cbanek

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I dream to be chief engineer of a starship.

Currently @VRO (Vera Rubin Observatory, the only Observatory named after a woman!).

Founder @TimesliceLabs. Former @SpaceX, @Blizzard_Ent, @Microsoft.

Feel free to email me, it's my HN name at Google's email reading service.

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Comment · 1 year ago
This is absolutely true. If anything, interactive debuggers are a crutch and actual logging is the real way of debugging. You really can't debug all sorts of things in an interactive debugger, things like timing issues, thread problems, and you certainly can't find the actual hard bugs that are in running services in production, you know, where the bugs actually happen and are found. Or on other people's machines that you can't just attach a debugger. You need good logging with a good logging library that doesn't affect performance too much when it's turned off, and those messages can also provide very useful context to what things are going on, many times as good if not better than a comment, because at least the log messages are compiled in and type checked, as opposed to comments, which can easily go stale.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe you can sell it to the people that bought the Enron trademark and they can sell it as a gag gift.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sir we are at launch, TURN YOUR KEY.
Comment · 1 year ago
Who'd want to steal from that cesspool anyway? Same for reddit, I can't imagine getting reddit memes spit at me from ChatGPT. But yeah, I bet both of them are being used quite liberally.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm a huge fan of theaters. There's a local art theater (non-profit) that had a tier of support that allowed for free tickets to any movie. The price was $1500/yr, and you could write off a fair amount of that as a charitable donation on your taxes. I loved going, and would easily go multiple times a week, sometimes everyday for a whole week.

Sadly, I moved away from that town, and instead bought a 98" 4k TV. It cost about the same ($1500), and now I can't imagine going back to a theater. This size of TV gives me that same theater experience at home where I can see small details in movies that are hard to see normally on smaller TVs. My sound system isn't as great, good stereo pair, but I could easily improve that for another $1500.

Plus, those costs are generally one time costs, and this setup will likely last me at least 5 years if not 10. Going to a theater just doesn't make sense anymore.

Comment · 1 year ago
"Musk, who has been engaged in a high-profile feud with US President Donald Trump, on Thursday threatened to decommission the Dragon before later saying the spacecraft would stay in operation."

Interesting timing.

Comment · 1 year ago
The difference is just a minus sign!
Comment · 1 year ago
And the classic accelerometer installed backward which doomed the Genesis mission sample return, although some bits were successfully recovered, the parachute never deployed.
Comment · 1 year ago
All about that bass, all about that bass.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is why I never let my "smart" TVs contact the internet anymore.
Comment · 1 year ago
Even that isn't really true, since you don't pay taxes on Roth IRAs, and a normal IRA is taxed based on the total amount distributed (since you didn't pay taxes on the amount put in), rather than cost basis.

It's pretty complicated, look up the Secure Act 2.0 for some of the recent changes to try to get more taxes out of retirement accounts.

Comment · 1 year ago
It'd be hard to figure out. A lot of hedge funds run on mark-to-market accounting, which basically taxes the unrealized gains as gains every year, as opposed to keeping track of the cost basis when bought and taxed upon selling. There are quarterly reports made to the SEC though for firms of a certain size, or holding a certain percentage of one stock, typically 10% of a company involves additional paperwork and regulation.

Also, there's many times where the cost basis is stepped up, for example when someone dies and passes on assets to their beneficiaries. In this case the cost basis changes from what the dead person paid for it to what the beneficiary gets it for upon inheriting it.

Overall, I don't think this is a useful measure of anything though. What you might be interested in is the volume weighted average price, which gives an idea on how much people have paid on a stock in a recent window, based on the volume of trades and the price of those trades, reflecting what the average buyer's cost basis could be around.

Comment · 1 year ago
Having a single developer allows fewer offices with their windows completely covered with newspaper. Plus, there's one person doing everything, which can be a lot better than two with people who have different ideas of how to make the system work together.
Comment · 1 year ago
Small world! I worked on Yellow Door / Golden Gate automation for releasing 360 titles and patches to prod, and the beta group / KDC service code.
Comment · 1 year ago
Instead of using AI to summarize body cameras, why not just release the body camera footage along with the police report? This is almost never done, usually you have to wait for discovery and the trial process to get access to the body cam footage, while the cops can and do lie/exaggerate all the time on the reports. Then you have to pay for a lawyer just to get to the data of truth, which easily costs citizens thousands of dollars. Though they don't call it lying, they call it the "officer's recollection." That's how you get things like, everyone smells like weed and/or alcohol, everyone is resisting arrest, everyone is "defiant and uncooperative." Plus, many times they will charge you extra money for the body cam footage. Trust me, all they really need to do is prevent the body cams from being turned off and/or muted, and present the body cam footage to all parties at the start, and we'd have a revolution in policing. Especially if all these police reports are drafted from incomplete body cam footage where the officer knowingly covers their camera, turns it off, or mutes it for no good reason. A lot of cops have gotten caught planting evidence from their own body cam. Same for dashcams. They should be released immediately. There is no reason not to other than to try to muscle normal citizens out of their constitutional rights.

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