danaliv

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   by danaliv 6y ago

   The Brits absolutely love their post-nominals.
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   Not sure about the origin, but before Mac fat binaries (which were formally called “universal binaries”), NeXTstep had quad-fat binaries with m68k, i386, SPARC, and PA-RISC. Edit: Just realized this all might have been happening at the same
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   You're arguing against the clinical consensus on addiction, which is backed by decades of evidence. You're going to have to do much, much, much better than just saying, "well, I think that's wrong." You're no m
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   I understand that getting rejected is frustrating. What I don't understand is the apparently pervasive attitude that asking candidates to put in some effort is unacceptable. It reeks of entitlement. I was asked to make a presentation f
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   He said he isn't--but that's exactly what a cat would say.
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   > It is morally unacceptable that on 2021 there are new taboo words being introduced. This particular conversation started with a very old one; regardless, I’m not sure I follow. This claim is in no way self-evident. > as somebody
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   I’m guessing you’re not the subject of any slurs. When it comes to slurs, use-mention isn’t nearly as much of a distinction as you think. The mere mention of a slur is enough to bring the painful memories of its use roaring back, whether yo
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   It’s a shame we didn’t go with “long megabyte,” etc. instead of the god-awful binary unit prefixes.
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   by danaliv 6y ago

   I went from being a software engineer to a flight instructor (83% pay cut - gulp ), and that eventually landed me a gig as a spacecraft operator. Here’s to risky career moves!
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I would very much like to know the other seven sides to this story.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I’m not “bub” to you, or to anyone else. I’m also not an employer, but if I were, I would absolutely not hire anyone with your attitude.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    Good point. :)
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I'll go ahead and admit that I'm a dummy: I find anything related to math on Wikipedia to be an incomprehensible nightmare. There's a consistent failure, in my view, to consider the audience. It's like people are writing
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    For some n=1 anecdata, I very (and I do mean very) occasionally have to bail out of Firefox and use Chrome, most recently on Logitech's ecommerce site. I confess though that I'm never quite sure whether it's a browser issue o
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    ...which, funnily enough, don't tell you where you are. :)
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    For point 1, is the depth of the ocean significant compared to the distances traversed? My back-of-the-envelope math suggests it’s less than half a percent for a cable from New York to England. (6 miles down + 6 miles up, divided by rough g
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    Andy Grove: Rich, famous, smart and wrong (2007)(blogs.sciencemag.org)

    1 points by danaliv 6y ago|1 comments
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    And who could forget Cairo ShootOut? https://macintoshgarden.org/games/cairo-shootout (God rest your soul, Mr. Blehm.)
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    That's a legal disclaimer designed to head off a specific commercial legal liability. If you go looking to use law as a foundation for right and wrong, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I have a copy of Sparrow I've been dragging from computer to computer for I don't know how many years now. [sheds single tear]
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I understand where this thinking comes from but I still think it's kind of a simplistic attitude. People depend on the technology they use. When you convince someone to rely on something you've produced (and, crucially, continue w
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    Any discussion of professional wrestling requires a mention of the famous Barthes essay, from his book Mythologies (1957): http://web.mit.edu/21l.432/www/readings/Barthes_WorldOfWrest...
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I read “physical changes” as structural changes in neurons and neural connections themselves, as opposed to the (at least popular) thinking that mental illness is down to imbalances in neurotransmitters. There’s at least some research aroun
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I read my daily updates on technology, i.e., HackerNews... Totally different meaning if you replace i.e. with e.g.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I empathize 100% with your frustration. I went through the wringer to get my first medical and have watched a lot of students go through this. It sucks, and there’s no good reason for it to.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    Most common medical history items fall under something called CACI: Conditions AMEs Can Issue. (Yes, that's an acronym in an acronym. Welcome to the FAA. AME is the doctor you see for your flight physical, which you probably already kn
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    Oh, no need--all the germs there came from your fingers, which you're already touching your face with.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    Indeed. And things don’t go to court if they’re obvious. The whole point of going to court is to resolve conflicts that don’t have obvious answers. (Or where the more powerful party is being stubbornly wrong, but that’s a separate issue.)
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    We’re in English class, not math class. Forget statistics. There is a sense of the word “average” that means “not out of the ordinary; common.” That’s the sense meant here.
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    by danaliv 6y ago

    I don’t know if I’m reading this correctly, but it comes across to me at least as defensive, and is probably not going to encourage people who are already feeling vulnerable to come forward with specific evidence. I’m also not sure you’ve f