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751.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Very tangential: That's a surprisingly childlike & adorable UI design for a security admin dashboard!
752.
by rdiddly 6y ago
It's too bad populist has become a dirty word, because in theory it sounds great - i.e. democracy.
753.
by rdiddly 6y ago
a) I think it probably can't do any things. b) They addressed it by trying to make them go home, get it now?
754.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Show of hands, who looks around today at the biggest challenges and problems we face, the ones that affect the greatest numbers of people the most perniciously, and that need swift & decisive solutions at almost any cost, and concludes
755.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Does one not simply make a fork of the older version?
756.
by rdiddly 6y ago
This and one of its sibling comments make a good point - maybe this would partially cancel the sound being reflected by the solid part of the wall. We can entertain the possibility, because we know sound in air generally reflects from a wal
757.
by rdiddly 6y ago
If the two speakers were any closer to each other than say 80 feet or 25m (which is roughly how far sound travels in 0.1 second), I wouldn't expect you to have heard the effect I'm describing. There would have to be enough distan
758.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Creating a negative copy of the ambient noise - won't that increase the noise for everyone else? Say you live across the street from a neighbor who has this device. Street noise happens. It reaches you, and your neighbor's cancell
759.
by rdiddly 6y ago
I came in during the "toolbar" era, but ended up using the command line quite a bit. It was custom ACAD macros, and then AutoLISP, that got me back into programming after a long hiatus.
760.
by rdiddly 6y ago
This is the "It's because of our amazing success that we totally fail at things" argument. If you can't do things right "at scale," that's fine, but everyone should know you suck at servicing that level of
761.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Have to agree, though maybe not with the tone. Speaking in absolutes, the whole point of security is to make things unusable. Then for the resource owner we open up a small hole that only they can pass through, by some proof, of varying str
762.
by rdiddly 6y ago
AutoCAD went along a similar trajectory actually - from menus to toolbars to a ribbon. The difference is, you can still turn each of those modes on and off, including using two or all of them at once. Whereas Microsoft just kind of went &q
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by rdiddly 6y ago
So far so good, but now picture someone raised with racism doing all that. We can hope, but I guess I'm not optimistic. I feel like they need to be "acted upon" by someone or by some experience. I also don't have the sam
764.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Whether you're dealing with actual law enforcement or someone pretending, the procedure is the same: Say nothing, tell your lawyer and wait patiently to be arrested. Assuming it's real, it's the action of a court, and court p
765.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Dumb piece about a dumb conversation. But for the record, journalists gain trust & responsibility by keeping their opinions out of it. If you give free rein to your silly opinions, all you do is gain the blind obedience of those who alr
766.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah you don't see them rounding people up in camps either. There are other Nazi-style tactics in the ol' Nazi toolbag. For example, taking a complex problem for which nobody is truly able to attribute a simple cause, and saying,
767.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Notice, though, that you just put white people in charge of it.
768.
by rdiddly 6y ago
When you characterize a perfectly easy-to-understand analogy as "equating" you leave room for only two possibilities: 1) You're bad at analogy, or 2) You're making a bad-faith argument. I don't see how that trick wo
769.
by rdiddly 6y ago
OK no college for them. We'll use your idea instead. What is it?
770.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Fair enough on burdening minority students further. But, counterpoint, they're the most qualified to educate white people about it, and maybe it's never too early to put them in a leadership position where they can do that. Defini
771.
by rdiddly 6y ago
A: You are on Google. There's no confusion.
772.
by rdiddly 6y ago
They're not responsible enough that we consider them adults, or let them vote, or let them join the military without parental consent. And if a high school kid can't grow out of racist tendencies, what is the point of all the marc
773.
by rdiddly 6y ago
What's next, restaurants refusing patrons for being hungry? A college education is exactly what they need. Not only to get some history and some different perspectives, but also to potentially have a brown person as a prof, a roommate
774.
by rdiddly 6y ago
For those who wanted more social contact though, it definitely filled a need that wasn't being met otherwise. Many suburbs are almost completely without any sort of public gathering places other than church & school, i.e. places th
775.
by rdiddly 6y ago
Depending so heavily on the automobile was the key decision. Even now it might hamper many such efforts, because most malls seem to be surrounded by a huge Pelennor Field of hot asphalt and hemmed in by freeways or wide boulevards that mig
776.
by rdiddly 6y ago
"Today, people prefer to live in smaller spaces and want walkable developments rather than relying on vehicular transit. This project caters to these needs." Kind of interesting to watch the mall trend fold in on itself. They we
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I sure hope so! But in all seriousness I don't think those two points conflict per se; they both say, "...advertising is not very worthwhile..." which kind of nails what's going on. The ground under our feet has changed.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
As I'm fond of saying: Mental & emotional health is way more valuable than being informed, in my uninformed opinion.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
[meta] The magic of HN: For a while this was right underneath an article about a bot framework, which made me think it was gonna be a "show HN" along the lines of "Botswana: a new bot framework." (Obviously quite sad wha
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by rdiddly 6y ago
'Indian' in this case is the geography, not the demographic. They explained that, albeit with a lot of words. 'Scammers from India' would've taken care of the whole thing. Or if they wanted to gird their loins &#x2F

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