dpratt

8 ms·

31.
by dpratt 4y ago
You seem to place humans and animals in the same moral category w.r.t. violence, specifically predation, due to your usage of "other sentient beings" in the above comment. In your view, if a lion and a hunter both kill a gazelle,
32.
by dpratt 4y ago
The fact that you cannot configure or control Slackbot in any way is a _huge_ hole in the Slack feature set. You can't even mute it - I cannot say how many times I've been interrupted by a useless notification from Slackbot.
33.
by dpratt 4y ago
The amount of people who are willing to pay $1500 for high-quality VR hardware is not a huge market, but a rabid one filled with enthusiasts and early adopters. It's likely enough to fund research into how to produce a more mass market
34.
by dpratt 4y ago
Offhand, I'd say something along the lines of "Not acquiring a reputation for producing undergrads who either fail out of med school or end up accidentally killing a patient due to gross incompetence". I find it interesting t
35.
by dpratt 4y ago
It’s probably because a bulk of his replies have been along the lines of “the update transfer was probably corrupted, you must have misapplied it. Can you try again?”
36.
by dpratt 4y ago
This is true, I am not there to be subject to the OPs high-volume concert in the middle of a forest, and I suspect it’s ideal for both of us that I am not, in that the major problem/damage to his speakers may not originate with a firmw
37.
by dpratt 4y ago
My intent here is to not be hostile or seem dismissive, but rather attempt to show you what your responses appear like to your customer base. An answer of “The best explanation we have right now is that you incorrectly applied the update” d
38.
by dpratt 4y ago
I find it fishy that you haven’t connected the dots between “firmware update meant to mitigate speaker cone damage under specific power delivery circumstances” and “user experiencing unexpected power reduction at all power delivery circumst
39.
by dpratt 4y ago
I’ve reached the point where if I hear of a product that has a “mandatory” firmware update, I completely write off the manufacturer for good. Even worse if said device silently updates to said firmware revision. It is completely unacceptabl
40.
by dpratt 4y ago
This does not pass the smell test, and your response borders on user-blaming. If this was only one person experiencing the problem, it wouldn’t be an inappropriate response, but if you have wide swaths of your user base describing the same
41.
by dpratt 4y ago
Is nobody going to talk about the elephant in the room? Namely, has the author of the article considered that it might be somewhat inconsiderate to be blasting 120 dB music in the middle of nature? It’s reasonable to assume that it’s likely
42.
by dpratt 4y ago
You’re correct, it’s not all your users, just the ones who set their output above ‘5’.
43.
by dpratt 4y ago
You’re not “helping a neighbor” - this analogy is flawed. It’d be more correct to say “a third party with incentives that are entirely unrelated to the matter showed up at my home, placed a gun to my head and demanded I transfer a third of
44.
by dpratt 4y ago
I’ve always thought that this was an amazing project and I’ve enjoyed many many games on it, but I worry that she may not have put the proper precautions in place to protect her phylactery.
45.
by dpratt 4y ago
An analogy: while technically what kills you due to a fall is called “gravity”, that’s not the whole picture. In actuality, it’s the height you fall from, which allows gravity to build up enough velocity to kill you when the fall ends. Desp
46.
by dpratt 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, I didn’t even know about the existence of these deals. I’ve had a Coinbase account for a while, but based on this I’ll be moving everything to a private wallet and closing my account ASAP. I have no desire to d
47.
by dpratt 4y ago
I would refer the author of this piece to read about Chesterton’s Fence, and then think about it in context of the subject of his article. “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a
48.
by dpratt 4y ago
The leaders of the PGA and the LIV should study, in detail, the rift in American open wheel racing in the mid-1990's to ensure that they do not repeat the same mistakes. The split in IndyCar racing took it from nearly competing with Fo
49.
by dpratt 4y ago
If by “strict reading” you mean “any reading at all”, I would agree. I’m not sure how the legal power to say “the unit of mass called the ‘gram’ shall be defined as the mass of a cube of pure water, one centimeter on each side” allows you t
50.
by dpratt 4y ago
People have been complaining for a decade or more about how difficult it is to get something published to Maven Central (personal ID verification, documentation, and keypair crypto) but it has always existed for very good reasons. As stodgy
51.
by dpratt 5y ago
That’s not an oops. You’re comparing pointers.
52.
by dpratt 5y ago
I feel sometimes that Prime is against you.
53.
by dpratt 5y ago
If you want to achieve victory, you must understand your enemy as well as yourself. The Russian attitude towards NATO expansion into Ukraine can be roughly viewed from an American perspective as well equivalent as the old Warsaw Pact attemp
54.
by dpratt 5y ago
Just because you judge other people's opinions as 'intolerant' does not excuse support for forcibly revealing anonymity. At the very least, consider the possibility that opinions that you express that are considered widely po
55.
by dpratt 5y ago
"ID systems back then weren't any more thorough than the SSN every American is required to have and use for a litany of purposes today" would imply that a more formal way to record IDs, namely a centralized database of person
56.
by dpratt 5y ago
The top entry for the list of cumulative non-disease or old age causes of death in the 20th century is "murdered by own government". Anything we can do to help prevent that is a good thing.
57.
by dpratt 5y ago
For the JVM benchmark, unless you used Pattern.compile() and let the VM warm up (or used the JMH benchmark framework), your numbers are likely wildly off.
58.
by dpratt 5y ago
Again, that was my point. Life will be fine. The point is that we should be responsible stewards and caretakers of our ecosystem, because the moral consequences of wanton destruction of something so precious and beautiful would be beyond co
59.
by dpratt 5y ago
This is some pretty bad word gore. I find it a common misconception, though - _life_ will be perfectly fine, barring our Sun going supernova. It's just a matter of what form it will take after the nuclear holocaust/machine plague&
60.
by dpratt 5y ago
I’m likely in the minority here, but I am grumpy enough to completely ignore what look like otherwise entertaining shows when they’re released with the artificial scarcity model. Waiting a week for each episode was required by technological

More ›