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by fallous 4y ago
I've found that when in discussions where choices made now will create problems in the future it's useful to raise that issue by couching it as a potential issue of priorities. Yes, the short-term solution may create problems in
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by fallous 4y ago
That sounds like a violation of the Visa/Mastercard agreement. Those networks do, in fact, charge the merchant for the use of the network but their licensing agreement specifically prohibits mentioning that surcharge or passing it on
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by fallous 4y ago
Yes, note that I did not justify banning the twitter account in question and pointed out that it was hardly a leap to get the info even if they banned that account. I was simply replying to a comment that inferred the only way flight info w
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by fallous 4y ago
Knowing when/where a private plane lands makes it a lot easier to stalk the passengers of that plane. This is of course entirely separate from whether such info was used against Musk or his family, or whether such a possibility is suff
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by fallous 4y ago
There are many excellent benefits of exercise, but substantial weight loss is not among them. The human body evolved to be really efficient, especially in aerobic activity. A predator whose main method of hunting is long-distance running
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by fallous 4y ago
"Play" is doing something you want to do. "Work" is doing something someone else wants you to do or needs to be done. The former gives you complete agency, the latter is a reduction of your agency. If that something i
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by fallous 4y ago
I've had burn-out a few times over the last 30+ years of working for various reasons both personal and environmental. Take it as a given that everyone responds differently and there is no One True Way(tm) to recover, but I can at leas
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by fallous 4y ago
Except for Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, El Capitan, High Sierra, and Big Sur. They do have the benefit of at least referencing a single entity, unlike Ubuntu's naming convention.
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by fallous 4y ago
It looks like they've reinvented the Gateway 2000 Handbook.
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by fallous 4y ago
Borland seemed to be in flux in the year or two prior to the split. Turbo Prolog was hyped and then seemed to disappear (although I'm pretty sure it shipped a version or two), Turbo Pascal was advertised for the then-new Amiga 1000 an
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by fallous 4y ago
Over the years I've learned to be suspicious of simple solutions to difficult problems and those who assert such solutions. When trying to convey that healthy skepticism to others I tend to use the phrase "beware those who expres
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by fallous 4y ago
The One True Way will always rise up and claim its victims, especially the inexperienced and/or naive amongst us. I sometimes think TOTW is actually an ancient one that thinks Cthulhu is an infant.
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by fallous 5y ago
Hurt you in what way? Have you become less knowledgeable due to your curiosity?
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by fallous 5y ago
OK, 4-5 years ago I was hired by a startup building a data storage/sharing hardware solution that emphasized security. Each storage device could be a an ad hoc member of a group of devices and there were multiple users for each device
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by fallous 5y ago
Facebook changed when it decided its best source of revenue was advertising and that it would own the ad inventory (Google did the same thing, and with similar loss-of-value to users, which also devalued the underlying behavior the company
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by fallous 5y ago
I apologize for the pedantry but "blockchain" != "cryptocurrency." My inner cynic is bearish on cryptocurrencies, VR (at least in broad adoption), and to a lesser extent blockchain tech but of the three the one that has
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by fallous 5y ago
Wikipedia is also suffering under the issues of "moderation." The original web was based on the idea of "throw your crap up, if people like it they do if not they don't." Evaluation both the content and the credib
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by fallous 5y ago
How shocking. An advertising company who uses search as a venue for advertising does not produce the highest quality of search results for those who search. Stop thinking of google/alphabet/insertnewbrandnamehere as a search comp
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by fallous 5y ago
I tip my hat to you sir, for providing 25 years of the pleasure of pursing the scientific method and experimentation, even in areas that would be often dismissed by Those Who Know Things(tm). If a claim is made, well then roll out the expe
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by fallous 5y ago
I've lived to see this kind of thing enacted in a good portion of the Anglosphere and my visceral reaction is to engage in a combination of civil disobedience and a determination to undermine every overstep made. With regards to things
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by fallous 5y ago
It's always a joy when I randomly feel the need to check and see if amasci is still up and running and am greeted with the comforting display of good old mid-90s HTML text and links offering all manner of interesting content. What a di
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by fallous 5y ago
It's not actually rational, let alone long-term optimal, to act as though there is a predator behind every bush given a 1% (in reality it's probably a couple of orders of magnitude less likely, but we'll ignore that). If you
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by fallous 5y ago
Note that INXS also trotted out the "filmed performance" video for Don't Change from Shabooh Shoobah and was one of, if not the, first hit for the band internationally.
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by fallous 5y ago
While I agree with your overall point regarding the importance of contextual history when looking at any design, one nit I would pick is your statement that there was no internet when Phil Katz created and PKWARE released PKZIP. First rele
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by fallous 5y ago
One problem is that we've turned "efficient" into some sort of noun that is self-referential, rather than the actual definition which is constrained to a particular result. "We must be efficient." should beg the qu
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by fallous 5y ago
I recall that we rapidly turned the "write once run everywhere (WORE)" slogan into "WORN- write once, run nowhere" thanks to all the platform-specific changing that always occurred.
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by fallous 5y ago
Having been around in the 1990s, I can assure you that "underhyped" is the very LAST thing I think of when Java is mentioned.
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by fallous 6y ago
This may be fine for an initial hiring practice, but as you note it will become problematic in the future. Interestingly, you dodge the real source of the problem (and its possible resolution) by hand-waving the "career ladder."
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by fallous 6y ago
I had a friend who, many years ago, got a military contract to manufacture an item. I jokingly asked him if he was competing with $1200 hammers and $500 toilet seats and his response was "if you had any idea how much paperwork and red
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by fallous 6y ago
I'd agree that we tend to frame things in a reductionist way, but I don't think that's peculiar to Western thought so much as it is endemic to humans and their limitations. Given limited resources of time and knowledge the v

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