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by ashleyn 9y ago
I once worked on a component so badly designed that I described the process of testing and fixing it as "software medicine" instead of "software engineering". The slightest change impacted a seemingly infinite amounts of
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by ashleyn 9y ago
To really hammer this point home, read the story of Sarah Rector, a black girl who had come across such extreme oil wealth that the town legally declared her white.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I believe it's not quite an "intentional bricking" in the sense that Logitech sends out a suicidal ROM update. What's going on is that the product depended on a cloud service for its core functionality, and now that serv
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Home automation suffers from the same problem. I'm hard-pressed to find a home automation hub that doesn't require "the cloud." You mean to tell me turning on the lights 5 feet away requires I go through some North Car
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The immediate benefit I can envision is being on the highway more than the city. I regularly do a three hour drive between two states and automating the highway portion alone would be a godsend. I've actually considered getting a Volvo
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The point of constitutional liberty is that culture can change as much as you want but you'll always be free to retreat to your enclave where it never will. A great deal of anger seems to be conservatives wanting to engineer the outcom
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Paleoconservatism/populism isn't concerned about the economic benefits of immigration; it's concerned about "protecting" culture so that immigrants don't have the opportunity to reshape it in any capacity. A si
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I've done this as well. It reminds me of when I upgraded PalmOS devices in Ye Olde Days and home would appear instantly when you tapped it.
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I've never been a believer in "racial privilege", however I think having the economic rug torn out from under white America has been instrumental in the meteoric rise of white advocacy and identity groups in the past few year
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by ashleyn 9y ago
The main difference I see between 80s tech and today, besides the obvious increase in specifications, is the emphasis on an extremely simplified user experience. Before Microsoft and later Apple started emphasising ease of use in the mid-ni
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by ashleyn 9y ago
>The Internet companies lost the high ground in regard to censorship and 3rd party speech when they tried to shutdown Daily Stormer. Companies still have the right to refuse service to anyone. They're not "banning" them or
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by ashleyn 9y ago
>Several of these horrible people went on to work for Facebook later. Seems like they're a better fit anyway for the company of "move fast and break things".
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But can you test it for under $1,000 in a way that meets legal highway safety standards? Seems like the classic "Why is it $500 a pill?" problem. These things take enormous upfront development cost that needs to be baked into th
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by ashleyn 9y ago
Here's the problem I always had with cyronics. You're trusting the future to revive you using future technology. But can you trust it will be for your benefit? Can you trust the technology will be used ethically? Suppose a theocra
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I remember BASIC was the subject of regular derision from experts. Nothing helped me get interested in programming with such a gentle learning curve as BASIC. Where it lacked in every other area, it excelled in making programming accessible
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by ashleyn 9y ago
I love low-level, assembly-level programming. The big problem is, we're largely past the era of it. All but the most simplest embedded systems are complex enough to require some pre-developed library or abstraction layer to stand bet