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by dbrueck 4y ago
Yeah, definitely potential for problems and downsides. And I don't know of any implementations that have gotten it right. And to some degree, I imagine all such systems (online or not) can be gamed, so it's also important for the
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At least one missing element is that of reputation . I don't think it should work exactly like it does in the real world, but the absence of it seems to always lead to major problems. The cost of being a jerk online is too low - it&#x
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> They just called trans woman a man. It was hate speech, pure and simple. This perfectly encapsulates the problem. So-called 'hate speech' is in the eye of the beholder and incredibly, just incredibly subjective.
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I like the idea of the Constitution as a living document, updated over time, but I'm also really glad it's so hard to amend. It's not perfect, but there are usually extremely good reasons for pretty much everything in there,
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I hope this doesn't come off wrong, but here are two things that helped me and might help you: (1) shift your thinking and (2) take the initiative more. For 30 days in a row, come up with and write down a million dollar idea per day. I
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by dbrueck 4y ago
One of the reasons I'm a big proponent of WFH (at least for tech careers) is precisely because WFO involves such a staggering amount of wasted time for everyone, but it's so baked into the business culture that few people seem to
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Thank you, I'll check it out!
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I'd love to see a sci-fi writer use this as a premise and explore the unintended consequences. Or maybe a story about this where there was a seemingly minor miscalculation somewhere or some overlooked factor that ended up being catastr
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> But the entire point of VR is the controllers, not the headset Not to be rude, but have you used modern VR systems much? The above sounds exactly the opposite of what it's all about.
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Completely agree.
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As I noted elsewhere, I'm not at all arguing in favor of marijuana being illegal (personally, I don't care about it, and agree that if we care about how substance usage affects others, marijuana is not the highest priority).
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It doesn't have to be an either-or. To be clear, I'm not personally advocating that marijuana be illegal, just answering the earlier comment that was arguing that use of marijuana affects nobody but the user, which can sometimes b
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by dbrueck 4y ago
> Why should it be illegal? For the same reasons any other substance is regulated, because it can affect other people, see e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/newsroom/feature/marijuana-and-dri... .
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Came here to comment on the same thing - that was a great episode. I also found very interesting the stat that, per unit of electricity produced, nuclear has been safer than basically every other form of power production.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Great point! Side note: you can get a lot of the power of Stackless Python without a special interpreter if you use greenlets ( https://greenlet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ).
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Hehe, you are woefully underestimating the size of the Big Blue Room.
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Hey, if that's a cause you believe in, how about you start a non-profit to do it? You could really help some people.
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That's a good insight, and I think being asked to think deeply about these things is also good, but I'm skeptical that this activity in this specific context really leads to any sort of honest introspection. To me at least, it fee
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by dbrueck 4y ago
My problem with so-called diversity efforts is that they wildly overemphasize a really superficial attribute: skin color. That is, at best, a tenuous proxy for actual diversity and goes against decades of work of the U.S. civil rights movem
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For me the bigger issue is the other way around: SMS is not email. Way too often I get a text from someone asking a question that doesn't need a reply right away, is asking for a detailed answer, and sometimes needs me to bring an addi
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Is it just me, or are phrases like "3x cheaper" hard for other people to grok too? For some reason they always require me to pause and try to sort it out. Like, is the price being reduced by 66% or 75% or something else? What woul
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by dbrueck 4y ago
That's accurate. Worse, as the complexity of the scenario you're trying to test goes up, not only does the cost of creating the test go up, the cost of maintaining it almost always goes up too.
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by dbrueck 4y ago
It's all about tradeoffs. I've done a few decades of non-TDD with a middle period of ~5 years of zealot-level commitment to TDD, and as a rule of thumb, the cost is usually not worth the benefit. Some hidden/unexpected side
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by dbrueck 4y ago
Really pleased that the article referenced the 'Florida man' meme right off the bat!
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I really like this because it cuts to the heart of the matter of somebody at that school deeply misunderstanding the limits of their authority, and having it thrown back at them could help them learn, or at least be an amusing way to deal w
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Many reasons, many are of course pretty subjective, but it's been called 'executable pseudocode' for good reason. Out of all the languages I've used, it gets in the way the least, and often by a pretty wide margin. I agr
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by dbrueck 4y ago
I've been using OnShape for the same sort of work. For now at least it's less user-hostile, but it's web based so they could still turn on you. I'm still hopeful that Blender will become a great parametric modeler. Check
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True, it's not "open" in the OSS sense, but the source is open in two incredibly important and useful ways: it's available and modifiable. Being able to step through the code or patch it as needed is invaluable.
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I've done it some and it shows promise but for me personally the tech is at the progressing-but-not-quite-there-yet stage. Regarding weight: the headsets do need to become lighter, but right now the larger issue is the imbalance of t
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In my mind, 'wustl.edu' will forever be one of best treasure trove FTP sites back in the late 90's. That is all.

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