drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Cave paintings from 35-ish millennia ago probably count as writing. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journey-oldest-cave-p...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
They're also self-fulfilling prophecy. The diagnosis becomes the disease. A person who's told their entire life that they're a Leo will start to recognize Leo-like behaviors and reinforce those. A person who's told their
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Ok. Now do billboards.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> And that's just describing inter-ethnic conflicts among White Americans They're not white until they're normalized. Ben Franklin would not have considered Germans to be white. https://qz.com/904933/a
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> It still amazes me how much we argue in this field about which tools should or should not be used Like any craft. Is it really a bad thing that people think about how to solve their problems better and want to share with others? Anyone
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by drewcoo 2y ago
So the CEO that stepped over the water didn't even tell anyone about the problem? That just seems wrong. Would this person call the cops if he saw burglars breaking into a neighbor's house? Some things are everyone's job to r
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Do you really want to hire people by confusing and scaring them? A surprising number of startups do give me a frat house vibe, so . . . maybe?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I was hoping for the Office Fire Test.
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> Usually "optimisation" is something that happens once a slow part of the system has been identified I wonder if that's because speed is easy to measure. It's certainly not the only thing that can be optimized.
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Why would you say the question is reasonable? To me, it is not a reasonable question because there are so many assumptions smuggled in with it.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There is no indecision. There is only deciding not to act.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The industry response to this seems to be "DevSecOps," where the only real "Sec" is reactionary monitoring. Monitoring doesn't keep incidents from happening. It only raises internal awareness. This is the best that
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Well, I've been considering murder because I don't think anyone would miss you . . . but you're a new friend, so let's just shoplift together!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I once hitchhiked almost 2000 miles with a truck driver who had invented perpetual motion. "non-traditional science" flourishes everywhere there are people.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If the random Deepak Chopra generator included some trigonometry, we'd have Bucky Fuller. http://www.wisdomofchopra.com Without context, that can be inspiring. But that doesn't make it meaningful.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Historians of science would be interested in the topic as would those studying the sociology of scientific communities. Except that Fuller wasn't a scientist and did not contribute in any way to science. > In this day of rampan
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Don't be skeptical. Be inquisitive. And make that change because I, a stranger on the Internet told you to. Also pay for my woo training! /s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> stack ranking because that worked so well at MSFT Rank and yank originated at GE to the best of my knowledge. Where it also "worked well." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
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by drewcoo 2y ago
In the US the last President to try to give us all free health care was Nixon. Early on, Nixon made his name rooting out communists in America with HUAC. How times have changed.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
You're forgetting common knowledge and obviousness. If I say I'm thinking of getting a dog and someone else on the Internet says credulously "What? What would it ever breathe?" I don't need to find sources to show t
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I think we can compare the leaks of Ed Snowden with the Pentagon Papers leaks of Mike Gravel. Do you mean Ellsberg? Gravel's contribution was reading the Pentagon papers into the Congressional record.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
if (foo) { bail out } They're known as guard statements regardless of language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(computer_science) Swift has a guard keyword, but the construct feels a l
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Ornette? Yeah! Never ever, ever read YouTube comments.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> A test will only catch an edge case you already thought of. Property-based tests and model-based tests can catch edge cases I never thought of. > Tests have burned out software engineers who waste the majority of their time deriving
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> That said, I generally prefer test harnesses to unit tests[0]. That's a strange redefinition of harness. The larger-scoped tests are more often called integration or even system tests. And while I'm here, those are slow tests
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Capitalism has given us the most "efficient" tomato for the market. If you want to optimize for something else, you're trying to solve a different problem.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I can't say anything about whether the study is worth following up or not To the GP's point, that would make this garbage.
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More gatekeeping. Rules written on the fly by gatekeeper taste-makers.
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Incidence rates are detection rates. Does that suck less?
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Disagree. We are much less diverse than many other species. We are a social species so we pay more attention to one another. We are also pattern-seekers. Combine these traits and we have humans seeing magnified differences in other humans.

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