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by cgrealy 7y ago
I'm reasonably sure that given access to the doorbells processor, you could, in fact, guide a spaceship to the moon. I mean, the killer advantage that the Apollo computer had in getting to the moon was the giant rocket atop which it sa
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Boredom :) But yeah, the war on drugs is, was and always will be a fundamentally stupid idea.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Just to give an alternate viewpoint: https://youtu.be/wlLpCh-lE54?t=71 (for the record, I also sometimes pick heavy things and put them back down, but it is an inherently silly activity :D )
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by cgrealy 7y ago
I genuinely had to double check my calendar to make sure it wasn’t April 1st. I love the fact that Tesla are moving away from the boring, middle of the road designs of their previous models. But this.... this is just hideous. It doesn’t loo
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by cgrealy 7y ago
> I normally end up getting my actual work done late at night after an early dinner, which my wife is not particularly happy about. Whatever else you do, don't do this. Work is simply not that important. If you constantly perform mi
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Ehhh... everyone is brilliant in the early stages of a project. Coming up with a fantastic green fields design isn't hard and represents a fraction of a percentage of the overall work. Give me a solid engineer who can deal with all the
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by cgrealy 7y ago
He's the author of The Old New Thing... he was heavily involved in the development of Windows and he's generally highly regarded in software development circles. He's been around for a long time.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
While I agree that we should be incentivising EVs in NZ, I will point out that NZ is also probably one of the least suitable countries for EVs. Most of NZ is very sparsely populated; your transport choices are basically fly or drive yoursel
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Yeah... he's Raymond goddamn Chen. He's not even aware of our existence. :)
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Definitely filed under "pointless but cool". Kudos!
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by cgrealy 7y ago
not everything in life is about money and coding skills. I loved my time at university. I played in bands, met my future wife, made lifelong friends and occasionally even studied.
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Microsoft shows off prototype VR controller with force-feedback for grasping(venturebeat.com)
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Obligatory Oatmeal reference to Tesla being better than Edison. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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by cgrealy 7y ago
As someone with only a very passing knowledge of fractals and quantum mechanics... my first thought was that I'd be surprised if there weren't fractal patterns in quantum materials. It would be insufficiently weird :)
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by cgrealy 7y ago
A “lie detector”? Seriously? If you’re going to put people through this kind of system, you should have some solid science to back it up and as far as I can see, this is just some bargain basement ML agent.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
I live in Christchurch, NZ. After a massive earthquake in 2011, I had high hopes that we might redesign the city for the next 100 years instead of the previous 50 (i.e. for people, not cars). Instead the city council built a few bike lanes
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by cgrealy 7y ago
100% agree that there are better systems, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
New Zealand uses Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting. IMO, it's the most representative voting system, precisely because it encourages smaller parties, and essentially forces coalitions. It's a bit complicated, but people are v
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Do you want to make an argument as to why IRV is worse than FPP? FPP is widely acknowledged to be the single worst way of holding an election.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Nonsense, the universe is only 6000 years old.... and it's a Libra.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Without giving too much away, it's not from this universe. You really should read it, it's one of the best books in the culture series and Banks was a phenomenal writer. It also contains the Affront, a species that are almost comi
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Bruce, Prior, Carlin, etc joked about how people in power tried to enforce the status quo. There's a difference between that and people deciding that (for example) Eddie Murphy making fun of LGBTQ people in "Raw" hasn't
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Comedy = tradegy + time. You can absolutely make jokes about even the worst things in history; it all depends on how you approach the subject.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Ahh, the old "you can't joke about anything anymore". The laziest excuse for crap comedy ever. Todd Philips- "You can't do edgy comedy anymore! SJW's ruined comedy!" Taika Waititi- "In my next comedy
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Interesting, but this doesn't need to be an app (or more importantly, it doesn't need to be only an app).
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by cgrealy 7y ago
The most generic and obvious set of questions ever. Every single interview I’ve participated in (on both sides) has included some or all of these questions. There isn’t really anything new or interesting here.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
It's the single biggest change the average individual can have. Climate change isn't going to be solved by lots of individual actions. The whole planet could go vegan overnight and we're still doomed. If we're going to h
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by cgrealy 7y ago
There is every reason to believe the real cost of climate change will be in the 10s, perhaps hundreds, of millions of lives. If you want to class that as “some hardship”, that’s your prerogative.
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Conveniently ignoring the existential threat humanity faces from climate change. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis... All the democracy and economic growth in the world won't matter a damn if
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by cgrealy 7y ago
Simple answer: yes. The single biggest positive change you can make towards climate change is not to have children. This outweighs any other change you can make (going vegan, not flying, etc) by 5-10 times [ https://www.theguardia

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