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by caconym_ 5y ago
> "This problem is really getting out of control," Siemak Hesar, CEO and co-founder of commercial autonomous space traffic management system Kayhan Space, told Space. Well, there are certainly no obvious conflicts of interest b
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Imperative programming is intuitively literal in a way that formal functional programming in something like Haskell isn't, because you have to understand some nontrivial abstract mathematical formalism to build nontrivial programs. I t
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by caconym_ 5y ago
a) They refer to left and right, not front and back (which I believe would be "forward" and "aft"). b) With the possible exception of "forward", if you hear one of these words you always know it's specifyi
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The data from the Equifax breach, as bad as that breach was (and as criminally derelict in its duties our government was in extracting meaningful accountability from them) does not seem to have made it onto the black market. If they're
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> If you want what's on your device to stay on your device, I think you have to live in a place that doesn't exist - namely, a world without governments or the internet. This isn't true quite yet. It's pretty easy for
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> what you’re asking for is not possible without submitting the content in question to Apple This unfortunately appears to be true, and part of me is impressed by [the idea of] the solution they've come up with. But, like I said in
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the "getting ahead of it" thing, and I do see the benefits of this strategy wrt. keeping data private in the face of escalating govt overreach, but I'm simply not comfortable with the su
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by caconym_ 5y ago
This is breaking my "rule" because the detection is being moved device-side as part of a complicated scheme I don't believe it's realistically possible for an outsider to have a complete and persistently correct understa
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours. Well said. It's very easy to under
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The state of Russia's space program on the ground is not good. It's kind of shocking that they've managed to maintain the reliability of their Soyuz and ISS-related operations to date, more or less, but it was always just a m
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by caconym_ 5y ago
For whatever reason, I've observed public opinion of Musk to be highly polarized. Some (very strange) people literally worship him, and others seem almost personally affronted by his existence and bend over backwards to ignore and&#x2F
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by caconym_ 5y ago
If you don't want to take responsibility for your previous statement that Musk is incompetent at engineering, we don't really have anything to talk about. I will not deny that he is good at raising money, nor that Tesla might be o
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> No. You're the one saying that. I disagree. Your first claim was that Musk is a bad engineer whose poor technical leadership verges on self-sabotage. I asked why, then, are his companies so successful? To which you responded that
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by caconym_ 5y ago
So you're essentially saying that if you look at any high-profile success of Tesla or SpaceX, you'll see a result that could have been accomplished by others working in the field for substantially less money? This seems really que
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Totally serious question: if Musk is so bad at engineering, to the extent that he's supposedly (?) not just making bad calls himself but also sabotaging the ability of those under him to make good calls, how has he ended up in charge
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> I'm asking for the calculations used to come to that 2.5x number. If you want to understand the data and methodology behind that particular number, you should go read the paper. That's how this works. I've given you more
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> I thought you were disengaging? Hmm. What do you think I meant by that? On that subject, though: this is why getting into it with people like you is a waste of time. You say where are the data, where are the data, and then when you a
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I say this to make a point, not to be rude: I am bored by your enumeration of ways to play games that offer "better value" than the Playdate. You are describing platforms that are already open to me, and games that I have alread
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Again, you're using appeal to emotion, which is not a solid argument. Nah. Appealing to emotion would be like e.g. if I told you you should visit somebody who's lost a loved one to a collision with a pickup truck and tell the
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by caconym_ 5y ago
The internet will tell you that eating at a Michelin star restaurant is a waste of money because you could just go to McDonald's. Personally, I think both have their place.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Then why bring it up? You brought it up, buddy. I'm talking about what you said. Your reply to my quoted text was not germane to said text and its context. I'm going to disengage from this discussion now, as there is not
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> It's so janky. People who've had a chance to use one generally disagree. > Looks painful to hold, People who've had a chance to use one generally disagree. > the games look like crappy flash games in monochrome The
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> If it's not working, they why continue? To the extent that it's already being implemented, who says it isn't working? > At levels where it does work, you will just disadvantage the less wealthy as the people who can a
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> Most states do this already with the registration. Of course there's the second order taxation on the increased fuel usage. Do more of it, then. :) > This should be done for all vehicles since the tests are a joke. Agreed, but
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I started this subthread, and I'll be the first to admit that if I needed a pickup or other large vehicle I'd get one. But there is a difference between owning a dangerous tool (and using it responsibly) because it's practi
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it's a visibility thing, or vehicle geometry, or traits common to the typical minivan driver, or what. I would expect to find that they are not as dangerous to occupants of other vehicles as trucks and larger,
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by caconym_ 5y ago
> One should note that crash safety ratings found on cars generally compare collisions with vehicles of the same size and weight. So it can be misleading when you consider the larger vehicles. How does this relate to my comment? Or is it
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I don't necessarily blame the people buying them (though coal rollers and their ilk should definitely be loaded onto a barge and pushed out into the Pacific). The problem is that without sensible regulation, the market has chased these
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by caconym_ 5y ago
Minivans are exactly what we need to go back to. Problem is, in an arms race like this they may have mass on their side but they don't put passengers high up enough to be safe from a truck, especially a modified one.
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by caconym_ 5y ago
I am actually a UK citizen, and you can bet I've been thinking about this possibility a lot in the last few years. (Though maybe the UK doesn't really count as "western Europe" anymore?)

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