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by ptero 1y ago
I don't think this is correct. The majority of people prefers states to have more influence on school curriculum and federal government to have less. Yes, there are downsides to that, but it generally means that hours on STEM will incr
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by ptero 1y ago
> Adobe had a huge moat forimage and video tools because they were historically very hard to develop. ... Adobe's labyrinth of menus is legacy. I am not sure. I heard the same arguments from the gimp crowd for years. But they always
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by ptero 1y ago
> Gimp is an awful app with terrible UX. Yes, and it's not clear that those startups will fare better than gimp. Adobe spends inordinate amount of effort to understand the problems that users are solving and make UX that users love.
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by ptero 1y ago
This. I heard "gimp is free and will kill Adobe within a year or two" from 1997 or so. As much as I hate Adobe's methods it still wins hands down in UX for image editing. So, as a hobbyist, I have no plans to cancel my subscr
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by ptero 1y ago
> This is already happening Yes. When I said 5-10 years it wasn't to say that the effects would start then. That was my WAG at the time when normal, mild methods like localized YCC stop working and we should expect significant syste
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by ptero 1y ago
IMO US is heavily exporting its inflation by leveraging its world reserve currency status as other countries have to buy it's treasuries (petrodollar system legacy). No other country would be able to run 30+% budget deficits and sell l
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by ptero 1y ago
Just empirical observations. It takes time to propagate technology down to general businesses and business methods up to technology developers. The "propagate down to business methods" is the slower path, as it requires business l
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by ptero 1y ago
While true, the world doesn't end in 2025. While I would also agree that big financial benefits from agents to companies appear unlikely to arrive this year (and the title specifically mentions 2025) I would bet on agents becoming a di
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by ptero 1y ago
I see the same effect regarding macroeconomic discussions. Great content on X that is head and shoulders (says me) above discussions on other platforms.
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by ptero 1y ago
Another vote for the Horn of the Abyss! It is a community pack that keeps the HOMM3 gameplay spirit but adds a lot of minor UI enhancements fixing various pain points. And if you like insanely complex scenarios, check out HotA user maps on
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by ptero 1y ago
Yes, but for a while google was head and shoulders above the competition. It also poured a ton of money into building non-search functionality (email, maps, etc.). And had a highly visible and, for a while, internally respected "don&#x
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by ptero 1y ago
Sorry for confusion. In "buying widgets" I meant the regular procurement decision: the DoD needs N units of something (door handles, tank shells, whatever), it publishes specs, asks for bids and buys from whoever can deliver at
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by ptero 1y ago
IMO if the government needs widgets it should ask for bids and contract based on price. Some broad restrictions are OK (e.g., prefer domestic manufacturers), but government has no business skewing the contract by promoting <insert favori
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by ptero 1y ago
Every system has bugs, even deployed, high visibility accounting systems. Debian stable, which I personally view as the gold standard for a robust general purpose OS, has hundreds of bugs. That is not to say that bugs are good. They are bad
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by ptero 1y ago
As an American, I would welcome the world without American domination. Or without any single country domination for that matter. Competition of systems is good for the world. It doesn't need to turn the US into some grubby mafia state.
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by ptero 1y ago
According to the article the data is still collected and processed by the same Department of Defense systems, but is no longer shared in the open (presumably because it can show some information about blue forces). Can someone clarify what
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by ptero 1y ago
Good point. I assumed relevance was approximately similar to the correlation, without a strong assumption on the signs. Which is just my interpretation, not a universal definition.
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by ptero 1y ago
Unfortunately, there are enough courts that are very willing to slap any label on any suitably vilified candidate. Pick any president of India; you can probably find a Pakistani court would be willing to convict for "crimes against hum
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by ptero 1y ago
"In the wrong" is often jurisdiction specific. I do not want otherwise reasonable candidates to avoid the ballot because of the risk of being convicted by some external court.
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by ptero 1y ago
Please do. Some real competition would be good for all sides!
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by ptero 1y ago
We don’t complain not because road signs, in addition to being an eye sore, are relevant to our current activity, but because they provide significant value. While relevance has some correlation to value, that correlation is pretty weak; it
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by ptero 1y ago
Not the poster, but the point I think that Google is engaging in a clear-cut bait and switch. First, "free email, good UX", "free video hosting, minimal ads". Then, once the dependency sets in, use a standard playbook of
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by ptero 1y ago
Trees, dissipating sound instead of reflecting it, are even more effective.
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by ptero 1y ago
The road signs are also unwelcome eye sores. However, they provide a lot of value by achieving safer road traffic so we tolerate them. That value still needs to be compared and evaluated for delivering information vs delivering annoyance. I
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by ptero 1y ago
That's a jurisdiction problem, not a technology problem. No tech is foolproof, but even with the current technology someone would be much safer (for others, too) in the back seat than trying to drive tired, borderline DUI at night in u
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by ptero 1y ago
Some math is not about the real world. This is not my kettle of fish, but I have heard of some general topology research directions that discusses properties of topological spaces that probably do not exist at all. Those (according to a fri
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by ptero 1y ago
Axioms should capture the rules we can assume without justification. But in most cases we want them to reflect the rules of the real world in the sense that statements derived from those axioms reflect our observations. That part (reflect o
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by ptero 1y ago
While I think you are right that Trump is doing this to escalate the situation, > LA had plenty of local police to handle the scale of the protests before sure, and why didn't they do it this time? I suspect for the same reason: bot
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by ptero 1y ago
My original response was sharper than I intended; I am aware of both the air-defense and ATC systems for both the civilian and military use (so worked in each cell of that mini-2x2 table). The military is much more tolerant of risks and, ev
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by ptero 1y ago
There is definitely value in stability and the US system worked well for a long time, but it is not the only way for a safe ATC. So OK, if you want to do development in this space, do learn about the US setup from a retired old fart who wor

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