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by coldcode 4y ago
Physics is not my thing, but I love that the more is discovered, the more is discovered that there is more to discover.
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by coldcode 4y ago
While its not averages, it is nonetheless interesting view of misleading statistical analysis: https://www.trevorbragdon.com/when-data-gives-the-wrong-solu... about WW2 airplane design.
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by coldcode 4y ago
While I have no interest in weed, I never understood why people are against it, since cigarettes are also a drug and are far more damaging to heath and the economy, and in the US kills a couple hundred thousand folks a year, or alcohol, whi
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by coldcode 4y ago
For years I got those emails all the time. If I had printed them out they would have made great fire starters. I could not ever imagine working for FB even though they paid a lot at the time.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Congress won't act, the Executive isn't permitted to do much even with what they were given by Congress, and the People are powerless to do anything unless 100% of them vote, which never happens, and even then may be overruled in
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by coldcode 4y ago
When I start as a mobile lead at GiantNonTechCorpYouWouldKnow, I was looking at one of the two apps I would be leading part of, just to get familiar I looked at all network connections it made and found it called Facebook. I asked product t
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by coldcode 4y ago
Persuasion was better than Powerpoint in every way; but even when Adobe bought it from Aldus, it could not compete with "free" i.e. PP being part of Office, and did not last long in the 90's. Office also basically killed word
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by coldcode 4y ago
Minority Report as well.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Over my 4 decades writing software, security (and "bugs" over a longer timeframe since network connections were rare early on in what I worked on), most organizations I worked for either considered them unimportant compared to del
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by coldcode 4y ago
Reading things like this make me wonder why the company did not hire someone like this person to check their code + hardware + processes first. But sigh, doing the right thing that costs $ ahead of disaster is rare. Over time I've seen
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by coldcode 4y ago
As a public company, are they not required to plan layoffs in advance? i.e. does the WARN act not apply here?
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by coldcode 4y ago
I've always thought Lisp-ish would be great for building web apps, but I have so little experience in Lisp-ish I really have no idea if it works.
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by coldcode 4y ago
When I was working before my retirement I routinely had to work 60 hr weeks since I was lead (went to every meeting) and wrote code full time along with my team. Most of our projects started with a hard deadline (estimates were only used fo
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by coldcode 4y ago
The problem comes that even with extremely good deepfake detection, political operations can still use the deepfakes to fool the average voter into believing that is it real, irrespective of any successful analysis. You and I might not be f
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by coldcode 4y ago
I bet I could give a phrase to a collection of art students in some university and DALL-E, and the human art would likely be more creative than a single run of DALL-E. What distinguishes the humans is that you can tell them to make art of t
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by coldcode 4y ago
If you ran it 1000 times and picked the best, you might get all good ones. I would want to see all 1000. It's like stock picker ads (person who called the market says XXX) where you only show the lucky ones.
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by coldcode 4y ago
iOS app can only get your location data (or other data) if you give it permission. Current iOS OS's also give you the option for a wide area location which is basically useless for selling to anyone.
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by coldcode 4y ago
People assume software is just like engineering a bridge, but it isn't. Software changes all the time, due to market needs, due to attacks from the outside or inside, due to legal changes, due to executives who want to be promoted, due
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by coldcode 4y ago
Nothing any of us do today will exist in 500 years, but I suspect Beethoven's Ninth will continue to inspire.
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by coldcode 4y ago
It is expressly illegal in Florida.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Fentanyl test strips are illegal in Florida, the legislature refused to decriminalize them for some reason.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I was accepted into a Chem PhD program in the early 80's, but knew it would pay crap for years, so I figured I could work as a programmer for a couple years and save some money. 40 years later - I never went back to the PhD.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I've been fortunate in finding a remodeling contractor that hires people who know what they are doing and pays them minimum of $30/hr and is insured/licensed. So far most of them have done excellent work. Some are purely carp
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by coldcode 4y ago
I check everyone I follow (mostly artists) to see if they are posting art generally, and look at most of the people who follow me to see what they do before following them back. There are a few (legit) retweeting bots and I have ignored a b
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by coldcode 4y ago
In my final job (unless I unretire) I worked the last year at home. Most of the people I had to be in meetings with were on another coast, so most meetings were zoom/etc anyway. We did have some meetings locally but not too often. We w
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by coldcode 4y ago
Yes the data was not really there, I knew how enough to build the search part, but without sufficient raw data (i.e. not scraped or just via API without being able to search it directly) it would not have been possible. But that was a long
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by coldcode 4y ago
Sure there is always some on both sides; but the Russians were considered a superpower and Ukraine's military was considered much weaker on paper: the Russians are the ones moving backwards and losing all the time. Winners go forwards.
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by coldcode 4y ago
You can say the same thing about stocks, gold, bonds, commodities depending on what year you are in. Everything goes up and eventually down again. Oil futures even went below zero not that long ago, now the cash price is over $100 a barrel.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I tried to start a travel company once. It didn't even get started at all because it I begin to plan the first week of Sept, 2001. Sometimes bad timing is as bad as a bad economy. In retrospect what I was wanting to do was impossible a
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by coldcode 4y ago
When I was a lead before retiring last year, I went to all the meetings instead of my team, but always kept them in the loop via Slack as to what was important during the meeting. I also wrote as much code as they did so was always understa

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