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by mbg721 5y ago
"If possible, please position the nuclear blast between yourself and COVID-19 in order to minimize proximity to COVID."
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by mbg721 5y ago
During the Cold War, I believe the official British advice to be broadcast to the populace in the event of nuclear attack was "First, go make tea," because it was the most ingrained and instinctive thing every Briton knew how to d
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by mbg721 5y ago
When programming an AV to drive like a human does, are the programmers including all the contextual human judgement that goes along with the human decisions, or just throwing away the letter of the law because it's too much trouble? I
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by mbg721 5y ago
It won't convincingly look like Windows 95 to me without a ton of Invalid Page Faults in kernel32.dll. (Can somebody give me a basic explanation of what that was??)
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by mbg721 5y ago
Alexa?
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by mbg721 5y ago
That runs against what I was taught in my high-school choir. In groups of male singers, there's a rule of thumb that you need more basses than tenors because the guys singing the lower notes are harder to hear. It may be that at lowe
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by mbg721 5y ago
There's more to this than the article covers; low pitches in music are appealing even if there aren't vocals. Playing a low note along with the same note an octave up just feels powerful . The lowest note of a chord gets parsed
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by mbg721 5y ago
I mean, thinking about it, it would make sense that the bots' programming has the same kinds of failure states that humans have when we walk.
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by mbg721 5y ago
This is one of the rare situations where people might actually empathize with those who make up "traffic".
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by mbg721 5y ago
It's not like Notre Dame burned down or anyth...oh.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Those are the people who get out of the jury population. The ones who remain are scary.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Delaware is a doable commute.
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by mbg721 5y ago
At what point would you waive the right to a trial-by-jury? I think about that from time to time; if I'm accused of something, what crimes are less sympathetic to my peers than to a judge?
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by mbg721 5y ago
Where the Western "Oh god, it's so tiring vacationing amongst the sahhhvages. Pass the gin, darling?" reaction still happens, it's based on the perception that in the tourist's home country, the law means what it s
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by mbg721 5y ago
This raises a good point. A just state should be efficient at identifying crimes; an unjust state can charge suspects who will never be convicted, or harass them without charging them.
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by mbg721 5y ago
Fwiw, a high-school friend of mine had a t-shirt that said "Singapore: It's a Fine City!" and underneath, it listed various legal offenses (like gum-chewing) and their fines.
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by mbg721 5y ago
First, they came to maximize the paper-clips, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a paper-clip...
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by mbg721 5y ago
Also see Graham crackers, although the circumcision connection is new to me.
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by mbg721 5y ago
How does it compare to Singapore in that aspect? I get the same impression there when people talk about how it all works really well until it doesn't.
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by mbg721 5y ago
For "individual contributors" that breaks in a way that seems obvious, but managers deal in unmeasurable fuzziness almost by definition (since humans are complicated and they're in the business of humans), and there's si
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by mbg721 5y ago
I would still argue that orderly actions that follow an established code tend to be boring, and that such codes are generally set up to encourage ethical actions.
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by mbg721 5y ago
In my household, we have a running gag that sometime in the 60s, Tragg was forced into retirement for harrassing too many innocent people and embarrassing the department, and they decided "Let's hire this Columbo fellow, he'l
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by mbg721 5y ago
"Blueprint for Murder" https://columbophile.com/2016/08/14/episode-review-columbo-b...
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by mbg721 5y ago
There might have existed a moment where every broadcast television signal on Earth was showing John Fiedler (Mr. Peterson on the Bob Newhart Show, Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh, a thousand other credits). He was everywhere in the same way peop
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by mbg721 5y ago
You might be thinking of Columbo Cries Wolf, or It's All In The Game. He does resolve both cases, but they're unconventional (and both from the 80s/90s revival of the series).
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by mbg721 5y ago
The part that I don't understand is that the Dark Stores have no reason to pay any more than necessary for rent; so they must be in the cheapest places possible that are close enough to deliver to affluent neighborhoods. So what are t
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by mbg721 5y ago
(Again, no blockbuster spoilers that I know of, but be aware) I guess in Murder By The Book he sits down and asks the victim's wife if she can come up with anything. Fade Into Murder had the whole blackmail thing going on in the backg
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by mbg721 5y ago
(I don't think there are any major spoilers below that would ruin the show, but I do reveal some Columbo plot.) Okay, fine, Last Salute to the Commodore is an exceptional case; it's widely regarded, along with the two later Ed M
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by mbg721 5y ago
Being ethical is often aligned with being boring. I don't want the employees at my insurance company doing anything exciting with my personal information.
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by mbg721 5y ago
I doubt that "Oh gee, it turns out the murderer was actually the black pedestrian in the suburban neighborhood this time" will get you published, though.

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