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by petsfed 2y ago
I think you should understand this in the light of e.g. freedom fries and Trump's executive order re: "beautiful" public buildings. That is, once you're in a culture war, the dumbest things become battlegrounds. Its also
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by petsfed 2y ago
a) Yeah, that's fair. Everything I know about Eastern and Russian Orthodoxy could fill 2 post-it notes, if I write big. b) It is dismissive, because Aristotle's solutions should be dismissed. He and Plato before him are very goo
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by petsfed 2y ago
One of my core criticisms to Plato and later Aristotle is not a criticism of Aristotle qua Aristotle, but in the way people give this almost religious reverence to the particular words they use. As if by saying that >Telos, or finality,
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by petsfed 2y ago
RTO is often applied to an organization, even if elements of it were never in an office. Anecdotally, I've heard of quite a few people who were hired as remote, then their org did and RTO, and the HR response amounted to "tough sh
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by petsfed 2y ago
So long as the pedals are hooked up to the drive train in such a way that they actually work, I don't actually have any complaint. If the user can easily switch to backup-pedal power to traverse e.g. Millenium Park in Chicago, then I d
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by petsfed 2y ago
In all 3 cases, the forward motion is ultimately provided by human power. So, even if you (for some reason) decided to motorize an elliptical bicycle or treadmill bicycle, the straightforward requirement is that its still mostly functional
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by petsfed 2y ago
Part of the problem here is that it seems like you can't actually pedal this thing, which is to me (and a lot of lawmakers in the US) sort of foundational to the concept "bicycle". The other problem here is that with ever-inc
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by petsfed 2y ago
> Confusingly, vehemently anti-gun folks often hold the most pro-euthanasia/doctor-assisted-suicide positions Right, because I can just pop down to my doctor-safe in my basement, and I've got all I need to have a doctor-assist
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by petsfed 2y ago
For context, the total mass of a standard M67 fragmentation grenade is ~400g, including a 180g of actual explosive. So this is like a third of the standard payload of the e.g. DJI drones dropping grenades onto foxholes. My initial expectati
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by petsfed 2y ago
You're gonna hate the e.g. Southeast Alaska route names, where the plane arrives from one location, unloads some passengers, loads others, then takes off for another destination entirely (specifically Anchorage->Juneau->Petersbur
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think part of what they mean is that some retail managers seem utterly incapable of giving positive feedback in anyway except to sandwich a criticism. Like yes, it can stave off bad responses from volatile colleagues to sandwich bad feedb
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think this is all a good illustration of why "Bob" was (supposedly) fired at the end of the story. A good sales engineer knows a lot about the product within its normal operating envelope, but especially knows a lot about th
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by petsfed 2y ago
In the context of the talk/article, I think its clear that Feynman is critical here of the "fairly[sic]-tale explanations", and not the idea itself. I've always understood this talk as amounting to "we claim that ou
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by petsfed 2y ago
> this rule errs too hard on safety, but I know I can do this safely, and if it's not safe enough I'll get to pay the consequences (fines, accidents, dying) The analogy here is that people, like corporations, are frequently
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by petsfed 2y ago
I don't dispute that the math is compatible. The problem is the interpretation thereof. When I say "shallowest", I mean the implications of each are very different. Insofar as I'm aware, there is no information-theoretic
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by petsfed 2y ago
And this is what I prefer too, although with the clarification that its the number of ways that a system can be arranged without changing its macroscopic properties . Its, unfortunately, not very compatible with Shannon's usage in any
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by petsfed 2y ago
Do you not know anything about the economy of southern Wyoming? Extractive industry is such a job creator there that for decades now, e.g. McDonalds couldn't keep enough people on hand. Why would I work a shitty job for minimum wage, w
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by petsfed 2y ago
So, somebody who is locked up because they rejected a cop's advances, and then had evidence planted on them in retribution, should absolutely, 100% foot the bill for their time in jail, even if its eventually found that the only reason
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by petsfed 2y ago
If its any consolation, their scroll hijacking is also hot garbage on desktop firefox. Granted, its a hardware company, so I'm not that upset that their web design is atrocious, but the fact that a minimal level of review would'
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think your starting assumption (that your target audience will be turned off by having to download an image and format an SD card but will not be turned off by plugging said SD card into an unenclosed dev board ) is faulty, but I sup
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by petsfed 2y ago
So your argument has changed from "there is no pay gap" to "the pay gap is not unique to tech"? Got any feelings about what true Scotsman do?
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by petsfed 2y ago
There's basically two kinds of pay gap: 1. Group A is literally paid less than Group B, for the same work. This is much less of an issue today than it used to be, but its still an issue. 2. Members of group A are promoted much less oft
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by petsfed 2y ago
Perhaps, but I've seen it directed towards numerous female engineers, from less senior engineers who were noticeably deferential to male engineers, at or below the seniority of the female engineer. I think there's this perceptio
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by petsfed 2y ago
> This stuff is hard to get right and there are endless gotchas and exceptions and edge cases and you have to know about and account for all of them. And this is also a major source of the cost of the testing. You're not just payin
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by petsfed 2y ago
I wonder if the perception of engineering as a "men's field" factors into that. Like "every engineering role I've ever had, I was condescended to by some other engineer who though he knew more than me because he was
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by petsfed 2y ago
In a medical or aerospace application, that added firmware complexity could be a non-starter. Not from a price, or even e-waste standpoint. Its that proving the thing is safe is a lot harder when its complex. That's the real point of k
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by petsfed 2y ago
Granted, but as a sibling states, the other factor is firmware complexity. I can theoretically drive a high-resolution display on an 8-bit micro (although it may require with some clever bit banging to get I2C to work at all) but its trivia
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by petsfed 2y ago
Having worked in the ag-tech space, there are few heavies in the room that are happy to just wait out the IP limits on promising technology held by a startup/competitor who hasn't figured out how to monetize it yet. This is exact
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by petsfed 2y ago
I think the article does a pretty good job of dismissing itself. The Shirkey principle is not necessarily true, but its a convenient catchall for articles like this one, which expends a lot of words being pithy and appearing clever, but not
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by petsfed 2y ago
And also, it takes forever to boil water at high altitude, for a variety of reasons. The air is usually colder (which means the candle consumes more of its fuel just warming itself up), the oxygen content of the air makes the candles less

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