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This article made me reflect on my own upbringing. My parents weren't particularly well-educated, but their parenting style actually had a lot in common with the fictional Andy Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show. While Angela Duckworth's research on grit wasn’t around back then, Andy Taylor modeled many of the traits Duckworth describes—compassion, high expectations, and letting kids learn from mistakes. My parents seemed to naturally follow a similar path, and it served as a kind of guardrail for them—a common-sense approach they likely picked up because it felt right, not because of any research.

I'm not claiming my success today is solely due to this upbringing, but I do feel like it had a meaningful impact. Especially when I see the outcomes of friends who had either very authoritarian or completely hands-off parents. There's something powerful in that balanced, "Andy Taylor" approach: patient guidance, firm boundaries, and leading by example.

It’s interesting to consider that despite all the developmental psychology and theories on parenting we have today, a lot of the fundamentals were demonstrated in simple, accessible ways by a character on 1960s TV. It’s a reminder that, at its core, effective parenting often just requires consistency, empathy, and a healthy dose of common sense.

nice, i first heard about OMSCS through hackernews and finished the program 2 years ago.

Sept 2 Update

> NASA issued the following explanation on Monday for the strange noises: "A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner. The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback."

Thiokol + Hercules = ATK

ATK + OribtalSciences = Orbital ATK

then NG bought out Orbital ATK

You've clearly never gone to a Starbucks Roastery before. Its a night and day difference between the standard cafe and a roastery.

sounds better than pumpkin spice bacon, and that's a thing.

its not the coffee you are buying, its the experience.

Inconclusive evidence but hard probably.

from the same article above, it seems like it's a critical part of this.

> “Everybody’s incentives are aligned,” the former official said. “The FCC is going to want to know what caused it so that lessons can be learned. And if they find malfeasance or bad actions or, just poor quality of oversight of the network, they have the latitude to act.”

If AT&T gets to decide if they are at fault, they will, of course, never be at fault. So a third-party investigation makes a lot of sense.

I would also suspect that the FCC would not be as well versed in determining if there was a hack or even who did it, which is why I feel like CISA would need to get involved in the investigation.

> However, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is “working closely with AT&T to understand the cause of the outage and its impacts, and stand[s] ready to offer any assistance needed,” Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement to CNN.[1]

[1] - [https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/att-cell-service-outage/...

This isn't telling of anything, right? Wouldn't CISA be involved with anything that impacts Public Infrastructure at this level?

My coffee creamer expired weeks earlier than expected. Can we add that to the list while we are at it?

> FirstNet is also down

CNN reported that AT&T confirmed it has not been impacted throughout this event.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/att-outage-02-22-24/i...

A solar flare targetted at ATT Infra only? Unlikely.

Could be a hack Could be a single point of failure Could be a config change that borked the system

Could be other things that make more sense we will have to wait for more info.

Most of these I already knew except the -12 to +14 UTC.

Thankfully most programmers don't really have to worry about all of these edge cases unless they are writing their own timezone libraries.

I will be interested in seeing how not offering a t-shirt affects the overall participation. I think it will definitely improve the quality of hacktoberfest.

Yes and verified that the person the note is shared with gets it on their phone. So it’s not even just a ui bug

That is what I also thought; I submitted it a second time, and it was rejected again. I even showed them a video of the process.

I would love to hear the thoughts from anyone in the metallurgical community.

I worked for a defense contractor, and we had initial plans for a contractor to build us a wireless controller. Their controller was an ugly box-shaped controller that they wanted to charge us 200k. I redesigned the architecture of our system so that we could use an Xbox controller instead.

There is no reason why these controllers can't be used over some other "industrial" controller, as long as you design the system appropriately to account for failures, which you should be doing regardless of what controller you select.

"Most reliable rocket in history" that's a pretty bold statement when they have so few launches compared to Soyuz or Atlas V

Just a slight correction, the o-ring not being tested in freezing conditions wasn't an oversight that destroyed the challenger; the engineers knew that the o-ring hadn't been tested at that unusually low temperature and even suspected it could fail at those temperatures.

Management at Morton Thiokol and NASA disregarded those concerns because they had already scrubbed the launch several times.

Bureaucracy is forged from the furnace of past adversities.

I can assure you that anything done by Shultz is a decision based purely on money and shareholder interest, masked as a benefit for partners.

It's not Starbucks' decision to lease the building to someone else, it is the building owner which in most cases is not Starbucks.

Furthermore, Starbucks shouldn't be forced to sell its proprietary assets. like ovens, espresso machines, technology, etc.

Testing is a big part of our CI/CD pipeline, if we are making changes we should definitely see a diff in some functions.

I would expect to have a build fail on unintended changes like we do with snapshots. How exactly do you indicate intended changes in Touca?

Source?

Just a comment on shot count.

Latte’s are an exception where a tall only gets 1 shot.

It’s more likely the configuration of the automatic machine not the machine itself.

Not at all. It just means that there is a larger pool of employees qualified to work in fast food.

Sometimes people are simply forced to take jobs that are not adequately compensated.

iPhone as well.

The calmness comes from really knowing and understanding what you are working with. I used to frequently work around hundreds of thousands of pounds of class 1 explosives. Once you understand that the primary risks of dry explosives are impact, shock, and impingement. You can protect yourself against those risks and get comfortable working around the material.