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by musingsole 4y ago
> By outbreeding the fact that we also died a bunch for unknown reasons. You really do the robustness of the human body and immune system a disservice.
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by musingsole 4y ago
It's less like finding a Wikipedia article and more like asking a gossipy cousin about a topic. It tends to land in the right ballpark and capture the tone of a thing.
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by musingsole 4y ago
> Hard Truth #3: Interview invites are a poor proxy for your desirability Just because you’re getting a lot of offers to interview does not mean that you are a hot commodity. Hard disagree. Interviewing is expensive as all hell from the
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by musingsole 4y ago
Right, it's not like there are living stewards of the art who could've told you what it meant! Oh wait...
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by musingsole 4y ago
Bypassing security of the type described and being oblivious to why the security is there requires a type of autonomy and narcissism that exceeds "childish mistake".
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by musingsole 4y ago
> The point about whether the sister who journaled everything wouldn't have journaled about creating the software Where does it say she didn't journal about the software? And - imagining said entry - even if you could prove the
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by musingsole 4y ago
Do mammals hunt wasps for their honey?
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by musingsole 4y ago
> because PMs wanted features that we neither had enough people nor the right people to do IMO, PMs are too high on the decision making totem pole. Too often they are making demands of engineering when they should be asking.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Desiring a coworker you can trust and trusting the coworker you have are too very different things. I'd love to be a good person, but these pies aren't going to steal themselves.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Don't overthink it. This advice covers 80-99% of actual bugs. Real bugs don't reappear once fixed -- if they do, it means they were never fixed. Metrics designed for a bug that was fixed may be relevant but specifically ARE NOT TA
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by musingsole 4y ago
It's easy to lie with metrics, but it's MUCH easier to lie without them.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Water is the conductor, yes. Electrons are still the electrons -- excited by or measured by laser
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by musingsole 4y ago
The reMarkable tablet is the best innovation on pen and paper since the ballpoint pen. It's become a thinking tool more so than any other electronic device I have, and it has me daydreaming about a tablet and stylus based computing env
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by musingsole 4y ago
Pacemakers were medically implanted for a decade or more simply as ruggedized devices ready for a 10 year no-service operational lifetime. Most of the hardware in a pacemaker still has to be designed that way.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Some bars and restaurants make most of their income off such conversations
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by musingsole 4y ago
Source: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab... Workforce Participation (a per capita metric) decreased. Starting from 2002 with a participation of 66%, the US employed ~192 million. But in
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by musingsole 4y ago
Around the same time that we cross that threshold, I expect we'll cross another where robots of various types might exist as infrastructure and so demand the same ramps as ADA but for different reasons.
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by musingsole 4y ago
You === pointedly obtuse
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by musingsole 4y ago
You are mistaken. Yes, you can use pre-approved modules, but your new assembly still requires a spurious emission test (in place of a full emission test). It's a cheaper, faster, simpler test, but approval is still required to sell the
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by musingsole 4y ago
> BTW were is the breakthrough in Teslas You're either uninformed or being pointedly obtuse. Tesla has a massive patent portfolio -- starting with the roadster's gearless transmission. It's a point of fact that building a
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by musingsole 4y ago
MicroPython or CircuitPython have become better entry points than the full language. Python grew up and has been chosen to solve a lot of complex, important problems. This has lead to the language ballooning to become not just good but exce
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by musingsole 4y ago
This just implies style will mutate as it has in chess.
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by musingsole 4y ago
I've had similar experiences trying to commission works. Turns out artists are difficult to work with almost by definition. And the few who actually act like they're providing a service you've agreed to pay money for are few
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by musingsole 4y ago
You draw lines and insist there's no space between them.
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by musingsole 4y ago
Which is the core problem with Alexa: why is a personal assistant getting worse at helping me specifically (even if it's better for the majority of users)? Alexa arriving with a default profile for generic recognition makes sense -- bu
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by musingsole 4y ago
> whether any given formal system actually is consistent is not dependent on consensus, it is a fact, either true or false, completely independent of consensus. The definition of "consistent" seems completely entangled with a g
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by musingsole 4y ago
> Does it matter that two bricks are not "the same piece of matter" if our predictions work the same for both of them No, because of a dense, interconnected web of other social truths (the rest of the arithmetic model), the rel
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by musingsole 4y ago
Those warnings are more a protection for libel lawsuits than they are about warning that the contained fictional story is fictional.
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by musingsole 4y ago
There's a similarity in the performance of caches and ML algorithms -- they can have some theoretical absolute performance (or worst case scenario) but whether or not that falls into harmony or discord with the real world use is anothe
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by musingsole 4y ago
> Any modern superpower will jealously guard strategic military technologies. Parts of it will, probably. But societies aren't homogeneous, and modern ones in particular are interwoven in ways that produce behaviors at odds with pro

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