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by ballenf 4y ago
And who wants every device to be pinging out to random surveillance-as-a-service providers your location history, IP, etc.?
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by ballenf 4y ago
They're counting on their target market to feel superior to others by knowing (or pretending to know) and thus being more likely purchase. These statements also give purchasers psychological cover for spending an exorbitant amount. Thi
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by ballenf 4y ago
Personally, I think most people know their job is largely bullshit and they kind of like it that way. Or are just fearful of what the alternative would mean.
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by ballenf 4y ago
The parent isn't speaking about paying someone else for their manual labor. They're speaking about administrative overhead required to operate a business. Think the accountant that your clothes washer has to hire just to stay out
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by ballenf 4y ago
But the value created is artificial and the result of rent-seeking protectionism or industry-lobbied barriers to entry.
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by ballenf 4y ago
I know a lots been said about WP's "reveal codes", but I just realized it was the last time using a word processor where I felt like I was actually in charge and not just cajoling the thing to make things look how I wanted. I
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by ballenf 4y ago
All the problems from the hyper loop involve the energy of a vacuum. Why not accelerate the air in the tube in an actual loop? You reduce air pressure in front and increase it behind the car? Train cards could have baffles to allow for stop
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by ballenf 4y ago
Another interesting illustration of innovation displacing a successful and widespread infrastructure. It wasn't better pipes or a better gas in the pipes, it was technology from a different source that displaced these compressed air cl
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by ballenf 4y ago
I can really identify with the dissonance you identify. Until you've had your bike stolen (or known people who have), you just can't imagine it happening with clarity. Therefore I don't really think it's cognitive disson
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by ballenf 4y ago
You haven't had root admin on Windows since Windows 7. The telemetry makes this clear. Reboots and updates even more so. The UI lag and stealing of focus ("oh, you're typing a document... too bad, I want to launch a new Explo
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by ballenf 4y ago
But if there are only 100 ships following these regs with 1000s of ships in our waters not subject to them, what's the point?
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by ballenf 4y ago
If the elites understood the masses, that would imply that the elites believe the masses to be capable of rational thought. Otherwise there is no basis for comprehension. Elite by definition is believing that the opinions of the masses are
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by ballenf 4y ago
I see that take on it. Maybe the lesson is that for employees who happen to believe that Apple's river had run dry, the message would be hard to interpret as personal to the author. Or that the river running dry personally is potential
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by ballenf 4y ago
At work, the new MacBooks with HDMI are trickling in and I've never seen so much excitement around a laptop. People (mostly Product people) just giddy they don't need a dongle to connect to screens. I didn't realize how much
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by ballenf 4y ago
I just don't buy that the river metaphor wasn't about Apple. It just doesn't make sense unless he was retiring or leaving design entirely. Otherwise the lack of water is clearly related to Apple. If it really was solely about
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by ballenf 4y ago
It even worked cross-platform with Messages (iMessages?) on Max OSX.
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by ballenf 4y ago
It's either that or it's how a billion dollar company destroys its acquisition and has to write it down. To me, this strategy was the right one 5+ years ago and Microsoft is behind the trends. I see this backfiring if they push it
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by ballenf 4y ago
I loved the whimsy. Felt a little like the exact opposite of a black mirror episode. Or maybe a world where
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by ballenf 4y ago
I don't know what click house is, but that personal site is really awesome.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Would this enable calligraphy style gradation of color within a stroke? Would love to see a font that has very subtle black level shifts.
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by ballenf 4y ago
They won’t even give you a “no complications” price. Even if they do 10 of the same procedure a week.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Would be interesting just to add the duck rule to the existing trained model and see how long it takes to adjust.
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by ballenf 4y ago
My first thought was that it was just an admin dashboard that was poorly attempted to be hidden by obscurity. It probably was thrown together during migration to work from home.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Or to put it another way -- if hot water goes down the drain (shower, clothes or dish washing, etc.), then that's another place the waste energy is going.
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by ballenf 5y ago
As in not feasible or ridiculous as a matter of principle? Would it be ridiculous for any other country or is the UK specially situated?
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by ballenf 5y ago
The irony is that it was much less a cesspool back when it had virtually no limits on speech. Reducing speech limits won't reverse the clock, but it does make me think that speech limits and cesspool-ness are largely independent of eac
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by ballenf 5y ago
You report that "Amazon 'claims to absorb costs' but gave no specifics when asked". Or something to the effect. Don't print a company claim without doing some digging to back up or refute it. Or if you do make it cl
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by ballenf 5y ago
Shouldn't we train a slime mold to play the game instead of using mechanical devices?
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by ballenf 5y ago
A determined senior engineer could destroy a company in a day. At large companies they could cost the company millions. While we like to pretend there are technical controls to prevent this, actually effective measures would come at a high
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by ballenf 5y ago
I've worked and interviewed at dozens of companies and literally never experienced a company that had more than 2 interviews plus a discussion with a hiring manager or HR. I make half-ish of a FAANG salary, but it's enough to comf

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