In other news today...
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(non- grauniad link if you'd rather avoid the killer bees)
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@DogsB Me, with a Kobo and Calibre:
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@loopback0 Journalists having zero understanding of the topic they write about?
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A U-turn? pshhh that's nothing!
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Journalists having zero understanding of the topic they write about?
Indeed.
While first officers are qualified pilots whose role is to ensure the safety of the flight, support the captain and talk to air traffic control, they need to be accompanied by a training captain
No. Every flight includes a captain and a first officer (sometimes more than one for very long flights). Not every flight includes a training captain.
The FO's role is not (necessarily) to "support the captain and talk to air traffic control". Both captain and FO can and will fly the aircraft (at different times). In modern use, they are not called "pilot" and "co-pilot", but "pilot flying" and "pilot monitoring", and they will agree between themselves who will take which role during any given flight, and occasionally trade roles mid-flight (e.g. the pilot who happens to be flying at the moment needs to relieve his/her bladder, and typically procedures call for the captain to assume the role of pilot flying in an emergency; there is a formal hand-over of responsibilities, so both officers know unambiguously who is performing which role: "My controls." "Your controls."). The pilot monitoring is generally the one talking to ATC, as well as monitoring the aircraft status and (hopefully) speaking up if the pilot flying does something that seems incorrect, but that may be either the captain or FO.
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@HardwareGeek in other words, they understand redundancy but not TMR.
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Responding to the preview of @Gribnitwit's post, since I can't see the post itself:
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Responding to the preview of @Gribnitwit's post, since I can't see the post itself:
Guess I better ask the other two hardware guys', this ones broken.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
While first officers are qualified pilots whose role is to ensure the safety of the flight, support the captain and talk to air traffic control, they need to be accompanied by a training captain
No. Every flight includes a captain and a first officer (sometimes more than one for very long flights). Not every flight includes a training captain.
Well, this first officer was supposed to be with a training captain. But that's not because he was first officer, but because he wasn't yet signed off by a training captain.
Every new hire must do certain number of flights with a training captain – that's called line training – to demonstrate they learned and can follow that airline's standard operating procedures. And that appears to be what this first officer didn't complete yet, so he shouldn't have been paired with a non-training captain for the flight.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Well, this first officer was supposed to be with a training captain. ... he shouldn't have been paired with a non-training captain for the flight.
Yes. I'm not disputing that at all. I'm criticizing the "journalist" who wrote the article. The quoted sentence from the article, "... first officers ... they need ...," indicates that is true of first officers in general, and that's simply wrong. This FO was supposed to be flying with a line training captain, and he wasn't. But if all FOs had to fly with line training captains, as the article states, that would imply that all captains have to be line training captains, because every captain flies with a FO in the right seat. (In general. I think I remember a video recently about a flight that — I don't remember the circumstances — was crewed by two captains, and I think even captains have to do occasional flights with a line training captain; I know they do with a simulator training captain, every 6 months.)
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@boomzilla Guess it wasn't for one of their specially capsule coffee runs then.
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Closed: won’t fix. working better than expected.
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https://www.slashdot.org/story/399576
Could also go in the WTF thread.
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filed under there is no machine
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.slashdot.org/story/399576
Could also go in the WTF thread.
I'm all for putting Javascript in a container.
Then putting that container in the bin.
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Why are people* missing the fact that JS is just a language, and at the wrong level of abstraction when it comes to thinking about containers?
What matters is what APIs you define (and if you what to make use of browser-like APIs, sure why not?) and how you call them in a language-independent way (ie what ABI).
So it's more like WASM and WASI's level, no?
*Edit: Dahl and article writers.
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@Zecc I find it ironic that the creator of Node/Deno apparently doesn’t actually write anything in them. Because the real world uses/abuses of the ecosystem absolutely do not translate to the “hermetic environment” he talks about.
The amount of npm tool chain that actually depends on native bindings for things is surprising, as I discovered last year when fuck all of use would run properly on my M1 MacBook because native libraries strewn through the dependencies didn’t work/exist.
And I think he has no idea what the ecosystem does for “mature frameworks” because I don’t think he uses any…
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Zecc I find it ironic that the creator of Node/Deno apparently doesn’t actually write anything in them. Because the real world uses/abuses of the ecosystem absolutely do not translate to the “hermetic environment” he talks about.
The amount of npm tool chain that actually depends on native bindings for things is surprising, as I discovered last year when fuck all of use would run properly on my M1 MacBook because native libraries strewn through the dependencies didn’t work/exist.
And I think he has no idea what the ecosystem does for “mature frameworks” because I don’t think he uses any…
The more I hear about him the more he strikes me as a high concept man that should be ignored. The problem is he puts his money where his mouth is and like good lemmings the js ecosystem followed him. The worse bit is the js people think they’re doing a good job. Even minor projects in js put Java enterprise projects to shame.
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@DogsB I dunno. I always got the impression that Node was very much a 'you were too busy seeing if you could do it that you didn't stop to think if you should' project to me.
JavaScript is a messy language - though it's slowly getting better - but compare it to our other favourite punching bag: PHP. Everything about PHP points to having learned the lessons the hard way and approaching them in a pragmatic and rational way to fix them.
The JS ecosystem in contrast appears to relish in having multiple ways to do anything, and treat all of them as variously canonical. The fact that Babel exists feels like a bad idea to me, the fact it is so widespread doubles down on the fact that the language is trying to pull itself in different directions and support all of them.
This to me is the logical end point of taking a language that was never designed for that use case and bastardising it just enough to make it work.
The fact that the author has gone 'I made it wrong last time, Imma make it again but do it right this time' doesn't bode well.
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This isn't really news today, but it's the first time I've seen it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrieGDMac8
A US Federal Court (Southern District of NY) ordered every ISP in the US to block access, by any technological means available, to three pirate streaming services, with 3 specific domain names, and "at any [other] domain address known today, or to be used in the future by the defendants." The DNS request must be redirected to a landing page operated by the plaintiffs. Also, web hosts, CDNs, DNS providers, VPN providers, web designers, online advertising providers, financial institutions, and others have been ordered not to provide any services to the defendants.
This is interesting, because none of the ISPs, CDNs, financial institutions, etc., were parties to the case. They weren't suing; they weren't being sued. Most likely, 99+% of them weren't even aware of the case, and a lot of them probably still aren't. They had no opportunity to object or comment on the proposed ruling. Yet, they are obligated to follow the order of this judge in NY.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Yet, they are obligated to follow the order of this judge in NY.
ISP: I missed the part where that was my problem.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Reminds me of a story from Bavaria which happened just a couple of weeks ago: a bottle of champaign, which actually was pure liquid "crystal meth" (or whatever drug). People said it tasted ugly. Some of them survived after treatment in ICU, but not all. Police haven't found out yet where the bottle was filled. "Bought on the internet"...
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I always got the impression that Node was very much a 'you were too busy seeing if you could do it that you didn't stop to think if you should' project to me.
That seems pretty close to his description:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The more I hear about him the more he strikes me as a high concept man that should be ignored.
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@boomzilla I dunno. High concept people in my experience don’t actually get as far as a working implementation, they get so bogged down by the high concept it rarely gets even to an MVP.
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We need a new thread!
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28483/agile-crisis
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@boomzilla All kneel for the Agile warthog!
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And now for something totally different.
Science.
In Science (i.e. the journal of the american society for the advancement of science).
https://www.science.org/content/article/critics-challenge-data-showing-key-lipids-can-curb-inflammationWell, some Scientists apply creative data interpretation techniques in order to reach their desired results. Works even with liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS).
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A nice summary of ongoing developments in the world of Artificial Intelligence:
https://www.science.org/content/article/computers-ace-iq-tests-still-make-dumb-mistakes-can-different-tests-helpWhen you teach to the test, tests lose their validity
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla All kneel for the Agile warthog!
Warthogs aren't very agile when they're kneeling.
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tough new benchmark for language models called GLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation)
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in 2019 the researchers made the benchmark even harder, calling it SuperGLUEConvenient!
Many give wildly different outputs after small tweaks to their inputs, such as replacing a word with a synonym, or asking “what’s” versus “what is.”
Glorified Bayesian classifier of newspaper clippings.
Ribeiro says. “A lot of people did not imagine that these state-of-the-art models could be so bad.”
did.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Ribeiro says. “A lot of people did not imagine that these state-of-the-art models could be so bad.”
did.
15 years ago when I was in an NLP (Natural language processing) class, one of the lessons from the prof was this:
"We call the simplest parsing you can possibly do the baseline. If your algorithm can't significantly improve upon that, you fail."Yeah, turns out it is really reasy to make something "smart" that is worse at parsing than the simplest thing you can do.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.slashdot.org/story/399576
Could also go in the WTF thread.
I'm all for putting Javascript in a container.
Then putting that container in the bin.
This bin
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.slashdot.org/story/399576
Could also go in the WTF thread.
I'm all for putting Javascript in a container.
Then putting that container in the bin.
This bin
More like this one:
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Nope thread
It also works if you throw @da-Doctah's bin into my bin. Preferably using a sufficiently long stick.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
https://www.slashdot.org/story/399576
Could also go in the WTF thread.
I'm all for putting Javascript in a container.
Then putting that container in the bin.
This bin
More like this one:
4/10, would fuck.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Closed: won’t fix. working better than expected.
Hey now. Some sites only work with Chrome or Edge.
And I Chrome for no-one!
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I dunno. High concept people in my experience don’t actually get as far as a working implementation, they get so bogged down by the high concept it rarely gets even to an MVP.
You're still not too far off on describing node
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because I know this crowd likes a double entendre ...
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@Luhmann I dunno. How one-sided was this fight?
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@Gribnit
he was a butcher but apparently his Dernière Heure était là