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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by tbodt »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #218

As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because users here seem unable to honor this simple preference of theirs. It looks like they deleted their tweet out of frustration with todays latest round of misgendering. I hope people on HN will learn to respect all members of our community. Yes that involves not ass…

I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by irskep »

NateEag wrote: post #220
foone wrote: post #217

It was deleted because it was posted here.

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Some people dislike interacting with the HN community for one reason or another. I imagine that's the case here. This person definitely isn't the only one.

Getting a post or tweet picked up by a large community who doesn't see your stuff regularly can be a lot more stressful than speaking directly to your audience (in this case, direct Twitter followers) who have a lot more context on your work.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by EricMausler »

salawat wrote: post #176
Karellen wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the consequences of this is when something goes very wrong, and the people involved say it really shouldn't have because something like 4 separate things have to fail at the same time for that to have happened. What they don't realise is that, thanks to the FFT, 2 of those 4 things actually failed over a year ago and the system has been continuing to work ever since without anyone ever noticing. One of the oth…

All of this is further exacerbated by the modern business take on capitalism of "optimize away work that doesn't positively produce". Just because you're paying someone to go check and they don't find anything 99% of the time, you don't get rid of that. If you do, there goes the pnly sensor capable of propagating that signal to the rest of the control network. Applies equally well in electronics/circuits/or human dom…

If only C-levels and Boards viewed such jobs as a good excuse to provide someone with a living as opposed to poor worker utilization hurting their bottom line

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by CaliforniaKarl »

irskep wrote: post #224
NateEag wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoted post unavailable.

Some people dislike interacting with the HN community for one reason or another. I imagine that's the case here. This person definitely isn't the only one. Getting a post or tweet picked up by a large community who doesn't see your stuff regularly can be a lot more stressful than speaking directly to your audience (in this case, direct Twitter followers) who have a lot more context on your work.

In this case, there’s no need to imagine. Their latest Tweet has the answer.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by martyvis »

hedora wrote: post #61
electroly wrote: post #43

This is why 4-20 mA is a common signaling standard in industrial automation. 4 mA means zero and 20 mA means one. 0 mA means broken transmitter !

It is also why white traffic lights no longer mean "go". White means "the red glass lens in front of the incandescent bulb shattered again". Related, from train signals: > The invention of the track circuit in 1872 by William Robinson permitted automatic block signals. Most simply, a low voltage battery current runs up one rail and down the other. As long as current flows from the battery through one rail to the rela…

Similarly train brakes are failsafe. They operate by compressed air. Being connected to the locomotive and hence control allows them to be released. If the carriages become disconnected, brakes get applied.
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