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811.
by adamc 4y ago
Both terms were in wide use in the Chicago area.
812.
by adamc 4y ago
Yeah, some of the measures were curious, such as unique keywords per 10,000 papers. It isn't clear to me what we should expect if science was doing fine -- more unique keywords total, yes, but per 10,000 papers? Why? In general, I thin
813.
by adamc 4y ago
There's a pretty good "Talking Politics" podcast on Rawls: https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/rawlsonjustice Sadly, that series has ended, but there's a lot of good stuff: https:/&
814.
by adamc 4y ago
Milk comes to mind, but yes.
815.
by adamc 4y ago
Hard question, because usually it's implementation more than the idea that matters. Something like Daggerfall (huge, procedurally generated world for an RPG) combined with a much more dynamic AI that generates political events, quests,
816.
by adamc 4y ago
All decision-makers should go to jail in such cases. Then they would work harder on making blame clear.
817.
I'd love a history of Python tooling
4 points by adamc 4y ago|2 comments
818.
by adamc 5y ago
Recommendations for good commercial email services?
819.
by adamc 5y ago
Good reminder that I need to migrate my data away from Google. They are notorious for terrible customer support. I'd rather pay someone competent.
820.
by adamc 5y ago
People would forget, but having a well-documented plan at a well-understood URL would not be a bad idea.
821.
by adamc 5y ago
We have all sorts of slack channels set up to coordinate activity, so that internal customers can talk to engineers easily, or engineers can engage with each other. If slack goes down, we'd have to work all that out. For many days, it
822.
by adamc 5y ago
If so, that itself would be a huge red flag for dealing with Atlassian.
823.
by adamc 5y ago
You can downrate it, but charging more just because you can is not admirable.
824.
by adamc 5y ago
Don't drag in ad-hominem attacks. If you want to defend Go's approach, explain why having it be the "operator's explicit responsibility" is a good policy, likely to make apps (in general) more secure. The obvious im
825.
by adamc 5y ago
Pretty much an example of Apple being evil and trying to squeeze their customers rather than serve them.
826.
by adamc 5y ago
We can learn a lot from digging into our stress responses. Changing it is much harder, but learning is a start.
827.
by adamc 5y ago
In many situations, that is unrealistic. Somebody has to pay for me (or some other engineer) to set up and maintain said open source. It is often cheaper to just pay for the offering. There is business risk in being trapped in non-free, but
828.
by adamc 5y ago
Just fuels my cynicism about "free" offerings. Sooner or later, companies decide they want to monetize as much as possible. I'm not saying it's unfair. But it makes me less interested in trying things just because they a
829.
by adamc 5y ago
And in a different (VERY different) administration.
830.
by adamc 5y ago
It's an important question to ask.
831.
by adamc 5y ago
The weaknesses of leaders are human weaknesses. Look at Putin.
832.
by adamc 5y ago
In fiction, perhaps. But I think Tolkien was closer to the mark. In practice, it is very difficult to know everything, even if the information is available, because of the limitations on our attention and imagination. Tolkien clearly descri
833.
by adamc 5y ago
True, but if you want to buy something of value, those things do take effort. Pumping in more money doesn't create value.
834.
by adamc 5y ago
Yeah, but it's not terribly likely that you could stop maintaining the sprawl, because it's already there. Certainly not quickly.
835.
by adamc 5y ago
Right, in English "wear" generally means something you can "put on" and you can't "put a gun on" either. Although you can put on a holster. ;-)
836.
by adamc 5y ago
If it hadn't deteriorated. Tape was not forever.
837.
by adamc 5y ago
Not really usually to call something "overly paranoid" without going into why you think their evaluation is wrong.
838.
by adamc 5y ago
Good. Use those and don't steal from others.
839.
by adamc 5y ago
I am deeply suspicious of "shoulds" on other people. Maybe normal human beings should pay enough that newspapers can survive.
840.
by adamc 5y ago
Mixed feelings about this. I hate paywalls because they inhibit sharing and conversation, but... if people don't pay for news, soon there won't be any reporters. People have to make a living somehow.

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