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How Do Committees Invent? (1968)(melconway.com)
1 points by miltondts 5y ago|0 comments
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The Only Unbreakable Law [Video](youtube.com)
6 points by miltondts 5y ago|0 comments
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by miltondts 5y ago
I think black and white had that.
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by miltondts 5y ago
The most accurate is probably any clock/watch with a GPS sensor.
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by miltondts 5y ago
Fall of civilizations has the history of many: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast I especially enjoyed https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA , as I had no idea the first cities were already so
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by miltondts 5y ago
And one more resource with the history of many civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast I especially enjoyed https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA , as I had no idea the first cities
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by miltondts 5y ago
Exactly. I'm very surprised by this article and all the comments that apparently didn't bother to go check historical data and immediately started looking for causes (they are lazy! It's management! It's inequality etc).
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Wedge Products, Dot Products, Scalars, and Norms(terathon.com)
2 points by miltondts 5y ago|0 comments
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by miltondts 5y ago
Depends a bit on how long you want to be out of a job. However if you want to do this for some months/years, then consider investing in relationships. Either creating new or strengthening existing ones. Whatever you decide to do, if yo
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by miltondts 5y ago
You can ride comfortably at 48km/h? I guess you should attempt the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record .
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Where Does Bad Code Come From? [video](youtube.com)
5 points by miltondts 5y ago|0 comments
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by miltondts 5y ago
And yet, look at x86. Still going strong after 40 years. There is absolutely no reason we could not have a standard instruction set for GPUs. OpenGL is just the wrong abstraction. Same for Vulkan.
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by miltondts 5y ago
A couple of drawbacks I never see mentioned in these discussions: * When you know more languages and you are faced with problems whose solutions are trivial to express in one of them, but you are forced to use another it is extremely frustr
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by miltondts 5y ago
Yes, currently trying to create these tools by hand on a case by case basis is awful, however I think the point of Bret Victor's work is to imagine a world where this type of tools come by default (or are easily created) with every pro
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by miltondts 5y ago
> and point source carbon extraction and sequestration. CCS at the extraction point is just propaganda to keep extracting more CO2. This is not a solution it's just an excuse to keep pumping CO2 out of the ground and into the air. T
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by miltondts 5y ago
> The world is better off today in basically every way than it was 100 years ago This is orthogonal as to whether a collapse is around the corner or not. If you look at the science in the IPCC report, combine with the inability to hit ev
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by miltondts 5y ago
Here's a report on a study that shows we are already at > 2C: https://www.ecowatch.com/greenhouse-gases-paris-agreement-26...
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by miltondts 5y ago
What exactly do you mean? How do these solutions deal with servers unexpectedly going down? I worked on telecom where you need the service to be up 24/7 and we restarted all the services on deployment. In waves of course.
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by miltondts 5y ago
I think you are right, but at the same time, if the cost of manufacturing doesn't reflect the overall cost then we need to make laws for that. Also in video after video of electronic repairs: https://www.youtube.com/cha
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by miltondts 5y ago
> I mean it's a natural progression of how products are designed and made. We have electronics that are relatively easy to break (either through normal use or casual misuse), and then are simply not economical to repair. The primary
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by miltondts 5y ago
The larger issue is that measuring the problem in degrees, doesn't convey the gravity or the urgency of the situation. Most will associate it with seasonal changes, or sea rise or extreme weather. But that is just the surface level. Wh
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by miltondts 5y ago
> I read it. It’s clearly decades out of date. The specter of species-ending nuclear war was not ended by utopian visions of cooperation… it was the triumph of capitalism, not the ending of capitalism, that arguably coincided with the ma
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by miltondts 5y ago
Did you read the paper I linked to? That is precisely the entire point of "Why are we not acting to save the world?". We need to apply more science and technology in the right places.
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by miltondts 5y ago
"Can we produce the required adjustments with the necessary speed? The most hopeful answer is that the human species has been subjected to similar tests before and seems to have a congenital ability to come through, after varying amoun
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by miltondts 5y ago
> Terrorism vs heart disease just don't really compete. They do actually. Both for budget and for misery.
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by miltondts 5y ago
> Defects escape, and the further they go the more hassle it is. As a practicing engineer, what is readily observable is that this is highly dependent on context. You see how hard it is to reach any consensus without rigorous measurement
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by miltondts 5y ago
Essentially we are stuck in ancient times, where rhetoric and personality dominate the software field. Until we start to do serious science, we will continue to see the constant churn of practices and paradigms, without even knowing if they
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by miltondts 5y ago
A talk at the American Psychological Association in 1982, it was then release along with other articles in the book "Upon Further Reflection" in 1987.
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Why are we not acting to save the world? (1982) [pdf](gator.uhd.edu)
3 points by miltondts 5y ago|2 comments
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Is Capitalism Efficient? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by miltondts 5y ago|0 comments

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