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by eplanit 5y ago
"users who shut their MacBook screen onto a keyboard with a bunch of Doritos crumbs stuck in it" Wow, they're that fragile? "Modern materials are complex and display counter-intuitive failure modes" == "We&#x27
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by eplanit 5y ago
I wondered why there is a superfluous comma in the title.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Isn't that exactly the technique made infamous by the "Lumberg" character in Office Space? He would walk up with his coffee cup..."what's happening? did you get the memo?" Didn't read TFA due to paywall.
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by eplanit 5y ago
This is so close to the plot of the movie Juggernaut[1], and occurred only 4 years after the movie's release -- I can't help but wonder if the bomber was inspired by the plot. That movie had bombs (on a ship, not a casino) with m
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by eplanit 5y ago
Glad you liked that... but they knew which features you're using via telemetry? I would have probably given them an earful, including a demand for a refund.
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's what makes so many you tube videos so difficult, especially when the purpose of the video is explanation or description (i.e. a lesson). Please just focus on the agenda, and maintain a flow of thoughts. People mostly just want t
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by eplanit 5y ago
Did they try "redneck" names like "Elrod", "Rusty", or "Betty Jo"?
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by eplanit 5y ago
So, it's an institutional directive to its writers to treat subjects differently based on race: i.e. systemic racism. Because, the best cure for perceived systemic racism is _actual_ systemic racism. It's all absurd.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Does capitalizing "black" compensate, somehow?
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Learning from a Confederacy of Dunces(thepublicdiscourse.com)
2 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
I can't upvote this article enough times -- it's concise yet rich with astute observations. Just one example: "Thirty Years Ago...Insulating developers from interruptions was management’s Prime Directive." From my own ex
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by eplanit 5y ago
Which makes them more honest, in that regard.
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by eplanit 5y ago
"if not the government-enforced kind, then the kind that comes from those who control the flow of information" When they work together cooperatively, there is no distinction. https://nypost.com/2021/07/1
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by eplanit 5y ago
I'm so done with the f-ing Olympics. They're just a vast marketing scam that countries and cities buy into -- often acting against the wishes of their own people. The cities that host them see more negative impact than positive;
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by eplanit 5y ago
IAM has been in use, without any confusion that I've encountered amongst various clients, for well over 10 years. How is it confusing? It sounds like people are wanting dumbed-down "Romper Room" names. Meaningful acronyms
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by eplanit 5y ago
This could get interesting at defcon conferences (if they're still a thing), which is already famous for having the world's most hostile wifi networks. Now DIY, private stingray?
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by eplanit 5y ago
You're right. Also, yard work is generally unpleasant. I have found that by approaching yard work as exercise, I then enjoy both a lot more (like a _lot_). My whole attitude about squatting down, pulling weeds, cutting, etc. etc. is
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Science Lost the Public’s Trust(wsj.com)
1 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's actually a good anti-diversity argument (not saying that's necessarily your intent). Japan is another, similar example re: "solving what you call basic problems".
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by eplanit 5y ago
A clever bum, for sure. "Johnston’s feelings about money are inextricably bound up in his certainty that refusing to spend it is the only moral way to live." It's ok for others to spend on his behalf, though. It sounds like
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by eplanit 5y ago
There was a similar article regarding ants a couple or more years ago, also featured on HN. Same author, I wonder?
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by eplanit 5y ago
Really good timeline presentation. I think that Napster/peer-to-peer circa 1995 deserves to be added.
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by eplanit 5y ago
A little bitter, are we?
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by eplanit 5y ago
I don't think I'll accept such extreme authoritarianism. It's quite a thing to want so much state control over peoples' lives.
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by eplanit 5y ago
We are the lifelong chain-smoker who, when diagnosed with lung cancer, chooses to keep smoking because of a misguided belief that "at least I'll die happy".
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by eplanit 5y ago
Facebook is becoming "Buy-n-Large" from "Wall-e". The prescience of that movie is more evident every year since it was made.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I'm curious and it seems cool, but no I'm no opening up my camera to some random website. As an option, it'd be nice if it offered a simple button to trigger the change instead of using the camera.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Great! Thank you.
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by eplanit 5y ago
Or, we could reject insanity and recognize that all people are imperfect, and that societies' values change over time.
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by eplanit 5y ago
They're confusing Bezos with Musk. Musk is revolutionizing the adoption of solar energy and non-petroleum vehicles, and even has a goal of liberating humanity from Earth itself. Lofty, and becoming so real. Not to mention Spacex&#x2

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