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by csours 2y ago
or Conmigo - with me
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by csours 2y ago
Please take care with my words. I never said stupid.
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by csours 2y ago
It feels like we're in a cloud of mud here. > Under what conditions, exactly, would you accept that masks don't work or are so unwieldy and ineffective as to be impractical? I accept that as more of the following items are true
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by csours 2y ago
An individual can wear a proper mask in the proper manner and be VERY protected from infectious agents. Effects at a population level, with many uneducated and unmotivated individuals wearing a random assortment of unfitted headgear is MUCH
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by csours 2y ago
AI ate the Onion
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by csours 2y ago
I wonder anyone has a suggestion for a book on the NACA -> NASA change era
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by csours 2y ago
I worked in an automotive plant opened in 1954. (I worked there from 200x to 201x). I was specifically told that the support columns were set a certain distance apart from each other in case it needed to be re-tooled for wing production, an
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by csours 2y ago
I think he (and others) have a strong belief that is how the judicial system should work -- that appeals courts do not re-examine evidence. The executive system can grant clemency, etc.
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by csours 2y ago
How long is a coastline? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dcDuVyzb8Y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox Problems are fractal-like. Each section of a problem needs attention and management.
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by csours 2y ago
"I am not a fish" - Seth Godin As the author of the post says in a reply to a comment: > ' This is a common outcome for programs like this: "It doesn't work, but the adults like it!" '
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by csours 2y ago
There is a building being torn down in Austin that reminds me of shipbreaking every time I drive past it. Specifically it reminds me of the game Hardspace: Shipbreakers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKX31xawWQk https:&#
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by csours 2y ago
Did you hear about that restaurant they opened on the Earth? The food is mid, but GREAT atmosphere.
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by csours 2y ago
Disclosure: I work for GM, this is solely my own opinion --- This article doesn't mention it, but the other problem Hertz has is that Tesla has lowered the price of their vehicles. This is great news for new buyers, not so much for peo
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by csours 2y ago
I mean, people can also get attached to a feature release. "I want to work with the team to get this thing done"
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by csours 2y ago
> There are so many bugs and glitches in the human psyche to explain what's happening and why it takes so much patience, and so much effort, to ever get anyone to take threats seriously or to change their behavior, for any reason.
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by csours 2y ago
Hard drives were the original case study for Disruptive Innovation, iirc. https://claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/ This reminds me of a prediction Christensen made - that small, short range EVs might disrupt the au
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by csours 2y ago
> People exist that can predict the market, they are just very rare. It's not hard to predict the market. It's hard to beat the market. I can very easily predict that Tesla will continue to lose share price (as one example). I
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by csours 2y ago
Yes, but it's not my context.
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by csours 2y ago
probably should read "trained swimmer with fins" It can take some time to get used to fins and the motions needed. Many more people have ridden a bike
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by csours 2y ago
"The federal government" does not do these things in a vacuum - they are influenced by voters. Re-aligning incentives can be a pretty intense activity (it is also a euphemism used by intelligence agencies). From a very high level
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by csours 2y ago
Disclosure: I work for an automaker, not on this kind of thing. === When I was growing up, one particular political party continuously made hay from the idea of "big government" overreach, and how regulations should be removed and
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by csours 2y ago
Can I try it and see what will happen in a non-destructive way? How long does it take to try it? How apparent will the change be? How apparent are the configuration points? I'm working on a legacy app that takes config from a spaghetti
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by csours 2y ago
More personal, smaller scale, but many more individual conflicts per capita
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by csours 2y ago
I think it's interesting that most Americans do not want to subsidize another person's use of public transit, but they are content to help pay for someone else's road construction and maintenance, to the point that many detes
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by csours 2y ago
Sometimes I wish I had gone into materials science like one of my HS teachers suggested. This is pretty dang cool
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by csours 2y ago
If someone experienced in a field of research tells you something is possible, they're very probably right. If they tell you it's not possible, it's 50/50. Adapted from: Clarke's first law: When a distinguished but
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by csours 2y ago
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2024/0... GM cuts ties with 2 data firms amid heated lawsuit over driver data Published: 1:47 p.m. ET March 22, 2024 Updated: 5:18 p.m. ET March
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by csours 2y ago
Read shell scripts. Install shellcheck. Try things try things try things try things.
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by csours 2y ago
Solid and liquids go in - carbon dioxide gas comes out. As an analogue - When water evaporates, it expands 1600 times larger in volume to become steam. That's a LOT of breathing.
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by csours 2y ago
I can't give my boss any work they don't want to do. If I find a problem in another team's domain, I can try to interest them in it, and failing that, I can try to interest my boss in it, but if no one gets interested enough

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