OscarTheGrinch

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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
My wife is trying to work on the kitchen table, just buzzed her with this, annoyance ensued.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I agree that top-down solutions / edicts rarely work, unless the grassroots organic growth is already there. When I see the word "smart" applied to anything I just think of the big junket of smart conferences and and smart wo
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Can confirm this assertion. I spent years building pretty games, but often our games are trounced by a rival with by with crappier graphics and better gameplay.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Yes, but we are now more populous and densely packed, somewhat negating out technological progress.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Gotta soothe those Animal Spirits.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Nice thought, but we would also have to quarantine all other mammals. Maybe birds and reptiles too just to be on the safe side.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I get the feeling this coup is driven by new investors who don't realise what it is they have bought into. Cough cough Myspace.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
..and the irony is that Boeing would be better served by a truly indipendant FAA: finding fault before planes start falling out of the sky.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I take ~1 hour of TV most evenings as a sedative.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
It's easy to hate on the elderly, until you become old yourself.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I also will add a note of admiration for how the people of China have handled this. Their backbreaking work and sacrifice has probably slowed the spread by weeks. You can blame the authorities for not acting sooner, but it's kind of di
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Yes somewhat harmful to the environment but not as harmful to the environment as a nuclear war. I feel we as a species need to get better at weighing up the costs of our action or inaction, making hard choices rather than everyone just figh
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I'm gonna plug my favourite solution to most Win10 BS> Open shell. It does a decent job of turning the start menu / add platform back into a start menu. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Keep telling yourself that you are a normal person, just like everyone else. Don't judge others too harshly, we all have a tendency to see others misdeeds as driven by character flaws, but they might just be having a bad day. Meditate
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Yes, lack of manufacturing capacity in western nations is the root of the problem, not the particular technological fetish de jour. This is the chickens coming home to roost of chasing shareholder value maximisation rather than keeping some
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Can't we just buy Chinese stuff... and copy it? I'm only half joking. History teaches us that any technological shortfall can be remedied fairly quickly if you have a clear priority and the audacity to steal. 5G doesn't requi
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Anyone know why Scratch lite is so limited on the iOS? My 2 year old has nearly mastered all the features but I'm hesitant to let him loose on a laptop.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I just settle for ignoring WSJ on general principal. This would be an interesting premise for an article from any reputable outlet, but the WSJ's combination of two paragraph paywall and the Murdoch's constant editorial axe to gri
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
The value was only there on Masayoshi Son's fevered brow, has subsequently evaporated.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
It's defiantly got a Cylon vibe going on...
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Windows. Vista. Ballmer was responsible for this blight upon humanity. How many human hour / lifetimes were wasted trying and failing to get things to work on Vista?
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Such poor behavior creates gaps in the canopy, providing sunlight for other services to grow. If you don't like how a service is treating you, switch to a better one and make the case to your peers why they should do likewise. A health
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
My brush with AI snake oil: I interviewed at a startup that seemed fishy. They offer a fully AI powered customer service chat as an off the shelf black box to banks. I highly suspect that they were a pseudo AI setup. LinkedIn shows that the
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Pretty sure that billions in Europe have three extra zeros.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
For me its safety. I have a young family, no chance of vehicular collision on a stationary bike.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Yeah I agree, but I think the problem is that Amazon doesn't know who the bad actors are. To actually verify all the goods would require an enormous amount of physical checking, requiring an enormous amount of staff trained to tell a g
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
Use it or lose it.
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
One universal law that these discussions usually fail to consider is opportunity cost. There are a near infinite number of constraints and competing priorities at every stage of civilisional development, and that's why we don't se
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
I love the code smell of spaghetti code in the morning...
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by OscarTheGrinch 7y ago
It's not a race.

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