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by dmvdoug 2y ago
There’s a throwaway line about not being able to empirically test the business strategy model as applied to Intel, but that’s kind of a key point. Ohm’s Law can be empirically validated, so we know we’re not vastly oversimplifying in modeli
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
No, remedies are meant to be tailored to the specific wrongs found in a specific case. There are precedents for things like, “that amount of money is too much,” or “this equitable remedy requires these kinds of findings,” but there’s no 1:1
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
And, now that there is a circuit split, this is squarely teed up for the Supreme Court, and there’s really no telling how they’ll come out.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
It was my comment to a different comment on this thread. I’ll repeat it here: Yes, and this somewhat recent notion that corporations only exist to benefit their shareholders. Corporations exist in order to do the business that they’re in th
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Hm, the book is about Taylorism from 1945 on it seems, but it’s Stephen Waring, Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory since 1945. Looks like it was published by UNC Press 1991. I do remember conversations with him to the eff
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Explosive diaeresis is the woooorst.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
This is in the story: * It will also take time for NASA and Boeing to update parameters in Starliner's flight software to enable an unpiloted undocking and reentry.* It’s apparently a file called the “Mission Data Load” (MDL).
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, and in the story it talks about how that updating is what would cause the longest delays in getting Starliner off ISS if they go that route. So yes, it’s possible.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, Andor is far and away the best SW content produced in recent years. What I really want to see is what happens with Daedra Meero. She’s such an interesting character. She says at one point that the Empire’s cracking down and sharp autho
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I’m pretty sure this has become an argumentative move bordering on fallacy: “That thing you’re criticizing is no true Agile.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Make software warrantable. If you sell software that purports to do X, you are at least implicitly warranting it is fit for purpose, etc. Allowing companies to disclaim all warranties means they have no incentive to make sure their software
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Taylorism was bullshit in its original form too. I had a history professor in graduate school whose PhD/book was about this. I can try to find it if you’re interested.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I would really like you to read and respond to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41211945 Don’t take offense at the “mindless repetition” part though, please. I genuinely want feedback from somebody who
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, interchangeable parts are a central component of mass production. And you have to remove the application of skilled labor to get to interchangeable parts, because that requires mechanization, not the intensively individualized input of
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, and this somewhat recent notion that corporations only exist to benefit their shareholders. Corporations exist in order to do the business that they’re in the business of doing, and their structure is such that it allows for the distri
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yeah, it’s an old Dell desktop box from 2015, what can I say.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Especially notes of Aristotle’s oral ramblings about others’ works, when we know those are wildly casual about accuracy when we can actually compare them to pieces of text.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I named my Linux box sisyphus because I had so many problems installing distros other than Mint that I became convinced I’d never succeed. And then kde neon Just Worked.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
As a Classics major in college and with continuing love for that decaying old grande dame of a discipline, this is pretty cool and I hope the identification holds up to scrutiny (because it would be a big deal). Then there’s this: The tw
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I thought author meant how they use the two-letter sequence “AI” and I just came here to say, Allen Iverson.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I agree, the Supreme Court got it wildly wrong when they said donating money by itself is speech. It isn’t. But here we are. The only way at this point to change it is to pack the Court or amend the Constitution. And I would even bet that a
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
And here I was, having been led to believe there’s No Silver Bullet. :( Also lol at the comment that speedrunning and iteration lets you get the junk out of the way so you can really focus on where quality matters… a paragraph away from say
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
It’s just the hermeneutic circle at work, nothing magical.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Good luck amending the First Amendment.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I literally did this with the email we (college students) got sent by the University (of Alabama: Roll Damn Tide) on the morning of 9/11, which was basically, “We see no reason to cancel classes today.” I thought people would never bel
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> It is not surprising that Gemini will summarize a document if you ask it to. No, but it is surprising that Gemini will summarize every single PDF you have on your Drive if you ask it to summarize a single PDF one time.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I dunno, bro, software engineers have repeatedly shown total lack of wider judgment in these contexts over the years. Not to say there is, in fact, some kind of “epic conspiracy,” just that SWEs appear not to take much time to consider just
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Welcome to federal prosecution!
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
It seems to be endemic to HN to blindly transfer lessons from one domain to another without understanding that solutions (not to mention the problems themselves!) are deeply contextual and context-sensitive. I’d nominate it as the Paul Grah

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