moolcool

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by moolcool 2y ago
It's important because ethics is a really complicated subject built on thousands of years of study and thought. It's worthy of being taught by an actual scholar who dedicated their life to understanding the field. Parents can teac
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by moolcool 2y ago
Having read McLuhan, I'm honestly surprised anybody at Meta would be a fan. His work can easily be read today as a pretty damning indictment of the inherent problems with social media.
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Have you taken a university level ethics course before? They teach the different ethical frameworks, where they come from, and then get you to apply them to different situations. The classes don't tell you what's right and what&#x
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What was the book?
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by moolcool 2y ago
I don't think it's preachy at all to say "Hey, the work you do has impacts on the wider world"
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Most Computer Science and engineering curriculums include courses about professional ethics.
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> Google/meta are probably classified as morally neutral but in reality gray areas I don't think so. I see tons of people with moral objections to Meta specifically.
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by moolcool 2y ago
> air travel is one of the most oppressive environments people regularly find themselves in How much of this would be solved by VR though? To me the unpleasantness of flying mostly comes down to physical discomfort. The seats are cramped
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by moolcool 2y ago
You're still making a big assumption that this is a device anybody actually wants in the first place. How many of the people who bought one of these actually still use them with any regularity?
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That's like saying speeders are enticed by government built roads
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by moolcool 2y ago
I've found Copilot pretty good at removing some tedium, like it'll write docstrings pretty well most of the time, but it does almost nothing to alleviate the actual mental labour of software engineering
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> The problem with advice like these is you will encounter deranged developers that become obsessive about such things and make the code base ugly trying to implement dozens of style rules That's more of a "deranged developer&q
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Posy is fantastic. I also highly recommend his Lazy Posy channel.
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The pressure provided by the bi-metalic strip is representing the temperature, and it's turning off the main heater by causing the unit to pop out. The "signal" doesn't have to be voltage, it can be pressure or spacial
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"represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable" Did you read the article? The cigarette lighter represents data (pops out) based on measurement of a continuous variable (temperature)
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It's a valid distinction of the author to make. I don't know if there's such thing as a cigarette lighter which uses digital circuitry, but there theoretically could be. The way the lighter in the article works is both analog
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The Mac Mini is well under $1000
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> It's also such a clear political win Until helicopter parents start complaining
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Dumbphones weren't allowed in my high school, but apparently smartphones are now.
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That entire album is such a massive emotional gut-punch.
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Palm OS never got the respect it deserved IMO. I had a Palm device in 2003 which had a camera, app support, and audio/video playback. The Palm Treo line existed in 2002 too, and that added cellular connectivity to the mix. Apple gets
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by moolcool 2y ago
I started shooting on a 12mp sensor after spending most of my time on 24mp (Sony A7 II to a Nikon D700) and I was surprised at how much detail was in the 12mp images. Unless you're cropping really heavily or printing really large, you
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by moolcool 2y ago
The video here demonstrates how a loose pedal cover can wedge the accelerator. https://twitter.com/garageklub/status/1779571445930324456
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Oh man, the cybertruck is a deeply unserious vehicle.
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If it continues at this pace, then it'll solve 108% of GitHub issues in just 3 months
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by moolcool 3y ago
Open source is great, but LibreOffice is a nightmare to use when you want to any actual work. I feel for the German bureaucrats.
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by moolcool 3y ago
It's a choose your own adventure game, you have to get through the exposition
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by moolcool 3y ago
Have you ever had an experience with a call center where you went in knowing "I know that they don't have a pre-packaged support experience for this specific inquiry so I'm going to mash 0 until I hear a human speaking"?
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by moolcool 3y ago
The opposition to this isn't "reckless driving is good, actually", it's "surveillance capitalism is creepy and bad".
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by moolcool 3y ago
> you could make the exact same argument about almost any tech device, like the iPhone itself I don't think this is true. There was a massive appetite for the iPhone for decades leading up to its release, and there was no question t

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