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841.
by adamc 5y ago
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is pretty good. Stranger in a Strange Land is decent. Neither is a juvenile...
842.
by adamc 5y ago
He wrote a lot of stories I loved. And then, early 1970s or so onwards, everything he wrote was awful.
843.
by adamc 5y ago
Valid. I'm skeptical that this makes it a winning strategy, but it's conceivable.
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by adamc 5y ago
Yeah, I agree, but reddit also doesn't have the same skin in the game, hence the prior comment.
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by adamc 5y ago
Isn't that effectively what limiting a google search to reddit does? Not that I'm convinced it will keep working, since reddit isn't really a vendor in the same sense, and doesn't have those incentives.
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by adamc 5y ago
This is something I notice in advertising generally: whatever they most emphasize is least likely to be true about the product (e.g., the "great taste" of McDonald's).
847.
by adamc 5y ago
There is a perfectly good solution, and some people use it: don't buy from unknown vendors. If you buy a product from one of a few well-known companies in that space, they have a big investment in their brand, and are much less likely
848.
by adamc 5y ago
I've hit this many, many times, but I'm not sure I can easily reproduce it. Tends to happen when there are more search terms, in my experience.
849.
by adamc 5y ago
It can have this problem even if you are not nonbinary. Buy a few toe rings and have it decide you're a woman...
850.
by adamc 5y ago
Same experience. What's even more mystifying is that often it is for items that no human would be likely to be buying many copies of in a short span of time (high ticket items, or items where you probably don't need more than one)
851.
by adamc 5y ago
Great comment!
852.
by adamc 5y ago
Upvoted, not for the article but for the discussion here, that generally suggests it was contamination.
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by adamc 5y ago
Hence the move to produce content. But that's a slow process.
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by adamc 5y ago
The argument in the first example is just wrong. 1) His value might be that it looks like there is a security guard on duty, and that a) encourages customers, b) discourages robbers. A rock cannot do that. 2) He could do that, but he probab
855.
by adamc 5y ago
Right now this is a right-handed fretboard visualizer. Not so great for lefties.
856.
by adamc 5y ago
The US probably needs to view chips as a national security issue and proceed accordingly... meaning, move more manufacturing here. It will raise prices and hurt the economy, probably, so I can understand the reluctance. Nothing is easy.
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by adamc 5y ago
Well said. Periodically, I try to turn ad-blocking off because of my sympathies for various web sites. I always turn it back on. The web is now unusable without ad-blocking, at least for me.
858.
by adamc 5y ago
Right, this is basically a "human politics" thing.
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by adamc 5y ago
No, it's really not even arguable. Lots and lots of software is written in business contexts where the cost of developing reliable code is a lot more important than its performance. Not everything is a commercial product aimed at a wid
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by adamc 5y ago
Sad news. I'd read some of his books... loved them.
861.
by adamc 5y ago
While maybe theoretically of interest, it is far afield of the pragmatic considerations that underlie the paper: worked on operating systems in common use TODAY.
862.
by adamc 5y ago
Reading this, I had the uneasy feeling that we might be seeing a company chase a past that cannot be its future.
863.
by adamc 5y ago
Well, I can't fault them for being proud of the Beatles.
864.
by adamc 5y ago
We have options, and options imply choices and therefore morality. I see lots wrong with it, since it creates pain and bad life experiences. This bothers me. But that's also a choice, of what kind of morality you embrace.
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by adamc 5y ago
I don't have ADHD, and I have this issue. I have (or have had -- seems to be in remission at present) issues with depression, which can also result in this.
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by adamc 5y ago
Do we have a theory for why it would be more than a chance correlation?
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by adamc 5y ago
The problem with most of these generators is that you end up with insane looking dungeons. I wonder whether a different approach which took into account the kind of dungeon it was supposed to be, and what features should be located in it, c
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by adamc 5y ago
Yes, the problem was that to read Perl you had to know every way to express things, and Perl was much, much too flexible there. I wrote a bunch of Perl in the early 2000s and I hated it. Both Ruby and Python were far superior. Even Java was
869.
by adamc 5y ago
I am curious what Canadians think of this argument. Does it seem true? It's hard for me, a USA resident who doesn't follow the CBC, to really evaluate.
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by adamc 5y ago
The politics of the article were intemperate and confusing. The author complains about state regulation but blames the Biden administration? What? Not very impressed.

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