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by derstander 3y ago
> Sorry but I can't buy into using history to compare if an empire is collapsing or not The point isn’t that history is the perfect tool for predicting collapse — it’s not. The point is it’s seemingly the best tool we have at this t
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by derstander 3y ago
I wonder if smoking serves as a proxy for social interaction. I remember seeing someone else comment on another story about not liking smoking but liking smoking culture. And along those lines, maybe the following quote from the linked open
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by derstander 3y ago
> people are dying, so maybe that policy should change I have a harder time drawing a straight line between the universal service obligation and postal workers dying than you seem to. I think there are tons of other issues about the USPS
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by derstander 3y ago
> by charging much more for postage in these areas This would seem to fundamentally be at odds with interpretations of the USPS’s universal service obligation (USO). Though it seems there’s some ambiguity about exactly what the USO requi
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by derstander 3y ago
> The basic issue is that life longevity goes down with the vaccine, by many years. Do you have a source for this handy? I couldn’t find anything with a cursory search. I have a dog that’s getting on in years and would like to keep them
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by derstander 3y ago
> I'd like to point out that this depends heavily on your institution. My CS program had a class literally called "Formal methods", and every student was required to learn formal proofs before their first programming-heavy
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by derstander 3y ago
> Much of theoretical computer science is math, like much of modern theoretical physics is also math. Math is not science - regardless of whether it’s masquerading as computer science or certain branches of theoretical physics. This make
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by derstander 3y ago
> Also, wasps are horrid. Are Hornets better or worse? All hornets are wasps. But not every wasp is a hornet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet
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by derstander 3y ago
> A domestic cat can easily survive in the wild. A domestic dog cannot. This is not a measure of smarts. A juvenile human is also unlikely to survive unaided in the wild. Though, I guess some may actually truly believe that cats are sm
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by derstander 3y ago
> Did you adjust for company size? I bet the average s&p 500 company is much larger than they were in the 60s. If you adjust for company size then you should adjust for inflation as well. I’d be interested in knowing for sure, but if
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by derstander 3y ago
> Comparing the President of a Japanese video game company to the CEO of major American healthcare organization with ~6-7x the revenue isn't really an apt comparison, is it? Why wouldn’t it be? And if it’s not, how about a compariso
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by derstander 3y ago
> That seems like a reasonable amount for the CEO of a massive health care system. Not an easy business to manage and someone who can manage a business that large could do lots of other things. As far as US CEO salaries go, I agree that
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by derstander 3y ago
My assumption when I clicked the link was that I’d see the color-coding by age instead of by political party. That would have been interesting in that it would be easier to see regional clusters. Not necessarily a creative way, but just wha
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by derstander 3y ago
> It's starting to turn out, and I fear the perception is getting set, that almost all of that creativity is garbage, or at least perceived as such by a growing percentage of people. I think this might be an accurate perception of c
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by derstander 3y ago
One of the reasons I was thinking this way is that there is a lot of media (certainly video games, but even movies and books) that are already lost. I think being able to share them freely earlier in their lifecycle will prevent some of tha
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by derstander 3y ago
> The appeal is in spoiling childhood innocence and not getting sued for it. Unfortunately this happens under the current system. See E.g., Star Wars. I’m not super invested in the franchise but entries after the original trilogy have be
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by derstander 3y ago
If the changes aren’t that minor, then people would certainly gain extra value from buying the 4th edition instead of freely getting the 1st. If the changes were minor, then maybe it would stop, say, a textbook company from releasing a zill
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by derstander 3y ago
> but I can't get to why it should become freely shareable. A side effect of this would be to encourage the creator or company to continue making it available. > Secondly, that puts an unfair burden on creators. If I do a run of
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by derstander 3y ago
> You'd have to have special categories whereby quantities could be intentionally limited. This is artificial scarcity, especially when applied to things that can be distributed digitally. I don’t particularly see a reason to encour
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by derstander 3y ago
It’ll never happen, but I think codifying a concept similar to “abandonware” in law would be a huge step forward. If a person can’t buy or rent a piece of media, then it should be able to be freely shared. Maybe add a short time-out period
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by derstander 3y ago
> +1 - I actively avoid games using the unity engine in favor of ones using unreal. It’s a noticeably worse experience for end users of the product (not just the devs, but also the players). I often wonder how common this view point is.
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by derstander 3y ago
He was in fact an old male with a gray beard and actually referred to himself as such. To respond to your descendant response to a sibling comment, he was not, however, a programmer: he was an engineer.
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by derstander 3y ago
> Lichess, legally, is now a charitable organization I’m not saying Lichess will do something like this, but have you heard the saga of the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM)? It grew out of the University of Michigan —
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by derstander 3y ago
All of what you said is true. Yes: compensation is needed to account for non rectangular sampling (see the Polar reformat or the Stolt interpolator). Yes: non-straight and level flight paths result in degraded or even useless imagery unless
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by derstander 3y ago
> I always wondered why most explainations of SAR take the frequency-domain approach of describing it in term of Doppler resolution instead of explaining the process of aperture synthesis in the spatial domain in terms of a sum of phase
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by derstander 3y ago
I feel like there ought to be a software analogue to that aphorism about models (if it doesn’t exist already) — maybe something like: All code is wrong, but some is useful.
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by derstander 3y ago
Sorry: I'm confused. Are you saying this is why an organization like MITRE cannot build contextual knowledge and expert judgement into itself? Or are you saying this is how computer security differs from radar and/or communicati
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by derstander 3y ago
> Distinguishing between a simple bug and a vulnerability requires contextual knowledge and expert judgement that simply cannot be built into bureaucratic organisations like MITRE. Why can’t it? MITRE runs FFRDCs. Having worked for an FF
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by derstander 3y ago
That definitely meshes with what I’ve seen with respect to gaming performance. Any experience with Arc for GP-GPU using e.g. Intel’s DPC++? Though certainly nVidia’s CUDA is by and far the major player in that domain. https://www
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by derstander 3y ago
> I'm not entirely sure that intel is in the best position to make consumer grade specialty "AI" PC because they make CPUs not GPUs. Intel makes (albeit recently) the Arc series of dedicated GPUs. I’m not a graphics progra

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