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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by dudeinjapan »

TillE wrote: post #303
smugkot wrote: post #247

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If I remember correctly, Malcom did nothing but harp endlessly about how the park was doomed to failure due to various vague non-sequiturs. All we know is that he predicted fence integrity would fail somehow. We don't know what else he predicted, maybe he just got that one right by chance. We don't know if Hammond changed the park after the paper to invalidate Malcom's reasons for predicting fence integrity failure;…

Malcolm was an author surrogate for the purpose of going on weird abstract rants which were mostly nonsensical even before they injected him full of morphine. I vastly prefer reading books in general, but with Jurassic Park they really cleaned up a lot of rough edges in the movie. The kids are way less annoying too.

I read the book as kid after seeing the movie. I don't remember it so well, but one scene I liked in the book absent from the movie was the "compies" killing Dr. Hammond with narcotic bites.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by noduerme »

serf wrote: post #188
drewtato wrote: post #154

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https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1581662557470806017

the problem is that while it also breaks search for the inflammatory assholes that want to ruin everyone's day, it also breaks search for everyone else . it's a strange problem, to be sure. "I want to speak publicly about something in the market-place square, but in such a way as to avoid the nay-sayers and rabble-rousers.' -- this seems like a problem that was fixed in ye days' of olde by forming secret collectives…

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Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by Akronymus »

mauvehaus wrote: post #68
janpot wrote: post #57

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or why we build a stop command with normal-closed contacts. a broken wire results in the same signal as a "stop" command.

If you're doing three-wire control [0], it also means you can add additional "stop" buttons by wiring them all into the circuit in series. A nice-to-have addition to your table saw is a big red stop button you can reach with your foot so you don't have to take your hands off of your work pieces to shut the saw down if things have gotten more interesting than you expected them to. Three wire control makes this super e…

I think for a foot pedal, it'd make more sense to have an enable rather than e-stop. Altough, that also depends on if you only work from one location or many. (Presses in industry often use such a design for hands, so that it ensures you hands aren't in the press.)

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by Akronymus »

macintux wrote: post #110
csours wrote: post #79

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"Read the error message, no wait don't close that go back" when helping people is a definite feeling. Take a deep breath. Take off your headset. Go outside. Never look at a computer again. Start driving a bulldozer. Life is good.

I’ve lamented here before, but the number of technical people who absolutely freeze up at the sight of an error message is daunting. Being able to interpret errors correctly is a huge step up in this industry; to me it feels like table stakes, but clearly isn’t.

Usually error messages are somewhat nice, What I have problems with at work is "error 395" and such. Where the documentation for the error codes can't be found easily.

(I hate progress openedge)

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by mananaysiempre »

bazoom42 wrote: post #297
jallmann wrote: post #255

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Also issue with golang (+ protobufs) where you can't distinguish a populated zero value from the default "not present" value.

Thats why JavaScript has both undefined and null!

Lua does fine with only a nil, although it gets a tad annoying when you actually want to store a nil value in an array and end up creating a hole instead. (Arguably, the solution to that problem is to use your own marker object and not a nil when you need some sort of unspecified or default value which is not a literal absence of one.)

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by rpigab »

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

It was deleted because it was posted here.

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Same reason StackOverflow/Exchange's moderator team self-destructed 3 years ago after the Monica case. New pronouns war. The end of our species.

If you're not with us, you're with them.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by antifa »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #201
csours wrote: post #79

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"Read the error message, no wait don't close that go back" when helping people is a definite feeling. Take a deep breath. Take off your headset. Go outside. Never look at a computer again. Start driving a bulldozer. Life is good.

It's amazing the number of junior engineers I've taught to simply read the error message properly.

Or a junior dev will see "Error 422: thing_id is required" and instead of updating the request they sent to include thing_id they'll report it as if it's a 500 Internal Server Error until you pick up the ticket and read the error message to them.

Of course, they didn't actually put the error message in the ticket, they'll write "backend crashed" and put a screenshot of the front-end crashing because they didn't do any error handling at all.

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by foozed »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #351
TillE wrote: post #303

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Malcolm was an author surrogate for the purpose of going on weird abstract rants which were mostly nonsensical even before they injected him full of morphine. I vastly prefer reading books in general, but with Jurassic Park they really cleaned up a lot of rough edges in the movie. The kids are way less annoying too.

I read the book as kid after seeing the movie. I don't remember it so well, but one scene I liked in the book absent from the movie was the "compies" killing Dr. Hammond with narcotic bites.

Oh man, I really liked that one too. I couldn't find it with a quick search, but iirc they added that scene in one of the later movies (although maybe not with Hammond).

Re: Never trust a system that seems to be working

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Post by brimwats »

bobsmooth wrote: post #229
foone wrote: post #217

It was deleted because it was posted here.

Why is discussion on a different website so distressing? Are there people from HN harassing you on twitter?

yes, people from HN have harassed, insulted and misgendered foone on Twitter. it's also happening in this very thread. (i.e. noduerme above)
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