ldiracdelta

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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
I heard it from Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. In addition to writing that comic he is a very interesting thinker. He is also a trained hypnotist.
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
As Scott Adams says, "Analogies are for fighting." If you try to counter a statement with an analogy you almost always simply get a fight.
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
Sounds like currency deflation. There are winners in deflation too.
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
At least for apples, that's due to the feedback loop from the super market. 1. New variety ( red delicious, gala, fuji, honey crisp) 2. Customer says, "I really like it! Could you make it redder?" 3. Farmer/nursery sele
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
If you think a crying baby is a bummer on a flight, try a crying dog. Just happened to me on my last flight.
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
:-) Not sure about the legality and such, but rate limiting by economics does work for my physical mailbox. I get spam, but it isn't 1000+ letters a day like my email inbox. If I was allowed to increase the cost of delivery to my hous
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
I want a whitelisting system for email where: * If you're whitelisted you get through or I can manually whitelist you. * If you're not whitelisted, I send a bounceback response stating that I'll look at your email for $X wher
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
Depending on the program, college is a filter for higher IQ and attention to detail. There's a cheaper filter called an IQ test, but they are illegal in the US. There is no compelling reason why s/w engineering couldn't be
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
Pure speculation -- Lawyers are scary. Someone with an army of lawyers is a formidable opponent.
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by ldiracdelta 4y ago
The incentives changed drastically for women. You used to have to be married to a man to access his coffers. Try collecting alimony or child support from a guy who can move 100 miles away and essentially be unfindable. Now all you need i
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Yes, the Overton Window must be enforced. We have always been at war with East Asia.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
They've "memory-holed", 1984-style, other conservative sites as well. Just another narrative-enforcing search-engine.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Look up "Qualified immunity" and "civil asset forfeiture"
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
The api and cli of https://mayhem4api.forallsecure.com/ are written in Rust. Still using react on frontend with REST api written with actix.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
https://thehackermind.com/ Like darknet diaries, but more software. RSS https://feed.podbean.com/thehackermind/feed.xml
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
"None" is legitimately the only safe amount of alcohol for many people and "none" may also be the legitimate amount of gaming for many people.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
For Lent, my family fasts all screens. We normally don't make it the 40 days, but it really helps to reevaluate your screen usage this way, once a year.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Dual boot windows and Linux with separate drives. Lock your windows drive in a timelock safe and have it only open on Fridays or whenever you want it to open, biweekly even. Or Thursdays when you have a game session with your friends. When
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
No it hasn't become more expensive due to hitting 5%, though it may be more expensive for other reasons. The market will equilabrate. There's a couple who live at the peak of the bell curve that defines your market. They can spe
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
The Kodi plugin interface is a giant pain. Any time I'm trying to do a Kodi plugin I spend 30% of my time searching for an alternative to Kodi.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Yeah, I think you would use other native technology for videos, but for simple UIs? If it can work on an ESP-32, it can work on x86 big-iron. ( I don't have a dog in this fight, yet, so tell me how I'm wrong.)
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
I've used qt professionally for years and have been slowly coming to the same position, but I'm wondering about going the other direction with performance and using lvgl.io for GUI only and all the backend server communication and
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
The attitude. The "micro" of microservices belies a religious zeal that more and smaller services is an unmitigated awesome thing and we should always strive for more of it. "Services" is for people who think it is a n
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Origin was 1788 from my little research. Point is that all of these words start out as high-minded words from well-meaning people and then some ninny comes along and tries to change the word, telling everyone that their words are bad inste
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
So in general. Over the last 6 years. Trump should have insulted him publicly? That's how you bend people to your will?
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
So you think Trump should have been insulting him publicly? Do you get more cooperation out of people by publicly lambasting them?
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Completely orthogonal to the morality debate of this: Microsoft is going to be doing a very interesting experiment here. With COVID, many companies that were reluctant to enable remote working were forced to implement it for a year to surv
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
1788 - Retarded 1846 - Simpleton ~1876 - Feeble-minded 1910 - Moron 1900s Special Ed 1900s Intellectually Disabled The label is useful. The condition is lamentable. Changing the label every few years doesn't make children not use the
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
It's also possible the CEO was told something that wasn't true by an underling.
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by ldiracdelta 5y ago
I believe it is referencing "The Replication Crisis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

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