mulmen

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691.
by mulmen 1y ago
Nobody is perfectly honest so this definition isn’t useful without further qualification.
692.
by mulmen 1y ago
> because dishonest people can choose to be honest According to you. But why can’t the opposite be true? > honest when it benefit you is not truly honest Show me a person who has never been dishonest.
693.
by mulmen 1y ago
The only useful definition is “breaks the rules of the game”. Using this definition one honest victory in a perfect information game disproves the assertion.
694.
by mulmen 1y ago
Ok but people are both honest and dishonest so how do you decide what type a person is?
695.
by mulmen 1y ago
Is this some kind of inverse no true scotsman? If you win by being honest that’s not dishonest.
696.
by mulmen 1y ago
This is needlessly negative. It’s clear that dishonest people do not always win. Disproving such a claim requires finding only one case of a successful prosecution for fraud.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Oh. You'll be relieved to know my office stalls are constructed in a way that the panels overlap those gaps. You're right it isn't hard, basically the door just opens in and is wider than the opening. There's no way t
698.
by mulmen 1y ago
Fines are a disincentive. If they work what happens to your funding?
699.
by mulmen 1y ago
> Have you ever wondered why we have vertical gaps in public bathroom stalls? You mean the gap between the floor and the walls? Isn’t that for ease of cleaning?
700.
by mulmen 1y ago
You can still choose to install apps to ~/Applications if you are an admin.
701.
by mulmen 1y ago
Now imagine that home directory was on your iPhone and you could plug it in to any Mac anywhere you went!
702.
by mulmen 1y ago
Ok but if you change the laws then you don’t need a different build.
703.
by mulmen 1y ago
Yeah I mention it’s open to the public because it really is GM leaving you to your own devices.
704.
by mulmen 1y ago
Sure, that’s the point of the slate truck! Seems like a car for 3d printing enthusiasts.
705.
by mulmen 1y ago
I visited Detroit last year and went to the GM headquarters. It’s open to the public with no appointment. You can wander around the Escherian maze with no guidance. A physical manifestation of every business decision GM has made in the l
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by mulmen 1y ago
The Slate truck won’t have CarPlay because it won’t have infotainment at all. If you want Carplay buy one of the dozens of offerings from companies like Alpine and have it installed at one of the thousands of stereo shops across the countr
707.
by mulmen 1y ago
Ok but that doesn’t really solve the problem in Europe.
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by mulmen 1y ago
> It was thankless work that is still glossed over and waved away today, but it was all a very big deal throughout the late 90s. Mike Judge even made a movie about it! Office Space might be the most recognition turn of the millennium pr
709.
by mulmen 1y ago
I think this perspective is better characterized as “solo” and not “old”. I don’t think your age is relevant here. Senior engineers are not necessarily old but have the experience to delegate manageable tasks to peers including juniors a
710.
by mulmen 1y ago
He’s a kid. He decided to do what he thought was a nice thing that doesn’t hurt anyone. Take the W.
711.
by mulmen 1y ago
Why would providing food preclude support for victims of or intervention in other types of abuse?
712.
by mulmen 1y ago
> Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. It’s a lot easier to teach someone when they aren’t starving. Teaching someone to fish almost certainly requires giving them a fish. T
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by mulmen 1y ago
> I don't know what the correct answer is. I do. > The tricky thing is, if you let anyone just choose not to pay, there will be plenty of people who are capable of paying who don't bother. It isn't tricky. It's ta
714.
by mulmen 1y ago
I use generative AI in the exact opposite way. I write the simple facts and let GenAI make it palatable to humans.
715.
by mulmen 1y ago
I’m glad you let him send his message. AI is the future whether you like it or not. Teaching him to use that tool effectively will serve him far better than shaming him for engaging the world in a way you find uncomfortable but is acceptab
716.
by mulmen 1y ago
“Sitting on”? He famously invests in companies that do things.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Thise are just obstructions. Call a waymo and experience it for yourself. Humans can’t achieve that level of awareness.
718.
by mulmen 1y ago
These trucks are already covered in cameras. The self driving ones even more. How does this highway robbery even work? You force the autonomous truck to stop, take an angle grinder to the doors, then... unpack all the crates and boxes an
719.
by mulmen 1y ago
> I feel like the ideal scenario would be to prioritize self driving truck at set times and set long haul freeways (i.e. Long Beach to Las Vegas or Galveston to Dallas) during the night time when there is no regular auto traffic - for ex
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by mulmen 1y ago
> I'm probably just showing my age, but I like the idea of a "drivered" truck leading driverless trucks versus a completely autonomous system. It's similar to my attitude on crewed spaceflight-- I like the idea of the

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