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by fwlr 4y ago
I remember being taught in school about the important Muslim contributions to science, philosophy, and mathematics. It has been interesting to learn over time that much of this was inherited from Indian scientists, philosophers, and mathema
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by fwlr 4y ago
I actually clicked on it thinking it meant the original SimCity which I adored, not realizing that was many decades ago, and expecting it to be some interesting argument that SimCity was somehow so good that it proactively ruined every city
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yeah, it probably is confusing to some. You might be able to skip the title entirely.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The HIG can upgrade that message slightly: title: Your session is about to end. text below: You’ve been inactive for a while. For your security, we’ll automatically sign you out in approximately 1 minute. action button: Stay signed in actio
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by fwlr 4y ago
Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines are a wonderful set of documents. Apple doesn’t always live up to them and sometimes egregiously violates them, but I take a Stephensonian view of this hypocrisy (“That we occasionally violate our own stat
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by fwlr 4y ago
Including arbitrary error codes in error messages is a good idea because it creates virtual gathering points for users searching for answers. From a comment I’ve made about errors in the past: “You should probably include the error code in
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by fwlr 4y ago
There isn’t as much malice in my calling the user an idiot as it might seem. I was recalling a quote by Rick Cook, “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Univ
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by fwlr 4y ago
A half-billion-dollar contract is almost certainly going to have re-negotiation procedures specified within (Amazon would naturally be worried that Twitter could easily over-use the services, so they’d want provisions to change the contract
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The UX is fine (see https://uis.georgetown.edu/zoom/meeting-controls/participant... ), the universe just built a better idiot
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by fwlr 4y ago
Their settings for this meeting allowed arbitrary users to show their desktops and/or webcams, and didn’t have users muted by default either. Sounds like PEBCAK.
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Alas, Bastiat wrote this in 1845, almost four decades before the invention of the commercial lightbulb.
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Yep, seems like that’s exactly it. Bob Hayes, quoting Gary Marcus: "It’s time for government to consider frameworks that allow for AI research under ... ethical standards and safety, while considering a pause on the widespread public d
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by fwlr 4y ago
I know Marc is skeptical of AI safety alarmism, I doubt he would think we should nuke China over AI safety. He’s also dry and and sarcastic. I bet if I investigate this it’ll turn out he’s doing a reductio ad absurdum of his opponents posit
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by fwlr 4y ago
Hey, one of these articles about “Elon’s Twitter isn’t paying its bills” finally said the quiet part out loud: “…AWS is not willing to renegotiate the five-and-a-half year contract it signed with Twitter in 2020 … contract required Twitter
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by fwlr 4y ago
Thanks. It doesn’t bother me as much as my comments make it seem it does, I learned to live with it long ago. But there are people who are bothered by their tinnitus and they suffer immensely, and it’s not very empathetic to say “learn to l
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by fwlr 4y ago
I stayed out most discussions about Covid at the time, but I do vividly recall there was a short period where I found it darkly amusing to say stuff like “deploy the Omegacron variant” in response to people expressing optimism about lockdow
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m not trying to claim it is immune to science. I argued it is “luck, not science” in service of the point that it isn’t as easy as “just install some filters”, that carries a bigger risk than commenters might think. Jack Daniels should ab
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by fwlr 4y ago
Jack Daniels isn’t meth. It is a complex and specific flavor profile that is enormously successful commercially. This profile was not arrived at via chemistry and biology, and it’s currently infeasible to apply chemistry and biology in a la
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m not a doctor and your ENT is, you should listen to them and not me. I shouldn’t have said “Prevailing theory”, that gives the wrong impression. Makes it seem like “this is what doctors think” when it’s actually just what I think. I’ll e
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by fwlr 4y ago
Lifelong tinnitus sufferer here. The prevailing theory (edit: this is misleading, it is not the “prevailing theory”, I typed that without thinking. It is actually a new-ish/fringe-ish alternative to the actual prevailing theory of accu
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by fwlr 4y ago
To clarify, I don’t think much of their excuse, this is obviously a situation the distilleries should be trying to fix, and so on. Mostly just a caution not to assume the solution is simple, obvious, and risk-free. Making spirits is not a s
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by fwlr 4y ago
“If stuff can get out, stuff can get in”. A filter setup that stops ethanol vapors from escaping is more precisely “a setup that applies the installed filters to all incoming and outgoing air”, if those filters block more than just ethanol
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to a blurb in my life. They are in the same category as those banners at the top of pages and the modals with convenient “X to close” in the top right.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Telling your son how good Android phones are isn’t going to work. You need to tell the bullies that Androids are good phones.
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Can you imagine if taco trucks gave away food for free, or if engineers built and maintained some of the biggest bridges in the world out of their own pockets and didn’t ask for a dime, or if accountants did their job without charging any f
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by fwlr 4y ago
Obviously I can’t speak to your experiences, but I definitely got more respect working as a developer than I do as a receptionist.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Dropped out of tech, arguably more by force than choice. My lifestyle, finances, social life, even country of residence (and by extension my love life) were all balanced on top of that little MacBook Pro. Used it for work, used it to social
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by fwlr 4y ago
The Christopher King user who submitted the pull request has a git repo in C++ called “Final - My Homework” made in 2015; the Christopher King you link to completed his BA in Computer Science in 2005. I strongly suspect they’re different pe
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by fwlr 4y ago
The user who submitted the pull request is not part of Meta or Facebook Research, and the users who signed off on reviewing the changes don’t appear to be either. I highly doubt Meta will approve the pull request. The models are being distr

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