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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah, "webapps are all you need" is the one time I can recall Steve Jobs getting booed on stage.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
LOL. Soviet Russia and Imperial China are calling, they want to show you what power looks like.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah. It's not fair to judge Microsoft for people abusing the API, but that's a different question from whether or not they should lock it out. That would be a big freedom reduction, and even though I'm sure it would make lif
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Because they are also used by debuggers, security tools, and other flavors of "keep the world humming along despite its best efforts to kill itself."
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by jdewerd 3y ago
They wanted to avoid FURBYGATE. They avoided FURBYGATE. Sounds reasonable to me!
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by jdewerd 3y ago
The numerical version of this sin is typedef float real; which promotes a similar confusion of concepts, even if the true meaning is understood by experts. That said, I think the QM/not QM lingo from the molecular dynamics com
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by jdewerd 3y ago
If they wanted people to migrate, they could first put a bit of effort into making their tools suck just a bit less on IPv6. It's not even "second class citizen" status, it's more "bastard stepchild of my least-favo
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> there may be quantum effects involved Quantum Mechanics is why atoms and molecules exist and form bonds. QM is the physics of chemistry. Without QM, chemistry does not happen. The universe would just be a big churning mess of particles
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by jdewerd 3y ago
A company that lets you "invest" in fine art. They sell shares in famous paintings & such that they buy, hold, and sell (and charge big fees to do so, naturally). I think they predate the NFT craze, but when they saw it happen
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by jdewerd 3y ago
(this post sponsored by Masterworks)
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Definitely a substantial portion of it, but we should be far more scandalized by the damage your typical runaway hype machine does to otherwise brilliant achievements than by NASA's successful efforts to wrangle expectations.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Applying formal reasoning to defend a self-admitted heuristic is a special kind of silly. Besides, your heuristic sucks. Just because it formally sucks due to being an ad-hom doesn't mean it can't informally suck on other dime
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Ah, yes, all the economic think tanks funded by people and organizations of a certain economic background promoting policy that coincidentally serves the purposes of those same parties are more trustworthy because they try to obfuscate thei
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by jdewerd 3y ago
You've seen how celebrity worship works -- how often does it involve "very many superb characteristics?" Yes, the pumped up numbers helped, but there will always be a market for selling validation to assholes.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
A respectable track record and a margin for error are fine things to insist on, but that was not the argument being presented or objected to.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
So it's OK to have more deaths so long as we can punish someone with no expectation that doing so will fix the problem? I suspect you are right, but I don't think it reflects well on us.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
You can prove presence of assets, you can't prove absence of liabilities, and you can't audit the balance sheet without seeing both sides.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Right, and the "opposition comment" standards were clearly efforts to address that problem. Insufficient as they were, they pretty clearly helped. Media is worse for their loss and they have yet to be replaced. Ground News is the
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by jdewerd 3y ago
If I had nothing to compare CNN to, I'd be scandalized.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Nothing made me respect mainstream media more than a thousand "alternative" pundits crying foul while not only failing to do better but regressing on the basics: asking accused parties for comment, asking adjacent experts for comm
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by jdewerd 3y ago
It's different in the level of documentation and severity. Or maybe not and maybe you can prove me wrong! Show me the Democratic equivalent of Trump leaning on Brad Raffensperger to find 11780 votes. Show me the Democratic equivalent o
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by jdewerd 3y ago
That was the hopeful speculation flying around when Russia surprised to the downside in Ukraine, but the counterpoint is that the nuclear forces are the best funded part of the Russian military [1] and, due to arms reduction treaties and in
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> Russian Communist Party during the USSR Or during Putin. Here's another: Donald Trump's inner court.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
From googling around it looks like prices doubled and then halved. It looks like they were back to 2019 levels by the beginning of 2023. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/steel
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> I’m not under the impression that the replication crisis in the social sciences looms as large for others as it does for me Not just social sciences. I decided to get out of biology when I helped an adjacent lab with some machine learn
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Is there an "everyone knows but nobody says" dynamic here, like if the tea comes from Mandiant/CrowdStrike it's about Russia, if it comes from Kaspersky it's about NSA, etc?
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by jdewerd 3y ago
"Just ignore the cloud features, it's fine." "Just ignore the ads, it's fine." "Just unplug ethernet during setup to get the option to ignore the cloud features, it's fine." "Just edit the r
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> git gud scrub Does your workflow demand a comparable number of different editors to OP? Let's be generous and say comparable = within a factor of 5. You're talking about a singular IDE and OP is in the security space, so my g
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Ha! I was prepared to disagree, thinking "nah, I generally like smart features like block select and block indent/comment, but auto-quotation belongs in the pits of hell." Turns out TFA is a rant about auto-quotation. I withd
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> over repeated trope with little nuance Says the guy whose entire argument is "war is risky." Well, yeah -- and a ruler weighs that risk against the risk of losing legitimacy and power due to a stalling economy. This story has

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