jonbronson

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by jonbronson 3y ago
And why is down-voting disabled?
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by jonbronson 4y ago
you just sent shivers down my spine
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by jonbronson 4y ago
You do realize military and intelligence leaders are the ones that made the recommendation not to shoot it down immediately, right? It's a bit of a political cheap shot to try and lay the blame on the sitting President. Unless he were
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by jonbronson 4y ago
When people withhold answers to reasonable questions in order to probe for some hidden or more "real" intent of the asker. This is a ubiquitous problem polluting sites like Stack Overflow, but can also happen within an org. Always
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by jonbronson 4y ago
> But I ultimately think of mathematics as a just an invented tool whose only reason for existence is to solve concrete problems. This might be the source of disconnect. I frequently encounter this perspective and worry there's a fu
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by jonbronson 5y ago
That's self-evidently untrue. The properties that make a circle would be true regardless of whether a human ever set eyes on a perfect circle. Us identifying those properties is an act of discovery via research. Codifying those mathema
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by jonbronson 6y ago
That's a really good observation to note. The prior embedded in their image data is their own bias of what is a "good" representation of themselves.
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by jonbronson 6y ago
I worked at a productive computing research institute for a number of a years. I cannot count the number of times I found research teams duplicating critical algorithms. Research Scientists not only pay the price of the spaghetti nature of
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by jonbronson 6y ago
Oh thanks for the clarification! That was not immediately obvious to me, though in hindsight it does say Part 1. I agree, that is quite the time investment. Like any mini-series, the first segment really needs to nail it to keep the viewer
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by jonbronson 6y ago
It's an hour and fourteen minutes. What do you suppose you'll be doing with the extra six hours?
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by jonbronson 6y ago
That's pretty presumptive. There are any number of factors that might make a synchronous conversation desirable or even necessary. Merely seeking that out implies nothing about how someone values other people's time.
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by jonbronson 6y ago
"You can't censor us, we censor you!" - In all seriousness, this only hurts the ISP's customers. Interesting business tactic. We'll have to see how that plays out.
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by jonbronson 6y ago
The facts aligning in the Senator's favor does not make the request partisan. Nor are they the only political figures to reference the widely acknowledged facts that there was no spread widespread voter fraud. Prominent Republican poli
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by jonbronson 6y ago
Lucidchart Cloud Insights is another player in this space. Full disclosure, I'm part of the team that created it: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/lucidchart-cloud-insights
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by jonbronson 6y ago
How long do these probes last before oxidization destroy them?
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by jonbronson 6y ago
Unfortunately, `Good First Issue` and `help wanted` sections are currently empty for the macOS fork.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
It's step one. Step two is to utilize applicatonis/companies that have your privacy in mind. The fact that you own/control the data empowers you to choose rather become stuck.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
"Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account" Farewell, Qt.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
There is no reason we cannot treat ethics like we do medicine, where prevailing wisdom is arrived at by a methodical and judicious process that is standardized. Sam Harris's "The Moral Landscape" is an excellent start for bui
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by jonbronson 7y ago
"...mindless production of mathematical fiction..." This derisive comment betrays the authors own hypocritical stance, claiming physicists are too close-minded, while simultaneously ridiculing the role of advanced mathematics in
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by jonbronson 7y ago
"The solution is as follows: Make all fields in a message required. This makes messages product types." Except it also breaks backwards compatibility, one of the most powerful and sought-after features of protobufs.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
The Helm team did a great job addressing community concerns. I love to see this type of engagement and commitment to users.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
It's surprisingly difficult to navigate to a clear example of this project in action.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
It's not about changing that persons mind. It's about maximizing the value of the event for the rest of attendees. And no, on politics. Differences of opinion on how to run a country, where to put resources, what policy makes sens
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by jonbronson 7y ago
That right there is precisely why the organizers had to take action. They want to cultivate a conference where diverse attendees don't feel like they have to make a choice between participating in an important professional and staying
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by jonbronson 7y ago
On the contrary, that's the exact issue at the heart of what happened here.
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by jonbronson 7y ago
No, I'm quite certain that people deserve to be treated with equal dignity and respect regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, national origin, or disability. Perhaps in the past this masqueraded as a political question,
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by jonbronson 7y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that devaluing women, minorities, and foreigners is merely a difference in political views. It's an outright abandonment of human decency that is central to the professional ethics of western soc
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by jonbronson 7y ago
In ordinary times, this would make sense. But we're living in extraordinary times, where the mainstream political candidate of the American Right has more in common with despot authoritarians around the world than he does with the trad
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by jonbronson 7y ago
"Our events should and will be a safe space." Seems like a pretty clear reason. He demonstrated that he promotes a hostile attitude toward marginalized individuals who they want to attend the conference.

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