njharman

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by njharman 4y ago
I would argue the bloated 10+ book series that fantasy and sci-fi have devolved into is the exact bad outcome of LoC or word count metrics.
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by njharman 4y ago
There're tools that analyse and report on code's actual complexity. Using, ya know science.
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by njharman 4y ago
Say you read a bunch of code, say over years of developer career. What you write is influenced by all that. Will include similar patterns, similar code and identical snippets, knowingly or not. How large does snippet have to be before it&#x
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by njharman 4y ago
"We take the Opera out of Space Opera"? I quit watching after several episodes because it devolved into High School level drama of who is fucking you and totally unwarrented flip-flops every episode of people being loyal, betrayin
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by njharman 4y ago
No it’s not worth discussing, that’s why you interrupt!
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by njharman 4y ago
If workers can’t interrupt boss, then you’re in dysfunctional organization.
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by njharman 4y ago
TIL less than 25% of seafloor is mapped!!! I figured it would be much, much higher. I wonder if militaries have more mapped but consider it secret. That is also mostly shallower areas (for submarine evasion and detection).
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by njharman 4y ago
The inverse of "ignorance is bliss".
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by njharman 4y ago
Re inept in changing world from ~30yr ago, lookup Operation Sundevil and Steve Jackson games
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by njharman 4y ago
So person breaks into your house and squats it, or shoots up there, bith crimes. Your house should be forfeit? What "ethics" you following?
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by njharman 4y ago
The "why" is the war on drugs. And "tough on crime" FUD politicians, including DAs use to get reelected. Civil asset forfeiture became such a cash cow, jurisdictions are constantly looking for new ways to apply it.
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by njharman 4y ago
I think your post is sarcastic, given last sentence. But if not, or for readers who ... > A nukes only military is so cheap and effective. If it was effective, we'd see them in reality.
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by njharman 4y ago
A large portion, 23%, of military budget is paychecks, healthcare, retirement for veterans. Tons more counting employees of all the industries that make up the industry portion of the military-industrial complex. A huge amount of the milita
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by njharman 4y ago
Man <-> dog connection comes from their historical role of dogs as work animals and men being in those professions. Herding, hunting, guarding, ratting, war, etc. Cats are used as mousers/ratters. But that's it for cat jobs
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by njharman 4y ago
> OR ENFORCING THE LAW. That's pretty all encompassing. Gives any cop at scene of incident any number of things to claim at the time or retroactively as reason you're in violation and to move 8ft back from them, not just 8ft fr
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by njharman 4y ago
I don't understand. Was this document shared? Or private? Who is google trying to protect from phishing?
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by njharman 4y ago
40% are "sleepers". Meaning nearly half of their subscription revenue is from people who forgot they had it, don't use it, and will keep getting auto-renewed until something reminds them they're paying for this thing the
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by njharman 4y ago
Quote me that line in the law that says that.
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by njharman 4y ago
> "The Internet Perceives Censorship as Damage and Routes Around It" That's true and actually happened. What was (and still is) naïve is people believe technology some how trumps "power". That those in power won&
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by njharman 4y ago
Almost everyone. But very few of them will notice the same things are missing. That is the very definition of the long tail.
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by njharman 4y ago
Maybe I missed the memo. I never thought of the "long-tail" about making money. I always considered freedom from curation, freedom of access, freedom from the mainstream, freedom from just what made some distributor the most mone
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by njharman 4y ago
> The bigger and more bureaucratic a company is, the more certs tend to matter. This is the key point. Certs aren't good/bad, or helpful/harmful in of themselves. They matter/or not depending on what type of employmen
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by njharman 4y ago
What's a bookmarking service?
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by njharman 4y ago
Manufacturing left in the 70s, 80's Some has come back but it's robots and automation. No one is getting jobs back. Employment is a dying legacy.
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by njharman 4y ago
This is not an argument for unchanging tools. It's an argument for becoming a power user. Pick good, powerful, customizable tools. When they were made is immaterial. Learn them to expert level. The "innovations" toolmakers tr
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by njharman 4y ago
Are you sure it was YT and not the creater who deleted acct. Also there is a solution already, it's called "The Internet". Upload your content far and wide.
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by njharman 4y ago
Being banned in China, the largest video game market.
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by njharman 4y ago
> One of the central points of a Constitution is to mark certain things off-limits to democracy. This only applied to federal portion of "democracy" until the 14th amendment which added restricting the states re Bill of Rights.
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by njharman 4y ago
This is meaningless and a trap. Policy can be reversed at any time. Probably can retroactively prosecute during supposed "we won't prosecute" period. Worse, they can use threat of changing policy and prosecution to compel beh
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by njharman 5y ago
> under what premise is it desirable that the government should mandate how companies design and sell products Under all circumstances in which the profit motive does not align with societies desires. Safety, health, discrimination, cons

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