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New comment by condour75 in "Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)"

condour75 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:35:28 +0000

One good timesaver: debug in the easiest environment that you can reproduce the bug in. For instance, if it’s an issue with a website on an iPad, first see if you reproduce in chrome using the responsive tools in web developer. If that doesn’t work, see if it reproduces in desktop safari. Then the iPad simulator, and only then the real hardware. Saves a lot of frustration and time, and each step towards the actual hardware eliminates a whole category of bugs.

New comment by condour75 in "The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise"

condour75 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:37:05 +0000

But it’s based on a misunderstanding. Xenomorph just means “alien”— it wouldn’t make any sense for that to be the term for that specific alien, because their existence isn’t common knowledge.

New comment by condour75 in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

condour75 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:06:16 +0000

According to a quick googling, this would be enough density for for short range commuter aircraft to become viable.

https://theicct.org/aviation-global-expecting-electric-jul22...

New comment by condour75 in "PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever"

condour75 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:50:27 +0000

Also, not the point, but plumbing is very lucrative.

New comment by condour75 in "2000-Watt Society"

condour75 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:02:26 +0000

Solar is getting cheaper by the day, batteries are getting cheaper and more efficient by the day, and there's a ton of money pouring into research. Maybe I'm crazy, but I can see a future, maybe a few decades from now, when power is "too cheap to meter" because of renewables.

New comment by condour75 in "Are we going back to the cable days?"

condour75 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:48:26 +0000

The cable subscription has commercials. The experience of time shifting and fast forwarding through commercials is inferior to streaming.

Also, a cable bundle forces you to pay for Fox News, which is primarily funded by carriage fees. They wouldn’t last long on robot insurance ads.

New comment by condour75 in "When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face"

condour75 — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:03:53 +0000

Hell, you could look at it as carbon sequestration.

New comment by condour75 in "Phenomenological Introduction to PID Controllers"

condour75 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:22:40 +0000

In case anyone else needs it, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

New comment by condour75 in "What will enter the public domain in 2022"

condour75 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:44:54 +0000

The movie was okay but I never pictured $$ as looking like Chris Pratt

New comment by condour75 in "First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq"

condour75 — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:35:55 +0000

Martinizr

New comment by condour75 in "Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]"

condour75 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:44:57 +0000

Another factor: office space is expensive. In a past job I remember seeing that the cost for our midtown office was 3000 per month per employee. A company might drastically reduce their costs by having an office that only accommodates some fraction of the staff

New comment by condour75 in "Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]"

condour75 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:40:24 +0000

I anticipate a hybrid model where most deep work is from home, but certain weeks have employees gather, like for project kickoffs or critical junctures later in the process. Only problem with that is the lack of a stable routine.

New comment by condour75 in "We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production"

condour75 — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 01:41:48 +0000

I'm very sympathetic to this argument, but it's really hard not to imagine this article being monologued by a supervillain while Bond is being lowered into a lava pit.

New comment by condour75 in "Oumuamua continues to perplex astronomers a year after it vanished"

condour75 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:54:13 +0000

I think what they're saying is that we saw the flyby but it was in data from a few days ago.

New comment by condour75 in "How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution"

condour75 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:58:56 +0000

I'm still feeling guilty about how they shaped my weekend.

New comment by condour75 in "Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack"

condour75 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:47:11 +0000

that's the endgame of government surveillance requests: it's increasingly in a company's best interest to have the best security possible so they can't be compelled to hack their own devices.