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by gaius 8y ago
as a package, US weapons are best. Meaning that Russia might have a better x weapon but that's it There’s no such thing as “best” in this game, because the enemy won’t give you the fight you want, but the fight they want. Well, unles
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by gaius 8y ago
In the face of extreme anxiety, I literally become stupid. In a stressful situation your brain disengages the frontal cortex and falls back to an instinctual mode of operation. This mode is generally unaware of the modern world. In my own
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by gaius 8y ago
"retarded" is possibly the most conspicuous example. The earliest example of this I can remember is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Deacon#Blue_Peter_and_cul... (showing my age abit there!)
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by gaius 8y ago
virtue-signalling, combined with a implicit reproach towards minorities for being sensitive Indeed. Here's a concrete example of PC culture banning a word and shaming people who actually have the condition https://www.ep
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by gaius 8y ago
No more than the OP was elected to speak for the majority...
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by gaius 8y ago
attempted exercise in political power to shape the language and outcomes of our politics. Manipulating language doesn't really work tho', because everyone understands what's really meant. As an example we all actually know
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by gaius 8y ago
Since "PC Culture" is primarily intended to protect minorities I am a minority. No it isn't. It is simply one faction of the dominant caste using us as pawns in its war on another faction.
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by gaius 8y ago
Western companies need state help Imagine you are GCHQ or the NSA. You discover a 0-day. Do you a) make sure your own citizens and allies are patched ASAP or b) keep it quiet so you can use it yourself, perhaps on said citizens?
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm not on Facebook at all, and my spam call rate has shot up too. I think it's just an increase in spam calls, not a result of Facebook hackery. If anyone you know is on FB the chances are FB slurped up all your details from th
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by gaius 8y ago
How it is now: "sell the chip first, find out how to make it later if you did." Taken to its logical extreme you get Theranos. Will lessons be learned? I’m not holding my breath.
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by gaius 8y ago
But do you have an alternative model ready? I was a subscriber to the NYT until recently, had been for over a decade. They don’t track subscribers any less, or show fewer ads. So I tried the alternative but they were too greedy. Also you
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by gaius 8y ago
iceland has no military, and no real political or economic significance in the world. it has no genuine allies to whom it is worthwhile Iceland is a founding member of NATO and is located in the backyard of two of the world’s most powerfu
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by gaius 8y ago
What are the German arguments against nuclear? They banned it after Fukushima as far as I understand it, despite having totally different geology?
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by gaius 8y ago
If you want to take direct action join the Woodland Trust https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/membership/ We are actually out there planting trees like it’s going out of fashion
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by gaius 8y ago
It's not at all clear that software engineering is safe. Software is an arms race. You need new software if your competitors are writing new software, but any organisation can coast for a long time on its “legacy systems”. That’s wha
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by gaius 8y ago
Oh god TCL is horrible Think of it as a C library with a very flexible configuration file... TCL is amazing and was doing what Lua and Node do a decade or more before they badly reinvented a subset of it and called it new.
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by gaius 8y ago
Indeed, only when I have the entire room to myself. Wouldn’t do push-ups in there for obvious reasons!
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ve done chin-ups in the bathroom before, when the cubicle door frame is suitable
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by gaius 8y ago
Ironically that’s the sort of thing the GMAT tests for ;-)
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ve often wished I could just drop for 20 beside my desk to get the blood pumping but that would be considered super-weird anywhere I’ve worked recently.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes, you can imagine the author of the article saying Nikon is the best for clicking, or that Gordon Ramsey is the best at chopping.
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by gaius 8y ago
try to maintain > 10k LOC codebases in Python to understand what I mean. My previous job we had about 3 million lines of Python and it was fine.
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by gaius 8y ago
The author of this is clearly deeply emotionally invested in Google and desperately struggling with the cognitive dissonance of things not being as she idealised
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by gaius 8y ago
Ditto. Hell Google just dropped out of the JEDI pitch mumbling something about their tech not being up to the requirements. Azure and AWS are so clearly in the lead. Google’s offering is, well, a bit better than Oracle’s, but that’s as far
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by gaius 8y ago
I don't think search is considered invasive enough for most people to care about that one A person's search history is a window into their very soul, it is possibly the most sensitive thing Google has on you.
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by gaius 8y ago
... because they’re technically so far behind AWS and Azure that they aren’t even in the running. They even say they would have bid if it was multicloud so clearly it’s not on ethical grounds really.
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by gaius 8y ago
The majority of software development is essentially blue collar work now. And like lots of blue-collar work companies are scrambling to offshore it to the cheapest locations and don’t care about quality because it’s all disposable. I coul
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by gaius 8y ago
Plenty of examples with CNTK https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/cntk-libr... Also Nvidia have a course https://courses.nvidia.com/courses/course-v1:DLI+C-AC-01+V1/... But
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by gaius 8y ago
They have this immense cash-generating engine that is AdWords and that means management can make alot of mistakes without it even mattering. If that revenue went away, what would they do? Conversely, if Bing was shut down at the same time
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by gaius 8y ago
Probably the worst decision made in this whole mess was (again, IMHO) trying to unify the account model. This was a half-arsed attempt at inflating user numbers by counting every user of YouTube as a login to Google+.

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