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by mLuby 4y ago
Doreen dropping the knowledge. I just learned another fun Coco Chanel quote: "Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger." Little known fact: before he was Pied Piper's cool
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by mLuby 4y ago
I wouldn't trust Amazon with my life(-support equipment), especially not a product with 3.5 stars and obvious misspellings. Things like shoddy air quality, masks designed for aesthetics over function, etc. can create unintuitive risks
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by mLuby 4y ago
Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space sci-fi novels include mysterious communications from beings that want to cross into our reality from another universe or timeline (I forget which) and need our help to do so. Coincidentally I read t
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by mLuby 4y ago
https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html
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I like the idea but predict legislatures would enact keep-alive bills that `renew *.law`.
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by mLuby 4y ago
I'm surprised a password cracker would advocate switching to biometrics, the one type of password you can't change.
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by mLuby 4y ago
I was coding remotely where the sun always shines rebased my co'mmits and I pushed to CI I closed 16 bugs in the comp'ny repo And the scrum master said, "Well, bless my soul"
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by mLuby 4y ago
AGI is an existential threat to human-led governments. Why would they build something to displace them?
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Pushing "accelerate" costs a great deal. Investors will want a return on their capital: either in money pressed from unequal access to the resulting paradise or in direct power over this new god.
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by mLuby 4y ago
> We first presented this scenario before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when most military officers were thinking in terms of conventional combat [seizing the town]. We suspect that after two decades of irregular warfare, the minorit
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by mLuby 4y ago
> What if you dug a very deep hole, created a near-vaccuum, and you shot the rocket out like a rail-cannon? What would happen is your payload would follow a ballistic trajectory up through the atmosphere into space, then it'd fall
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by mLuby 4y ago
If average users will see the URL in their browser, make it meaningful. After all, it is a user interface. X blog.com/users/1234/posts/5678 √ blog.com/tom-nook/thoughts-about-urls
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by mLuby 4y ago
That makes sense. Do aftermarket physical panels exist for consumers to replace their touch dashboard with physical buttons linked to the same functionality? That'd sidestep the long pole issue and give drivers the ability to customize
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by mLuby 4y ago
Hear, hear! Let's call it "capital punishment."
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by mLuby 4y ago
Having worked in big tech and small startups, I think GraphQL is a brilliant way to solve an organizational problem that massive tech companies have. It's that the team maintaining the API is different from the team that needs change
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by mLuby 4y ago
The difference is that evolution is the only game in town (well, until humans started bio-engineering).
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> but that term [battleships] is sometimes used colloquially to refer to any surface warship other than carriers Really? I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone call a frigate a cruiser or a littoral combat ship a destroyer or an am
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by mLuby 4y ago
> I wonder if a language can be Turing-complete without flow control. My guess is no? I agree, unless something like pattern-matching does not count as control flow. But then isn't a conditional just a basic pattern? Why does it g
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by mLuby 4y ago
> jobs that suck are the easiest types of jobs So no true. Human manual and emotional labor is incredibly cheap compared to the cost of automating those tasks.
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A decent outcome would be Glassdoor covering the users' legal fees.
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by mLuby 4y ago
Your first clause is complex and correct so you're doing just fine. :)
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> CEO of Misapplied Sciences, the company that created the product Name is spot on. Facial recognition is too creepy to live.
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by mLuby 4y ago
I'm open to other measures; anything's better than "IDK infinite." What do you propose?
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The guy has 15X more money than god (using the Vatican's wealth as a proxy).
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Black Mirror. For broad definition of sci-fi and broad definition of film.
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Teacher: Why are only [veterans] allowed to vote? Student: It's a reward for doing government service. Teacher: No. No! Something given has no value. Teacher: What's the moral difference between a civilian and [veteran
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by mLuby 4y ago
Working adult life feels worry-free compared to school. There was always more homework or studying to do after a full day in the classroom. One of the privileges of adult life is leaving work at the office. (I know not every adult does this
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by mLuby 4y ago
I've seen estimates of 40-60% of all households not paying anything in taxes even if they are filing them. Conditioning voting rights on having paid taxes would disenfranchise a huge swath of low income people as well as people wit
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by mLuby 4y ago
If we had a paddle that let you cleanse the air of coronavirus, would you be against people using it? Mosquito-borne illnesses are a thousand times more deadly.
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Mass surveillance has been used against citizens in the US too; it's too tempting a tool not to abuse. The legal system loses its credibility when warrants, proceedings, evidence, etc are all secret in the name of national security. An

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