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peterladaon Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple

How is it different from relay.app?

peterladaon NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut

No.

peterladaon One Head, Two Brains: The origins of split-brain research (2015)

It would be a fork. Identical experience until that point but bifurcated from the point of fork since it no longer occupies the same physical space

peterladaon Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration

About 1 AU distance, right?

peterladaon I live my life a quarter century at a time

Or as Shakespeare would have put it:

0-25: Act I 24-50: Act II 50-75: Act III, the final act.

peterladaon Cognitive load is what matters

There is an issue of reading a code that is written by somebody else. If it's not in a common style, the cognitive load of parsing how it's done is an overhead.

The reason I used to hate Perl was around this, everyone had a unique way of using Perl and it had many ways to do the same thing.

The reason I dislike functional programming is around the same, you can skin the cat 5 ways, then all 5 engineers will pick a different way of writing that in Typescript.

The reason I like Python more is that all experienced engineers will eventually gravitate towards the idea of Pythonic notion and I've had colleagues whose code looked identical to how I'd have written it.

peterladaon Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?

The most expensive thing in this work is human attention. Ie somebody has to give a shit so the thing works well.

peterladaon The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport

Ok. But also:

Earth biosphere is collapsing.

Your complaint re: bottle cap: I stopped seeing caps in gutters.

Your complaint re: recycling scam: a non-scam way of doing is how Netherlands does it and it imports(!) trash because it's profitable.

Plastic straws can be made out of compostable plastic.

And the fucking plutocracy could stop flying everywhere every day.

peterladaon Space Startup Spins the Living Crap Out a Satellite–and It Survived

How high did it go?

peterladaon Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder

St James, the protector saint of all things covfefe.

peterladaon AI Product Management

Yes. This is intuitively true. Solid specs can be built with high % of AI assist and can be executed fast. Vague specs and exploration would take forever compared to the prior. One can build 10 concrete ideas in a span of a single exploration

peterladaon Fluoride in our drinking water may not be as useful as it used to be

Tell us more about your qualifications

peterladaon CSS Classes Considered Harmful

No. I mean data-no=jose

peterladaon Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments

Today: almost certainly nothing In a decade: almost certainly very little In a century: almost certainly more than the Voyager

peterladaon U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe

It needs to be taken over by the government

peterladaon Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?

Managing Humans by Michael Lopp

And it's a book of his articles.

peterladaon A predicted quasicrystal is based on the 'einstein' tile known as the hat

A decade ago I would have agreed with you. But then I discovered the topic of five-symmetries and my absolute favorite non-toxic non-stick pans are coated with that alloy (not long ago deemed impossible) that has the five way symmetry.

So the practical applications are not far behind for these "only 2D" crystals.

peterladaon Ukrainian Drones Are Burning Down Russia's Oil and Gas Industry

Well put. Love that line about the 3 day invasion.

peterladaon iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

Also miss out on spam, scam and "custom" "keyboards" that just happen to use telemetry to collect passwords.

peterladaon Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air

Boeing cannot make things that fly no more. So now as a lawyer run entity will try to redefine the concept of flying to, riffing on Douglas Adams line on, constantly falling and mostly missing hitting the ground.

peterladaon Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US

5-year ownership cost of a Model 3 SR is the same as a Toyota Corolla right now...

peterladaon How I obtained a business manager visa in Japan

Laugh cries inconsolably in American...

peterladaon Why are things expensive?

100% this. Maxing out the 401k annually at the relatively low salary of 150k in NYC is easy. Doing that in St Louis at 50k livable wage is super hard. Car payments? Ditto.

peterladaon GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe

It's nice to see GM and Ford (cutting back on F150 Lighting production) leading the sales at Tesla.

What a self own.

peterladaon Launch HN: Bracket (YC W22) – Two-Way Sync Between Salesforce and Postgres

It is incredibly hard and a giant overhead on each of these SaaS startups to do marketing and enterprise sales which shows up in pricing (30-70%!) These solutions still need to be vendored in and integrated at each client.

Rolling up all the YC single-feature SaaS business into a single sales org and providing an a la carte set of solutions to partners would make a ton of sense.

I guess that is the theory behind SaaS.group and its ilk.

peterladaon What if an SQL statement returned a database?

Have you tried reading the paper or at least the twitter thread?

There are 8 problems listed there that will help you understand the probablement and the elegance of this proposed solution via the SQL standard.

peterladaon Elon Musk Says He May Bring Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X

Conspiracy theorist is such a cop out title for this guy. Convicted fraudster? Mass shooting enthusiast? Bankrupted liar?

peterladaon Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

The Greek prime minister wants to have a word...

peterladaon Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces and Pages

They are aiming to maintain a single 9 reliability.

peterladaon We cut our Flask page load times by 60% with one line of code

Seems like this could possibly lead to memory leak? No upper bound on the memory usage?