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721.
by ethbro 7y ago
Or, they could just be racist. Sometimes, call a kettle a kettle.
722.
by ethbro 7y ago
Thanks for the term! That's combinatorics, so I probably should have remembered it. :/ There are a lot of things I'd love to know the accepted name for, as I came into understanding through the backdoor. I regret that my coll
723.
by ethbro 7y ago
Start with a simple, known-good design, then figure out why each part is there. After you get some experience reverse engineering existing designs, start trying to build something simple. Thinking blinking lights without a processor. Warnin
724.
by ethbro 7y ago
Or for < 1/3 of an Iraq War, to put it in other terms.
725.
by ethbro 7y ago
Or, in other words, getting to space is hard because it requires millions of opportunities for silly mistakes. Most complex engineering projects are hard not because of one thing, but because of the mind-bogglingly large number of things
726.
by ethbro 7y ago
Personally, I'm happy that personal recycling hit a bump when China rejected dirty channels. It was marketed in the 80s-00s as more of a panacea than it is, and specifically seems to have inculcated a dangerously willful ignorance of f
727.
by ethbro 7y ago
Is it the correct solution, if it allows us to spend effort and money migrating our energy mix away from fossil fuels? Is it the correct solution, if we have already shifted our economies to carbon-neutral or -negative modes? These are very
728.
by ethbro 7y ago
Per the memory crowd, associating characteristics with a person helps tag information in a retrievable fashion. The characteristic doesn't have to be particularly representative, but the more extreme / emotional, the more effectiv
729.
by ethbro 7y ago
Personally, I run 2 clusters of 5 nodes each, in geographically disparate zones. There are some shared infrastructure dependencies that aren't redundant, but generally speaking the system can survive loss of multiple nodes and/or
730.
by ethbro 7y ago
Which also doesn't include the economic output of their still being fit enough to work (and still living).
731.
by ethbro 7y ago
I sort of assumed parent was using "fast" in terms of throughput rather than speed, but wanted to clarify.
732.
by ethbro 7y ago
> There's no way that wireless links will ever be faster than backbone fiber - the whole notion makes very little sense. Why? Wireless signals propagate faster linearly than fiber signals, no? I don't have time to do napkin m
733.
by ethbro 7y ago
I've yet to see a graphical enterprise app that approaches 1/10 of the interface speed of a mainframe terminal app. All app developers should be required to sit and watch an expert user interact with a mainframe interface for at l
734.
by ethbro 7y ago
> Perhaps government should not have so much power that people have an economic incentive to corrupt it? Seems dubious. Wealth, left to its own devices, is not known for trending towards equality. And disempowering the government, whil
735.
by ethbro 7y ago
Yes. While I realize HN fetishizes appearing logical, not everything in economics falls in such a bucket.
736.
by ethbro 7y ago
The assertion was not that China is growing slower than India, but that the current Chinese economy is growing slower than a more liberal Chinese economy.
737.
by ethbro 7y ago
Heard != acted on. ... But it also doesn't equal null.
738.
by ethbro 7y ago
Would the leadership rather be absolute leaders of a slower-growing, still-globally-significant economy? Or lesser leaders of a faster-growing one? I don't think the economic growth benefits outweigh their priorities.
739.
by ethbro 7y ago
I would be hard pressed to argue that smartphones made life better, as handy and inevitable as they were. Dumb phones + pagers + hardlines + internet on desktops, was a pretty great time to be alive.
740.
by ethbro 7y ago
The irony is... you know what Amazon's still amazing for? Books. They should spin off the retail company and keep books + AWS.
741.
by ethbro 7y ago
Amazon forgot that their core value proposition was shopping experience, not price or shipping speed. And they've managed to improve the latter while ignoring the former.
742.
by ethbro 7y ago
> All they'd need to do is have some prominent part of the product description (say the product name) be unmodifiable without review and approval by Amazon It's more trivial than that -- the product physical dimensions and w
743.
by ethbro 7y ago
It's going to make Woken Furies (easily my favorite book of the series) pretty confusing. And (personally) it felt like a cheap simplification of one of the most interesting series plot points.
744.
by ethbro 7y ago
grinds teeth to dust at Netflix Altered Carbon's bastardization of the Envoys
745.
by ethbro 7y ago
You just described my dream reality. Please give me the metaverse coordinates of your Earth, now!
746.
by ethbro 7y ago
You're suggesting a large capital investment, with dubious utility, in a leveraged, low margin business with little access to technologically aggressive capital funding. Furthermore, it's predicated on the supplier developing and
747.
by ethbro 7y ago
I would argue that preference is more rarely the driver of high art evaluation than ignorance. Which doesn't seem that bold of a claim. It's somewhat like saying "Environmentalists don't like nuclear power because most
748.
by ethbro 7y ago
> The same way a 13-year old pop music fan doesn't have the same refinement as a 20-year old music fan, who has studied the genres, their history, interplay, who did what, techniques, cultural impact, etc, and even less than a 30 y
749.
by ethbro 7y ago
Is there a theoretical name for the "hash / fingerprint / key -> visual signifier" idea? I've always thought it was underused in decentralized authentication spaces.
750.
by ethbro 7y ago
T-20 days until "Sir or madame, I have found your codes and used. We are experiencing highly critical outage of production system as result of bug. Kindly do the needful to resolve." GitHub bug reports on personal projects make me

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