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by danaliv 6y ago
Never underestimate our fascination with blowing shit up, nor our penchant for making sure the "wrong" people don't get access to things.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Totally. Software estimates are like looking at a dungeon map where you can see the beginning and the end, but the rest of the page is blank until you've actually entered that part of the map.
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by danaliv 6y ago
> I'm still not sure what the distinction between lying and bullshitting is. Might I recommend On Bullshit, a delightful essay/short book on this and other bullshit-related questions. It’s been a while since I read it but I
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by danaliv 6y ago
99% of folks here don’t deal with life and death matters. When you do, you get a lot of practice at canceling, which helps. There’s also the fact that you can say, “if you do this, people will die,” which is a pretty bright line when you’ve
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by danaliv 6y ago
I’ll note that the researchers found this category to have “less insight into their own thoughts, feelings and behaviours,” which is absolutely not the description of a person who is capable of receiving feedback.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I just had to tangle with ffmpeg to stream some video from a spacecraft. I’m genuinely undecided as to which end of that problem was the more complicated one.
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by danaliv 6y ago
And some people like to have some peace in their own homes. No one is picking on people for having a different life. I don’t care if people want to have lawns. I care if they run a goddamn engine right outside my home every single day of th
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by danaliv 6y ago
Use ints. No multiplication necessary. Everything is done in cents. You add/remove the decimal point when doing string conversions.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I don't have the reference handy but I recall reading years ago that certain classic optical illusions simply don't work on people who weren't raised in societies with rectangular housing.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I think you're right. I've seen Fata Morgana and it looks nothing like this. With atmospheric ducting you get (even more) surreal images, with all kinds of distortion and mirroring. If you've ever driven through salt flats an
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by danaliv 6y ago
Oh man, this is the best news I've heard all week. I loved Secret City. Thanks for this.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Good riddance. When I lived in Oakland the noise from these things was constant in my neighborhood. They were running every single day. It was intolerable.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Yes, we're aware. The criticism is that you didn't engage with the substance of the actual idea, and instead spawned a ten-page thread about something the article doesn't say.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Depending on where you live and/or work, you may have access to disability insurance. That can allow you to take enough time away from work to get some breathing room and get stabilized (I hate that word but can't think of an alte
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by danaliv 6y ago
Indeed, that's precisely what makes these techniques so powerful. For many people, even self-knowledge isn't a reliable defense.
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by danaliv 6y ago
There's that, but with sprintf/vsprintf specifically, there's no way to keep it from storing characters past the end of your buffer. For example: char buf[2]; sprintf(buf, "%d", n); This will happily wr
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by danaliv 6y ago
> A more useful perspective would be from a human brain simulation angle. >The Chinese room argument certainly only exists to muddy the waters. Does not compute. :) The Chinese room argument, as I understand it, is not about wheth
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by danaliv 6y ago
Welcome to philosophy!
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by danaliv 6y ago
And for maximum weirdness: consciousness contains itself!
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by danaliv 6y ago
Have they muddied the waters, or have they shown that the problem is far more difficult than you want it to be?
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by danaliv 6y ago
Smart people have a tendency to think that their intelligence is enough to figure out anything. Turns out it's basically impossible to have an original thought in most fields without first getting caught up. Actually, now that I think
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by danaliv 6y ago
Someone on Instagram told Tom Morello to stop talking politics and stick to music. Tom fucking Morello.
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is a different site with more functionality.
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by danaliv 6y ago
A 60 mph wind on Mars has an aerodynamic drag force equivalent to a 5 mph breeze on Earth.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I am 100% sure that none of the code I’ve written in the past 20 years interpolates user input into SQL. There is absolutely no excuse for this, and there hasn’t been for a very long time. Prepared statements have been a thing for longer th
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is just a quick Google, not actual research, but there is at least one employment law firm online claiming that "only California courts are able to rule on non-compete issues within the state, and the courts can only do so using C
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by danaliv 6y ago
Not all of us write web apps. :)
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by danaliv 6y ago
Hail Eris!
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by danaliv 6y ago
To the people it protects it’s extremely important.
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by danaliv 6y ago
As someone protected by that legislation who also works in aerospace operations: good.

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