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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Safety systems certainly need to work in all conditions, but “work” in this case may mean refusing to activate in conditions outside its design range. It’s fine for a self-driving system to refuse to drive in a blizzard; it’s not ok for it
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If you have a computer science/programming background, don’t worry too much about the skills you listed— they’re not ultimately that different than what you’ve already learned and you can pick them up as needed. The game design skill
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That language replaced “Don’t drink and drive” in alcohol advertisements because the manufacturers wanted the lede to be “Please drink...” instead of “Don’t drink...”. It’s there either because there’s legislation requiring anti-drunk-driv
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Since then, the Disney corporation has been working hard to ensure that Mickey’s likeness is a trademark in actual widespread use across many varied product categories. Even if another copyright extension isn’t granted, they’ll still be in
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> It's also curious that copyrights use the language of rights, which are typically thought to be inalienable, yet are transferrable as economic assets in ways that most other rights are not. As far as I understand it, the word “rig
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve seen this used to good effect with coworkers that habitually ask for help before trying to solve the problem themselves. Instead of ignoring them or complaining that they’re wasting your time, wait to respond for a few minutes so that
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As I recall, the primary reason for end-of-season cliffhangers was for leverage in contract negotiations. Actors have a harder time arguing that they are indispensable when the viewers’ last shot was of their character in mortal peril.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I also get the impression that US shows were commissioned in longer runs— a typical season was 22 shows a year, delivered weekly, so it was impractical to plot out everything in advance. On any given day, the actors might be doing scenes f
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> I'm fascinated by the idea networks would play series out of order, which on the face of it seems incredibly dumb. Part of the issue was that show production was pipelined and unreliable. It sometimes happened that the “next” epi
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Cliff-hangers long predate modern television, and seem to be endemic to any serialized content. The term itself dates back to the late 1800s, and it’s use has been derided in every medium from books to radio to film to television. It also
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It used to be that when you visited someone’s place, you’d see their collection of books, or music, or movies, or games sitting on a shelf and it was a low-friction way to find something in common to talk about. Now that everyone’s collect
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
As it turns out, “irrationally defensive” is the overwhelmingly dominant response in humans faced with analyzing their own behavior in any situation.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There is unfortunately a large gulf between “agile” and “Agile” development these days. The former refers to development generally in line with the agile manifesto, with processes tailored to the needs of the team and the project. The lat
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The modern solution to this problem is to use different types for semantically distinct categories, even if the in-memory representation is effectively identical. Noticing that you’re mixing HTML-safe and HTML-unsafe strings is exactly the
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The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences(oeis.org)
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
My personal twist on this one is to make showing a habitual failure to enforce a law be an affirmative defense for all crimes. That way, the law is by definition what is enforced, and singling someone out for infractions that are generally
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Other than being Forth-based, is this significantly different than any of the other embeddable scripting languages, like Guile or Lua?
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Bold is the single-color equivalent of highlighting. The eye will be drawn to and read boldface words before starting to read the main text, which is why italics are recommended for simple emphasis— from a distance they don’t draw as muc
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> This system is deeply ingrained in our society; there's not really a way to opt out and still have a relatively normal life. And this is what needs to change. I’ve known many successful people that moved to the US and then had p
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
At the very least, it shouldn’t be allowed to put the links to regulatory information (like the terms of service or privacy policy) in a footer below an infinite scroller.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Can the punishment for crimes stop being absurd. The absurd punishment was Swartz’s, and was 8 years ago. Are you saying that, out of fairness, the punishment for all future computer crimes should scale up to make this one tragic even
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I can second the recommendation for Deep Work , but it’s not the end of the story. Richard Hamming points out in You and Your Research that the researchers who were open to distraction tended to do a better job figuring out what to work
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Note that this happened at DWebCamp, an Internet-privacy focused event. Everyone present had self-selected for these attributes, and they aren’t necessarily representative of the wider population. (See https://dwebcamp.org/
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Despite the obvious conflict of interest, you can get pretty far by talking to bookshop staff. They’re around the books all day, so it’s pretty much inevitable they’ll leaf through them and form their own opinions.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Recent history notwithstanding, politics is fundamentally about consensus and compromise. Regardless of the strength of your personal belief, change won’t happen until you convince a majority of people (or their representatives) to vote fo
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
On the flip side, the “solutions” that boil down to admonishing people not to do patently useful things are politically impossible, unless they propose a solution to the new problem they’re creating.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Paper and other plant-based products are one major method of getting carbon in a useful form from the air instead of underground. Generally, the trees that are chopped down to make paper were specially planted for the purpose in managed fo
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
First, I should note that I’m speculating without any basis at all here: I don’t have kids nor have I had any relevant formal training. It’s entirely possible this is a wrong approach or simply too nuanced for their ages. I’d try to frame
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
“A soldier does not become a shrewd general merely by endorsing the strategic principles of Clausewitz; he must also be competent to apply them.” “Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Where do you keep this stuff safe? On display in your home or a museum. A painting that can’t be seen is just a stained piece of canvas.

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