non_repro_blue

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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
Believe me, I understand that dedicated roadways would become a huge, ridiculous rat's nest of red tape, and pork barrel money pits. And probably a Robert Moses character might emerge and cause just as many problems re-engineering road
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
We need time to mature this technology. Household home-ec bots are a safe start to a bold plan. Autonomy is an ambitious project. Large heavy machinery is an unnecessarily risky entry into an immature field. Building reliable technology in
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
I'm not going to dodge the premise of your quandary, which is that accountability and responsibility are necessary components of a civilized society, and that idealizing anonymity also introduces problems and is prone to abuse. Your ex
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
I wish people would just give up on this self-driving car business for now. We don't even want autonomous robots in our house, pitter pattering about like toddlers, at 3 miles an hour. We don't even trust our smart TV sets. So let
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
It's still an important component of human-oriented societies, to permit the individual to inform you of who they claim to be. You rob individuals of agency, when you start dictating to them who you've declared them to be. If two
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
... or "roughly three months" for that matter. I wonder, in the final days and hours, what the amount of impact individual seconds have on a given image. Do the sensors record the full stream of data, and then perform calculations
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
Turing tarpits aside, people speak very highly of C, just as they may do the same for assembly, but depending on context. Languages fill a niche, and outside of their area of utility it's easy to notice weaknesses. But arguments in fav
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
The meme is becoming lame. Talentless developers who fight and argue are the only real hazard in the world of programming. Mature trends and languages have attracted decades of developers good and bad, and because they're widely used,
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
You're right. I skimmed the numbers too fast.
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
A utility worker's laptop suffering an intrusion is something that should be investigated earlier, rather than later. I'd rather hear about false alarms, early and often, since I'm not convinced that critical infrastructure i
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
So, an English corrolary for a similarly named fictitious zone in Hawaii might be? Flamablish Fields
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
Involving hundreds of employees in the handling of millions of credit card transactions, regardless of however trivial the goods may seem, requires caution.
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
That's a big number, way too large for anyone to take personally in an emotional sense. But it's definitely big enough for a purge. Jailing, disappearances and more. This is a pretty large economic tide. Almost twice the size of
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
It's policy document regarding the company's Standard Operating Procedures for conducting post-mortems on "incidents," which is technical parlance for investigating SNAFU's, major and minor, and assigning blame if a
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
Only in so many words. It was a block. It was made of wood, and it was a real thing you could hold in your hands.
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by non_repro_blue 10y ago
125th Street really, really needs some cross town service. Something connecting all the way from Riverside Drive/Henry Hudson Parkway passing through the 125th Metro North Railroad station. (...and maybe even shuttling to Randals Islan