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by fallous 1y ago
"We do our best with the worst."
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by fallous 1y ago
While not fully economic isolationism, there was a drive to turn the national focus away from looking outward to gazing at the national navel. Apollo, and much of NASA's ambitious projects, were cut short thanks to defunding in order
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by fallous 1y ago
Indeed, microbial life did not have technology and yet fundamentally changed the environment to the point that it produced mass extinctions. That was my point. Humans are not the only form of life to fundamentally transform the environmen
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by fallous 1y ago
Life has fundamentally changed the environment multiple times. The reason you live in an oxygenated environment is due to the waste produced by life.
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by fallous 2y ago
Snake oil ain't gonna sell itself!
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by fallous 2y ago
Wait'll you discover that different CPUs use different word lengths, and not just your expected 8-bit X power-of-2 of current modern processors). 36-bit native word with a 9 bit databus and a 16-bit address bus with 64 kilowords of me
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by fallous 2y ago
Yes, one of the things that often gets overlooked about aging is that if you live long enough everyone you knew, and knew you, from certain eras of your life are gone... and that tends to make your life more ephemeral. Even the settings of
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by fallous 2y ago
Yes. A mature and well-understood tool does not cease to exist nor cease to be useful simply because new tools exist. Simply being "new" does not mean "better," except for those who merely seek novelty.
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by fallous 2y ago
Not really. In the corporate realm there was the well-known phrase "no one ever got fired by buying IBM." Such was the aura of IBM at the time.
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by fallous 2y ago
Users "optimize output to maximize favorable responses" but favorable to whom? The social platforms define "favorable" as "maximizing attention/engagement" and incentivize accordingly, while users may hav
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by fallous 2y ago
This is true for every field. Everyone has had to step into a field that was built upon the hard-won experience of others and had to get up to speed, and the easiest way to do so is to recognize that fact and take advantage of the wisdom o
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by fallous 2y ago
Your description of use-cases for Lua reminds me a lot of the use of Forth in the 80s and 90s.
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by fallous 2y ago
I know I moved into the LCD monitor era kicking and screaming because the CRTs I used with my computers were far superior for text sharpness and didn't cause me near the eye-strain when doing long programming sessions.
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by fallous 2y ago
No, "first" infers a sequence and is associated with the beginning of that sequence. In the case of a relative heading, the existing heading is 0 degrees. Any change is relative to that origin point. Zero is also not the absenc
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by fallous 2y ago
There are 360 degrees in a circle, and the first entry is 0 degrees. The first time element of a day is 0:00:00(and enough 0s to satisfy whatever resolution you require). These were not established in the 1970s, and somehow pretty much ev
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by fallous 2y ago
Obviously you can avoid all of this by buying your Linux-compatible PC only from a True Scotsman.
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by fallous 2y ago
Yep, the old WaveLAN stuff. I had a parallel port adapter version of that back in 1997 for an old Compaq Pentium laptop that I used for portable web browsing and telnet sessions.
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by fallous 2y ago
Regarding the city divided into service areas, if you are in the US many cities provided franchise rights to cable providers that gave them exclusive monopoly rights to provide services in exchange for the cable provider spending all the mo
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by fallous 2y ago
"I think that the right model for content discovery is either crowd sourced by a like-minded community" and now you've re-created the original Yahoo search, which was killed off in the original Search Engine Wars by the like
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by fallous 2y ago
How much do you think the MITI Fifth Generation Initiative negatively impacted the Japanese software industry by side-tracking so many educational and corporate initiatives?
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by fallous 2y ago
An important part of leadership is explaining decisions so that everyone has sufficient understanding of the goals as well as their contributions necessary to achieving said goals. This also invites feedback that may improve the process of
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by fallous 2y ago
Nearly all hunger-related deaths are due to the political environment they live in (including wars). Of course such environments also disproportionately include those who cannot gain access to antibiotics as well. You could argue that vacc
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by fallous 2y ago
YES! The Inner-Platform Effect is exactly what I was trying to dig up through my fossilized neurons. Thank you.
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by fallous 2y ago
This article really does remind me of an old Law of Software that we used to invoke: Any sufficiently large and long-lived application will eventually re-implement the entire software stack it runs on, including the operating system.. and
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by fallous 2y ago
It's always a bit disheartening when I see someone from the engineering, product, or marketing sides of the business not understand the most basic of principles that salespeople learn at the beginning of their careers... people mostly
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by fallous 2y ago
So expensive? It has never been cheaper to create movies thanks to digital cameras and non-linear editors, digital audio workstations, etc. You are no longer encumbered by the costs of film, development, renting an edit bay, requiring an
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by fallous 2y ago
An interesting idea but I'd imagine you would have to operate within something like the "100 year flood" boundaries that insurance companies do in order to define a constrained domain such as the Shannon Bound. I suspect you
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by fallous 2y ago
Yes, just-in-time supply chain systems often become over-efficient and brittle... usually because each link in the chain assumes that someone else is taking on the burden of inefficiency by having excess inventory in order to absorb shocks
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by fallous 2y ago
Yes, historically religion provided not only a means of understanding one's place in the social system in which one lived but also provided a sense of self in a much longer historical aspect. Successful religions existed on the order
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by fallous 2y ago
Indeed, the more efficient you become the more brittle you will be. You must depend upon the present being static and the future being perfectly predictable based on the events of the past. The present and the future don't merely nee

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