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by Terr_ 26d ago
Reminds me of this 2014 post "Programming Sucks" [0], which touches on some similar issues of getting disconnected from reality in a microcosm that always "ought" to be better than it is. > All programming teams are c
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by Terr_ 26d ago
In terms of comparisons to human lifespan, I think this one is interesting: If you can somehow accelerate/decelerate at a constant human-acceptable 1G, time dilation means almost anywhere is reachable in a human-lifetime. That coinci
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by Terr_ 26d ago
That seems like a non-sequitur. Parent-poster wasn't lamenting monopolies, they were just incredulous that some supposedly well-resourced and integrated company still can't get its act together to stop a well-understood problem.
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by Terr_ 27d ago
I know, I'm talking about the full name. The subtext is: "maybe they're pushing the abbreviated brand because they want to sound less like a law firm."
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by Terr_ 27d ago
> She grew up in a completely different world, Also, back then in 1925 infant mortality was probably ~10x worse [0], which adds to how we (today) might underestimate the prevalence of parent-child traumas. [0] https://data.wor
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by Terr_ 27d ago
I'm not sure whether to interpret this as a statement about what we currently over/under-estimate, or as command that we should try what feels like over/under-estimation in order to counter our own biases.
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by Terr_ 27d ago
An insightful SMBC comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagination > Father: "Ugh, how do kids enjoy this garbage?" [...] I had forgotten how often young-me would be daydreaming about stuff. I don&#x
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by Terr_ 27d ago
> BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel announces his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC tomorrow, saying Trump’s FCC has threatened him, his show, ABC, its affiliates, and local stations over “simple tr
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by Terr_ 27d ago
> Equating taking a social media handle with bloody violence against an animal is so weak it doesn't merit an answer. Me: "The relationship moving between the pair $A->$B has similarities to the relationship moving betwe
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by Terr_ 27d ago
Perhaps, but it's also a rather questionable achievement: We've already had several decades of program-output that can match humans with literal brain damage. If anything, biological comparisons should make us cautious. Consider t
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by Terr_ 27d ago
I would focus less on "it's not technically a crime so the quotes should be there" part, and more on how "["stolen"] is more accurate than [reallocated] because it's a dick-move of betrayal against users a
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by Terr_ 27d ago
The name has always made me think it was a bunch of corporate lawyers. I suppose the difference is increasingly academic.
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by Terr_ 27d ago
For anyone still fortunately-unfamilier: Microsoft has some supposedly limited-purpose e-mail notifications and invites which are quasi-legitimate... but they failed on the UX level, allowing spammers to pack seemingly-innocent fields like
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by Terr_ 27d ago
Reminds me of Musk "stole" the @X and @e Twitter handles from users.
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by Terr_ 27d ago
I see this observation frequently, and I dislike how it often has the unsound subtext of: "Therefore something is going well or at least not too badly." If you build a robot where a pressurized hose leaks causing fluid to destroy
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by Terr_ 27d ago
> Huh, I thought accepting legal tender was a federal rule, I guess not. I think the key word is debt when bills state "for all debts, public and private." (And a couple more categories under the law. [0]) At the moment you&#
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by Terr_ 27d ago
Assuming you're already stuck with such a vehicle, is there any benefit to a dashcam that captures the alert-noises to prove the that you, the driver, never chose to brake unsafely? I realize this relies heavily on the questionable san
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by Terr_ 28d ago
Because they B-Trees?
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by Terr_ 28d ago
The Deus Ex game series is known for relatively high-effort writing you can find while exploring, and I think this fictional e-mail from Deux Ex: Human Revolution has some renewed relevance after 15 years: > We've been working wit
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by Terr_ 28d ago
Perhaps we are missing some details with respect to humidity? If it's a very humid sauna at 90°F, then your body can't regulate itself with sweat evaporation.
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by Terr_ 28d ago
Right: We must distinguish between: 1. "The business-model of being an anonymous fence of stolen goods is prohibited." 2. "You have to give us access to all your records at any time on the flimsiest of pretexts, and we'l
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by Terr_ 28d ago
> more than 60% of the audience of the major national daily newsshow do not understand the words used by the moderators I don't want to deny a modern problem may exist based on additional signals, but this statistic isn't neces
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by Terr_ 29d ago
For example, take this TV spyware thing, and rewind to the year 1986, and imagine RCA started selling televisions with microphones in them that recorded what was in your room and radioed it back to headquarters for some reason. Obviously th
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by Terr_ 29d ago
It would be really amusing to see, though. Secrecy aside, there may be some other issues with copywriting a product (allegedly) made by a government.
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by Terr_ 29d ago
I'm seriously strategizing how to best run a separate user-account for banking etc., to defend against a user-level compromise of my day-to-day stuff. It seems like anything that involves sharing a desktop window (e.g. xhost tricks) is
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by Terr_ 29d ago
I remember this, looks like this submission got second-chance'd. (Times shown on comments may be inaccurate, known-issue.)
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by Terr_ 29d ago
> The law has been unable to keep up with tech changes. Nah, for the most part the law has been unable to keep up with (or choose to oppose) corporate power , and new ways it's being used. Usually there's no magic quantum doo
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by Terr_ 29d ago
Ah no, that'd be kinda —ing presumptuous of me.
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by Terr_ 29d ago
Another huge problem is that error rate it not error shape . We have an enormous body of knowledge and process for guessing what might cause problems for human drivers, how to deter the problems, and how to mitigate the damage. For exa
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by Terr_ 29d ago
I don't understand the question/joke.

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