ctdonath

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by ctdonath 7y ago
There is nothing differentiating this one from all the others I’ve lived thru. We’re at a natural cyclical high, and the century-hence dire predictions are objectively well within noise levels (1° and 1 foot). Capitalism is moving us to low
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by ctdonath 7y ago
That’s fine IF they can prove it won’t crash or that a crash is appropriate (a la forced exit). Too many developers use it as a happy path shortcut, not considering the compiler is warning of possible serious problems. Crashes & exits a
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Pure Swift now. It wasn't viable as v1, but now it's solid & clean. Seems like it was a good opportunity to take a well understood language (C/C++/Obj-C) and after 30 years rebuild it ground-up into what it should be
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Relax. I've seen a dozen such imminent crises announced over the last half century, and nothing has changed. There is nothing different about this one.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
we're dying here Who? Where? Why?
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by ctdonath 7y ago
IBM 5150 keyboard or papyrus!
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Maybe their goal is to eliminate mechanical keyboards, replaced with nothing more than textured glass. Have to train out an entire generation to get there.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I'm quite familiar with the instances you're using as examples, and know you have taken them wildly out of context. The "hoax meme", for example, was plainly a joke - but was wantonly & falsely construed as a genuine
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by ctdonath 7y ago
And there you exhibit the problem: taken out of context, and selectively quoted, you declare sociopolitical opposition "bad" and implicitly support censorship thereof while yourself demean them via racist insults. THIS IS THE PROB
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by ctdonath 7y ago
And yet Leftist calls to metaphorically/actually "kill whitey", depictions of Trump's head severed, advocacy/support of Antifa violence, vicious takedowns of anything resembling white or straight "pride" (
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Just casually considered... James Woods, famous actor and outspoken conservative, was repeatedly suspended on Twitter for posting reasonable comments. He finally quit Twitter in frustration. Scott Adams, major cartoonist and popular Trump-o
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by ctdonath 7y ago
We're seeing an awful lot of high profile conservatives, noted for politely expressing widespread views, being censored for stating something the dominant ideology objects to - something for which there is reasonable, if irritating, di
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by ctdonath 7y ago
“This exhibition shows how these images are part of a long tradition of capturing people’s images without their consent, in order to classify, segment, and often stereotype them in ways that evokes colonial projects of the past,” Paglen to
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I want to see an app: full frame high rate recording with all cameras, marking "photos" as time & subframe. From there, be able to later roll individual "photos" forward/back in time, and shift/rotate/
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by ctdonath 7y ago
"typed this from my phone on a plane" Irony.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
<img src="HelloFellowKids.gif">
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Company profits indicate what is important to a culture.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I've seen this pattern several times: ground-breaking new technology appears, public freaks out over the privacy implications, killer app appears, convenience overwhelms pragmatic, nobody cares about privacy implications. C'mon, y
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Killer app: ambient information, especially face recognition. Think "thought bubble" information appearing over anything you might want to know about. I'm lousy with names, would be nice to see names over everyone I should k
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Greta is a child being used for propaganda. This is wrong.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
When you wake up exhausted (or not) you can see what/when contributed to that. I used such for a couple years. Best part was specifying what time range I wanted to wake up, and it would watch for the best actual time to wake me. Much
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by ctdonath 7y ago
One presentation today made a big deal about "able to record 2 video streams at once (among the 4 cameras)". Capture rate for multiple streams is one problem. Storage space is another, solved largely by the seamless iCloud integra
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by ctdonath 7y ago
A recursive definition, ignoring the fact that "organic" includes toxic substances.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
That consumers think it means something different than what the industry knows it means.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
"Presumed" is the problem. Organic: you keep using that word; the government does not think it means what you think it means.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Back when the "Y2K Bug" was emerging as a serious threat, I described to my ex-engineer father the looming issue in great detail. He listened carefully, then calmly replied "if that happens, I'll throw another log on the
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by ctdonath 7y ago
What's the methane etc produced by rotting grass equivalent to bovine intake? Plans die; everyone seems to forget this.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Natural grass is the feed.
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by ctdonath 7y ago
I just spent 3 weeks driving the American Midwest. There is vast grasslands uninhabited by anything but cows, and plenty of space for a great many more thereof. The environmental impact is negligible, as they turn a small fraction of human-
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by ctdonath 7y ago
Great point. If FedEx/UPS were to simply view inventory as packages awaiting an updated shipping address, and outsource a catalog service, they could easily compete.

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