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by rectang 6mo ago
Indeed, that's why "salting the earth" is an age-old military tactic. "If I can't have it, then neither can you." But I can also see why someone might wish for there to be a reason behind suffering.
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by rectang 6mo ago
Mainstream journalism can't compete its way out of its malaise by insisting on an "impartiality" that demands journalists lie by omission. Such journalism is utterly incapable of meeting the moment and opposing the innovativ
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by rectang 6mo ago
It's not that the random YT channel is actually more trustworthy, but that it exposes the audience to adversarial perspectives which mainstream access journalists hide — thereby eroding the trust of young audiences for mainstream journ
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by rectang 6mo ago
I would argue that reading discussion of "CEO says" "journalism" on HN will often better inform you than reading a mainstream journalist puff-piece interview of a CEO. Many journalists will not provide adversarial viewp
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by rectang 6mo ago
Humans are by far the most vicious animal species, because the sophistication with which they apply torture is off-the-charts. Felines and orcas may consume their prey alive or play with them, but it's not in their capacity to keep th
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by rectang 6mo ago
A big problem is that the product of "access journalism" is untrustworthy. In order to produce articles which generate large clickthrough rates for comparatively low cost, news organizations rely on interviews with people in power
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by rectang 6mo ago
The phrase "spiritual successor to WordPress" is not likely to be judged a trademark violation, though. It doesn't create confusion in the marketplace as to whether Emdash is WordPress.
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by rectang 6mo ago
Hosting curated dependencies is a commercially valuable service. Eventually an economy arises where people pay vendors to vet packages.
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Stiff penalties for workplace deaths are doing their job(independentaustralia.net)
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by rectang 6mo ago
Brandolini's Bullshit Asymmetry Principle is the adage for our age: > The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by rectang 6mo ago
I just checked my Github settings, and found that sharing my data was "enabled". This setting does not represent my wishes and I definitely would not have set it that way on purpose. It was either defaulted that way, or when the o
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by rectang 7mo ago
It would be interesting to know whether that rule was onerous enough in practice that they had little choice but to break it in order to do their jobs effectively. They were responding to an emergency, seconds count, and they believed they
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by rectang 7mo ago
Look, if you were to review my comment history you would have no doubt about where I stand on the current administration. But scapegoating any single politician for the systemic problems of aviation is as unhelpful as scapegoating the contr
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by rectang 7mo ago
By using the role name rather than proper name, I'd hoped to spare HN from a tangent like this. My point doesn't rest on the nature of single individual, but instead applies to a human tendency. Politicians and press both play t
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by rectang 7mo ago
> Deciding to change policies to effect the recommendation isn't their role. And if it was the role of investigators to change policy, then there would be enormous pressure from industry to reach convenient conclusions, poisonin
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by rectang 7mo ago
In both cases, the controller's fate was grim. Peter Nielsen (Überlingen) was murdered by a relative of a crash victim. Robin Lee Wascher (LA), whose own parents had died in an earlier air crash, was crucified in the media and never
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by rectang 7mo ago
Yes! But every news organization is leading with "I messed up." And the US President commented "They messed up", though it's unclear who that was in reference to. Humans have a powerful need to affix blame and pun
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by rectang 7mo ago
"Why not neither?"
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by rectang 7mo ago
Yes! And I wouldn't have picked it, but I went along with it when someone else wanted to read it. The "software IC" metaphor may not have caught on, but these artifacts of early experimentation, competitors against what evol
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by rectang 7mo ago
The groups I ran were scheduled during lunch. Technical management would look the other way if we ran over time or if people spent a certain amount of their work day reading the material. Even if you have enlightened technical management,
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by rectang 7mo ago
I gave a long post at the top level about running a book-focused reading group at a company, but your group sounds more like a Papers We Love[1] chapter. I used to co-host the San Diego chapter of Papers We Love[2], and here's my secre
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by rectang 7mo ago
I ran reading groups over several years a medium-sized startup I worked for and for an open source community I was a part of. The groups were targeted not only at engineering staff but also semi-technical positions such as product manageme
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by rectang 7mo ago
Has there ever been a consideration for the git file format to allow storage of binary blobs uncompressed? When I was screwing around with the Git file format, tricks I would use to save space like hard-linking or memory-mapping couldn&#x27
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by rectang 7mo ago
I agree. Nevertheless I wonder if this approach can help with certain other places where Git sometimes struggles, such as whether or not two commits which have identical diffs but different parents should be considered equivalent. In the g
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by rectang 7mo ago
> Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS. It's been this way for decades. Microsoft was known for preserving backwards compatibility, while Apple was known for being willing to break stuff. The differences aren't t
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by rectang 7mo ago
Here’s an example: Schönberg’s Variations for Orchestra (1928): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wefv98lvo 12-tone serial music always sounds to me like it belongs in a film soundtrack — it works well as background because
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by rectang 7mo ago
Bartok never wrote using the 12-tone serial method. He wrote dense harmonies, especially in his middle period (e.g. the sonatas for violin and piano), but in terms of how he devised those harmonies he has more in common with Glass than Sch
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by rectang 7mo ago
> In no way shape or form is the medical industry in the US a free market, it's one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the economy. If any regulation at all makes a market not "free", then there are no free markets
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by rectang 7mo ago
We only get one life. I admire the path you’ve taken.
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by rectang 7mo ago
Yup, that’s me! And it’s a rewarding life despite all the noise from anti-WFH ideologues. A string of open-minded startups have benefited from my labor.

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