MichaelGroves

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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I'm not saying we should go back to floppies. A prompt for the administrator password followed by an otherwise automatic driver installation should be fine.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> 20 years building infrastructure, railroads, highways, mining operations, schools to train engineers, managers, and professionals 20 years? Zahir Shah tried this for 40 years. Amanullah Khan also tried, as did several others. Nume
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> if you can't make your product work with no fuss, your customers will buy someone else's If Razor can't make their gamer mouse autoinstall drivers, then neither can Logitech. This would be an equal playing field. &gt
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Wellington used to say that the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men. Partly due to Napoleon's tactical skill I'm sure, but I think this also speaks to Napoleon's unusual ability to motivate men
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> commit China-style ethnocide, or at the least institute authoritarianish high-security measures, depopulate the rural areas The PDPA and Soviets tried this, and it didn't work. Together they killed tens of thousands of combatan
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form. I don't see why. Particularly not if the user wouldn't have permissions to do it themselves. If the user doesn't have permission to install a driver
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Depending on the person and the prevailing culture it may be perfectly normal to more or less ignore someone outside the office Precisely this. When about town in public, I ignore everybody except my closest friends or family, or pe
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Tree limbs die all the time. Normally when disease or damage kill a tree branch, it isn't a big deal because the tree is in a forest and probably won't fall on anybody or damage any property under it. In a city, you can't i
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> "Now there seems to be a paradox when it comes to clickbait. People almost universally claim to hate it, but you also see it everywhere." His paradox of clickbait is very... interesting. I propose a similar paradox of use
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
If you're a race car driver who takes sponsorships from Ford to promote car culture and sell more gas guzzlers to the general public, shouldn't your chosen role in this system that earn you some ire? That's just "the pl
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The "beacon/alerting system" are the signs, and the man in a vest. If the car can't respond to those, then the words "full self driving" should never be used to describe it.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Have you also found other videos by the author to be "10 minutes of tiddly little bits of information"? Yes. His videos are personable and pleasant to watch, but information sparse. They are more likely to leave me with t
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I'd be really curious to see how a map/gps based system handles situations where a divided highway is under construction and has temporary lines painted to direct the right side of the road to drive on the left side while left sid
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Lots of people aren't okay with road conditions. But lots more people aren't okay with a myraid of other pet peeves and legitimate grievances they have with just about every single aspect of our society. The process of prioriti
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I doubt many, if any, would confuse the two. Bamboo is notorious for being hard to kill. It spreads underground using shoots, and those shoots can reemerge again and again every time you chop down the bamboo patch.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> It outperforms NTFS in most scenarios (an unfair comparison as NTFS is a disk file system and WinFsp is tested with an in-memory file system) Oh good grief! Let me guess, they first benchmarked it against a ram disk, but the resulti
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
If shotspotter had not existed, I think this man would have still been charged with the murder. It seems beyond dispute that the victim was shot in the car of the accused. The case against him was seemingly lost for two reasons: shotspott
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Ah fair enough, I think we agree in these regards. America's departure from Afghanistan was ungraceful to say the least. I think it was doomed to end up that way from the very beginning, but even so, America might have done more to e
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I guess my response was prompted mostly by this: > Leaving Afghanistan (to fail) has been a long time coming. Obama wanted to do it, Trump wanted to do it, Biden decided to pull/had to pull/tripped over the cord. I don't
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Read the last century of history of Afghanistan and it becomes clear that the war was lost before it ever began. It was not just the Soviets before America that failed to reform the ways of rural Afghanis. The Soviets came into Afghanist
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> A lobste.rs user asked why you would use find | xargs rather than find -exec. The answer is that it can be much faster. If you’re trying to rm 10,000 files, you can start one process instead of 10,000 processes! Fair enough, but I s
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Would you say the title terminated your consideration of the article?
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I believe this is now generally regarded as a misconception, since there are records of the workers being paid. However it can be difficult to tease out the true nature of this work in the historic context, since the way such workers would
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
To be fair, term limits also protect the public from whatever tyrants they might accidentally vote into power. But this too has the effect of stabilizing the status quo, which benefits those who like the status quo the most (the wealthy.)
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Thanks to the influence of television, arguably the most famous chef in the world is famous not for food, but rather for verbal abuse.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The most important message of CICO is not "count your calories". It's "you're fat because you eat too much." Matter isn't materializing out of the aether and putting itself into your ass, it comes fro
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> I think the problem is that "calories in, calories out" is not that easy since it's hard to measure the calories in and the calories out precisely. You don't have to, precise calorie counting is a strawman argumen
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Assuming such a lawless state of affairs, having a large constellation of satellites in LEO already could be used to prevent competition from reaching orbit to challenge you. I am not sure many people have noticed, but in launching thousan
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I think the practical effect, if not intended design purpose, of a republic is to launder responsibility. To create a layer of indirection and uncertainty between the people who have power and the popular perception of who to hold account
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Where is the demarcation line between "legislating morality" and simply "legislating"? Murder is morally wrong, aren't laws against murder thus legislating morality? I don't claim to know many christians,

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