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by failrate 8y ago
Even if they had a privacy policy, if the data leaked, that policy would be irrelevant. This is an additional problem on top of the obvious problems with mass surveillance. You have to trust the Observer to have an appropriate intent. You
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by failrate 8y ago
Yep, head facing is maybe even better than eye contact. In addition, local road rules even out the rest (e.g. which side of the road do people drive on in the country where you are currently walking).
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by failrate 8y ago
Sonic PI is an excellent programming tool that lets you do this sort of thong with relative ease.
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by failrate 8y ago
That is essentially the same approach, but mine is guided by the debugger: I like to watch the state changes as they happen.
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by failrate 8y ago
In my career, almost none of my projects have been greenfield, so the debugger is the tool I use to explore the code in action in order to create the mental model I can rely on when I dont have the debugger.
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by failrate 8y ago
Basically, a marijuana dry flower overdose would come after A) your lungs were ruined by the enormous quantities of smoke inhaled after a short period or B) you were crushed or smothered under the plant material.
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by failrate 8y ago
So, large swaths of the United States in the year 2019.
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by failrate 8y ago
I was just in a class on managing children's tantrums, and the advice is very, very similar. The mistake we make is assuming adults are fundamentally different feom children.
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by failrate 8y ago
In a totalitarian regime, every citizen is a slave.
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by failrate 8y ago
It's not just synthetic, as in designed from whole cloth: it is a set of instructions designed for a synthetic system. A computer "brain" does not operate remotely like a human brain. Therefore, the languages must be fundam
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by failrate 8y ago
No, it is an alien language.
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by failrate 8y ago
Defeating 6 enemies feels cooler than defeating 2 enemies. It's similar in movies where the hero beats up a room full of goons who attack in groups no larger than 3.
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by failrate 8y ago
Goddamn Grover Norquist.
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by failrate 8y ago
Update: they're still flying through!
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by failrate 8y ago
I was lucky to see this yesterday, and it was one of the most magical things I've seen in a very long time. Every time I thought that they'd finish passing by me, another wave of them would come. It was relentless and awesome.
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by failrate 8y ago
If everyone is receiving an A, that indicates that everyone receives As regardless of merit.
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by failrate 8y ago
As someone who grew upon a (hobby)sheep farm, this seems to miss the point. A good sheep dog is already an autonomous "drone". How autonomous? Mild example: our collie would frequently herd the sheep into the barn even before we r
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by failrate 8y ago
I can empathize with your viewpoint, but I feel that your interpretation is too strict. It's good for you but not for me.
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by failrate 8y ago
Do you have the same opinion about e. e. cummings?
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by failrate 8y ago
Coincidentally, I was recently watching a Sapolsky interview where he went into detail about how the Beta male primates with many grooming partners were healthier and happier than the Alphas. So then, where does the desire to be an Alpha or
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by failrate 8y ago
I yield that my potential high point in terms of scale and complexity are objectively higher, but I feel like we are solving the same problems over and again with various permutations of bandaids and baling wire.
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by failrate 8y ago
Let's be open: software hasn't become fundamentally better even with better tools and languages. Quality software is more a product of the person or team that created it than the available bells and whistles.
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by failrate 8y ago
I have a scar on my retina near the fovea, and I can only see it if I deliberately focus on it.
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by failrate 8y ago
And "scarlet" doesn't originally mean "red". Thanks, 99% Invisible podcast!
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by failrate 8y ago
I have some kind of terrier. She rarely barks. When any other dog would bark, she usually sneezes or snorts. So, for example, when it is time for her walk, she will snort at me and then run to the door.
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by failrate 8y ago
Bukowski's poetry is particularly sublime on the toilet.
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by failrate 8y ago
I love "bulkbits".
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by failrate 8y ago
If you need to clot a wound and have only common household products, ground black pepper and coffee grounds make for excellent temporary scab substrates.
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by failrate 8y ago
"After being suspected of eating a toddler he was ejected from the hospital." The article is unclear on whether they found the missing tyke.
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by failrate 8y ago
I am looking forward to your blog post. I tried a random Sudoku generator back in the Flash days, and all of the feedback was that players could tell the puzzles were completely randomly generated. Please ping me when the blog post is up.

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