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by mwfunk 9y ago
Well, the current president's Attorney General believes marijuana is just barely less bad than heroin. Not an exaggeration, not putting words in his mouth. You're right that the American public in general is fine with it, but evan
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by mwfunk 9y ago
When did anyone ever say inhaling smoke is harmless?
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by mwfunk 9y ago
What the heck does that have to do with privacy? You make it sound like you think people are talking about which browser is better overall.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Like what?
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I'm assuming you mean the last time today.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Seriously, this is the heart of it. The one thing about Emacs that I just can't forgive is its insistence over the decades on mixing tabs and spaces in its auto-indentation. Ultimately, the spaces vs. tabs debate really comes down to w
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by mwfunk 9y ago
They probably are atypical systems for people using TensorFlow professionally though.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
This is the biggest conundrum for me. Every engineering decision is a compromise. There are very few cases where making a choice by going down one path isn't a compromise where you're getting one thing but giving up something else
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I used to think this was true in the tech world, but I don't think it is, at least not in the last 10-15 years. If power users were trendsetters, there'd be a lot more people running desktop Linux these days. I think the time in w
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by mwfunk 9y ago
That's a good description for how things feel right now (meta-broken). I'm past agreeing or disagreeing with whoever's in charge- right now it feels like no one is in charge, or if someone is in charge, I don't know who
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by mwfunk 9y ago
You are arguing against something other than net neutrality. I don't know what you're arguing against (sounds like a strawman for socialism), but it's not net neutrality. The purpose of net neutrality, like the purpose of ant
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by mwfunk 9y ago
In the current system, it sure seems like all those third party votes do is make sure that whichever mainstream candidate you consider the greater evil is that much more likely to win, since presumably you're voting for a third party r
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Yeah, and that's great. Most companies wouldn't do that. Most companies would just not do anything to help support Linux at all. Logitech would get a much bigger warm fuzzy if they did this work themselves, but this is the next be
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by mwfunk 9y ago
That's still nothing to be angry about. That's like being pissed off that more people are suddenly talking about your favorite author after he wins a Pulitzer. Being adopted as a fully supported language by the platform maintainer
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by mwfunk 9y ago
He was comparing the design goals of the original iPhone to the preexisting smartphone market 12+ years ago. The fact that it was designed to not require a stylus for basic usage WAS a big deal. If you never used a Palm Treo or a Windows ta
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I think the SV VC scene is as nutty as anybody, but skill and gambling are most definitely not mutually exclusive. It's not analogous to a lottery, it's more like professional gamblers playing blackjack in Vegas. People can and do
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by mwfunk 9y ago
The good thing is that you have self-awareness about it, so you can identify when your mind or emotions are basically playing tricks on you to make you feel that way. Everyone has their quirks, and there are lots of people whose experiences
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by mwfunk 9y ago
That would apply if we were talking about a general in a war and his philosophy for dealing with his enemies. It might also be applicable to a metaphorical general in a metaphorical war, like when people use this quote when discussing compe
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Your argument would be a lot more plausible had Trump not done absolutely everything in his power to look guilty as hell on a daily basis. This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, int
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I've always felt the same way. Looks really cool, and probably a lot more appropriate for a movie than what people would really use, but really awkward and impractical for the tasks it's supposed to help accomplish. It's sort
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I understand, but it's just a function of what sells and what doesn't. Americans in general aren't nearly as into fish as some other countries, therefore the big supermarket chains don't offer as much variety as some oth
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by mwfunk 9y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is no. Also, software patents tend to be so vague and generic that if you were to thoroughly search for anything that you might conceivably be infringing on, you'll spend a preposterous amount of time doing
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by mwfunk 9y ago
How did they actively encourage that situation, what could possibly be their motivation for wanting that situation (surely they'd rather have 30% of a $10 app vs. 30% of a $1 or free app), and what would you have them do to change that
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I don't think the issue is seeing the screen itself, so much as it is the fact that everything hinges on tricking your eyes into refocusing in unnatural ways to induce depth perception. Even being nearsighted can screw this up in subtl
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by mwfunk 9y ago
It's hardly Apple's fault that people aren't willing to pay big money for fart apps. If you want to put a $10 fart app out there, it's not like anyone's stopping you from doing it. Speaking for myself at least, I&#x
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I bet if I went to India and complained about how pathetic the local hamburger places were, you might wonder about my maturity/worldliness/naivete/etc. You might also rightfully wonder why I was so intent on looking for hambu
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I'm no advocate of rapid change for its own sake. I mostly do POSIX systems programming, and the churn of web development frameworks does not appeal to me at all. However, I still want to at least aspire to learn new stuff and stay inf
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Good communication skills are certainly essential to being a con artist, but they are also essential to working with other people who are almost certainly going to be very different from them. If someone is incapable of explaining something
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by mwfunk 9y ago
I can't even remember the last time I was on a flight (Southwest included) that wasn't at capacity. I'm sure it depends on where you're flying to and from though.
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by mwfunk 9y ago
Well, if it's a 1-2% decrease in revenue there might be a 1-2% price increase. I thought the margins for US airlines were incredibly small (could be wrong, I'm no expert).

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