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by aaronem 12y ago
Eh. I mean, I see what you're saying, but it is an interesting line of inquiry, and right up HN's alley.
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by aaronem 12y ago
I do, and I'm not convinced either; if the drunk's doing a steady 70, it won't hurt me to do 55 in the right lane for long enough so he's well ahead of me and I have time to react to whatever stupidity he perpetrates nex
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by aaronem 12y ago
> Cars are deathtraps. The population of the US is roughly 310 million people. Using your figure for driving fatalities, 3.1x10^8 / 2.5x10^4 = 1/12400 chance of dying in a car accident. This tracks reasonably well with the admi
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by aaronem 12y ago
/sɛd/?
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by aaronem 12y ago
Hey, I didn't say anything against the Microsoft stack; I've made a living off it myself, at times, although mostly at a lower (i.e. VBA) level. But it doesn't really lend itself to easy understanding of REST. As far as REST
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by aaronem 12y ago
As long as you don't mind a travel time measured in centuries.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Microsoft-stack developer doesn't understand how HTTP works. Film at eleven.
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by aaronem 12y ago
At some point it's surely simpler just to write a Lisp interpreter instead.
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by aaronem 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQUePN5y40
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by aaronem 12y ago
Is there, though? Sure, it'd be preferable to have a full fee schedule available, for cases where it's needed. But, given that using a concierge service is perhaps the definitive case of spending money to conserve time; given also
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by aaronem 12y ago
You mean this makes publicly available a piece of my contact information that I've long since chosen to make publicly available? Heaven forfend!
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by aaronem 12y ago
This is what used to be called "concierge service". You can still get it with, for example, high-end American Express cards, or from firms which specialize in providing it. Judging by the examples on your site, you've succeed
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by aaronem 12y ago
When you're using a concierge service is not the time to pinch pennies. Corollary: When you're pinching pennies is not the time to use a concierge service. The whole point of a concierge service, such as this, is to have someone o
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by aaronem 12y ago
> ultimately it's a image generation library, why this thing needs any tests So you can be confident that it generates correct images, even three years from now when you've mostly forgotten about it but you dip back in just to
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by aaronem 12y ago
> "hyper" systemic but "hypo" empathic A society is a system.
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by aaronem 12y ago
That's not Carrot, that's Victor whatsisname from Moving Pictures .
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by aaronem 12y ago
Yep, that's the fashion industry for you.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Building a road isn't busywork; when it's done, there's a road where no road was before.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Not OP, but I agree with the point you question, and my rationale for so doing is that I've yet to see a compelling argument that a self-improving system is other than the software version of a perpetual-motion machine. Those seemed pl
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by aaronem 12y ago
I don't see how selection bias enters into it, when no matter what selection method we use, the rate of accidental detonations remains zero. I don't doubt that that will eventually change, but even a large industrial accident is h
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by aaronem 12y ago
And yet WWIII hasn't started, and there have been no accidental nuclear detonations since we started building the weapons in the first place. Nuclear engineering, like any field of industrial or weapons technology, has inherent dangers
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by aaronem 12y ago
To be fair, I think there is a place for stuff like the Arduino, RPi, &c.; for example, I've got a couple of projects prototyped on my breadboard Pi right now, before I reimplement them on an MSP430 as I2C-connected peripherals, an
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by aaronem 12y ago
Speaking as someone who once implemented PWM brightness control for keyboard LEDs via a hacked copy of xset(1), it's hard for me to judge anyone on the basis of overengineering, and yet...
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by aaronem 12y ago
Sure. On the other hand, I found Watts's Rifters trilogy to be strong throughout, and I'd previously assumed that he'd turn in the same strong performance with his latest series. In what way does Echopraxia fail to live u
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by aaronem 12y ago
Pretty much the defining space opera, yeah -- I mean, it's set in the year ten thousand, what else can you fairly expect it to be? While I quite like it (and can't abide its sequels), I do concede it takes a peculiar taste to appr
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by aaronem 12y ago
Peter Watts's Blindsight - easily the best SF novel I've read in the last decade. I haven't got round to Echopraxia yet, but I doubt it'll fail to live up to its predecessor. Also, while I have no use whatsoever for
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by aaronem 12y ago
Accelerando is not hard SF.
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by aaronem 12y ago
Having read it, I found the point Schlosser made to be that, while working with nuclear weapons (and more specifically with large liquid-fueled rockets) is a profession relatively rich in personal danger for those who pursue it, the danger
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by aaronem 12y ago
Because it's a slow, broken reimplementation of things which Angular already does better and which only work well in any case when you're on a blazing-fast low-latency Internet connection, or better yet browsing localhost -- did I
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by aaronem 12y ago
Just over 7s here, and /demo takes 12s and ends up with a blank page. Not ready for prime time.

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