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by _moof 5y ago
I guess my point about DRM is more that the books I want to read are generally only available in DRMed formats. But maybe that's not true? I don't use an Amazon e-reader, for what it's worth.
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by _moof 5y ago
I long preferred "real" books, despite having an e-reader for over ten years, but the e-reader has a killer feature: the backlight. Having a backlight means I can turn the light off on my nightstand, and read at night without keep
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by _moof 5y ago
Interesting. Couldn't help but be reminded of station models in meteorology: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model#/media/File%3A...
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by _moof 5y ago
Well, I'm delighted. :)
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by _moof 5y ago
Please tell me that putting the struct fields inside the comments was a deliberate homage.
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by _moof 5y ago
Eagle-eyed observers have noticed Starlink antennas on SpaceX's drone ships. So mobile capability is definitely already implemented, it's just not publicly available yet. (Edit: And evidently some regular users are already beta-
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by _moof 5y ago
Oof, I feel this. I've made so many dumb mistakes in management gigs, which is normal and just a part of learning any skill, but it's so much more painful when your dumb mistakes are with other people and their jobs. It's not
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by _moof 5y ago
I agree completely. It's a very difficult problem from a technical perspective, and from a systems perspective, we've got untrained operators who can't even stay off their phones in a non- self-driving car. (Not high-horsing
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by _moof 5y ago
> My foot hurting actually has no bearing on whether or not you're welcome. Of course - that was my point about cancelling being an overreaction to accidental transgressions. I think the thing that gets missed is that an accidental
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by _moof 5y ago
Hi, aerospace software engineer and flight instructor here. I think you get shot down because the problems just aren't comparable. While I agree that there may be some philosophical transfer from aircraft automation, the environments a
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by _moof 5y ago
I agree that cancelling someone over an accidental transgression is a vengeful overreaction. Separately, let me ask you this: If I step on your foot, does it hurt less if I didn't mean to?
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by _moof 5y ago
The one I've seen prohibited talking about itself, except with a lawyer.
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by _moof 5y ago
My favorite term in these agreements is the one forbidding you from even mentioning the existence of the agreement.
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by _moof 5y ago
Very disappointed not to see Gaul on this list.
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by _moof 5y ago
I thought this too until I looked at US presidential electoral maps for the past century, and then ran across a study of political division in the US that showed a dramatic increase beginning around 1980. (Don't have a link handy unfor
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by _moof 5y ago
This is what intersectionality is supposed to be about: the notion that privilege and discrimination aren't one-dimensional, but are complex products of many intersecting and possibly conflicting experiences, attributes, and contexts.
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by _moof 5y ago
Sounds like MasterCard is in fact fine with merchants selling pornography, but the merchants aren't willing to do so on MasterCard's extremely reasonable terms.
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by _moof 5y ago
Hear, hear. This is practically a trope, and not just with ADHD but all kinds of illness, mental and physical. I'm not saying psychiatry or the pharmaceutical industry are perfect, or that there are zero people taking meds who don&#x27
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by _moof 5y ago
This is your regularly scheduled reminder to take medical advice from doctors, not internet commenters.
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by _moof 5y ago
Indeed, that's a very difficult line to draw. In the US we have the concept of a public figure, and I'll admit I have no idea how that's actually defined. That being said I've also wondered if it's too blunt a conce
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by _moof 5y ago
I probably should've added that as a parenthetical - those words weren't spoken by the people who made the list. And it's hard to tell how much of an implied wink is behind that quote. I know if I'd said it, I'd hav
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by _moof 5y ago
Possibly controversial proposition, which I offer as a discussion prompt, not necessarily a position: What if we stopped relentlessly cataloging and indexing information about every single person on the planet in a way that anyone can searc
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by _moof 5y ago
Quaker Oats is one. (Not disputing your point; was just trying to think of any memorable 3D logos, and it came to mind.) They tried to go with a simpler, monochromatic logo and ended up switching back to the 3D drawing.
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by _moof 5y ago
"In the wrong hands, this list could be used to oppress, harass, or persecute people on the list and their families." Teetering on the brink of an epiphany.
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by _moof 5y ago
> why didn't we use one of the dedicated Data Structure separator control codes (e.g. File/Group/Record/Unit separator) that were part of the ASCII standard? Because you can't see them. CSV is, at its core, a tex
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by _moof 5y ago
This is an example of a genre I like to describe as: programmer objects to a solution that meets everyone's requirements because it doesn't make them feel like a beautiful code-poet. I like elegance as much as anyone. And I think
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by _moof 5y ago
n=1 but I've submitted to Ask A Manager, and Alison didn't change a word when she published my question.
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by _moof 5y ago
No one likes to do lit review, which is a shame. I get it - it's way less fun to find out someone already bested your cool idea than it is to write code. But it's definitely more productive to read the literature!
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by _moof 5y ago
As a recovering cartography student, I would just like to say: the Mercator projection is misleading garbage and I hate it with the fire of a thousand very round suns. I'll concede that it's useful for when you're a 16th-cent
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by _moof 5y ago
Indeed. Academicians are some of the worst offenders in my experience. Also, you know how software engineers like to think that they're rocket scientists? Well, it brings me no pleasure to report that rocket scientists think they'

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