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by pnathan 6y ago
I would guess it's about 20 years out, honestly. The sequential and interconnected weight & cost of software failure will have to be well beyond the capacity of conventional errors & omissions insurance to tolerate; settlements
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by pnathan 6y ago
Software development is long overdue for a legally professional software engineer license and certification process. I imagine it's going to happen down the road after something important gets burnt.
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by pnathan 6y ago
> “It’s the most frustrating situation because it’s not about passion anymore or the work you put in or the hours you put in,” he said. “It’s all about the mitigating circumstances that are out of your control.” this is generally true ab
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by pnathan 6y ago
yeah, that's fair. the system really needs investing in by big G.
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by pnathan 6y ago
Nest Secure owner here. I like the system a lot, ya'll need to invest a bigger team in maintenance. not a new product or a rewrite. Some buggieness. The single base unit worked well enough for me when I had a 3-entrance house.
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by pnathan 6y ago
ADT is super old school tech in the interface. High pressure sales techniques, long term contract. I bailed out of that real fast and ordered the Google Nest system instead.
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by pnathan 6y ago
I don't _think_ so. I think there are certain research areas which are interesting, but research outcomes are so potentially misused or politically incendiary that there are no research done by people of good will. If you're curio
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by pnathan 6y ago
> does it seem like most of pg's recent essays are attempts to "poison the well" against anyone who might try to hold him and his peers accountable for their contributions to the sorry state of our society? I'm wonder
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by pnathan 6y ago
I was thinking the entire thing was ripe for warrants. Usernames! Communities described! Discord! Head up, Discord lawyers, you've got subpoenas coming in hot.
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by pnathan 6y ago
This has to be considered in a nuanced way. Note that I'm calling "China" the country's leadership as expressed by their official stance, not the individuals or the general population. - China does pressure operations wi
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by pnathan 6y ago
That list really irritates me. > - to change a diaper Ok? What if one never intends to have kids. > -plan an invasion For goodness' sake, why is that important outside of the military? > -butcher a hog Irrelevant to most peopl
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by pnathan 6y ago
Having seen firsthand the uses and failures of institutions, give me an institution. Or I'll build it if I have to. That paragraph is very, very, very unwise.
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by pnathan 6y ago
Sorry about the delay, while I like long ping times for thoughtful responses, this was beyond my P99 boundary. The failure of the GOP to provide a POTUS candidate in 2016 that wasn't a flaming nutjob will lead to all sorts of unipart
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by pnathan 6y ago
mwfunk covers it well. To add on. A lot of libertarianism was invented in the late 40s as a response to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. "How do we avoid totalitarian states" - their answer was to simply remove the power of gove
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by pnathan 6y ago
Surprisingly, there are multiple causes to dysfunction. There's a certain tendency to prioritize the individual aggressively in the US - there are liberal failure modes as well as conservative failure modes. My perspective is that Cal
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by pnathan 6y ago
Because the US Gov has had a 60 year ideological assault on its validity and functioning (Goldwater was the first major presenting symptom), leading to practical results of dysfunction. This is best illustrated by Reagan's phrase: >
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Lodash – Prototype Pollution – NPM audit now failing(npmjs.com)
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by pnathan 6y ago
Rusty's is a simplification of Roberts that some groups use. I'm very fond of having a well defined organization system that can be `imported` without having to reinvent the wheel.
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by pnathan 6y ago
here you go: it looks at everything in a specific directory. `while inotifywait -q -q -r -e modify -e move -e create -e delete --exclude '[*~#]' $(mapi $wd $@); do` wd is the working directory. and mapi my $prefix=s
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by pnathan 6y ago
Back when I first heard about this, I read up on it: it seemed to me that it was quite time to move China off the list of "extra cheap shippers". I know it'll have a number of knock on effects over the next few years, and I&#
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by pnathan 6y ago
Homeschooled, myself. Academically, I have a MS CS. My sibling has a PhD. It worked, academically. I don't particularly recommend it for anyone without substantial need. I would put genius-level children at that level. We weren't
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by pnathan 6y ago
oh man, that's great. Love it.
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by pnathan 6y ago
I used to work at Climate. Always fun seeing ag tech come up in articles. The wealth of knowledge available to farmers in the US, as the article points out, is staggering. We're very efficient here on the production end of things.
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by pnathan 6y ago
my understanding is that the US peak institutional involvement was 1959. I link it to the strong trend of anti-authoritarianism and individualism that started to become current in the 50s & 60s. Today it manifests in the ancap and anarc
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by pnathan 6y ago
Ironically, San Francisco is known as the city that refuses to build, because the voluntary associations refuse to let it happen. I'll save my belief in the Bay Area being a real change agent for when I see real change happening in the
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by pnathan 6y ago
I mean, you can go a loooong way on Postgres. Things that probably are going to start causing issues: - the story of replication - ultra-high volume write contention - high volume timeseries data streams For #3 there, I was consulting on a
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by pnathan 6y ago
"Use PostGres until you have an engineering - data driven rationale not to" is my standard answer for non-blob data storage when a project starts. Why? because when `n` is small (tables, rows, connections), postgres works well eno
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by pnathan 6y ago
I can't say I'm surprised; it was a lot of legal risk. But also, not a fan of copyright as-is. It's a real mickey mouse game, and it's not authors walking away with the fat paychecks.
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by pnathan 6y ago
I have to wonder what the best in class teaching systems are for computers these days. Not "edutainment", but real educational approaches.
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by pnathan 6y ago
I use Calibre to back up my Kindle library periodically. I prefer not contributing to deforestation & pollution via paper. This leaves me with specific niche or historical books to buy in paper form.

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