bykovich2

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by bykovich2 9y ago
Do you feel passionate about what you do? Do you /like/ what you do? (Don't confuse those.) I constantly struggle with distraction at work -- and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the problem is, at least in signi
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by bykovich2 9y ago
The notion that a given multinational billion-dollar syndicate is not going to engage in the behavior characteristic of multinational billion-dollar syndicates because it's run by nerds instead of suits seems, at the very least, suspec
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by bykovich2 9y ago
"Practical" is the key word here, I believe.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Type systems /don't/ underly the technology we use every day. The vicissitudes of real computer architectures do -- and those ain't type systems.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
What's your point?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Thought this was going to be about growing physical fibers -- making cellulose threads in a reactor or something.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Ah yes, Vox and Quillette, the child development journals of record.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
it's the original poster displaying some self-awareness about his rationalization of pointless contempt and constant misery as "healthy cynicism"
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Open source software is fantastic -- but is that how we're making our livings? From what I can tell, OSS is either a) a labor of love, in addition to a separate full-time job, b) supported by a nonprofit that pays you a salary out of g
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Perhaps that's just the price you pay for access to ebooks at all -- particularly via an incredibly convenient system like Kindle? (Also, loaning -- the most pressing concern here -- is supported.) Authors need to get paid. I completel
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Why are you guys so concerned about authors trying to control the profitless distribution of their product? I'm being serious -- what's the issue?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Shocker, eh?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Aaron Greenspan has a great article about toxic waste in Silicon Valley -- "In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree," named after a persistent smell of raw cookie dough suspended around the Wells Fargo on California Avenue. The cookie
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Number of states in a superposition and number of particles in the universe aren't really related measurements at all (except in the most trivial way) -- at least so far as I can see.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
I didn't even process that the poster literally teaches ESL -- that's mind-boggling.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
The support tech seems like she was being genuinely caring, even if she shoved her foot in her mouth a bit. Thanks to this poster, she'll lose her job. Good work, lady!
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Eh.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Yeah, I think it's inherently more striking to think about mass "becoming" energy, or the "energy content" of mass, than about the converse. Imagining energy "condensing" into mass is wild, but we spend a
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Yeah, dude, it's bizarre that a man could love a woman who doesn't share his extremely niche interests.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
What do you mean? I use iMessage probably hundreds of times a day (to my chagrin, but I digress). The Music Store has been overtaken by streaming services, but it made a titanic impact on the market -- and as much hate as Apple Music gets,
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by bykovich2 9y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Toxicity , the gold ion is toxic, but there are no chemical processes known to occur in the human body that can solubilize metallic gold.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
You don't think Google's out for blood? Didn't they announce a Waymo partnership with Lyft a couple of weeks ago?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
If I recall correctly, gold is extremely unreactive as far as metals go -- I'd imagine that it may just be more-or-less biochemically neutral. Edit: I may be dead wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organogold_che
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by bykovich2 9y ago
You ran it more than once? That's battle-hardened, in my book.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
she's gonna figure out how to use her toes
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by bykovich2 9y ago
I'd draw a distinction between matrilineality and matriarchy, I think.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Out of curiosity, did you find that the draw of chess changed at all after you left your program?
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Federal agencies almost certainly have zero-days against Android, against the Linux kernel, what have you. What's the argument that Windows is inherently more susceptible to attack? I've heard that the kernel is more sophisticated
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by bykovich2 9y ago
Good point -- I suppose that comes down to the real numbers. However, that probably only makes a difference for certain kinds of attack: it's probably not worth botnetting Macs.
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by bykovich2 9y ago
These sound like bad synths.

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