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“…this article does not rely on Sun as a sympathetic victim.”

Right. The article is saying the basic argument stands whether you like Sun or not.

Does the person have children? If so then the law benefits more than just the driver, even if they are the only one on the road.

We already have a precedent of compelling parents to pay child-support.

I don’t know if I’m really advocating for a nanny state, but last month I went to the funeral of a friend that was driving without a seatbelt and was alone on the road. Now his pregnant wife has to raise their child alone.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: Wear a seatbelt.

You may not have any concern for your own safety, but there’s probably somebody who does.

Agreed. I noticed myself having a harder time stopping at the end of the day since I started using AI tools in earnest.

I naturally have a hard time stopping when almost done with something, but with AI everything feels "close" to a big breakthrough.

Just one more turn... Until suddenly it's way later than I thought and hardly have time to interact with my family.

I remembered enjoying the book, so having not read it in a long time, I tried sharing Surely You're Joking with my kids at bedtime.

That chapter wasn’t the only thing I ended up skipping or heavily editing.

* Picking a room at Los Alamos with a window facing the women’s housing, but being disappointed that a tree or something blocked his view. (Wasn’t he also married at this point?)

* Starting a new Uni faculty position and hanging out at student dances, dismayed that girls would stop chatting & dancing with him when they learned he was a prof and not a fellow student.

* Hanging out at strip clubs to practice his drawing skills.

* Considering a textbook sales rep’s offer to help him find “trouble” in Vegas.

So maybe that one chapter turns around some at the end, but it’s not the only cringe-worthy moment in the book, and I can see why some people may have an overall negative opinion.

If I were going to do this with my kids now that they are teens, I wouldn’t filter as much and use the more questionable events as points of discussion.

When I was six, a cousin about to leave for college gave me his 2600, my first console.

With it came not one, but two (!) copies of E.T. So I had a backup in case I accidentally dropped one in a pit or sinkhole…

Anyone have experience chaos testing Postgres?

I was reading this the other day looking for ideas on how to test query retries in our app. I suppose we could go at it from the network side by introducing latency and such.

However, it’d be great if there also was a proxy or something that could inject pg error codes.

I feel like you should check out https://youtu.be/5GFW-eEWXlc?si=w3KTUkIprSeBYH3f

Enjoy.

I mean, the title is a quote from Buckaroo Banzai. Lack of context is part of the fun!

Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. Sadly I didn’t have the focus/grit to finish writing a paper (sorry Dr. Singh). Side note, this was in 2007 and the folks in our optics lab would check the location of beams by grabbing from the stacks of ancient punchcards lying around and waving them next to the apparatus.

This paper has a pretty similar setup, but adds a spatial light modulator (like a DLP projector that can control phase as well as brightness).

What is wild to me is that the researchers here are able to create a beam where the angular moment changes as you move away.

Plus the really cool spiral patterns.

Might be rough on battery life, but perhaps pulsing an SOS with the flashlight?

An approach we've done is to use Postgres' "create database foo2 template foo1" syntax to essentially snapshot the db under test at various points and use those to rollback as needed.

Ah, nevermind, just saxophones:

... tenor processing unit...

Am I reading the bill text wrong or is it really so general it would also apply to devices assembled in China that can perform AI operations?

Seems like there'd be pushback from Apple, MS, etc on that one.

Yeah, I’ve been waiting for bidding to open on https://hibid.com/lot/214229120/comino-gando-rm-long-fully-l... just see what it gets up to. (5955wx + 4x RTX 4090’s)

What about a fluorescent dye with one (or few) UV LEDs on the edge facing inward to illuminate it?

Maybe not “better” than OP’s design, but could be interesting in its own way.

If your table setup process starts to get slow like ours, checkout psql TEMPLATE (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedb...). Do the setup once to a db with known name, then use it as the template when creating the db for each test.

I snagged one of those keyboards at an auction. Haven't been able to get it to work with a modern PC. Hard to find much info on this line of computers.

Don't get me started on grown-azz men wearing bead or string bracelets.

Unless it was made by their young daughter/granddaughter, it which case it is the mightiest of talismans.

It's only around 6000 students, but Missouri S&T (a mostly engineering and mining school) is still like 75% male.

Now I desperately want to see drum breaks made with brake drums.

One of my crowning achievements(?) was using DOSbox for actual work purposes.

In 2010-14 I worked at large retailer that still did almost half their development in RPG running on IBM iSeries.

Part of onboarding for new devs was this series of training software modules that went over the fundamentals of the RPG language. It was boring, but very thorough. It clearly had been purchased in the late 90s and kept in use since not much had really changed.

I think it was with Windows 8 that it finally stopped working. My supervisor, in charge of intern program, started stressing after none of the built-in compatibility options worked.

I immediately thought of DOSbox, and sure enough, it worked like a charm. For the next couple years I was there, one of the first things all new devs did was install DOSbox and it gave me a smile every time.

An additional option to consider is to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau.

I had an issue with my wireless carrier repeatedly refusing to issue credit for a months-long ongoing problem on their end.

Within 2 days in filing a BBB complaint, I had a rep from the company asking how much I thought seemed fair and if I wanted a bill credit or a check.

Sure, and even if the surgery happened on time, they still might have had a stroke once they got home and had the same outcome.

But as other posts on HN have discussed, anecdotes, especially your own, hit differently.

It makes me thankful the software I work on isn't involved in life and death situations... But then again, it causes me to better consider the things my work could be responsible for (banking). Rushed work that causes a loan application to fail or transaction to be held unnecessarily shouldn't kill someone outright, but there can be real consequences that affect real people just like Rita.

Yesterday morning I learned that someone I was acquainted with had just passed away and the funeral is scheduled for next week.

They recently had a stroke at home just days after spending over a month in the hospital.

Then I remembered that they were originally supposed to be getting an important surgery, but it was delayed because of the CrowdStrike outage. It took weeks for the stars to align again and the surgery to happen.

It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been if they had gotten the surgery done that day, and not spent those extra weeks in the hospital with their condition and stressing about their future?

On the one hand, yes!

But more realistically, think of the headache of trying to keep your engine's Hampsterdance in sync with the Hampsterdance blaring from your car's stereo, (as it naturally would be).

Not to mention all the other excellent tracks on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampsterdance:_The_Album

I know a lot of people have praised cardboard and I've used it too, but after sniffing some particularly smudged boxes from an Amazon order, I'm pretty hesitant now.

I'm less nervous about things like pizza boxes (if not too greasy). Even if there are contaminants, they are already in my food.

But did it have someone's face on it? Was it ever a Doge's?

How long until someone speed runs Ocarina of Time on an ocarina?

Vehicles Within Sufficient Wheels?

The explanation I got when I worked there was that it was put in to help identify competitors that were blindly scraping our online catalog. There's a couple others if you keep digging.

Similar to the concept of "trap streets" on some maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street