aristus

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by aristus 3y ago
I have no comment other than that the editor demo, when rendered on a phone, looks like a game of Space Invaders. It's glorious.
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by aristus 3y ago
Few in US pronounce my name as it was originally, and I was born there. The final joke is when I moved to a country where it is pronounced right, people get confused because I don't have a matronym (slightly shameful not to) and my p
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by aristus 3y ago
The goal with this kind of thing is not about actually finding spies. By flattening discourse you make it easier to spot pockets of true discontent. And as a side effect it pits the hoi polloi against each other instead of together against
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by aristus 3y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Still, though, how is this that different from a slide rule + log table? e is the limit of a convergent series too.
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by aristus 3y ago
This is basically how division on slide rules works. "If we want to calculate a/b we can also calculate it as a * (1/b); that is the division of two numbers is the equivalent of the first number multiplied by its reciprocal.&
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by aristus 3y ago
You're not wrong, but having two choices of supply does wonders for squeezing profit margins from both back to the customer. Duopolies are terrible but better than monopolies.
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by aristus 3y ago
They just painted over the background around the subjects, for easier compositing later on. These days it's like a long press on your iPhone, but back in the day clipping was a tedious task.
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by aristus 3y ago
The correct answer is "spam". Spam was a novel problem that hit the entire world almost at once, just as that entire world was becoming able to talk with itself easily. So an invented word was immediately adopted in all languages.
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by aristus 3y ago
Listen. I don't know you and you don't know me. But I know and you should know that no one is "goods", damaged or otherwise. You are not a broken toy. You are not and never have been a box of clever tricks arranged wro
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by aristus 3y ago
I am not neurodivergent, but I was raised by people who were. I sometimes wonder whether being able to embrace and understand that spectrum of thinking & behavior was the one skill that made my career.
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by aristus 3y ago
Also a heavy case of survivor bias, but my career history was also imperfect around the same time as OP when I applied to Facebook. No college degree, born in the wrong city and economic level, etc. I had a huge bit of luck working for a st
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by aristus 3y ago
Probably not. I tried to get my counterparts at Yahoo/MSFT/AWS to publish a joint map but it didn't go anywhere.
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by aristus 3y ago
In 2010 I built a system to measure DNS latency by piggybacking on user traffic with some sleazy wildcard DNS tricks. After the 2011 Japan earthquake, the data showed the effects of the cable damage and rerouting quite clearly. https:&#x2F
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by aristus 3y ago
GP said nothing about taxing, only "having a say". But standards can cost more. Lots of people grumbled about about paying extra for those damned gold-plated hippy mufflers, etc. A single big state can and will enforce a product r
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by aristus 3y ago
In reality, producing different product variants is infeasible and so bigger states drive standards. That's why cars used to be marketed as having "California emissions", and why textbook companies kowtow to Texas.
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by aristus 3y ago
Can confirm AT&T retention. In the late 90's they were already approaching trillions with-a-T metadatums. Federal LE, telecoms, and "the intelligence community" have always worked closely together.
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by aristus 3y ago
Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell. You don't encounter them as much today in the wild, possibly because of how they were caricatured on TV.
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by aristus 3y ago
It was a perennial problem in earlier times. Because of its essential nature, many empires had salt taxes, including the British in India up to at least the 1930s.
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by aristus 3y ago
Maybe off topic, but I'd love to know more about those "practical" reasons for having two green bits in the Bayer system. I guess to your point, they needed four readings and might as well double up on the band humans have mo
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by aristus 3y ago
I use the Taylor series approximation. Take your desired probability, say one-in-a-million prob = 0.999999 And calculate the bitspace. In this case, 12 base-62 digits space = 62 ** 12 Take the natural log of the probability,
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by aristus 3y ago
This was the remarkable thing about Facebook. It felt like, and encouraged people to act like, it was only you and Dunbar's number of your friends. A 10^9 machine with a 10^2 interface. That also explains the wounded anger from users w
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by aristus 3y ago
Only partially tongue in cheek: have you tried asking it for an optimal syntax?
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by aristus 3y ago
The "petrodollar". But more fundamentally the bit of Bretton Woods that survived was the deal that the United States would guarantee the security of global trade (that's the Navy's real mission) in exchange for a discoun
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by aristus 3y ago
Or their unions demonized, or their pensions threatened, or their training examined, or their political leanings questioned, etc etc.
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by aristus 3y ago
Cops don't have their budgets systematically cut. Quite the opposite.
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by aristus 3y ago
Usually because of lack of resources, perhaps. But that's not what's happening here with cops. It's deliberate.
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by aristus 3y ago
It's pretty clear that cops are staging a slowdown strike. They are one of the few industries where they get more money when their KPIs go south.
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by aristus 3y ago
Also, consider everyone either automatically or manually trying to make up for the lost capacity in eu.
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by aristus 3y ago
The acquirer / euthanasia specialist is called "Starboard" ie, the right-hand side of a ship. Snerk.
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by aristus 3y ago
I remember a 20-odd inches rainstorm in Lauderdale in the early 2000's. I accidentally drove a rental car into a "puddle" that swallowed the car up to the windows. Instantly cracked the engine block.

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