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by pdkl95 8y ago
> “win win” (company gets subsidy, area gets jobs) Anand Giridharadas recently gave an a great talk[1] (at Google!) in which he explains how "win win" is a charade used to set the framing of the conversation. Framing a plan (li
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by pdkl95 8y ago
From the game Night In The Woods : "There's No Reception in Possum Springs" No reception here I wave my black phone In the air like a flare like a prayer but no reception I read on the Interne
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Ignoring the initial boilerplate (license, imports) and the request to preserve the verbose ("space shuttle") style, the first line is: // Design: // // [... 4 paragraphs of English pros
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> when everything is set up _just right_ That's why I'm still using Enlightenment DR16 as my window manager, with the same theme/config I've been slowly customizing for ~20 years. Every time I try a different windows
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> But if you stop, they may continue increasing the dilution. There’s a normalization of deviance. For a very good explanation of the mechanism that causes this kind of normalization of deviance, I recommend Richard Cook's outstandi
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> I don't think judges overlook constitutional rights That's an idealistic view that may happen in some situations, but often does not. > an entire industry of defense lawyers That's great for people that can afford tho
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Similar to problems seen in agricultural monocultures, software monocultures massively increase the risk of widespread failure from a single attack.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> It hasn't lost meaning with me, when I read "alt-right" I read "racist trolls" It's stronger than simply "trolls". "Alt-right" is just the latest PR rebranding used by neo-nazis/wh
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Arguing about which company's name looks better on a resume is an irrelevant distraction that avoids addressing the actual problem: standing up to fight against something may require personal sacrifices. In general, anybody with salar
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> why do so much for open source? For the low price of working under an open source[1] license, they bought over a decade of support from a large portion of tech industry professionals. Google (along with the other FAANG businesses) wa
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> No Laibach! They just released[1] a very interesting new album: their performance of The Sound Of Music in Pyongyang . Laibach is precisely the right choice to be the first western band allowed to perform in North Korea. > while
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Aww, Tom Lehrer's march against censorship didn't make the cut? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs (mostly joking, but ready to defend our right to have our prurient interest aroused, if the specter of ob
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This is almost certainly survivorship bias[1]. Only middle-height cats that might theoretically survive are going to be taken to a veterinarian; the cats that fell from higher heights were not included, because they were "obviously dea
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Variations of this tactic (disrupt the leader before they create a useful coalition) used to be called COINTELPRO[1]. The methods used changed as technology changed, but the core tactic is still used in many places. GCHQ even has an entire
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> I'm given the option to track if that person shows up again in future video footage, you bet I would use that option. Most people would use that option if they had the opportunity; tracking potential troublemakers has obvious bene
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by pdkl95 8y ago
You're "reality" doesn't match the historical record how FVEY agencies work. Programs like the NSA's BULLRUN[1] or GCHQ's EDGEHILL are well funded ($B/yr) target individuals, companies, standards committee
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> NULL is a value that is not a value. And that’s a problem. The problem isn't NULL, it's languages not enforcing the necessary checks for the "no data" condition. Option can still be NULL ("None" in rust),
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> binaural audio By far the best use of binaural audio I've heard is the simulated voice-hearing of psychosis that Ninja Theory used in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. [trigger warning re: psychosis, other mental health issues fo
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by pdkl95 8y ago
I'm mostly joking. However, I've been observing Microsoft since the Windows 2.0 era, and I can't completely discard the possibility that Microsoft actually would use 8.3 domain names. Using 8.3 names "for legacy comp
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> microsft.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> it's getting the customer to say yes Yes. That's how capitalism works. You have to compete in the market. > With micropayments you ask the customer to say yes every time they click a link. Yes - do you think you should be
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Sean Carroll explaining why "the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood". (renormalization group, pair production at human energy scales) https://youtu.be/Vrs-Azp0i3k?t=2046 (this speci
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Well, there can be a very strong mental impact for some people. Vertigo, drowsiness, or a general "fogginess" common side effects some people experience. This isn't unusual: lots of medications have similar side effects, henc
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> (without intention of standards-body registration) as long as the prescribing doctor is willing Unfortunately, the doctor (or scientist) cannot be allowed to make that decision on their own. There are far too many terrible examples in
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> ... implementation re-written from the ground up Rewriting a big project from scratch is often used as something to brag about: "Look at all the hard work we accomplished!". Except in software what matters is correctness and
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Zeroing out the lest-interesting octet of an IPv4 address is only a placebo that doesn't provide any useful anonymity. The other data being collected at the same time almost certainly has enough identifying entropy to correlate a par
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If you bought a physical tool that I manufactured. Your need the tool to do your work and switching to something else would be expensive in both time and money due to interoperability problems and lost time. Do you care if I stand behind yo
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Words on their own are not worth much in the long run. It's easy to pursue well-meaning plans on good days when everything is working like it's supposed to and everywhere you go people seem to be talking about the amazing stuff yo
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PG&E apparently[1] has a project to improve the infrastructure in some areas. They are replacing the existing 12kVA lines with insulated 15kVA lines that still carry 12kVA service. This should provide a larger margin for transient prob
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> userspace Pure userspace software is the easiest to fix; there has already been a huge shift to {safer,easier} languages for most new (-ish) software. C/C++ is mostly used for existing software where other options we not {possibl

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