pjmorris

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by pjmorris 7y ago
Counting in public is the solution. You can attend the count yourself, or you can trust that the loser of the election will have people there to challenge any questionable moves made in the counting process.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> It sounds like you want Netflix to cater specifically to your tastes. Given that they have the technology to stream any movie ever made to my house, and given the availability of more data about each of us than we probably even know ab
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r.e. Michael Collins, his memoir 'Carrying the Fire' is a terrific read.
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>> She prepares well, is thoughtful and respectful, thinks on her feet, asks good follow-up questions, and focuses on getting the guest to talk. > I could not disagree more. Someone could talk too much and all of these things could
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by pjmorris 7y ago
That, together with his 1944 tour of the German autobahn. EDIT: 1945, as observed down-thread.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Coquina is pretty rare, occuring in only a few places in the world, and it's pretty heavy. It was 'right down the street' in St. Augustine, so it made sense to use it for the fort, but transporting it makes much less sense. [
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I'm less than a decade behind you, but I share your appreciation. Just yesterday I was reminded of a joke from Mad that meant a lot to my entire family (I was the first, and most thorough, reader of each new issue, but everyone else sa
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Software engineering researchers :)
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I'm thinking of all the Protestants I know who have it on their bookshelves. I only have it on mine to try and understand what's gotten into their thinking.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> Anyway, if you don't like the current Macs, don't buy them. It's really as simple as that. I like my Android phone, and I am happy buying non-Apple laptops for myself. However, my company machine choices have me stuck on
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> But equally, the consumer buys what the consumer wants. I don't believe in this equality. The consumer is limited to buying what is available in the market, which may not be what the consumer wants. For example, if I had the optio
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I agree that Protestant Christianity ought to be the same. In practice, books like 'The Benedictine Option' suggest that Protestants are not of one mind about the matter.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
With a title like 'How will movies survive?' and an opening like "There were 350 more movies released theatrically in the United States last year than there were when “Avatar” came out in 2009.", I think the question has
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Great reference, thank you. I'd forgotten that trait, need to read the book again.
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The review starts with a discussion of whether violence or peace is man's natural state. From the review: "The defining challenge for social life in our day is that we are now at the tail end of several centuries of thinking about
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by pjmorris 7y ago
IMO, HTTP and HTML are counter-examples to the statement 'There’s no money to be made in creating and building on open protocols.' because they're open protocols that have attracted a great deal of money, and plenty of people
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by pjmorris 7y ago
And yet, as a counterexample, HTML and HTTP persist. Maybe things aren't as straightforward as they seem.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
No. The credit card is limited to locations where it can be swiped. The phone is online everywhere, all the time.
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In 'Working' [0], Robert Caro spends pages on how much being able to join a community of writers meant to him when producing 'The Power Broker.' The New York Public Library set aside a room as a workspace explicitly to
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Well-illustrated point. And, 'Rain' might be my favorite Beatles song.
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Arguably, soma = the entertainment industry (what distracts you from real concerns) Arguably, 'hatchery and conditioning centers', represent mass production. Of people in the book, but we've certainly got an economy based on
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Hear, hear. I hope Troy, and others in similar shoes, will read this and consider it carefully.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> I am not going to live long enough to read all of the books I want to! The day that thought first came to me was a dark day! Another of Weinberg's heuristics [0]: Read books only after three people have recommended them. It's
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Great discussion. This seemed an appropriate place to interject an idea from another systems thinker[0]: "A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Gerald
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Once, with a group of 7th graders (but I think it'd work with 5th graders as well), I explained programming as a form of puzzle-solving, illustrated by a little game based on an old puzzle/problem: "You have a 3-gallon jug, a
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I assure you that teams of PhDs have been working on it for years, same as with, e.g. cryptography. It's just a hard problem [0]. [0] https://cyber.harvard.edu/cybersecurity/Why_Information_Secu...
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If the system is subject to false positives, students will figure out a way to exploit that, e.g. marked as present when absent via 'masks', Mission Impossible-style.
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I read 'Programmers At Work' early in my career. Gate's comment on a single bug indicating that there may be many has always stuck with me... "Before I sit down to code something, most of the instructions have already ru
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Seven Sins: Security Smells in Infrastructure as Code Scripts(akondrahman.blogspot.com)
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I used to use FreeMind [0], a mind-mapping tool that I really like, to keep track of projects, ideas, and things to follow up on. I eventually noticed that the pretty pictures could be represented, without loss of information, by a simple o

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