nitrogen

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by nitrogen 5y ago
FB can act as toxic behavior multiplier, though. Indeed, the medium can alter the message. For example, supposedly any extra lag in voice communication makes participants think the other person is angry. We also see groups that never had
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We'd probably have to say Leonard of (Anglicized form of 'Vinci') for maximum consistency in that case. Lenny Vince for short.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Overall not a fan of rails and the conventions it promotes. To each their own. No framework will have the right conventions to see a complex project through 100% with zero customization or deviation. I'm still fond of Rails though
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by nitrogen 5y ago
They're just the noisy developers who haven't found their hyperproductive niche. Once you've found your perfect tech stack, you just keep using it and stop making noise about it, and then your voice no longer gets counted.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
GraphQL is appealing from the frontend perspective, but I've yet to see a case where it would do anything but make the backend 10x harder to develop, and it doesn't solve the problem of the frontend also having to know all of the
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've seen some pretty tortured answers to the five why's to avoid having to ask the really uncomfortable questions about a team/org/etc.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We've tried many times to make in labs and factories foods that are "better" than what Nature provides Wild nature doesn't provide very much that is edible by humans, and certainly not enough to sustain a civilization
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not too different from ordinary gasoline.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It does help the rest of us though. I'll also mention for the same reason that there was a thing called ReWire on Windows, not sure what became of it.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
3dB lower is 50% less power. It's a small perceptual difference, but a fairly sizable difference in absolute terms.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Communication platforms are a bit different. Nobody would be okay with Comcast blocking the signup page or mentions of Google Fiber or your municipal broadbrand network, or Verizon disconnecting your call if you mention AT&T.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've heard that there are indeed places in the world where people will refuse to drive if the horn is not working, for this reason.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I have neighbors, friends, and family who ride motorcycles either for the speed or for the sound. They're mostly reasonable about it. But the thing about loud machines is that they are loud for everyone, who didn't get to choose
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Just curious, do these changes affect power output in either direction?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
if companies were required to check photo ID against a real person It'll be really hard to convince people to give up the convenience and higher returns of online-only banks. A better option would be using cryptographic digital signa
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by nitrogen 5y ago
"Just signalling," seriously? Apple and the carrier are also "other people." Whose phone is it anyway? Any action taken by a device one controls should be made transparent and auditable by the device's owner. Th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Yes. Both the cathedral and the bazaar are valid approaches to OSS project management, with pros and cons.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is exactly how they "make" a company do something. Look at what happened to the Qwest (IIRC?) CEO to see what happens if you refuse these contracts.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If copyright terms didn't last so long, then other people could take the old layers and "compost" them into fertilizer for new code.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That's 2018. Wr're here in 2021 watching videos of stores being actively raided.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It seems to apply to traffic, too. Sabotage the road system to prove that driving is terrible. A few extremely major streets were basically off road driving for a year while I was living there. Light timing is terrible at several interse
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The evidence for this happening in economically-meaningful numbers is scarce. It doesn't take numbers meaningful to California to have a meaningful effect on other states, where housing costs are massively skyrocketing due to an infl
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Everything is easy if you assume a panopticon.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Surely you've seen skin-based allergy tests. Allergies don't just affect the digestive system.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Weeds somehow manage to become giant and prolific in soil that wouldn't grow any food crops. I don't think we're near any limits of soil or biology with our foods.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Hypothetically, let's suppose risk of damage correlates with cross sectional area of DNA. It's conceivable that scaling up length with less critical segments reduces risk faster than the increasing cross section increases it. It&
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by nitrogen 5y ago
On top of cost-benefit analysis, you will have to explain to everyone whose life trajectory was meaningfully improved by a resource what alternative path you are providing so that future people can also find their way to a better life.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Market forces come from people. Market forces tend toward baseness. It takes active intent to elevate society above the lowest possible level. Just as one doesn't want to hire at the median skill level of their company lest the ave
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Without US public broadcasting, I and countless others would have grown up on GI Joe instead of Mr. Rogers. Further, I generally strongly oppose charity as a component of future plans (leaving aside whether charity is good or necessary in t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Economic issues were caused in part by political opposition. An extreme degree of reviews and legal objections can't help the economics. And research into new designs that might improve on economics and safety isn't going to be a

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