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by kelnos 4mo ago
> I'll quote a Boeing (from MD originally) executive as saying "Meeting this project deadline is more important than your child dying." > Sadly this was also the time I remember Boeing's engineering ranks began
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by kelnos 4mo ago
This is a disappointingly cynical take. Sure, it's fine to criticize some of the specifics of this particular article, but the 747 was an engineering marvel for its time, and it was one of the major workhorses of commercial (and in
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Person who lacks empathy accuses another of being a narcissist...
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That's a naive view of things. People don't have perfect information about the world around them. They can only go on what limited information filters to them. AI copycats will by their very nature be better at marketing and pu
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by kelnos 4mo ago
How do you build reputation when you have 100 competitors who will do shady things to get customers before pulling the rug out from under them. Your pockets aren't deep enough to survive until there are pieces to pick up.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
We have expensive drugs that make people less hungry, and essentially require they take them for the rest of their lives. We also don't really know the long-term effects of these drugs when used for this purpose. (Using them for diab
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I wish I could be as optimistic as you are about this stuff. I agree with you on medical advancements, but I am skeptical about curing cancer (which is really curing hundreds of different diseases) any time soon. Alzheimer's might be
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That's funny. To me (mid-40s), the "glory days" of the internet were pre -iPhone, around 1997-2005 or so. Sure, speeds were lower, but that was ok for the time. And sure, everyone didn't have always-on internet acces
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Er, no, then you'd use the regular USB-C expansion card and plug the dongle into that, and then the port becomes generally useful. A wider bag doesn't solve it. The part that sticks out could still easily snag on something. I woul
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by kelnos 4mo ago
In that case why wouldn't you use a hub/docking station type thing? And again, that configuration still lends itself just fine to a dongle.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Oh god, bringing back memories I don't want. They were always so fragile.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
In a way, I kinda don't get the idea of an expansion card for ethernet, rather than just a dongle. Specifically, as in this case, where it sticks out from the side of the chassis. If I'm on the go, I'll have to take it out of
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I think Robert and Bob are better examples. Native English speakers of all ages today are going to know that they're the same person, but someone in Russia might have trouble with those names if they were to read a Russian translation
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I haven't read any Dostoyevsky since high school, and don't remember it at all, but I'd imagine it has to do with nicknames. A non-Russian speaker is going to be confused when the same character is referred to as both Alexand
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I don't think you can educate kids about certain types of emotional matters and certain types of empathy, at any age. Their brains just have not developed to the point where it's possible or useful. "Empathy" doesn&#x27
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> Are kids "ready" to deal with organic chemistry? Or integrals? Yes, absolutely. A kid can learn both of those things and understand them, assuming they have the proper foundational knowledge, taught to them in prior classe
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by kelnos 4mo ago
There's a difference between teaching kids stuff they aren't interested in in order to expose them to it (good!), and teaching kids stuff that require the lived experience of an adult to truly understand and appreciate (of dubious
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That's a fair point. I read The Idiot in high school, when I was 14 years old, for an assignment. (I don't think I specifically had to read that book, but we were asked to pick from a list, and I picked that one.) I had so mu
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I chose to learn C 25 years ago and avoid it now whenever I can. Life's too short to deal with memory unsafety.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That's a separate issue of supply-chain risk, and crates.io using GitHub auth isn't really material to that. The gripe with using GitHub auth for crates.io is that GitHub is owned by a large, fickle corporation with a (shall we sa
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I'm not sure that really gives you the guarantees you think it does, though. For example, I could push some malicious code, tag it, wait for Packagist to finish pulling it to publish a package, and then amend history to remove the mali
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by kelnos 4mo ago
It's pretty sad that people are suggesting we not use perfectly-good English idioms anymore just because LLMs seem to like them. The reason LLMs seem to like them is because humans liked them first.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
There's just so much prior art here, though. Docker hub has username-based and org-based namespaces (as well as a "blessed package" root with no namespace). Maven central uses reverse-DNS as a namespace (and Maven central
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> this is not really relevant to the point, but to satisfy your curiosity: more than one, and one. What? That's not only relevant to the point, it's incredibly relevant. If the NSA is only able to recruit 2% of the math P
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> the nsa has an unlimited budget No they don't, and if you're going to try to argue something with that as your opener, it very easily casts large amounts of skepticism on whatever you are about to say. Perhaps you're e
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That sounds like a lot of unsubstantiated, circumstantial, conspiracy-theory nonsense.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
You keep saying this, but it's nonsensical. If I terminate TLS on the box that does processing, there's nothing to intercept. And these days (especially post-Snowden), many (most?) companies encrypt data when sending between serv
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Yes that's what "effectively" means.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> (such as documentation of habits through long term data aggregation) Don't ALPRs do exactly this?
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by kelnos 4mo ago
An unsolved crime is much less serious than a crime committed using state apparatus, though.

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