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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Without deciding whether your particular mention of webrings was a joke or not, the nostalgia for them that has been cropping up lately is a little bit puzzling to me as someone who remembers well those days. Because webrings themselves wer
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yes. Now the trick is to convince people that satisficing isn’t just laziness or somehow a road to business death.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Given “a strange game: Almost as strange as global thermonuclear war,” I was a little crushed that the post didn’t end, “The only winning move is not to play.”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I was almost murdered a few years ago when I told a classroom full of senior girls at a suburban high school that Taylor Swift was overrated (I just wanted to see what would happen if I poked the bear). That is all I know about Taylor Swift
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Point of clarification: could they file suit or have they started doing that? In other words, is this a fear of something that might happen or something that is currently ongoing? Or, to put it another way, is the simply rationalization for
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I don’t understand. These businesses gained what popularity/reach they have in large part by chanting the Open Source mantra. Then, when they’re (at least moderately?) successful, they close up and the mantra falls silent. How is that
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This is the important and troubling point. Everyone trumpets science as a model of a rational, self-correcting social enterprise. But we see time and time again that it takes non-scientists to blow the whistle and call foul and gin up enoug
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Here are some pairs of words to show they don’t rhyme: Pluck / took Duck / rook Suck / shook
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’ll do you one better with less than half your verbiage. I understood all the following words (so, gasp , I lied!): > Discovered in 2018, PSR J0026–1955 is a Galactic pulsar with a … of approximately 1.306 seconds and … measure of…. It
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Now I’m imagining your coworkers talking about getting nookie.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Swift++, or Swifttt.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
How are people pronouncing NUC? Like “nuck” (rhymes with “Zuck”) or “nuke” (rhymes with “puke”)?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I know! The first time I read it I was like oh OK and then I reread it and I was like yup I don’t understand any of it.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I still don’t know what a nonillion ergs is, but I now know that a nonillion is 10^54, which hurts my brain by itself.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I thought spin down had something to do with pseudo-angular momentum of, like, electrons, but after Googling I see it definitely means spin down as the opposite of, like, spinning up an engine or a Docker container. Which is exactly what yo
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> Discovered in 2018, PSR J0026–1955 is a Galactic pulsar with a spin period of approximately 1.306 seconds and dispersion measure of 20.81 pc/cm3. It has a spin-down luminosity of 23 nonillion erg/s, surface magnetic field str
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
That actually was responsive to the previous discussion. And we disagree so much on the idea that artistic merit or accomplishment or whatever you want to label it is indexed wholly or even in large part by amount of people who view it tha
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I mean, we’re talking about key federal agencies involved as the impacted customer(s), too. Yet it’s like, eh, next story.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This is not responsive to either the point I was making to the other commenter or to the response I made to the original commenter. It’s just arguing for arguing’s sake. (I recognize it, as a former lawyer. And it’s fine. But it’s just not
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The point is that it’s incredibly deeply profoundly naive. It’s not an insult. It’s odd that you took it as one, since it wasn’t even directed at you. But hey, you seem to have gotten some satisfaction out of whatever that puffery immediate
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
And yet, fascinatingly, very very little discussion. 60-ish comments was the most on any of those posts.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
So “artistic accomplishment” is judged by eyeball quantity. Making Tik-Tok home to some of the best art produced in the last 50 years… right? QED.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
On the other hand, my first thought was, “If the title is that confused, how much worse is the article gonna be?” so I browsed the comments first and discovered that the weird title was purposeful. Which made me more inclined to read the ar
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This was a great answer but the mashup of wildly varying abstraction levels made me chuckle a little. “Debugging? You’ll need printf()… and an oscilloscope.”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> having multiple income streams means you've (the you here is broad, could mean your company, your family trust etc) produced something people find valuable yeah Oh, dear. I can tell from reading your comments that it’s not gonna m
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> the American cinematic canon, by most measures the greatest body of artistic accomplishment humanity has ever produced …what?! The, I don’t know, Renaissance would like a word with you….
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Honestly, I’m not a car person at all but it had me laughing all the way through. Then I read the comments here and it just made me sad. It’s a joke, fellas! Lighten up.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I think you just answered your own question, actually.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
How much calculus would it require in order to get a decent grasp on signal processing? Not to work in the field or become an expert, but to gain an at least somewhat intelligent outsider’s understanding of it?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I never understood the attempts by people to try to pressure me into joining them drinking. Like, I’ve never given a shit if they drink. It’s not some moral quest of mine, like I’m on a 21st century Temperance Crusade. It’s just a persona

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