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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Didn't he say that he was taking Friday off, last week? The day before his bete noire Elon Musk got into another brouhaha and OpenAI blew up? I think he said once that there's an ETF that trades on when he takes vacations, becaus
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
It's a pretty interesting point to think about. Post-hoc explanations are clean, neat, and may or may not have been prepared by someone with a particular interpretation of events. While real-time, there's too much happening, too
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I will say, though, that there is going to be an absolute banger of a book for Kara Swisher to write, once the dust has settled.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I agree. Although the story is fascinating in the way that a car crash is fascinating, it's clear that it's going to be very difficult to get any kind of objective understanding in real-time. This breathless real-time speculation
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Patrick O’Brian is my favorite author, there isn’t even a close second. Enjoy!
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Just finished “The Prague Cemetary” and “Jade Dragon Mountain”. Now reading “Telluria” by Vladimir Sorokin and “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Yikes. Has the metaphor really fallen that far out of favor? I guess kids don't really need to sneak into R-rated movies any more.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
> Those boats were designed to go on three-month patrols. From a purely practical perspective - where did they find room to stow an additional three months worth of rations and supplies? Submarines are not exactly renowned for their spa
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
It is "all that matters" to the people who are "all who matter".
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Why would they need to resort to that? They already have full access to your SF-86 and all the other blackmail material that every government employee with a clearance has to submit, on requesting a clearance. That's not just for bac
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Thanks you for posting this link. This blog is already a fascinating rabbit hole for a non-artist.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
In 15 years of experience here and there, only one has had on-call devs. I’ve come to the conclusion that neither dev nor their management care if someone else’s phone rings at 02:00. I’ve also seen open hostility to 1) the very idea of d
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Agreed. Reading this kind of thing makes my blood run cold. Your 'accidental sudo rm -rf /' not only destroyed one machine, but all of them. The entire cluster, standbys, backups, storage volumes, the whole enchilada. Tha
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Why would a private developer's decision not to include parking, be interpreted as some kind of metric for the sufficiency of public transport in the area? If a builder chose not to install locks on the doors of a new apartment complex
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Based on the last several weddings I've been to, both "Boot Scootin' Boogie" and "Wobble" have joined the canon of traditional wedding dance songs, and there were several others that I recognized but don't
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Hey. Nice work! I really enjoyed reading this. This is the kind of sensible, from-the-beginning writeup that I wish I'd had way back in the day when I first got started. It's a nice synthesis of a large amount of complicated i
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
"It's not ironic, it's just stupid." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Let's not forget things like the Sackler family's relentless marketing of addictive opiates. They and their expensive retainers get to have lofty discussions about this and that, whether a particular settlement number is _fair_ o
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
The first sentence was explicitly about Theranos. The whistleblower, defrauding former US Defense Secretaries, etc. That was all them.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Seems to me like 'defrauding some of the most powerful people in the world, misdiagnosing serious diseases, and harassing a whistleblower to the point where he killed himself' is an awfully high bar to clear in order for white-col
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Opera's email client had them too, I know I was using that around 2000. It was the first time I'd seen the feature, and it was one of the major reasons I used Opera for as long as I did. But Opera, then as now, was far from main
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
If they’d re-release Far Cry 2 with graphics on par with FC 5, I might never play anything else. I could hike around all day admiring the scenery in FC 5, or ride a jet ski from one end of the river to the other. But the story was hokey a
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I feel like I’m missing part of the picture. Everybody drags on Spotlight, I figured I must be missing something important so I installed Alfred. I press command+space, I type my application name, and boom. There it is. But I mean, I ha
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
This same thing happened in Spain, several years ago. The government passed a law charging google for linking to Spanish media sites. Google said "gracias, pero no" and stopped linking to those sites. The publishers immediately
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Son of Anton determined that the easiest way to minimize the impact of all the bugs in these codebases, was to keep anyone from trying to use them.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
Because to do otherwise is to normalize the use of false or non-existent information, whether due to bad faith, laziness, or gross ignorance, in processes where the outcomes may affect millions of dollars, thousands of people, or individual
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I agree with this. Having an OS option to scan and tag your documents into some taxonomy that is a built-in in your file browser would be quite attractive. I'm sure Microsoft and Google are both working on it. e-Discovery application
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
When I first started out I used Johnny Unary. I dumped all my documents into a folder called - get this - "Documents". It actually worked remarkably well for a number of years.
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
An IT professional criticizing the military for using acronyms and codes is a pretty bold stroke... Besides, if you named everything with regular words your poor MAX_PATH would be working overtime. There's a time and a place for abbre
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by hotsauceror 3y ago
I think this is exactly right, and it is a facet of the same discoverability issues that crop up when people talk about GUI vs CLI - one is more useful when you're discovering, and one when you are searching. Tags are really set-based

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