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by mLuby 5y ago
Are you referring to how the words "feel" in your mind (≈ average of a cluster of associated words) or about the sounds in the words? Plosives (PaT), sibilants (Sassy/SHow) or glottals (CoCKpit) sound "sharper" to m
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It's useful as a demonstration. More popular databases might see this and decide to include the feature as well. The best case would be if, say, Apple included a plausibly deniable file system or database by default on their systems.
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What lesson do you think organizations learned from that breach? (As it relates to this article.) The pattern I see is: 1. Company collects and stores private consumer info. 2. Company gets hacked. 3. Company share price unaffected. 4. Comp
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by mLuby 5y ago
Figure out who your tribe considers "the enemy" and then sneak over to the "enemy's camp" to see what they're talking about. 3 tactics, from trivial to dangerous: 1) Use a private or different browser, VPN, or
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by mLuby 5y ago
Chesterton's Fence is indeed linked in this single-page article.
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Your mental model of mental model doesn't match mine. I have a mental model of how an elevator works from using them many times, but it's absolutely a simplified understanding of the real mechanisms at work. I believe elevators ar
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by mLuby 5y ago
Is that statement being downvoted because it's incorrect? (I have no idea, just asking because that statement appears relevant.)
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by mLuby 5y ago
LinkedIn's social network is as necessary as Venmo's, which is to say just barely. User engagement's siren song is irresistible to data-driven product orgs. Is there a Law yet (like Zawinski's) that any app with enough u
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by mLuby 5y ago
(Intellectual property) rights depend on your ability to enforce them. Large companies have many resources to throw at enforcement while small companies have few and individuals even fewer. In the past, patents may have worked for the littl
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> Then it might be worth speaking with your manager to see if the team - or the position - is a good fit for you That escalated quickly. Good points, though you're talking past each other a bit. (I'm not disagreeing about 121s&
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by mLuby 5y ago
Drivable aircraft would need to be more convenient than cars. Does anyone do a pre-drive walk-around and engine test of their car, or do they just turn it on and go? If you're in a city do you request permission to begin a trip from
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by mLuby 5y ago
Okay Password Swordfish. :P As for those who code without guns to our heads, I'd take the candidate who ships well-tested code over the candidate who ships emergency code. Prefer few large fires over frequent small ones and just roll
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What's the "chaotic oscillator" doing here? It sounds like they're listening to a room of people who each shout when their individual random number comes up, as opposed to having some consensus protocol (don't say t
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by mLuby 5y ago
Individual contributor, in other words a worker as opposed to management. The author's using engineer to mean software developer; they're the workers in this context.
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> This has me wondering why the software world is so unpredictable in the first place… Also, why are we so inclined to think the physical world is so predictable? Ignoring time spent designing, software's manufacturing time is essen
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Not all civilian planes do this, nor other airborne objects like skydivers.
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Good sci-fi is about humans, bad sci-fi is about technology. You're right though, no fighter pilots in space and no stealth in space are two lessons the entertainment industry has been slow to learn. The Expanse (which is amazing—go wa
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by mLuby 5y ago
You're right. But if the target is on the fourth floor of an eight story building, a drone (or human) might be the only way to get the weapon there. Slaughterbots provide better leverage of air superiority than current missile-based op
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by mLuby 5y ago
GraphViz is great, like Markdown. I recommend https://edotor.net for online use: 1. No set-up, no accounts/registration. 2. Free, no ads. 3. Simple, pleasant UI with variable/keyword autocompletion and even m
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> you can't exchange money for time, only time for money. Most of the money people spend is to save them massive amounts of time. - Don't want to farm for a season to eat? Go buy food at the market. - Don't want to b
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by mLuby 5y ago
Ralph does mention "dissipative mechanisms" but dismisses them as negligible without elaborating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVX9Ob4SjGA&t=1068s
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A comment on the article's video had two interesting points: > There is linear stress problems that can occur, a single "activation" line (clock signal through a train of locks) can eventually reach a point that the mechan
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by mLuby 5y ago
Good critiques, which also apply to democracies. 1. "The election is not fair/can be bought" Democracy's got that one all right. 2.a. "no clear process to appoint candidates" I'm sure the process is explic
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A public company's board of directors don't look too dissimilar to a body of elected representatives, if you squint really hard. Memes in the larger sense of contagious ideas are as political as it gets and have been driving socia
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> sometimes I think of changing jobs just to see more of the world and gather experiences to be able to have more intellectually stimulating conversations. Learn about VC? Hear about more companies? Not to write off an entire profession,
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> "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events/things. Small minds discuss wine." To counter with a more famous quote: "in vino veritas." A conversation's quality is the product of each participa
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I regret that flippant first line because the second paragraph is what I was hoping to hear from HN about.
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Small talk is a protocol for simultaneously discovering the social capabilities and topics of interest of the conversation participants. Just as a computer that doesn't support HTTPS is functional yet un-networkable, so too can a perso
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Wipe them out, all of them. The ecosystem will survive mosquitoes' extinction. On the subject of laser safety, can you make one weak enough that a human will naturally blink or look away without getting blinded but powerful enough th
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Can't see why corporations would side with consumers over law enforcement. On the other hand, the very existence of stingrays suggests corporate cooperation isn't enough in some way. Maybe Apple (and/or browser makers) could

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