad move. I'm not so sure about two bad moves, and I'd rather not find out.

Don't take it personally. It's not you that's being downvoted; it's your comment.

Adding my voice to the chorus here as a DO customer. This 188-word "postmortem" gives postmortems a bad name. I would like to know the details of the "network configuration change" and why it "caused incompatibilities". And also how you will ensure that this particular failure will not re-occur.

Trust and transparency are the currencies of the internet, in the same way that cigarettes and contraband are the currencies in prison. This post is worth approx. a 1/2 smoked cigarette.

appears that you need to work more on re-wording it. the current question presumes that FAANG companies already have "great engineering culture," but that probably doesn't help the reader/respondent much.

maybe more anecdotal answers will help? a question along the lines of, "what makes the engineering culture at your workplace great?" may solicit the answers you seek.