gurneyHaleck

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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Yes. A recent one. Prior to 2003, people were less interested in non-sentient autonomous machines. Drones. As technology advances, autonomous machines may very likely grow beyond the definition/parlance of a "drone" (machiner
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
The Fermi Paradox posits the premise of ANY artifact indicative of intelligent origins. It doesn't have to be "self replicating drones." It could be inert bullets, arrow heads, sharp sticks, carefully arranged electromagnet
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Just because you like the idea, doesn't mean it gets adopted.
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Yeah, I really don't buy that premise at all. Just because some individual likes the idea of drones, doesn't make them implicitly virtuous. The decision to use resources to pollute the wilderness with arbitrary technology is a lea
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
If that's the case then we definitely do not want to face the universe as primitive indiginous people unceremoniously discovered by technologically mature explorers.
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
I, uh, don't happen to understand where... precisely, that real people paid with their lives, due to these leaks. From where I stand, he released Power Point slides to journalists, outlining the broad strokes of some programs and pro
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
I can't help but stand this next to the Challenger Space Shuttle O-ring thread, without feeling a profound sense of resonance between these 2 scenarios. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13238346 Compare this passag
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
"Do you realise the astronauts will run out of nitrogen on day 59 and die?" So Mars One isn't really funny, it has probably set back the credibility of the movement by a decade. I realize it's
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Very true. The Mac Pro is eternally reminiscent of a trash can, and it feels hazardous leaving it out in the open, because maybe someone might actually mistake it for one and drop an empty coffee cup in it. The lack of expandability makes i
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Oh, definitely true. Apple is always a higher price in general, just as a brand name. It's their intended marketing strategy. Even within Apple's own product line though, compare what you get with the cylindrical desktop Mac Pro
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
An iPad with a keyboard. God help us all. And looking back on ye olden MacOS 9, prior to OSX, there were things that just felt nice about the interface that no longer hold sway. Clicking on an icon gave an immediate response. The mouse cu
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
But don't actually LIKE the mac mini. It's not something I particularly want. I do kind of want the huge cinema displays. But they're expensive. I do kind of want the cylindrical mac pro. But it's expensive. Apple&#x27
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Sometimes I get the feeling that those who control industries that profit from climate-altering human behavior believe that it's okay to alter the climate, because whatever they have caused, they will assuredly be able to override, and
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Last time I checked, a jet engine doesn't quite blow smoke entirely across a tarmac. Maybe hot air just rises anyway. Maybe kinetic influence matters less than boosting the thermal energy? But inversion layers change with the weather,
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
No, that's a bad idea. TC articles ARE many times vapid, uniformative and click-baity, but... They will remain tech-oriented, timely and do serve the purpose of initiating conversation, by drawing attention to information sources tha
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
But by Christmas of 2001, a lot of people would just roll their eyes, and say things like "Oh come on. Iraq? Bullshit. No way." [0] By mid-2002 there were weird goings on, things like lumber shortages, and it was like "Oh fuc
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Yeah, that's probably true. I'm thinking in terms of conversations at Christmas parties in 2001.
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
If there's only one source of news that feeds into the grapevine effect then you only need to tune into the grapevine. There are like five journalistic camps that feed into my grapevine, and they all report the same stories, and spin f
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
My house didn't have cable at that time, and I was not yet in high school. We watched the first gulf war in social studies class, putting it in league with the space shuttle challenger disaster. It was a classroom topic for a few month
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Yes, but that was tabloid junk. A seedy hollywood yarn. Not an air disaster that demolished two buildings filled with people. 9/11 had teeth that other stories couldn't come close to. Like JFK, it was on another level, and hard to
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
There was a period of time, starting upon the day of, and then continuing for some years after the 9/11 attacks, where " The News " was something you couldn't help but be engrossed by. Growing up during an era of Johnny
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Traffic and the comparative size of automobiles, compared to buses, means buses get stuck in congestion and delayed more readily in shared roadways. Buses almost always have to compromise with the surrounding vehicles and yeild right-of-way
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Streetcars can operate on rails too, and thus are not implicitly buses. There is evidence of this still embedded in the pavement of cities which have, or used to have, above-ground trolley systems.
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
And that's because buses are THE WORST form of transportation imaginable. Anything is better than a bus. Buses have never been the opposite of obsolete. They were always a step backwards. Trolleys with dedicated lanes make sense. When
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
I can see it now: "This graph depicting revenue reveals that the maternity ward is quite the cost center. It should be going up and to the right! Smithers, why are there so few pregnancies? We need more in
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
So much for CORS policies. If browsers restricted cross-origin sharing of image resources to same domain only, bazillions of dollars in tracking pixel revenue would evaporate. Deep inspection of image rasters by script execution isn't
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by gurneyHaleck 10y ago
Being a party to lackluster software development on a regular basis, I somewhat pine for projects this strict. As part of my daily routine, feigning surprise at the fact that, given a tree of decisions, I'm only permitted to code for t