entropy47

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by entropy47 3y ago
Yes. I think my core thesis is that if noise and pollution upsets you, then I would spend less time complaining about a niche hobby that barely effects anybody, and a lot more time getting annoyed about really common hobbies, business patte
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by entropy47 3y ago
> creating a bunch of noise and emissions just so they can have fun Wait until you hear about parents! I haven't actually done the maths but I expect an ultralight is comparable to a car hobbyist in both noise and emissions. Agree t
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by entropy47 3y ago
I worry about catastrophic data loss. Even at Google scale you hear stories of things going wrong and they have to resort to off-site offline storage; for stuff like photos of my kids, I just don't trust myself, the SW provider, hardwa
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by entropy47 3y ago
I think you can get lossless for the first 15 (?) GB for free.
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by entropy47 3y ago
Can you add more detail on the year table at the very bottom / how you're meant to use it? I can memorise it but I'm not sure how you're meant to use it after that.
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by entropy47 4y ago
I found this much harder to read than the average blog post (the "I mean" was where I realized I was in for a stream-of-consciousness post). You can get away without paragraphs too, but I don't think "you can parse a lan
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by entropy47 4y ago
I spend a lot of time worrying (probably correctly) that product managers don't add any value in big tech, and then I read an idea like this - novel, clever, and basically guaranteed to die after seven months with 80 users - and I thin
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by entropy47 4y ago
We know each other! He's a friend from work.
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by entropy47 4y ago
I don't think I'm going to be able to change your mind, but chatting to some more Stanford grads might. Not everybody is the stereotype. I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. Just for the record, I studied at a ver
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by entropy47 4y ago
I can't think of any other reason somebody might name an innovation focused business "Pioneer". Must be a nod to eugenics. There are certainly narcissists at Stanford (and any other prestigious institution) but this desperate
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by entropy47 4y ago
> I never understood devs that do this Succeed? Have a personality?
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by entropy47 4y ago
I can't work out how this could actually work (if your smart color changing lights are just paired with regular switches). 1. It's midday, your lights are bright and blue 2. You turn the switch off. The bulb (and ESP) no longer ha
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by entropy47 4y ago
This chain is pretty wild to me. I don't know if I'm just too pragmatic, too close to people whose lives have been ruined by drugs, or too much of a big tech apologist - but it seems impossible to me to draw any parallel between d
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by entropy47 4y ago
What else do you think it would be used for? Are we talking about another capitalism pursuit, or do you think there's something darker going on?
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by entropy47 4y ago
What about Google do you think makes working there comparable to pushing drugs? Legitimately curious.
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by entropy47 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by entropy47 4y ago
> The U.S. legal system, i.e. government I agree with your overall point, but these two things are not the same.
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by entropy47 4y ago
The law and commentary (at least in Australia) talks about monopoly a lot, you're right. I just don't think it has the same meaning in IP (which is concerned with implementations) as it does in common usage (which is concerned wit
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by entropy47 4y ago
Friday afternoon and Monday morning are already pretty ineffective - the length of the weekend might not impact the existence of those bookend periods. I suspect it gets worse around public holidays because that's a break from routine.
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by entropy47 4y ago
Agree completely. The base idea might have some merit but the way it's been deployed is atrocious.
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by entropy47 4y ago
I suppose it depends on how you define monopoly. A patent protects a (theoretically, non obvious) solution to a problem that you came up with. Other people can still work on that problem, they just need to come up with their own solutions.
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by entropy47 4y ago
I don't think patents were designed to create monopolies so much as they were created to incentive research. It sucks to go through a lot of expensive R&D that leads to a simple implementation if other people can just copy that and
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by entropy47 4y ago
I'm a nobody and even I have had run-ins with certain people on the project. I think they have a similar problem to many hugely popular FOSS authors - you spend 99.99% of the day explaining things to idiots who don't get why thing
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by entropy47 4y ago
> Do we need car control? We have car control. Operating a vehicle requires a licence, training, registry and regular checks. Unlike owning a gun, which is inconceivable to everybody in the rest of the world. Obviously there is criminal