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by ocschwar 2y ago
Lead times for new infrastructure on the grid is an 18 month minimum. This is going to stay bad for a long time.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Back when RMS was writing the GNU utilities, if you weren't willing to have an occasional chance encounter with him in the same building, you were limiting your options for a productive computer science career. I'm half serious wh
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by ocschwar 2y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The most exemplary story was the killing of Herbert Kukurs. West Germany was about to apply a statute of limitations to war crimes, which would have emboldened Nazis to come out of the woodwork. To the Mossad found a Nazi and beat him to de
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Makes more sense when you realize the purpose of Nazi hunting wasn't really to catch enough of them to establish some level of justice. It was to keep them closeted so they would not attempt a comeback. Before getting kidnapped to Isra
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by ocschwar 2y ago
One of the big ironies of all this is car insurance. If you keep getting your car dinged on narrow roads, your insurance payouts will be larger than if you run over someone. Dings add up to a lot, but hitting a pedestrian maxes out the payo
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by ocschwar 2y ago
What would be useful is a data flow representation of the call stack of a piece of code. Generated from source, and then brought back from the GUI into source.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I've taken pistol and rifle classes. And as a Boy Scout I was in a troop that strayed close to a proving ground. Yeah, there's a very big difference. I mean a BIG DIFFERENCE
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Sounds like what makes military service a good path is that 1. enlisting puts you in a better place than the previous day or 2. the time in the service enables a step up of some kind afterwards.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
"> Want to fish the waters around Tuvalu? Radio them and offer more money. Or I'll just go fishing because what ever Tuvalu can do to me? " If you can thug your way into Tuvaluan waters, so can anyone. At that point you g
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by ocschwar 2y ago
1945 gave us a way out of this equilibrium. Not the nukes. The Bretton Woods principles. It was not a kumbayah exchange of platitudes. It was an agreement to let things be settled in the free market. Want more oil from Nigeria? Offer them m
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Non-falsifiability on account of self-report is a pervasive problem in mental health. But just because something isn't falsifiable doesn't mean it isn't true. If I told you I had to consciously monitor my tone of voice, and m
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by ocschwar 2y ago
One thing he was not doing on those walks was gossiping, because Indiscrete Thoughts did land him some trouble.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Marshal McLuhan's book Understanding Media had the full title "Understanding media: the extensions of man." And he had a chapter about the automobile. If you've ever had the chilling experience of a skid, the terrifying
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Yes, people have the option of leaving. That option is so unattractive that even gainfully employed and employable people will sleep rough rather than leave. Our biggest challenge in MA is building enough housing capacity so people can park
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by ocschwar 2y ago
I had something like that going with Gian Carlo Rota at Los Alamos for a while. His afternoon walk always involved the Subway and the Baskin Robbins.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
It did not widen the highway.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
That depends on who you're talking to. If you're talking to people out in the periphery who want their towns to grow, induced demand is not a problem. But for someone in an inner ring suburb, induced demand means that if the inter
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by ocschwar 2y ago
> How do you propose doing that, though? Thankfully, Massachusetts has shown how to do that. The governor has to make a public statement that he will not allow any more eminent domain takings for highways on his watch (and issue executiv
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by ocschwar 2y ago
The statute of limitations on traffic offenses is brief, so I'll fess up that I've biked across the whole length a couple times. Got some Darwin Award honorable mentions doing it.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
Massachusetts has not widened highways inside of 128 for 50 years now. And I am so grateful for that.
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by ocschwar 2y ago
> As a follow up I am curious as to whether the topic of eugenics was central to the trial or merely incidental and significant in hindsight? It was central to Bryan's involvement.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
The implications are so profound that any hint at this sort of thing makes otherwise rational people go completely bonkers. Myself included.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
An autonomous system doesn't just put together classifications of what it sees in the environment. It also gets quantitative measures of how confident it should be in what it just classified. And if your confidence measures decline, fo
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by ocschwar 3y ago
Boston is the IDEAL place to test out autonomous driving. The narrow roads, lined as they are with trees, rocks, and parked cars, mean that when an autonomous car makes the wrong decision, the damage will be primarily to property, Waymo&#x2
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by ocschwar 3y ago
Fortran is used for scientific computing. The crash of crashing a run on someone's Beowulf cluster is high, but the severity is low.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
> Unions are fundamental in every line of work They are fundamental in that they blunt the threat I face if I fell out of my present line of work and had to take something that would rough up my baby soft laptop jockey hands. If they ha
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by ocschwar 3y ago
I have my doubts about unions in our particular industry sector, but out in the real world there are many, many jobs that you would have to be insane to take up without a union at your back.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
It's certainly not proof of absence. But when the need for climate models that discount AGW pertains to a trillion dollar industry with a large staff of computer modeling specialists, using the same hardware and often the same softwar
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by ocschwar 3y ago
One challenge is that we are a status seeking species. We fly to a remote beach because the one nearby is just as comfortable but won't make the same waves when we post a selfie on Facebook. We buy houses and cars to show how far we&#x

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