Hacker News: static_noise

New comment by static_noise in "New Tesla Roadster delayed again, now shooting for 2023"

static_noise — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:23:09 +0000

> It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.

That's probably the whole point of it. Ask yourself daily: WWMD? "What Would Musk Do?"

New comment by static_noise in "A command-line installer for Windows"

static_noise — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 11:45:50 +0000

How would I add another repository to the microsoft store in order to have nightly builds of a specific app or third party apps available?

Is there an apt-like command line interface for the microsoft store?

New comment by static_noise in "How to dump 3000 pounds of confetti on Times Square"

static_noise — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:45:06 +0000

Or about 3 horses.

New comment by static_noise in "AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner"

static_noise — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:24:18 +0000

Mergers like this are required to keep competition and the free market alive.

New comment by static_noise in "GitHub Alternatives"

static_noise — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:43:41 +0000

It's all good now, though. Nothing to worry about.

New comment by static_noise in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

static_noise — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:45:16 +0000

The name is burnt. They still are a company with business interests. While their interests might align today with the open source community this doesn't have to be so tomorrow and there is no resistance internally to burn these bridges they are building today.

New comment by static_noise in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

static_noise — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:10:41 +0000

Or you can move immediately like many others. What would you gain by staying until it's too late?

New comment by static_noise in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

static_noise — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:09:22 +0000

They have reached the end goal of the big buyout. What more could they possibly want?

New comment by static_noise in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

static_noise — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:06:23 +0000

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

this adresses some of the issues.

New comment by static_noise in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

static_noise — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:56:25 +0000

I wonder how Microsoft can manage to commercialize all the projects on GitHub. Maybe by providing an universal installer that works through the Windows Store. Maybe by adding a few mandatory patches to each project that improve compatibility. Maybe by making a much improved version of Git with a proper GUI interface. The possibilities are endless!

New comment by static_noise in "Statistical Techniques Data Scientists Need to Master"

static_noise — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:12:44 +0000

It may not be in the job description but usually somebody has to clean the data by hand or build specialized tools before it can be used.

Something as simple as a text field for entering a date can produce interesting effects. Even if your data looks good on the surface, when you dig in, you might find interesting things. Like data entered when the system was definitely shut down for maintenance.

New comment by static_noise in "On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck"

static_noise — Sat, 12 May 2018 07:42:28 +0000

Your rules are basically "the winner takes it all in the long run". This is similar to reality but real actors can disappear. Individuals have a limited lifespan. Their offspring have slightly different abilities. Corporations/Nations/Organizations are run by individuals (chosen not randomly) and may face technological/political challenges but here it's not clear that these structures need to disappear.

Do you see a good way to factor in these things?

New comment by static_noise in "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)"

static_noise — Sun, 06 May 2018 14:45:15 +0000

The things that are on schedule are one part but there are other things not on the schedule when you have scheduled a few days to do programming.

I find it hard to balance between being unavailable to my colleagues/users and being interrupted all the time. Often the most efficient way to solve a software problem is to just come to the developer and resolve it together in a few minutes. These interruptions happen at random though and are hard to plan. Some days there are none and other days there are people almost lining up.

I also suspect that the mind is able to go into a deeper state when it does not expect to be interrupted all the time. So not only the interruptions but also the expectation thereof is taking energy away. Some days when there is nothing going on I even miss the interruptions and even get the feeling of needing to actively stray away with my concentration.

I wish my company would have a hidden room where I could go with a laptop, disconnect everything and emerge only after the work of the day is done.

New comment by static_noise in "Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden"

static_noise — Tue, 01 May 2018 22:05:53 +0000

How do you finance your daily living?

New comment by static_noise in "A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours"

static_noise — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:02:42 +0000

We would have to wait for a few decades to come to such conclusions with scientific methods. It's a political decision to market the event as such.

New comment by static_noise in "The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic"

static_noise — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:59:58 +0000

There is the 80 bit "long double" type that contains excess precision over the 64 bit double type. But if you want to write code that's both, portable, and reliable you have to turn off a lot of optimizations and use 32 or 64 bit types with standardised behavior.

New comment by static_noise in "The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes"

static_noise — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:33:30 +0000

Separate but equal. There can be different strategies that are exactly equal in terms of some performance measures.

New comment by static_noise in "ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files"

static_noise — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:22:23 +0000

They should have kept RAID behind yellow tape for years to come. There's just too many problems that can bite you once a physical disk fails and you really need that RAID to recover.

New comment by static_noise in "Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location"

static_noise — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 09:21:26 +0000

The autopilot is not a safety feature.

New comment by static_noise in "The joy of max()"

static_noise — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:14:22 +0000

You misunderstood on the meta level. My point was that you want to use one feature of C++, you enable C++ to use this feature. Developer B wants to use ten other features. Developers C..Z want to use different features. Every feature by itself makes some sense in its context but in the end you're using so many different C++ features that no single developer knows them all. If you use modern C++ there are some ugly edge cases you have no idea they exist and if you use older C++ styles there is hell waiting for you.

The hard part is to select which features of C++ to use and more importantly which NOT to use and to ENFORCE these rules.