adamc

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by adamc 2y ago
Yes. Definitely his best.
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by adamc 2y ago
Nooooo, not Blue Velvet. That's on my "never watch again" list, because the people in it are so creepy I wanted to just go buy a million guns afterwards.
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by adamc 2y ago
That last sentence is worth an essay of its own. Everyone else keeps pumping resources into being photo-realistic blah-blah-blah without nearly enough attention to "is this fun"?
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by adamc 2y ago
Some of us are time-wasting averse. I am never going to recommend a product without a lot of answers, and it is never going to get green-lighted without my boss feeling confident of the answers. The faster I get the answers, the more likely
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by adamc 2y ago
Not in the west, from what I've seen. The state I grew up in, Illinois, is definitely trending toward being more humid. If you've seen otherwise and have references, I'm interested. I'm thinking about where to live next.
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by adamc 2y ago
I'd say we have an unsustainable system, and innovation that makes it less sustainable is not particularly helpful.
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by adamc 2y ago
I have a CPAP too, and the insurance paid for part of the cost, but most was still paid for by me. I investigated the price of buying it directly, for cash, and it was only a few hundred dollars more.
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by adamc 2y ago
This is why we need to install National Health Care. Single payer systems get the best rate, and we can make a national decision over how much we can afford. The current system is insane and unsustainable.
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by adamc 2y ago
Doing anything that uses a lot of water in a desert seems problematic to me. Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.
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by adamc 2y ago
Not a chance. Russia has no way to deliver oil in large quantities to China. New pipelines, if they could even build them, would take many, many years. If renewables was adequate they would not be importing vast amounts of oil.
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by adamc 2y ago
I didn't enjoy my (US) public school experience, but it gave me a lot of skills for interacting with other people, including people I disliked. Based on the people I've met who were home-schooled, they lacked a lot of those skills
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by adamc 2y ago
The vulnerability to supply chain attacks gives me pause. It's not unique to rust and it bothers me with npm or Python as well.
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by adamc 2y ago
If it causes lots of metabolism, one plausible side-effect might be increased cancer risk. But you have to balance that against all the risks of obesity. Options are worth investigating.
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by adamc 2y ago
We can do lots of things to help. But we need to get our military operational in that case.
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by adamc 2y ago
I would expect an invasion to prompt the US navy to put up a blockade, disrupting China's oil supplies and generally making it very hard to keep their economy going. Admittedly, Trump is a wild card; he's random enough that it is
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by adamc 2y ago
The same analysis makes me doubt those wages are likely to prevail for software engineers. They are the result of a particular time and place.
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by adamc 2y ago
Einstein didn't emigrate to get rich, he emigrated because the Nazi's took over Germany. Germany had the best universities in the world before they took the path of self-destruction. So that was a second, separate event that helpe
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by adamc 2y ago
Seems like relying on domain alone is a design flaw of OAuth?
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by adamc 2y ago
I sit enlightened, although I don't like the word much.
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by adamc 2y ago
The moral issues are the same even when the gravity of the offense is different.
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by adamc 2y ago
This. If you only shoot the crowds when your overlord demands it, that does not make you innocent.
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by adamc 2y ago
Except that it's "interpolated".
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by adamc 2y ago
The distinction between resilience and robustness strikes me as a useful one. Really great article overall.
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by adamc 2y ago
Successful in academia. Not at all successful in terms of real-world use.
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by adamc 2y ago
Here's a different take: Languages like Haskell aren't solving the problems companies actually experience (for the most part). High on that list of real problems is "how do I get effective work out of these <relatively ine
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by adamc 2y ago
While more history is always good, I confess that I'm not much moved by the fact that the catch-phrase "cargo cult" missed context. Almost every phrase derived from history misses context. That's how languages work. The
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by adamc 2y ago
Your position is similar to why I stopped watched NFL games. I get that players choose to play (for money), but at the end of the day, I am unwilling to contribute to brain damage.
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by adamc 2y ago
You can see some classic Keaton in "A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". He remained great, even as an old man.
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by adamc 2y ago
I had a boss who used to say that her job was to be a crap umbrella, so that the engineers under her could focus on their actual jobs.
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by adamc 2y ago
I couldn't do the cross-eyed thing, but it took me maybe 20 seconds to spot the difference just by looking at sections of the images. But I'm not sure that would have worked had the missing bean been buried in the denser part of t

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