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by rm445 6y ago
Complete tangent to your interesting post, but in companies that build a good safety culture, fire safety is within everyone's purview and something anyone can ask about. In the organisation I work at, the marketing manager could total
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by rm445 6y ago
Interesting read but I think this 'Quote Investigator' went off at a tangent with "pour encourager les autres" (a famous quote in its own right, but not quite the same sentiment). It seems more like the 1961 navy cartoon
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by rm445 6y ago
What you're saying makes some sense - a television broadcast, say, requires effort from a lot of people to produce - and, previously, expensive special equipment to broadcast, though now TV content is often streamed over the web - so i
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by rm445 6y ago
A question on a related topic, then: given that hats are dead, how can a person appear reasonably good if they want to wear a hat for comfort/practical reasons? Clearly one of the big no-nos is mixing formal and casual. Fedora wearers
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by rm445 6y ago
There are difficulties in overcoming users' expectations and actually monetising, but it shouldn't be ruled out completely. Once people are using something as a major source of entertainment, some proportion of them are usually wi
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by rm445 6y ago
Reddit is too nebulous to get very mad about. You can leave a subreddit you're sick of. Trash your account if you're worried your comments risk doxing yourself. Start afresh, it's easy. Everyone is pseudonymous and reputation
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by rm445 6y ago
Yeah, that's why the churn of food-delivery companies isn't going to end unless external factors cut off the flow of investment. It's conceivable that one winner could be massively profitable, at enormous scale, with all the
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by rm445 6y ago
Probably spend differently. Because both of your points are kind of true: the future is online, but money spent up to now hasn't necessarily got results. Pure wild speculation, but I suspect that some of the metrics that drove advertis
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by rm445 6y ago
If you were a TV fan, watching workday evenings, then indulging more at the weekends could carry you up to that the average. People watch a lot of TV, it's the default entertainment. I recently (before lockdown) casually asked a collea
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by rm445 6y ago
What on earth happened to Skype? Over a decade of head start, why wasn't it completely untouchable when COVID-19 came along? Another thought. Last year at the peak of Fortnite hype, when top DJs were hosting parties live in game etc, t
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by rm445 6y ago
The bridge across the river Wear right next to Dunelm house is an example of building with concrete done right. Use the properties of the material to make a structure that is light and airy, pleasing yet practical. The soviet bunker that is
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by rm445 6y ago
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location...
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by rm445 6y ago
The filter thing seems obviously true, but it doesn't rule out whole styles being better than others, even if the mediocre and pedestrian efforts from those styles were eventually winnowed out. Besides, each day people, somewhere, are
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by rm445 6y ago
I have a heuristic. A 'code smell' for social science articles, which is something like, is all of Western society explained by happenings in the USA? Caveats: there's nothing wrong with writing an American article about Amer
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by rm445 6y ago
It's the paradox of the firm. Centralised authority seems to be effective for small and local efforts, while not being how you'd want the whole society to be run.
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by rm445 6y ago
Yes, the Italians-speak-loud-and-close theory is both plausible and bleakly funny. It works for New Yorkers as well.
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by rm445 6y ago
Also Japan at all of 900 deaths despite an early start. Articles have been written about government responses and cultural behaviours, but it feels like there's something with a stronger effect out there waiting to be discovered. A gen
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by rm445 6y ago
The US seems to have a fairly adversarial, legislative rules-based relationship between policing and people's rights to justice, if that makes any sense. This is just speaking as a layman observing from outside. (Contrast with other co
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by rm445 6y ago
I stopped using Mac Mail quite recently, because of a bug that meant not all my IMAP folders were displayed. Remember Mozilla Thunderbird? It's great. Also has an RSS reader built in.
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by rm445 6y ago
All these speech assistants are almost stateless, aren't they? I mean, they can ask you questions and go into a listen-for-an-answer state, but, at least last time I tried, you can't have a conversation about your conversation wit
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by rm445 6y ago
That's bad and wrong, you should think past your familiarity for a minute and logically not do it. This shouldn't be mixed up with the other common case which is often discussed, 'American' as the demonym for people and
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by rm445 6y ago
The obvious one is bringing costs down by automating labour, with self-driving cars etc. There also may be a 'change the world' sort of outcome, where consumers en masse like the product so much that they change their behaviour an
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by rm445 6y ago
Poka-yoke is a massively useful concept in the design of physical objects, and it should apply to design of software interfaces as well. A key principle is making different things look different. In a mechanical assembly, often you see ve
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by rm445 6y ago
3 astronauts in a fire and another in a training jet crash? I guess there were probably other, non-astronaut deaths in the Apollo program, workers getting electrocuted or falling from gantries at contractors' manufacturing plants, but
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by rm445 7y ago
Not helpful to you except as an existence proof, but you can install Retropie on a Raspberry Pi and it will play SNES ROMs fine. I believe the emulator is a variant of SNES9x.
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by rm445 7y ago
The name alone will bring out a bunch of flamers, but Stephen Wolfram wrote an enormous tome on cellular automata. I haven't read it all, and an index search shows it has nothing about the universal constructor specifically, but it sho
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by rm445 7y ago
Are you mixing up Plan9 with some legendary vapourware OS, MULTICS or something? Maybe the HURD? (NB: not entirely vapourware, but less finished than Plan9). Because Plan9 was (and is) a real system that you could (and can) run.
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by rm445 7y ago
People love Slack because IRC is loveable. People use Slack because its advantages over IRC are in areas that favour it being installed in corporate environments, while benefits of IRC (such as being free and open, simple and extensible,
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by rm445 7y ago
It doesn't seem to be all fakers. The situation as described by advocates of FizzBuzz and the like, is that large minority proportions of people who have already held down jobs in the software development field, actually can barely do
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by rm445 7y ago
The linked site still works, the specific links are just dead. If you type the four-digit set number into the search box, the correct sets come right up.

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