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by kerblang 4y ago
Now is a good time to remind folks that you can compress air but not water , so when water makes it into your internal combustion engine's air intake (usually hood level) there will be spectacular mechanical carnage & destruction
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by kerblang 4y ago
Firstly Sam Harris published a popular book deriving anti-free-will from scientific determinism, and Robert Sapolsky has also been a contributor, deriving it from baboon research and neurology. I think the American Revolution was vehemently
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by kerblang 4y ago
On a similar note, it is becoming increasingly popular to assert that there's no such thing as free will, asserting that this will lead to "compassion" for people convicted of crimes. But it's really about giving up on p
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by kerblang 4y ago
I recall seeing a tablet on a stand in an examining room at one doctor's office, and the contraption was turned to the wall and shut off, and I wondered what that was about - some sort of diagnostic doohickey? Should I turn it on and s
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by kerblang 4y ago
True but I must insist you are remiss for not pointing out that the "tech industry" is founded on the military industrial complex and has been rooted in defense contracts throughout its history, including and especially silicon va
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by kerblang 4y ago
Stupid & Evil are best friends - if you're looking for one, the other is often nearby. There's going to be a mix of incredibly stupid and incredibly crooked behavior all through this. It's not a surprise that this "g
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by kerblang 4y ago
I fear what people will do to a sentient AI much more than vice versa. In fact it horrifies me.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Well, I was wondering: Can one guy really IPO the same product twice ? It was quite a clever stunt quitting Oracle, snagging IP on the way out, and just rinse/repeat to another $billion+ but it seemed to good to be true. I guess it
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by kerblang 4y ago
Just want to point out that this HN account has been in place since 2018, but hasn't commented in more than four years - waiting, waiting, waiting for the right moment... and then - Well played.
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by kerblang 4y ago
Doesn't this come down to tail vs. dog? Suppose I plan to assemble infrastructure for some ideal of "Deployment Maturity" - no downtime, any time of day, one-click, etc. But it turns out the development team has designed the
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by kerblang 4y ago
The original claim makes no sense to me, nor does your complaint; `git revert` specifically creates new history rather than trying to do something rebase-like and change history/force push. That's why it's easy to revert th
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by kerblang 4y ago
If you actually resolve all ambiguity perfectly, you end up with: The program itself. The most important thing is clarifying the nature of the problem people want to solve; if you know that much, you can make some kind of headway with minim
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by kerblang 4y ago
Nobody ever talks about the monolithic all-in-one framework upgrade? You really haven't come to terms with SPA until you've done the all-in-one framework upgrade, man. It's like running thru a hailstorm of razor blades
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by kerblang 4y ago
There's another kind of trust: I trust the organization to prioritize core competency among staff and not use me as a crutch to compensate for that lack of effort by burning all my time reviewing crap programming work . I think the di
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by kerblang 4y ago
Whoa celebrity charges too. You just knew Jake Paul had his hand in so much bad crypto he was gonna get nailed eventually. I suppose Coffeezilla will struggle to suppress the glee. Edit: > With the exception of Cortez Way and Mahone, the
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by kerblang 4y ago
The amount of spite and hatred in the comments here are a little bit surprising... But here's a question: Do you believe this man wants the wrong things? Do you believe his desire for freedom, and his willingness to sacrifice everythin
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by kerblang 4y ago
The paper doesn't seem to introduce any novel understanding of the topic, just reinforce what we already assumed - maybe I'm missing something. I'd be more interested in a study of "persecution" news, the us-vs-them
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by kerblang 4y ago
Scene: Big Meeting Of Venture Capital Conspiracy Club Honcho 1: Guys, here's the game plan: We tell all our startups to pull their money out of SVB, triggering a run on the bank, triggering other runs all the way out to Credit
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by kerblang 4y ago
Since nobody else mentioned it: Often you'll want to have multiple consumers of a given topic for load-balancing/failover - that's on the consumer side. The support for this in the MQTT standard is poorly defined, and popul
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by kerblang 4y ago
Sorry for the extraordinarily late reply, but: I'm only peripherally involved in this application, but I think it's in part because of hideously bad architecture from the ground up. I know it was written in Cold Fusion, for one th
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by kerblang 4y ago
Two reasonably valid contradictions: 1) You are having serious problems with nightmares (esp. kids) 2) You're a massively obsessed sex pervert
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by kerblang 4y ago
Sticks and bones may break my bones, but words can divert me into hours and hours of endless hairsplitting and bickering until I die of being bored with myself and doctors gather and marvel at the inexplicable fact that I am still complaini
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by kerblang 4y ago
On this second-systems effect: Okay, what if the initial system has reached a point of being unmaintainable and a new system is needed, and there just is no way to get it to where it needs to go incrementally, because the pathways just aren
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by kerblang 4y ago
I'm supposed to be in one of those "hotelling" env's but human beings are so territorial that it effectively failed. In truth managers sabotaged it but employees were happy to go along. Even with WFH dominating now, it&#
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by kerblang 4y ago
Long ago in the age before the semiotics of standing-desk superiority came into fashion, I worked with a gentleman who made his own stander from plywood and screws and so forth, and stood all day every day, and he was in fact a Lisp program
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by kerblang 4y ago
I think I would do this by default because I'm so ignorant/incompetent with the fancier tools that I'd never think to look for a cropper. I'm the cretin that says, "Oh I can do this in MS Paint!" and even spend
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by kerblang 4y ago
Great stuff - I think this goes in the "required reading" list. The tech industry tends to revolve around "I'm a super-rational robotic genius" thinking that can't accept the existence of its own irrational ten
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by kerblang 4y ago
All good, but esp. in the tech industry people tend to make 1001 excuses for 100% short-term thinking at the complete exclusion of long-term thinking, and that means a mountain of unresolved always-just-barely-worked as well as an organic j
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by kerblang 4y ago
Ah, thanks, interesting paper > In general this strategy is profitable, both for the full sample and for individual years, but in most cases the results are not statistically different from the random trading case, and therefore they do
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by kerblang 4y ago
On a tangential note, I've been meaning to pursue a silly hypothesis that you could buy cryptocurrency low on mondays and sell high on weekends, because that's when recreational gamblers gamble most - an extension of pandemic-bubb

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