m_fayer

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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   GLaDOS was a few years ahead of her time.
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   Thanks for this.
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   > When an industry consists of hundreds of small- and medium-sized enterprises, it is a mob, a rabble. Hundreds of companies can’t agree on what to tell Parliament or Congress or the Commission. They can’t even agree on how to cater a me
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   In the last year or so, I've had a disturbing number of experiences with various large companies messing up or violating contract and responding with, essentially, "f you, sue me." I actually have a legal dispute going, and h
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   I don't know what disaster you're talking about. Blazor server is a complete .NET vision of "html over the wire" - it has some major downsides and is only appropriate in particular scenarios, but in those scenarios it sh
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   I would add to the above: like every other sector, we are sitting on top of a teetering arbitrary pile of technologies and processes that is long past due for a cleanup and overhaul, but we still haven't encountered a catastrophe big e
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   The car we all want comes from a school of product design that respects both the machine it's building and the user of that machine. Specifically, it respects that user's time, money, taste, judgment, autonomy, and capability. I c
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   The agile-peddling consultants and managers would certainly be the first to the barricades.
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   by m_fayer 3y ago

   By this logic, the recent Boeing 737 incident should be considered a gift from the heavens. Which I think is actually a good way to look at it, though we don’t yet know whether this gift will be squandered.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    Cost and time can't really be fudged. There are multiple ways to deflect and obfuscate issues with quality, so of course that comes last.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I think this is more commonly referred to as “fuck you money”.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    In a very broad sense, just like large enterprises are "us", the government is also "us". These are different ways that we organize to achieve our aims. As I see it, government continuing to fail can be seen as us contin
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I very much agree with Tufekci, the safety of air travel is a testament to the people who achieve it - it demonstrates their ability to build expensive, elaborate, and effective institutions and processes that are commensurate to the immens
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    Yeah I was one of those. Now that the power it brings has dawned on me I'm trying to integrate it everywhere I can with a "where was this thing for half my life" feeling. I truly think it's a bigger revelation than Googl
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I think the Star Trek computer has actually been achieved now. And Google didn't get there first.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    Sounds like a CEO of a hyped tech company.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    Rocketlab might end up as the AMD to the Intel of SpaceX.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I think a used Nissan Leaf from 2020 or so can be had for a reasonable price for this purpose right now. Depending where you are of course.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I’ve had the experience of being a neurotypical partnered to someone with (well concealed) asd. That experience has left me instinctively wincing at the notions of integrity and authenticity. I now associate them with interpersonal and lega
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    That is a great idea and as another frequent traveler I’ll take this to heart. While shaking my head and muttering to myself that I guess this is where we are now.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    VS has been going in the wrong direction for years, and I’ve been a happy rider customer for years. Give it a try before tossing the baby with the bath water.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    But what would India do? It might be something hard to ignore.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I think some time in the next decade there will be a “perfect storm” heat wave combined with a power failure, and millions will die in days. This will jerk the Overton window and popular sentiment in an unpredictable direction, and no one k
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I wish we’d all settle on Avalonia and pretend whatever Microsoft is pushing this year is just not happening.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    There’s a wonderful novella by Ed Chiang called “the lifecycle of software objects” that addresses your thoughts exactly. Highly recommended.
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    If the skies fill with drones while traffic jams ease, there’s less double parking for delivery, and streets generally start looking more airy, people may make the association.
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    Deutsche Bank struggles with fallout after Postbank IT migration(ft.com)

    3 points by m_fayer 3y ago|0 comments
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    I did that in Berlin about a decade ago and I think that only stopped happening here around 2018. I have fond memories of thermoses, multiple layers, a long grumpy queue trying to keep itself warm in pitch darkness. And then when the doors
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    AI could replace humans in social science research(uwaterloo.ca)

    1 points by m_fayer 3y ago|0 comments
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    by m_fayer 3y ago

    This option is painfully underappreciated.