EdSharkey

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by EdSharkey 6y ago
We have to peg quality with rigorous testing or else cost (time spent) will be variable upwards to infinity (due to accumulation of untenable technical debt). Therefore, if cost must be pegged due to limited time/funds and quality must
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
I always thought Jobs was prescient to mandate that the menu bar appear as part of the OS chrome on MacOS and not an individual application's chrome like it was on Windows. Always-on menu prevented bored UX folks from EVER removing th
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/7/19/20701175/andrew-yang-20... Read between the lines.
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
The candidate straight outta Google is struggling? Too bad, Google. You could use more friends in high places the way things are headed.
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Let me charge the beam like in R-Type for more damage!
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
The fact that your comment here hasn't been downvoted to oblivion suggests to me the only beef most people have with what you've said is that you criticized the Democrats. I find this really surprising given typical HN'er po
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
- A cheap-to-produce replacement for many types of plastics will be developed. It will consist of microscopic interlocking, organically grown carbon structures that can be combined to give the final material whatever plasticity or strength
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Since about 2004, when computers started having lots of excess ram and CPU, all that excess went towards surveillance. Your software is slow because watching you is hard work!
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Mine is called SCRATCHPAD.md. :D Writing down the brainstorm stuff is important to me because if I don't write it down, I am tempted to drop what I'm doing and work on my ideas or else lose them. If I went and implemented every
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
You can make hypotheses and test them with models, that is science and it can shed light on how processes work. But these models have input variables that have some randomness and some which are currently unknown to us. It's putting t
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Argh, does this web app really engender such feelings of hopelessness in you or is this an act? I'm sorry either way. Don't believe the hype! The +1C is a lie, propaganda. ;(
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Not JUST my gut, friend! There was "7 °C (13 °F) of warming in just a few years" during the Younger Dryas (around 12,900 to 11,700 years BP). That is in your 130k year range. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> 130,000 years This has got to be measurement error or lies, damn lies, and statistics. Temperatures have swung so drastically over the last 130000 years, I just can't believe that's true.
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> isn't driving warming I never said anything about warming, that’s your line. I said, "I think these primary inputs to the system not staying constant would make it impossible to model climate such that the model could be an
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
You cite a lot of uncertainty about Solar activity! Sure, you can use models to make predictions for a date in the future. Then, you wait to see if you reach that date and the predictions come true. Then you can make qualitative assertion
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
I'm not hypothesizing anything, solar energy is the primary input to the system by nature of the fact that removing the sun would leave Earth a lifeless rock. I do find all of the catastrophising of nature very fascinating. The switch
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> > Fact 2: Solar output has increased recently > Citation needed. Maybe they meant 'recently' as in geologic time and not "since 2000"? I think it's interesting that solar energy and magnetic fields and co
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
<glitch>
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
So does having the programming language be in your native tongue affect the actual structure of the code as well? Beyond maybe just lots of yoda conditions, say, would data schemas radically differ from other programming languages because
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Yep, and good luck acquiring users!
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Thank you for a respectful reply. I feel like we're finally talking. > You've written a lot without addressing the key point. It seems that you are fine with poor people getting much worse care than rich people. At least, you&
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> Isn't this just a weaselly way of saying that you're perfectly fine with poor people getting much worse care than rich people? What does it matter that they're getting better care than rich people did 100 years ago? Why
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> you've given up the main principle If you are still looking for inconsistencies in my position, then you haven't yet accepted that I want to find compromise solutions. I am ok with not getting everything I want. We're
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
Thank you for your detailed response, I'll try to honor it. > Ethical disagreements exist. You may not think that this is an urgent ethical issue, but I do. I'm not going to say that your position is ethically acceptable just b
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> I think it's a terrible mistake to treat this as a wonky policy issue rather than an urgent ethical issue. Your passion is admirable, but no need to insult, friend. I'm not a policy wonk, I just disagree with you. I don&#x2
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
There is a lot of abstraction in your statements culminating in an attempt to paint me as unethical. I wish we could just talk like friends who happen to disagree on policy. I don't believe a functional health care market where provid
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
I don't think Democrats (or Republicans when they take power) are clever/smart/kind/honest enough to offer universal single-payer healthcare without rationing. Is there an intent to take my health care choices away, and
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
> Jefferson meant, I think, that we have a right to certain preconditions that will allow us to pursue happiness: freedom of speech, so we can speak our minds and learn from others; a career open to talents, so our efforts may be rewarde
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
The jester's job is to criticise the tyrant in his own court. Just enjoy the show.
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by EdSharkey 7y ago
tomweingarten can't see past the tip of his ideological nose. It's gonna be such a shocker to him when his megacorp gets shattered into a million little pieces.

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