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Comment · 13 days ago
In virtually every company there are questions you intuitively know that your managers don't necessarily want to know the answers to (or at least, they only want to know the answers to them if you have a solution), usually it's something relatively trivial like minor infractions of corporate rules.

There are some leaders who are extremely good at convincing you about the importance of belief in a particular thing to the point where you avoid even thinking up those questions - if they are ever cornered (and they rarely allow it to get to that point) they will wriggle endlessly rather than responding to a line of inquiry that bursts the collective bubble.

Do they know? It's hard to argue about their internal motivations.

Comment · 3 months ago
That gap explains much of the spike. Companies who never used any scanning tools on much of their codebase are suddenly having that gap closed.
Comment · 10 months ago
And the author has admitted at least some assistance here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452841

There may have been less pushback if this had been expressed up front. But also, what is it ? Is it to "test the architecture applied to nats" or is it to be a fully fledged NATs replacement (as per the impression given by table at the bottom of the website) - which becomes much harder if AI has significantly re-written the authors original code (and commented it badly).

The website being AI coded I can take or leave.

Comment · 10 months ago
The reason we know about Theranos is that it ended up in court. Plenty of other startups have had obviously impractical ideas that didn't go anywhere.
Comment · 10 months ago
Some of those (including many providers on Openreach) will support mini-jumbo frames that allow an MTU of 1500 inside pppoe.
Comment · 11 months ago
Is there a Obsidian -> Hugo/Zola/Jekyll thing that's relatively robust?
Comment · 11 months ago
What are people using to edit entries - because while markdown is fine, a lot of the time I want to be able to drag in screenshots, snippets of other documents like rfcs and so on. So it ends up being easier to make those notes for myself rather than push them into anything publishable.
Comment · 11 months ago
The problem is that they react to lights from the opposing vehicle, but they are going to hit your eyes before they detect your lights.

That's with simple high beam assist. The matrix ones you refer to actually have another feature which makes things even worse; they progressively dip the light in parts, but combined with the first effect this means that you have a few seconds of being blinded before all of their component leds have been dipped.

Not to mention that they are only reacting to something directly in front of them for the most part -- meaning you can be blinded on curves, or when turn around and looking at them off axis (say as they wait to turn into a road).

Comment · 11 months ago
The Sun has cumulatively lost about £500m over the last few years. I presume there must be some other purpose for keeping it around.

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