mariodiana

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by mariodiana 3y ago
“There is no tomorrow! There is no tomorrow!”
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Thank you. Lesson learned.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Since I do remember that episode and got curious, I asked ChatGPT. Apparently, the antipodal point on the globe from Hoboken, NJ is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. From Tokyo, it's in the South Atlantic Ocean, n
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by mariodiana 3y ago
I wonder if he had considered using the duct tape on Wang.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
> Imagine a population of 1099 workers where half of the electorate refuses to pay taxes in order to protest the policies of the government in power. Is that a missing verse from the John Lennon song, because I like it.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
They pay a guilt tax.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
“[D]esign the software to fit the maximum team cognitive load.” I see. So, RAID drives, failover servers for redundancy, and generators (or at least UPS batteries) for power — but push your team to their maximum load.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Actually, I'm offended on behalf of Western civilization.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Thank you for that. It's thorough, and obviously well-versed in the subject. As she says on the first page of her translation, "Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times." O tempora, o mores!
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by mariodiana 3y ago
I appreciate you asking. I'm going by memory from several years ago, but if the Greek word used to describe Telemachus means something like "presence of mind," to hint at the boy growing up to be a man worthy of such a father
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by mariodiana 3y ago
The author did a bit of "reimagining" with her translation of "The Odyssey" as well, which I own and was very excited about at the time I acquired it. In fact, I bought the book, walked a few blocks, and attended a lectu
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by mariodiana 3y ago
According to the government, if it involves "tubes," it's the Internet.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Attention: Anecdote, incoming! Since racial profiling is arguably a factor in police interactions with the public, let me just start with the fact that I'm a plain old white male. I was raised to show deference and respect to authority
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Years ago when I worked second-level support, I was the on-call guy for Thanksgiving. Our customers were specialty retailers, so I thought nothing of it. I figured they'd be closed. Turns out, we had an "Urban Clothing Store"
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by mariodiana 3y ago
It's difficult to develop products without understanding customer needs, and it's difficult to understand customer needs without a variety of customers. That's the problem their business model is it solving.
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by mariodiana 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin
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by mariodiana 3y ago
This is just a stray thought, but I wonder if men and women use these filled pauses differently in conversation, and, if there is a difference, could this in part contribute to the alleged phenomenon of men interrupting women in conversatio
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by mariodiana 3y ago
Related to this issue, an article in Harper's Magazine, from 2015, discussed the threat China poses to the United States, via the American businesses who have interests over there: "The New China syndrome: How Beijing shakes dow
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by mariodiana 4y ago
An object has the potential to undermine the solemnity of a ritual. As to your hot-rodding example, there is no supernatural power I'm referring to, merely perception.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I think the whole purpose of the ritual is shared solemnity. Laying aside Matthew 5:34-37, using the Bible fits in the context of Western civilization. Likewise, using nothing and merely affirming fits as well. But by its very nature bringi
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Perhaps the planned obsolescence helped the consumer, because perhaps there would have been no willing producers if producing the lightbulbs at a price the users were willing to pay for wasn't going to turn out to be profitable, with r
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I'd like to see them make an app for Apple TV, as well. The sound system setup with my television is the main one in my apartment.
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Right. But, more than that, I'm talking about the fallout of shutting things down—of breaking the chain of production—and then the difficulty of starting things up again. I was horrified when things got shut down. Even when I originall
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I think you're right, and I corrected myself (before I saw your post) in answering a question to my original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35263238 Logistics got screwed up, I agree. And the increase in th
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Thank you. I don't think I was being careful in my phrasing. By capital, I'm referring to the actual machinery and so forth used for production. Also, I expanded on that idea (as I noted) by including transportation, considering t
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by mariodiana 4y ago
Full disclosure: My understanding of economics is heavily influenced from what's called the Austrian School. On that understanding, we have two main factors that are contributing to the rise in prices. Only one of them is, properly spe
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by mariodiana 4y ago
What happens when AI models ingest the AI-generated content that will soon flood the web?
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by mariodiana 4y ago
The way capitalism works is this. Rich people have the responsibility of knowing what to do with their money. If they don't know what to do with it, it won't be long before they're no longer rich. Perhaps people are sympathet
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by mariodiana 4y ago
I think what I wrote was misleading. When I wrote that I never migrated to Swift, what I meant was that I never bothered learning it. It broke my heart to have to work on iOS and throw away my Objective-C knowledge and trade (the UI stuff o
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by mariodiana 4y ago
> But with C++ and Java, the dynamic thinking fostered by object-oriented languages was nearly fatally assaulted by the theology of static thinking inherited from our mathematical heritage and the assumptions built into our views of comp

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