e2le
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Comment · 21 days ago
I would assume the competency of a CEO is in knowing who to trust and what tasks to delegate to whom. They appear to have failed in this regard.
Comment · 22 days ago
I'm sceptical that more gas turbines doesn't create a more vulnerable grid. The possibility of gas shortages this winter is on the horizon and if the UK were to cease exports for whatever reason it would be a disaster for the rest of Europe.
Ed Conway released a video on the UK's gas network and disaster planning[0].
As shown in their documentary, a shutdown of exports to Europe would only require 2 or 3 failure events (low production from wind/solar, high-usage of gas for power/heating, disruption or cessation of imports via gas-tankers, well-placed damage to the gas network, extreme weather in the north sea). To maintain pressure in the gas network, they would begin shedding the largest loads first, exports to mainland Europe is #1 on that list.
Let's also not forget Nordstream and the disaster that caused when it mysteriously blew up. Before those pipelines exploded, there were protests in Germany because people were struggling to heat their homes.
Nuclear isn't vulnerable to any of these issues, we're very lucky that construction and investment has continued these past decades. /s
Comment · 28 days ago
> Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about.
- Agent Smith
Comment · 1 month ago
47% of individuals live in households that are net contributors.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...
> Across the UK, 53.3% of people lived in households that were net recipients in FYE 2024. This means that they lived in households that received more in benefits (cash and benefits in kind) than they paid in taxes (direct and indirect).
Comment · 1 month ago
> requiring everyone to be richer than the average member of the population
In the UK, only 47% are net tax contributors. I can't find what the same statistic is for Japan. I don't believe it's wrong for there to be an expectation that they be a net contributor.
Comment · 1 month ago
> buying something more expensive really helped with expanding its lifespan
Expensive consumer appliances aren't always the same quality as expensive professional appliances.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Go makes you web search and poke around github looking for something.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I suspect with increased friction, users are more likely to scrutinise dependencies before importing them.
Comment · 2 months ago
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to refer to them as merely license plate readers?
Comment · 2 months ago
How do you know they weren't faulty? Blip flips are usually silent unless you have ECC memory or are actively testing for faulty cells.
Somewhat recently, Firefox implemented memory testing in their crash reporter and found 10% of reports were due to bit-flips[0].
If it weren't for reading that HN thread, I would never have being prompted to check and find the faulty memory in my laptop. It would have gone undetected and continued to corrupt whatever was stored in the affected cells. I did run memtest86 not long after I bought the laptop, so sometime between running that first memtest86 and the 12 months after, it developed the fault.
Non-ECC memory sometimes fails and there's a good chance you'll never know.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sqlite3 is present in the default installation of most Linux distributions. It has proven itself from years of battle testing in many different environments. To use DuckDB or LevelDB would probably require pulling in an additional dependency.
Comment · 2 months ago
I would much rather that they had used an existing database file format. Sqlite3 is robust and already present in the default installation of most Linux distributions. Querying system logs with SQL would be cool and likely faster than using the sd_journal API with all it's weird quirks.
Comment · 2 months ago
> You are probably imagining that it would be expert developers with a track record of success.
I'll admit I am unsure how such individuals would be chosen. I imagine it would be prudent to learn what processes are used by other licensed professions when choosing such individuals.
> who write lots of blog posts and books about programming and give lots of conference keynotes
I do not think people who write blog posts and give conference keynotes should be awarded with roles that regulate the profession because they write blog posts and give keynotes. I would hope that any regulation is evidence driven.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Call me a gatekeeper if you want but, we ended up with a lot of people that just can't do the job.
Increasingly I am of the opinion that software engineering aught to be a licensed profession, similar to civil engineers, medical professionals, or lawyers. A board of peers to hold you accountable and a licence that can be revoked at any time. Additionally, legislation could be written to require such licensed individuals in safety critical roles.
I suspect the debate around AI assistance tools would be quite different if there was greater accountability for programmers and a constant threat of losing a licence.
If you brick millions of machines impacting hospitals and airports, you should probably never be trusted to write code again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_ou...
Comment · 2 months ago
What is the weather app doing that it requires 100MB? For such a simple application, that seems excessive.