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whitexn--g28h | 27 days ago | on: Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

This almost always happens when you are in the passing lane, and you are not passing. It’s much more rare in the right lane. Mythbusters, and also other traffic studies, show that returning to the right lane on the freeway whenever possible adds almost no time to a trip.

whitexn--g28h | 1 month ago | on: Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

When the start/end doesn’t matter as much for my team as changing the default duration to 25/50 minutes. This way even if a meeting would start at the quarter hour you would always end up with a small gap between.

whitexn--g28h | 6 months ago | on: What the interns have wrought, 2025

The majority of counterparties were regular citizens, who did not understand that what Jane Street was doing was even possible.

Money is debt, you can’t make it without someone else owing it. Taking billions in profits from India’s stock market is pretty straightforward, millions of Indians lost their savings.

whitexn--g28h | 2 years ago | on: The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

It’s specifically dismissing the idea that the problem is new. That this is the first time kids have been different, that workers wanted better conditions. Nobody wants to work “anymore”… The kids “these days”

whitexn--g28h | 3 years ago | on: Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles

Wow 11 years ago. i switched to an electric car recently and still frequently smell exhaust fumes from cars that are running rich or burning motor oil. I might be alive to see the end of internal combustion engines in cities which seems inevitable now.

whitexn--g28h | 3 years ago | on: QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation

We used aws lambdas to execute the pdf renders and upload the result to s3 using a signed url passed in from the request. Complete insulation from our own application process, all of data is passed into the request so the worst the user can do is add a malicious file to our s3 bucket.

whitexn--g28h | 3 years ago | on: Modules, not microservices

CORBA made rpc calls opaque, which was nice in theory, but there are faults that need to be handled only for remote calls. It’s a lot of extra code to handle those faults that you don’t need for local functions.

whitexn--g28h | 3 years ago | on: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

This is something that occurs on twitch streams sometimes. While it can be educational for users to see why they were banned, some appeals are just attention seeking. Occasionally though it exposes the banned user’s or worse a victim users personal information, (eg mental health issues, age, location) and can lead to both users being targeted and bad behaviour by the audience. For example Bob is banned for bad behaviour towards Alice (threats, doxxing), by making that public you are not just impacting Bob, but could also put Alice at risk.
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