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by emarsden 1y ago
You may be interested in PGmacs, a viewing/editing interface for PostgreSQL. https://github.com/emarsden/pgmacs (self-plug)
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by emarsden 1y ago
They have an open issue concerning a SIGILL when loading the pgvector extension that hasn't been fixed or seen any activity in a month. https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-docker/issues/20
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Securely sending DHT22 sensor data from an ESP32 board to PostgreSQL(c410-f3r.github.io)
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by emarsden 2y ago
This is debatable. Perhaps the poor quality management issues and lack of rigour that have been seen in various Boeing production facilities are a case of normalization of deviance. However, the original problem with the 737 MAX was the top
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by emarsden 2y ago
I did not have BDSM rope bondage in mind when I wrote that article, but nice to know that these concepts can be roped in more widely than anticipated!
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by emarsden 2y ago
"Being cheap" is a pressure from management to increase production in order to avoid economic failure. "Being lazy" is an effort from frontline workers to improve efficiency and avoid being swamped by production demand.
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by emarsden 2y ago
I have a smartphone app that scrapes replay TV listings for a few shows that I like to watch at the gym and allows me to download the low-quality media stream to the phone to view offline ad-free. I released the Rust library that downloads
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by emarsden 2y ago
It seems that there is some missing tooling to make this convenient. You can run a local bundle of HTML/JS/WASM in a web browser instance that you isolate (for example with firejail) to prevent network access. You distribute as a
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by emarsden 2y ago
Sure, but these types of applications are running in a web browser sandbox, which benefits from enormous engineering resources to protect the host computer from malicious actions by the remote code. I'm wondering whether this execution
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by emarsden 2y ago
From the README: “Stirling PDF does not initiate any outbound calls for record-keeping or tracking purposes”. Beyond auditing the code, how could a potential user verify this claim in advance, and how can a web-based app help support such a
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by emarsden 3y ago
Historically, the fact that lives of the public are clearly on the line was part of the argument for allowing partial delegation of safety oversight. The idea has been that any engineer/manager making these decisions will be regularly
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by emarsden 3y ago
There are several good reasons for allowing it. One is that it's difficult for a public inspectorate/regulator to maintain the necessary levels of expertise to assess such complex systems (and increasingly so with technological pr
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by emarsden 3y ago
There are indeed several other examples of this partial delegation of authority for decisions concerning safety, either to industry players or to third parties, though the FAA "ODA" mechanism is probably the most prominent. EASA&#
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by emarsden 3y ago
That's pretty much the objective of SICL, which is "intentionally divided into many implementation-independent modules that are written in a totally or near-totally portable way, so as to allow other implementations to incorporate
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by emarsden 4y ago
In the 1600s, educators in Nuremberg (Germany) were proud of a pedagogical technique that they had developed, called the "Nuremberg funnel" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Funnel ). In this "hydr
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by emarsden 4y ago
There is a big difference in terms of privacy: LanguageTool is open source and you can run it on your own computer. You can install it as browwer plugin, a LibreOffice plugin, or a standalone server that you can access from Emacs for exampl
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by emarsden 4y ago
> A ”best effort” summary of this article: if thousands of people die in once place, it’s one of the great tragedies in American history. However if thousands of people die in thousands different places, it is ignored and considered a fa
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by emarsden 5y ago
If you're an "accidental American" (holding US citizenship due to having being born in the US, though never having resided there as an adult) in a French-speaking European country, you may be interested in the "accidenta
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by emarsden 6y ago
Somewhat similar, also based on node.js but easier to get working, is editly. https://github.com/mifi/editly
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by emarsden 6y ago
That would be useful, in particular if it can record at higher frame rates than when recording the screen. There are some solutions such as timecut* for rendering Javascript animations at high frame rates by manipulating the timer, but none
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by emarsden 6y ago
Indeed. I use libraries such as MoviePy* that wrap ffmpeg and allow you to implement effects on each frame. * https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/index.html
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by emarsden 6y ago
> It's this sort of regulatory boom and bust that makes me feel humans shouldn't be allowed to do anything that's dangerous on a really large scale (such as nuclear power). For more thinking along these lines, see the book
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by emarsden 6y ago
> However, models of "value of life vs. other-thing" are almost always useless. > Why? Because you don't care about that question. You care about other questions. The “value of a statistical life” (or to use a better te
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by emarsden 6y ago
The notion that "the more minor things happen, the greater the probability of a major incident", a common interpretation of the Heinrich-Bird pyramid, is often criticized nowadays concerning complex high-hazard systems (as in fact
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by emarsden 7y ago
My work concerns safety in high-hazard industries, where lessons learned analysis (also called operational experience feedback) is a very important organizational process. It's also well-known to be difficult, not so much related to th
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by emarsden 7y ago
To obtain a medium-quality BibTeX entry for your DOI: curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/<doi>
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by emarsden 7y ago
There are three answers to this: - Do you really want to be using important models in such an error-prone and difficult to test environment as Excel? There's a whole Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group ( http://www.eusprig.org&#
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by emarsden 7y ago
Nice demo! It's perhaps a little confusing if you're using uniform probability distributions for the sensitivity analysis inputs, but normal distributions for the uncertainty analysis (shown at https://causal.app/b
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by emarsden 7y ago
Thanks for reading!
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by emarsden 7y ago
I agree. Here's a Python notebook that illustrates this problem on a classical gambling problem, the Saint Petersburg paradox. The notebook explains why stochastic simulation methods such as Monte Carlo are not suitable for situations

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