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Merge queues are not as frequently used… ~2000 PRs affected over 4 hours. I reckon that’s on the order of 10 commits per tenant. It’s a feature with low traction, probably because it creates more problems than it solves.

Merge queues are great.

The bug only affected repos using merge queues AND squash/rebase merging (instead of the default merge commit)


Kotlin’s closed-by-default design choice makes it worse than Java, and thus not strictly better than Java. It’s premature optimization, and a design-up-front-influenced paranoia/fear of any extension in not-designed-for places. But when I write code, I prefer to keep it open to extension, and in practice, I found a lot of value in extending decently written code, that would not be possible with Kotlin without having to go back and modify things to be open.


can you point to documentation or articles that explain this closed-by-default concept in more detail?


A startup might have trouble with, and might not have enough automation for:

- proving churned customer data was deleted completely and within the agreed-on period of time

  - - not enough to have a record

  - - auditors will ask you to prove the data is not laying around
- proving all changes shipped are reviewed and linked to tracked work

- proving branch rules are set to require PRs and prohibit changing history on release/trunk branches

  - - auditors will ask you to show live that you can’t approve your own changes

  - - some auditors might ask you for an audit log to prove no unexpected branch rule changes occurred —- depending on the observation period, you might have to build your own audit log capture to prove this
- proving you performed penetration testing

- proving you performed a disaster recovery test in production with the frequency you claim (e.g. annually)

  - - running a DR test might be more than a few hours depending on your data size and level of infra automation

  - - this is often something that startups are ready to execute, but don’t invest a lot of time automating
- proving you have and enforce full-disk-encryption on all your employee laptops

  - - this is automated with MDM but a startup might not be running an MDM yet
- proving you are rotating credentials on the frequency you ascribe to in your policies

  - - automated reports are available for some credentials, e.g. AWS keys, but takes more work for smaller vendors

  - - even with AWS, you might discover you forgot to rotate something, and it might be because it’s non-trivial to execute
- perform quarterly access reviews

  - - some systems are more difficult/time consuming to inspect against your employee and permissions list

  - - ideally this is automated, but often times at a startup, you might not have fully automated authorization and access control, such that when employees change teams or leave the company, that you get notified and don’t miss it
- proving that you act on performance or reliability alerts

  - - auditors will ask you to show live some examples of past alerts and that someone handled it

  - - auditors will often ask you to show live that these alerts are consistently configured for all your production system —- startups might not have the alerting and PagerDuty-like setup be fully automated (e.g. with Terraform)


Tree shade means bird poop danger.


I recently built a 400sqft porch on my semi-urban duplex.

Two birdnests have set up shop, both in my rafters (one on CCTV). My ceilinghooked bicycle will be decommissioned for this summer's nesters.

Unfortunately, being the only porch/shade: the cats are also prowling... figuring out the rooftop connections.

#PoopPorch2026


Imagine considering some bird poop staining the paint dangerous instead of the air pollution that's slowly killing you.


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  If gasoline engines burned their fuel as efficiently as possible, they would produce three by-products: water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2). 

  Unfortunately, engines do not run perfectly, and as a result, they also produce three by-products commonly referred to as the "terrible trio" of automotive pollutants. This trio includes the following:

  *  Carbon monoxide (CO) – An odorless, tasteless, poisonous gas, carbon monoxide can cause a variety of health problems and even death. Many urban areas experience critically high levels of carbon monoxide, especially during the cold winter months when engines take longer to warm up and run cleanly

  *  Unburned hydrocarbons (HC) – Responsible for causing a variety of respiratory problems, unburned hydrocarbons can also cause crop damage and promote the formation of smog

  *  Oxides of nitrogen (NOX) – Like unburned hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen cause respiratory problems and promote the formation of smog
* https://www.walkerexhaust.com/support/exhaust-101/exhaust-ga...


Take a nice big sniff. CO2 and water are odorless.


Have you ever seen an inversion? It’s crazy to imagine anyone who has, to end up thinking “maybe that shit-brown cloud stuck over the city is fine”.


Currently in Korea where the AQI is close to 200. Can confirm.

Granted most of that is probably coal power plants and stuff but... All the more reason for more solar.


It’s impossible to install XCode without an Apple account. It’s only distributed through the Mac App Store, and downloads from Mac App Store require an Apple ID. And even XCode beta downloads are locked behind an Apple login.

You can install XCode CLI dev tools without an Apple account, which comes with clang and swift for example. With this, you can build most Mac software, but I don’t think you can run Swift tests without a full XCode.

As the sibling comment notes, you can install GCC/llvm and whatever other open source tools and build Mac software without full XCode.

You can also install Apple container support without an Apple account.


Xcode is also available as a standalone download from developer.apple.com, which requires an account too, but at least it's way more reliable than downloading from the store.


To add to it too, they only gate the download behind developer.apple.com or the app store. But the .app file doesn't phone home when installing


It’s because when placed inside the engine bay, the large wiring harness is shorter, which is not only cheaper, but also shorter wiring helps with the consistency of electrical timing and reduces noise.


Yes they do. They can tolerate engine bay heat, but not exhaust heat. They are usually shielded from getting soaked.

Some Mazdas put the metal-cased engine computer in a plastic air box that feeds cold air from the front, to help ensure the engine computer stays cool enough.

In general, I believe the cooling airflow from the frontal air and the cooling fans keeps engine bay in check.

For example, this is the board that’s used in Mazda CX-5 2017+ engine computers (mfr Denso), it lists max temperature range of +150C: https://www.renesas.com/en/document/mah/rh850e1l-users-manua...


Yeah, on the Cummins the ECU is mounted on the intake side of the engine away from the exhaust and turbo and toward the front right under the fuel injection pump so it gets lots of cooling air.

This thread is interesting to me 'cause I'm also a software guy and recently took a job dealing with building fighter jets and the amount of engineering going into the wiring and computers on those things is insane. It's been a very interesting learning experience.


> If it's so bad for gamblers, why don't they stop?

Because harm does not guarantee control.

When it becomes compulsive, it’s not a simple cost-benefit choice anymore. People can know it’s hurting them and still feel driven to keep doing it.

The dopamine rush of gambling means the brain can get stuck chasing relief, hope, or reward, despite also knowing that it is destructive.

> If gambling orgs do something that you know causes harm, why isn't the a legal sense of responsibility?

Because it’s not that easy to prove responsibility in the face of powerful money lobbying and victim-blaming. Shame and stigma around addiction means people don’t come forward. Freedom argument comes in that not everyone who gambles is an addict, so restricting it takes freedom away. The same argument is used to push the personal responsibility angle.

Ultimately I think the way the gambling orgs cover their ass is by advertising gambling addiction helplines and adding small disclaimers to call those lines if you have a problem: “that’s it, legislators, we are clearly giving them the tools to help themselves, and that shows us exercising responsibility. Bombarding gamblers with offers is simply marketing and creating engagement for our business, you can’t make that illegal.”

Do they have moral responsibility to not exploit addicted gamblers? I would argue, yes, they do. But unless you prohibit all gambling marketing, how would you accomplish this moral responsibility even if the gambling company agreed it had it? It’s not like addicts identify themselves or that you can filter your marketing easily to people without problems. This is why the solutions have been on outlawing the whole thing, because it’s really hard to operate as a business without the societal cost.


I disagree with the downvotes, but let me put it differently: if you don’t understand, have reviewed and be ready to own all of LLM output (the thoughtful part), then you aren’t owned the time to read them. If you didn’t try to reign in the verbose slop that’s the default for LLMs, I don’t want to read it.

Maybe the poster is running a local LLM.. you’d think that a SOTA model would have surmised that an overnight MacOS upgrade can only be a minor version.


Apple container CLI configures internal domains (`container system dns`) by adding an internal resolver and it worked for me when I specified an actual domain previously handled by external DNS and it showed up as a custom resolver.

Here’s a GitHub comment showing someone on MacOS 26 with a `.test` domain, which you claim is broken: https://github.com/apple/container/issues/856#issuecomment-3... —- maybe you are configuring it incorrectly.


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