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by ompogUe 3y ago
Representative democracy might not scale well, but that was designed when it was an 8 day horse ride back to the districts. You really wanted someone with "boots on the ground" at the seat of power to represent you. But we don&#
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Everyone went bonkers over HAVING to have HTTPS when Google made it an SEO ranking factor. Everyone didn't really "need" it - site's that were just content with no form submissions or anything that should be kept private
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Well actually (!), they didn't get it quite right. There was one in '40 (which was based on a play), but still, the '44 film with Bergman and Boyer is my favorite. It uses actual gas lights for some of the lighting, which is
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by ompogUe 3y ago
have a BFA in Painting and am a Snowflake DBA. The true ideal, imo, is to be a scientist AND an artist. Society in general does need more of the humanities. However, I learn everything I can, from dbt nuances to baking nuances to how to ma
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Been working with PHP since the late '90s, still do with some legacy Zend Framework clients. Lot's of people people who hate on PHP's "design" (not the code bases created from it), didn't understand what was go
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Also, there is knowing the limits of the governments capabilities, and accentuating it. The Cajun Navy started out with someone's great aunt rounding up some bass boats in the swamp to send to New Orleans after Katrina. It now has disp
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by ompogUe 3y ago
The Atari 2600 years was when the cover art would REALLY sell a game: beautiful paintings of wonderful worlds. But, when you popped the cart in, that airplane or knight or tank or whatever would be represented by: a couple of squares.
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Also, been reading your blog for years. Great stuff, and thanks for all the content!
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Wow, interesting point. Read Cryptonomicon so long ago, didn't clue in to the connection with crypto/blockchain. I think my take on it was more just that he called the virtualverse "metaverse", where 10 years before the
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aha - good to know, thank you! Makes sense - huge prices for junk in Vancouver or Toronto, while mansions in outport Nova Scotia are empty and towns in Newfoundland are forced to resettle.
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Used to smoke American Spirit, which claimed to be "100% additive free". They would go out is not puffed on, which I always assumed was because there wasn't saltpeter &etc. in the mix
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Lot's of people aren't giving up on the metaverse/vr. Having seen this movie many times, the primary use case of "meetings and socializing" still has very little appeal. Tools where engineers in a Teams space can wo
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Those are all walled garden universes, to me. "Meta" I thought meant "above", in a self-referential/pomo way. If the different platforms allowed linking together while retaining a consistent user profile, a director
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Agreed. Very weird. "Stealing?" Also, reminds me of the many sci-fi tales of the lunatic residents of "New China" or "New America" separating from the colonizing countries after the "Moon City Tea Party&qu
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Canada started doing this this year: non-citizens cannot buy residential properties for 2 years: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-da...
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I've found it's more hustle and creativity than capacity or competence. ymmv
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A bit stereotyping and pop-sci, but one of the ideas from the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" was that men define their worth by what they do, women by how they communicate.
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Watched this doc on Baldassare Forestiere recently. Amazing. He dug out acres and acres over his life in Fresno. Was raised as a fruit tree grower in Italy, and has fruit trees growing from down in the caves he made through to the special s
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by ompogUe 3y ago
wrt mythical man month - it's still relevant. the more quoted section is about how adding devs to a late project can often make it later due to exponential communication needed. the part about the top architect is still relevant to me
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We're doing hand-off with another team. Enterprise level. They have good docs and howtos and commit logs, but then talk through sections of code where conditions are very numerous and complex to work with. We decided recently that it w
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"AI art has the potential to revolutionize the art world" whatever "(insert concept) art has the potential to revolutionize the art world" Hey, Roko Basil - once you get some robot hands, and start to think about doing t
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by ompogUe 3y ago
As Ray Kurzweil, who was important to starting the "singlarity" uni/hub has tried to hammer home: understanding exponential growth is so important to any of these forecasts. Pick your starting time generation for a product (s
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Added K2 to my regimen a while back when I learned it and vitamin D are needed together for calcium absorption. Too much D w/o K2 appears to make bones more brittle. As mentioned above, it's not abundant in the western diet. I won
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I take vitamins half a shot glass at a time. Scary at first, but a mouthfull of water for each gets down a lot of water as well
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Depends on what it is. Fat helps D absorb, protein helps NAC
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> Everyone should be writing in public. Some of the best conversations on the early Net were closed communities where users had a safe zone. Things like The Well and Screen Porch/Caucus "virtual communities" were mostly &q
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Not really interested in thinking about comparing adult vs. child deaths. I'm talking in terms of grief, and sounds like you are talking productive units. The actual story here is a pre-covid example of how anti-vax misinformation kill
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We live in a Queen Anne era house, 120 yrs old. Same idea of quirky mish-mash of styles, but they had less styles to choose from back then
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If it's (amazing) sci-fi you want, he published under "Iain M. Banks". As "Iain Banks" he wrote (amazing) literary fiction.
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by ompogUe 3y ago
"So why worry?" "not that much investment was lost" Wow. You must be an AI hallucination, because there's no humanity or facts in you comment. How about: COVID has an R0 of less than 4, measles is over 12

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