andrewla

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by andrewla 4y ago
Putting aside the general trends you've identifier, in the spirit of my previous comment, #3 -- "online charter school", I think this is definitely, 100%, absolutely, absotively, definitely, 100% dead. Just not happening -- t
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by andrewla 4y ago
There was a dream of remote education, where the best educators in the world can reach out and teach students anywhere in the world, and be a great equalizer of education. This dream was killed by COVID, and likely it'll be another gen
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by andrewla 4y ago
Do we, though, know what we got wrong? In the hypothetical, our civilization has failed and a new group is trying to use this manual to start up civilization again. Who is to say that one of the things that we think we got wrong would, in f
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by andrewla 4y ago
> Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely. > $ sh -c "$(curl -fsLS https://chezmoi.io/get )" -- init --apply $GITHUB_USERNAME That this is even suggested as an installation command mea
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by andrewla 4y ago
A lot of comments disparaging this, but it is fundamentally correct. If our civilization as it is survives and does not collapse, then this "manual" is unnecessary. It is only useful if our civilization has clearly failed. Maybe s
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by andrewla 4y ago
Doesn't this assume that you're advancing a state machine from some known initial state? If you are in the middle of a navigation and you are interrupted, in order to figure out what to do next you need to recover context. The mor
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by andrewla 4y ago
> From [1] The Hello World program: hello.zu: FUNC Main() int IO.write("Hello, World!\n") RETURN 0 } > Notes: > ... > The } character is used to end a block. There is no {, we know where t
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by andrewla 4y ago
In the context of operating a vehicle I'm going to stick with "just as bad". When you aren't driving, if you have to set up something (like configure the doors to auto-lock when when you shift into drive or something) th
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by andrewla 4y ago
General-purpose buttons whose action changes with context are just as bad as touchscreens. The whole point of tactile interfaces is that the buttons and controls have a consistent action regardless of context. A button that sometimes does o
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by andrewla 4y ago
Agree strongly. For things like vehicle status or configuration, the touchscreens are far superior to the old method of strange things like holding down the "unlock" button on the driver door for ten seconds and then pressing lock
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by andrewla 4y ago
I use Google Maps even with non-CarPlay interaction because Apple Maps does not do north-up. At the time, Google Maps didn't do north-up in CarPlay mode. Maybe it's time I give it another try. Last I tried it, I found generally th
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by andrewla 4y ago
Wow, that sounds intensely bad! I haven't actually driven a Mazda, I just heard that they were getting rid of touchscreens and it honestly didn't occur to me that they'd try to shoehorn full Android Auto or CarPlay into that.
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by andrewla 4y ago
The issue is that the car tries to decide which phone to have take over CarPlay. I actually have a cigarette lighter USB adapter so at least a second person can charge without confusing the poor car. I generally find CarPlay to be annoying
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by andrewla 4y ago
I currently have a Subaru, which almost gets it right. It does switch me over to radio, but if you set it to the Sirius "unit id" channel it is at least silent while you fix it, and really you press one button (the "media&quo
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by andrewla 4y ago
Generally speaking the horrifying quality of Ford's electronics have been enough to keep me away from even considering purchasing one. Absolutely nothing works right and certainly nothing works well. It may or may not be able to connec
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by andrewla 4y ago
Possibly they hope to bring it in as a secondary dependency for other libraries, so that it implicitly gets injected into other systems.
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by andrewla 4y ago
I have a directory under ~/config, ~/config/dotfiles, that just has files that are intended to be dot-prefixed and linked in the home directory. That avoids any accidental over-linking; I can just run a script that links ~&#x
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by andrewla 4y ago
I am increasingly exasperated by apps that do not follow the XDG specification for config at this point. Having a ton of dotfiles sitting in the root of the home directory is just a maintenance nightmare on every level. I've gone so fa
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by andrewla 4y ago
The thread claims that not to be the case [1]: > 2. Issue a notice of demand explaining that you are seeking payment for TCPA violation and give them 10 days to respond. Send mail with signature delivery. (You can't sue without havi
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by andrewla 4y ago
Some of the New Chronology is delightfully whacky. In particular I love the idea of historical events documented by independent sources result in appearing to be two or more events that cause the timeline to be expanded. One example is tha
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by andrewla 4y ago
To redirect back to my original point -- this is an empirical argument. Russian Roulette is not safe because nobody got shot in the first two rounds. The turkey is not safe because he was well treated through October. Containment failures o
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by andrewla 4y ago
> Where are you getting millions from? We have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes -- we know what this looks like. After Chernobyl we were told that it was a design failure compounded by human failure, etc.
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The claim for the millions to tens of millions number? I mean, we have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes, so we know what they can look like.
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by andrewla 4y ago
> despite Fukushima being pretty close to the worst-case scenario with modern technology I mean, we all know what the worst-case scenarios actually look like because we have deliberately triggered containment failures for military purpos
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by andrewla 4y ago
You're speaking empirically, not in terms of risk exposure. We're basically one major containment failure that is less lucky than Fukushima to completely invert those numbers.
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by andrewla 4y ago
> incredibly safe in comparison I assume you mean this empirically, not based on the actual risk profile. The cost, in lives, of a major nuclear containment failure is easily in the millions to tens of millions. The cost, in lives, of a
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by andrewla 4y ago
I would say this is firmly in "Modest Proposal" territory, in the sense that the solution proposed would certainly contribute to solving the problem, but has enough negative effects that it doesn't make sense. As a parallel e
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by andrewla 4y ago
I've switched to Neovim, but I am considering the switch back now that core vim has incorporated the async process stuff and the terminal support. The new Vim language for me is a major draw -- I have always found Lua to be a poor choi
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by andrewla 4y ago
> 300W vs 65W A watt to watt comparison is fine. Why hours? I can tell you right now that the big one uses ~4.5x the power. Is it really that much easier to convert the time you're using the device to seconds? If you're going t
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by andrewla 4y ago
This is true, but it is exactly what I am railing against. It's just tradition -- energy in houses is kWh, so let's use that for other things too. Instead, let's just use Joules everywhere. Easy peasy. Why are my batteries ra

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