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by xani_ 4y ago
I always wished the throttle to be linked to slip sensor on wheels, say push back throttle a bit more when the wheels start slipping and not just wonders why WOT doesn't accelerate as fast as usual all while ECU is pulling power becaus
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by xani_ 4y ago
We had users complain about migrating to MS Teams as the text part of it is almost entirely a piece of shit that every competitor does orders of magnitude better but management said "fuck it, we're migrating regardless", thro
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by xani_ 4y ago
Only if you're extremely dishonest in comparisions. Checklists at its core is just a list of common/required actions grouped in a list to don't forget during routine tasks. There is nothing limiting here, it is just a tool to
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by xani_ 4y ago
That's also easier way to design it in Factorio. When I was playing with Space exploration mod that's precisely what I did, the base sent "shopping list" and the provider sent stuff on that shopping list
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by xani_ 4y ago
> 1) Robust system design involves identifying the parts of your system that are mission-critical and always monitoring them. NASA missions have great automation and a 24/7-staffed mission control. You should alert on critical par
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by xani_ 4y ago
The buggy behaviour of A caused buggy behaviour of B that caused buggy behaviour of C, just so happened to align enough to "look like it is working". Double fuckup if the thing is backups and your data is gone. Reason why we check
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by xani_ 4y ago
Eh, that heavily depends on language. Some have better tooling to get most of the typical errors out before the compile. That being said I'm always suspicious and start to fiddle with them if I see test + code pass on first time
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by xani_ 4y ago
> For example, cars have "fail open" brakes but have independent cylinders so that it is relatively hard to have all four wheels fail at the same time (older cars had single master cylinders) - and one of the tradeoffs is that
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by xani_ 4y ago
That's why in our monitoring we used nagios scheme + 1 (0 for invalid, 1 for ok, 2 for warning, 3 for crit, 4 for unknown)
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by xani_ 4y ago
Hell, some SUV low beams are already obnoxious at night...
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by xani_ 4y ago
Finally use for those massive screens used as dash
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by xani_ 4y ago
> Largely because we have a long inversion of how government should act. It should have never needed "approval" in the first place, government should have to seek to ban a product, innovation, etc based on their own creditable
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by xani_ 4y ago
> A whole lotta flickering is what would have happened. This literally became the paradigm for the patent office of what a trash invention that shouldn't be given a patent looked like. and they started issuing patents for dumb shit
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by xani_ 4y ago
> You may find it interesting the NHTSA is pushing for breathalizers in cars starting in 2026. Yeah, another idiocy. They aren't reliable and need constant calibration, good luck driving a car full of drunks as designated driver...
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by xani_ 4y ago
Also interesting piece about why US was stuck in decades of same light design because of more stupid regulations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8
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by xani_ 4y ago
Oh, oh, do orange turn signals next!
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by xani_ 4y ago
> The reason why it's easy to match Copilot results back to the original source is that the users are starting with prompts that match their public code, deliberately to cause prompt regurgitation. The reason doesn't really mat
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by xani_ 4y ago
And it does FFT in realtime too
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by xani_ 4y ago
I remember Dota2 (video game) did this, people fake reporting had less reports and they counted for less, while people that were consistently reported players that got punished got more reporting power. Only one report per match "count
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by xani_ 4y ago
As facebook shows you can, and get away with it.
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by xani_ 4y ago
How's that compared to sshfs (wth cache/kernel_cache enabled) ? I've used it few times where I had need to dev like that and it was generally just fine for just editing a file, where performance tanked was doing a lot of file
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by xani_ 4y ago
> That is not to say that formal verification takes 5x the work. You also have to write your source-code in such a way that it is ammenable to being formally verified, which makes it more difficult to write, and limits what you can reaso
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by xani_ 4y ago
Kinda why I'm not a fan of cloud, same black box problem.
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by xani_ 4y ago
> As someone who thrives on tracking down rare but annoying bugs in a debugger, As someone that is cursed to inevitably find some obscure bug the second I start using some piece of software I'm happy I'm not the only one >
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by xani_ 4y ago
> Here's a good trick I picked up for discussing contentious things - if you're ever tempted to dish out a sick burn, try to rephrase the point into a genuine question. Then the other person will have to walk through the logic
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by xani_ 4y ago
Eh, not really. Main advantage of terminal stuff is near-zero dependency and working over SSH, if in addition to that it's pretty (in "more readable" way), why not ? Web UI in comparison is always sluggish, usually required e
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by xani_ 4y ago
We use it as early alert to give more RAM. Just like a gig of swap per server regardless of RAM size.
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by xani_ 4y ago
> The only concrete answer to "why have swap if I have enough RAM" is "well, if you run out of RAM..." Linux with swap available can swap out never used pages (say a part of library that never gets called) and use fre
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by xani_ 4y ago
Once you swap a lot out and you get back some free memory linux will swap it back in on demand, which means a lot of micro-lag moments once apps start accessing now-in-swap things. Linux assumes it's better to have not-used thing in sw
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by xani_ 4y ago
Wrong direction. Bumping swappiness up means OS will make it more likely to keep more pages in cache, setting it to higher value makes OS treat it more like RAM and that's usually slow and jittery

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