MarkLowenstein

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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
This. For a firm with all these supposed high-performers trying to discover and cater to my viewing habits, they sure had a hard time figuring out that I never chose their "original content" that they were shoving in my face all t
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
If a fact-check is ever found to be wrong, isn't that proof that the fact-checker is claiming things to be fact, when they aren't? I'd support a licensing system for this, at the individual and company level. If Facebook fa
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Haha, yes. If it weren't for the phenomenon written about in this article, I bet HN readership would plummet at least 20%.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Great write-up with good ideas, clear code, and graphic detail. However my brain hurt more than necessary to read it. Two easy improvements could be made: - Make each picture expand to 2x or 3x magnification on hover. We want to see the pix
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Also in that age group, but I was tired already back in 1995. I was an enthusiastic hobby Win32 programmer. Win32 was considered "hard" back then because it was a flat set of 1000+ functions, plus an event-loop-based programming m
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
No, I didn't think of that. It would give the same effect (after all 1920x1920 isn't that high a res). But on the other hand, could I resist using the other pixels I paid for?...tough choice.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I've got one. 100% recommended. Bought mine at $1500. I'm not rich but I've never regretted this purchase.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
The problem is multiplied by an information-theory phenomenon: like a mathematics textbook, each line of dialog these days is distilled to contain maximum information. There is little redundancy. If you miss a line, it really matters. Combi
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Yeah, if I found a remote control with a "QUIET" button instead of just "MUTE", I'd buy it in an instant.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Everyone who uses Twitter has seen the little ! triangle saying a tweet has "misinformation". Or read about people suspended for discussing - Possible therapies for COVID like ivermectin or HCQ - Claims that the 2020 U.S. presiden
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
It is likely that the censorship and massaging of visibility is done by a team composed largely of ideological activists. Dorsey as a founder and leader would have the sense of ownership that would allow him to push back on that. I would ex
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
The propagandists have confused you and many others on this topic. Telling lies or BS is absolutely not censorship. When something is not allowed to be said or published, or is soft-censored by muting its distribution... that is censorship
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Best I could do was an image search that didn't have many good ones honestly. I know there was one once with a nice nuclear diagram associated...maybe under the alternate name "administrontium"?
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
14 comments in and no mention of the element Administratium? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/a5/74/e9a57450043a4af5725c...
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Yes. People can make wonderful things on computers. Online satellite maps, GPT3 text generators, simulated 3-D universes. But never a successful no-code system.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I appreciate that response and link. Maybe Lowenstein's Theory of Mealy-Mouthism will be on there someday, after 3 or 4 pariah years.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I think this is the phenomenon behind people's mealy-mouthed inability to speak fluently these days, filling time with "like", "you know", etc. We now live in a world where anything you say is a potential landmine o
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Did anybody else just narrow down your browser to try HN that way?
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I've tried a lot of sources of white noise while working. My previous favorite was "submarine sounds", but thanks to La Palma, I've learned that volcano sounds are the absolute best for my concentration.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
What type of company do you work for? It may be different in software/services vs. commerce companies.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
When something becomes routine for a developer, where they can predictably finish a work item without designing anything new, that task is immediately flagged in managers' minds as one that should be done by a more-junior/contract
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I'm bookmarking this conversation as a remarkable example of how certain styles of communication are missed by a lot of people...probably the same phenomenon that obliges you to include "/sarc" lest you be obliged to ent
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
How many of us have had the inverse of this problem? We go to a browser's URL & search bar, and we paste in what we think is a URL...but then we failed to copy the "h" at the beginning so it regards the whole thing as a G
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Wow. This is the answer to a prayer I didn't even realize I had. I have been in love with those 50s/60s-era computer-industry fonts for the longest time but never thought I'd know the names of these gems. Eurostile Bold Exten
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
I find that various white-ish noise sources help me a lot. I've tried everything down to "10 hours of baby crying" [1]. My favorite lately is the La Palma volcano live-streams. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
They're probably like me. I know the vaccine helps. I also know that I have near-zero risk from COVID. So I don't get the vaccine because I don't like injecting unnecessary stuff in there.
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Dear Bing, want to have me as a full-time user? (1) When I search for two words like OpenIDConnect replyUrlsWithType, only give me results that have both those terms. Don't make me put pluses on everything. And when I do give you
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Programming changes practice quickly and often because it's cheap to do so compared to physical engineering which is slowed down by execution time, high materials cost, and sunk costs. The interesting question is this: would other en
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Pertinent: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbook... a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based o
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by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
Love how tau is defined as a constant in there. Word is spreading!

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