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You may be interested in PGmacs, a viewing/editing interface for PostgreSQL. https://github.com/emarsden/pgmacs (self-plug)

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/issu…

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…

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!

"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 av…

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 …

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 firejai…

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 b…

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…

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 eng…

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 …

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…

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, s…

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/Nurember…

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…

> 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 thou…

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,…

Somewhat similar, also based on node.js but easier to get working, is editly. https://github.com/mifi/editly

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 animat…

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

> 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 mor…

> 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 s…

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 …

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 als…