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Re:Threat to UK Nuclear Deterrent on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:27AM (#43278169)
This is a point I've been discussing for a while but never to my knowledge gets brought up in the mainstream Trident debates.

Another point is the two test failures in a row recently.

Regardless of the stance on whether we should spend so much on Trident I think most would agree if we are spending we want it to work, and be able to maintain it ourselves.

Extremely incorrect. Nationalisation of water polls as a remarkably popular policy with a clear public majority in favour, even among exclusively Tory voters. As does rail.

The lack of movement on the issue is not due to lack of public will, but the lack of desire from a dying government to deliver effective policy.

Re:Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @09:12AM (#39979077)
Actually we have both, as this technofeudalism refers to digital capital and not land capital.
Re:The C4 model for visualising software architecture on Sunday October 22, 2023 @08:12AM (#37974677)
I get the points about not needing a formalised system for diagrams, even if C4 is quite light touch in my opinion (I never go down to the code level).

However, I do have to credit structurizr, which outputs C4 diagrams, as a great productivity boost. One model producing multiple views at all specificities is fantastic compared to mermaid, plantuml, etc, where every diagram needs to be self contained and define and redefine the same components over and over. Branching off, editing the model, presenting ideas, has been a very successful workflow for me.

Re:Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous on Friday September 22, 2023 @05:43PM (#37618185)
The Typelevel folks on Discord are of the opinion it's not of much interest to them
Re:Tracing: Structured Logging, but better in every way on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:57AM (#37585807)
Isn't that the trace ID? For metrics, it's in the form of exemplars, and for logs it is the log context

Ask HN: Worker Co-Ops in Tech?

Have any of you had experiences with worker co-ops in the tech sector?How/did you get investment? What was the decision structure like?I've noticed the trend in tech co-ops I can find is that they lean towards agency work, rather than a specific product. Is that due to needing upfront investment for a product and less so for providing development services?

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Re:Ask HN: Advice from people who strength train from home on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:52AM (#34676592)
I have never tried a TRX and good luck on your journey.

I would like to add for others, you can go from 0 to pull-ups with just a bar, which I imagine is much cheaper too. I certainly did and my fitness level was minimal.

It's a case of progressions. For instance starting with negative pull-ups:

- Use a stool or just jump to the top position of a pull up

- lower yourself down with control, as slow as you can. At first this might be 1 second!

- Repeat for sets and reps

- when you hit 3 sets of 8 reps, slow down your descent another second or two

- Repeat until you've built up to 10 second reps, 3x8

At that point you should have the strength to be able to do a pull-up. You may need to ease into the technique, if so, introduce a resistance band to help train the motion, and gradually reduce your dependency on it.

Just today I was lamenting the lack of Document Provider APIs on Cryptomator Android, I'd like to use it to encrypt my Obsidian vault. Alas the issue is locked and the milestone keeps shifting.

Cryptomator has been good to me otherwise!

Unless you're aiming for polar or high inclination orbits, which the in progress spaceport in Scotland is likely targeting
Re:Application-as-a-Function Thinking on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:21AM (#33222565)
Scala's http4s is also such a lovely framework. Given the name similarity I don't know which came first
Excited to try this out! Is it planned to open source? I would love to try integrating this into Raycast
Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:44PM (#32756556)
You can absolutely trust them with production code. Disney Streaming (CE and ZIO) and ITV (just CE) run them
Re:Git log is not a changelog on Sunday July 17, 2022 @09:08AM (#32126427)
Alternatively just avoid the `-m` flag and open the message in `$EDITOR`
Re:‘Woof’, a pure Scala 3 logging library on Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:31PM (#29607747)
Sadly the effect system isn't granular to narrow down what effect is happening other than "IO", which could be logging, network, disk access, rm -rf /. And without that visibility it doesn't provide you much advantage.

Haskell similarly suffers, I'd like to see IO broken down into composable units of functionality so I can see if e.g. my logging library has some ridiculous network constraint.

Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:30AM (#25057778)
You might enjoy a language with refinement types. I know Scala has a library for this called refined, which I believe is a port from Haskell.

In summary it gives you compile time feedback on types with refinements, e.g. positive ints, negative ints, even ints, etc, and can be based on custom predicates.