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by me_again 4y ago
I doubt that he will get off, but it seems dubious to put people in jail pre-trial on the basis that they would get away without jail time post-trial.
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by me_again 4y ago
"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and remain absolutely sober". -Logan Pearsall Smith
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by me_again 4y ago
Already started: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/beto-orourke-sam-ban... . Though I somehow doubt everyone will follow suit.
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by me_again 4y ago
Since we seem to have started a competition about who can provide the least relevant and most pedantic correction, the sun is not a ball of fire. It is a plasma heated by nuclear fusion. There is no oxygen to support combustion.
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by me_again 4y ago
It's a little ironic to me that even rants about how programming has gotten worse recycle the same points from 30 years ago. Read https://391.org/manifestos/1991-manifesto-futurist-programme... and spot the diff
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by me_again 4y ago
Look into WSUS / Windows Update Services
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by me_again 4y ago
Perhaps unfair, but I tried "prove that all prime numbers are composite" https://galactica.org/?prompt=prove+that+all+prime+numbers+a... and got "The theorem in number theory that states that all prime number
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by me_again 4y ago
Interestingly, the US doesn't have a true national power grid. https://www.epa.gov/green-power-markets/us-grid-regions The practical difficulty of transporting large amounts of water long distances is even worse t
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by me_again 4y ago
Mark Twain supposedly said: Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'. Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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by me_again 4y ago
That seems possible, but satirically posting self-aggrandizing BS on Blind is like satirically posting Pepe memes on 4Chan.
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by me_again 4y ago
Ah, the unassailable confidence required to work in one lower-level position at a company for 5 months and believe you know "How To Succeed" there.
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by me_again 4y ago
Deprecated features are compiler warnings, not compiler errors, unless you use -Werror or the like.
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by me_again 4y ago
It's generally engineer -> engineering manager (10 people) -> group engineering manager (100 people) -> VP -> fancy VP -> CEO. Depth of org in a company is logN(number of employees) where N is the number of reports a man
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by me_again 4y ago
MS engineer who worked on Lync. I feel like the Skype acquisition was poorly handed too, but interesting how the perceptions differ. We were folded into the Skype org, with Tony Bates -who I maintain had no idea what he was doing- reporting
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by me_again 4y ago
If you rounded up 100 regular web users and ran a usability test where they had to do this to post a comment, how many do you think would succeed?
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by me_again 4y ago
That seems "prohibitively convoluted" to me, if nothing else.
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by me_again 4y ago
Apple would sell exactly one kind of burger, which is great but costs $20. The wrapper is rose gold or space grey. Only Apple-certified condiments can be applied to the burgers, and a packet of ketchup is $5. Each year the faithful queue ou
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by me_again 4y ago
But then if you are in a queue already the most efficient response is to leave and rejoin at the front. Quite soon you don't have a queue, you have a brawl. Perhaps I'm missing something.
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by me_again 4y ago
What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I th
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by me_again 4y ago
Today, fusion power is not workable. We have no idea if or when it will be. "Let's carry on as-is until fusion works" is "don't worry, we'll put wings on the bus" in Doctorow's terms. By all means, le
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by me_again 4y ago
The stupid machines are so paranoid. "Unexpected item in bagging area!" That's my bag to put the groceries in. "Place item in bagging area!" I just did, your scale just sucks. Let me pick it up and put it down again
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by me_again 4y ago
I think it's abnormal for executives to get compensation > entire company revenue. I'm sure it happens in other industries from time to time but it seems like a sign of misinvestment to me.
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by me_again 4y ago
Seems like an improvement in KWh/kg could make a big difference in weight, and hence in efficiency.
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by me_again 4y ago
A mountain goats show without egregious omissions would be about 3 days long. They're also playing the first post-lockdown concert I will be attending :-)
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Masks Are Off(dadadrummer.substack.com)
3 points by me_again 4y ago|0 comments
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by me_again 4y ago
I wonder if Obvious Plant fake items will one day be valuable. https://www.instagram.com/obviousplant/ They seem rare enough...
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by me_again 5y ago
> We are not Vulcans. Exactly. Graham gives the impression that he thinks conversations are a set of automata exchanging logical propositions. Rather makes me wonder if he's ever met a human.
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by me_again 5y ago
I had a program once which failed every time it was 8 or 9 minutes past the hour and worked the rest of the time. It parsed a string containing the time and sscanf treats "08" and "09" as invalid octal numbers. Argh.
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by me_again 5y ago
I believe there is (or was) a product used by TV stations which would semi-automatically re-edit a movie to fit in a specific amount of time, mostly by removing the start of end of a cut where not much was happening on the audio or video. A
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There’s nothing worse than a restaurant that makes you feel like an old Git(theguardian.com)
3 points by me_again 5y ago|0 comments

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