notdonspaulding

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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Well said.
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
> I said median, not drunk driver. Right, and I originally said: > I think one of the reasons there's such an inherent distrust of Tesla's FSD is that when it fails, it fails in scenarios in which people can easily see thems
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
> And you (if you're being rational about it) want them in a Tesla Right. Rationally, we all want folks who are worse than the state-of-the-art FSD AI to be using FSD. But thinking that the "very low bar" that has to be
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
I think you're right that the bar of "average human on the road's driving skills" is very low. However, I think one of the reasons there's such an inherent distrust of Tesla's FSD is that when it fails, it f
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
What people say they will do when there's no cost associated with an action and what people will actually do once a cost IS associated with the same action are frequently 2 different things. Bob Lutz, in his self-aggrandizing book
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
> Why wouldn't an accurately simulated brain be considered a person? Ah, and here we come to the crux of the matter! What makes a person a person? Is it merely electrochemical activity in a certain type of tissue? It's impo
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Mea culpa! I read right over the words you wrote because I'm so used to the phrase interstate commerce and not at all used to seeing intrastate commerce . I wasn't trying to use Article I to argue that the federal government h
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by notdonspaulding 5y ago
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution reads (emphasis mine): The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the Unite
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
>> Git should work the way we think it does! > Hold on, who is "we"? I'm not the GP, but I agree that git should work the way "we" think it does, and I think a reasonable definition of "we" in the
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
> The reporter should have probably cared a little more, during the trip, as he had entered a contract to provide a certain kind of experience to these kids, and he clearly failed at that. I'm not sure he "clearly failed at&quo
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Fair enough. But can we at least agree that the line between the 2 examples is so fine that the monologue comedian on a satirical TV program had to run his joke by his lawyer's lawyer in order to make sure he was standing on the rig
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
True, but if that's the metric we're basing our language choice off of then we should all go back to PHP.
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
On the one hand, Google deplatformed Parler by blocking their app from the Play Store, and on the other hand it continues to be "cool with" 3rd-party content on Youtube which is "openly calling for violence against and murder
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Judges deciding cases based on what the law says, free from fear of political reprisal is the intended feature. Lifetime appointments get you that (or very nearly to it). If you know of a strictly better way to get the same feature, what
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
I think you find this amazing, in large part, because in 2021 the American culture (and to an extent, the global culture) has equated wealth with corruption. If somebody has wealth, then they must have done something distasteful to get
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
IDK anything about the pentagon, but as for why Pence's call would have more gravity than Senators is fairly obvious: he's the second-in-command of the executive branch of the government. Emergency military mobilization is much m
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
This. I can't figure out how to explain to Junior Devs (who have only ever known git), that they have a concept of a branch in their head that doesn't match the concept their tool of choice is giving them. We talk about "bran
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
> Upping the ante indiscriminately only continues to make the > world even more unequal and inaccessible for the people who > need your products the most. Ah, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need?
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
My general advice for anyone who has a little spare time at work and is looking for how to improve their company but doesn't know where to start is: Take out the garbage. By which I mean, everybody has a part of their job that they jus
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Investigative journalism at its finest.
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
The parent comment is confused. NYC mesh doesn't use actual laser beams, they use a cheap 5Ghz TDMA solution made by Ubiquiti called Litebeam. Interference can be a big issue for this equipment, especially in an urban environment with
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Ubiquiti makes gigabit speed wireless backhaul devices in the unlicensed 24Ghz band. It's the AF24HD. They can go several miles, but are susceptible to the signal dropping in the rain depending on your climate. MikroTik makes some 60Gh
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Doesn't it? You arbitrarily picked 16 possible photorealistic faces out of a total solution space of what? Millions? Wouldn't the balance of probability be on someone in the general population of humans more closely resembling on
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
This is a great essay, and worth the read. The first part is descriptive in nature, and I highly recommend reading that at least through the "Parenthood" section. The article is short on prescriptive advice, however, and it r
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
As a man who's been married for 15+ years, I would absolutely advise young couples to consider the disciplines and policies they expect their relationship to abide by in much the same way managers and employees discuss their policies a
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by notdonspaulding 6y ago
Just lightly skimmed the docs, so I am probably missing something. Do all the consumers of gila config use the singleton class instance and just call gila.get() everywhere? If I'm just focusing on how to make my code easier to read by
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
> What you're saying is that your personal "principle" is more important that facts. What uk_programmer's original argument was that even if it worked , even if we could afford it , it would be wrong to make uk_pr
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
Mirus Research | ONSITE | Normal, IL | Frontend, Backend, UI/UX/Designer | Full-Time Mirus is a small software company in the Midwest that builds Enterprise products in a SaaS startup style. We have total control of our tech stac
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
To the best of my knowledge, Comcast is running dual-stack v4 and v6. The GP was talking about running a purely v6 network, and pointing out that it wasn't yet feasible. Your example of Comcast doesn't really fit the bill becaus
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by notdonspaulding 7y ago
You quoted GP as saying: > > "There is no moral issue with inequality" Then you replied with: > Well, there is. <snip some unrelated discussion about Regulatory Capture [0]> At no point did you make an argument that

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