MawNicker

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by MawNicker 10y ago
Babbage designed a computer almost 200 years ago. We need people to be working on moonshots. A lot of them will fail. When one finally succeeds it pierces the veil of "just in time" capitalistic motivation. The financial incentive
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The most discouraging pattern is down-votes on reasonable comments without any feedback whatsoever. Before a person can down-vote they should be required to leave a response OR to up-vote an existing response.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Wow. That was an awesome video. Thank you. I didn't know why the top had a neck. Further efficiency apparently. He has an excellent explanation of the two-mode pull tab towards the end. Direct link: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> there's a certain smugness (and sense of power?) Yes! I have had this idea floating in my head for a while now. At some point opening a can of soda I experienced this wave of humility. Sitting there mindlessly drinking sugar wat
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I think the bias you're criticizing is teleology. [1] I suspect we have something akin to a Purpose Co-Processor. Further that I'm using said co-processor to annotate it as such. The inclination to trust these annotations is intui
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> very very long time. It's sad really. Table-based layouts have been considered bad practice for years but CSS is only just now becoming a superset. That is if you're lucky enough to be free of old browsers. If you want ever
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The rest of the world (not us) just wants a user interface that's consistent. People need the use of their computers nowadays. They build their lives on top of them. Sweeping that out from under people without asking is NOT ok. Many
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by MawNicker 10y ago
This is so strange. It's like the OS team is in another universe. The rest of the company is nailing it.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> It's globalists and internationalists that circumvented democracy. You're usually full of rock solid arguments and facts about how the sky isn't really falling. That was a real bummer to read. :(
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I should have said the implementations of GraphQL have similar problems. Since it's just a query language you can implement your own server with limits. Facebook is ultimately just punting on this problem but the declarative query
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by MawNicker 10y ago
GraphQL has similar problems. It seems somewhat inherent to batching solutions.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
It said I was posting too quickly (regardless of where I tried to post) and I hadn't posted anything in over 45 minutes. Maybe it goes up exponentially or something and I've just never run afoul of it before.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> A few strangely poor-yet-viable kids will move from very bad schools to slightly bad schools (nice but insignificant) while all the bright promising kids will end up in less-effective schools I may have overstated my position. I know t
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> That's a lot different than trying to help your own kids get ahead. Wow! Really? Who exactly are they getting "ahead" of? And what is the other person being made except for behind?
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I agree. It's an aggressive gambit. Fix this or you're X (bad thing) and people will hate you. That being said, people have a tendency to lean on the crutch of intentions. Which is itself just a more subtle gambit. It's accep
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by MawNicker 10y ago
This is some pretty blatant elitism. A domination loop is utterly apparent in your comment. As is typical, it uses it's consequences to justify it's continuation. Success is a fundamentally relative designation. It basically means
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by MawNicker 10y ago
You're making a distinction about their intent but not their effect.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
You must not use atom. That or you must really hate url bars and back buttons. Otherwise I don't understand this comment.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Maybe if you only count intelligent enemies. Otherwise asteroids, gamma ray bursts and planetary dynamics are also dangerous. A second planet would let us recover from all of those. Except for maybe a gamma ray burst depending on how close
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by MawNicker 10y ago
WOOOOOOOOW! They seriously do that? This alone could get me to switch. Switching from the iPad 2 to the iPad Air 2 was painful because they removed the physical switch that could be used to lock orientation. I used to use it for this. Now I
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Yup. That looks like the first derivative of bounded growth. The integral of that graph would look like a logistic function [1]. It's often used to model population growth. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logist
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Well it is the product of a world class design firm. Even if it was a mistake to have a mesh seat they got most everything else right. But it's telling that the Herman Miller Embody (successor to Aeron) has a real seat.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I didn't mean to sound contradictory. I actually sold mine on Craigslist! But a spike in Aeron chair sales may not imply that a bubble is popping. It might just be that startups got off the bandwagon and decided to care about their sor
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by MawNicker 10y ago
They're terrible chairs. A mesh back is nice but you need a proper seat. The Aeron cuts off circulation to the legs. It's also about 5x overpriced. I just upgraded to a low end model from a no-name brand. [1] It's honestly
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I was being flippant. But yeah... Agreed. I do like the reactions. You learn a lot about how people process information. Especially socially controversial information. I honestly don't really care what happens with anything in the worl
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> we're calling it cp ;)
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Modern leadership prefers "nudges" to outright bans.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
This is a beautiful summary. Thank you. I will be stealing this.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
No. Wow. Clarification is not Pedantry.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
That is nice to know actually. Thank you. I still think I'm right though. Many UBI opponents simply dismiss it as socialism/communism. Sorry if I jumped on you.

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