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by sevensor 2y ago
I recommend rereading Fahrenheit 451 . Satire is not what I’d call it. Nor is it in any way about suppressing technical information — the firemen themselves have printed manuals — it’s about suppressing meaning in favor of triviality as a
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by sevensor 2y ago
At the risk of Godwinning the thread, I’ll just say that I think Werner von Braun circa 1943 is a telling and relevant counterexample here.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Plays just fine under Wine, better than on modern Windows in fact
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by sevensor 2y ago
The trade model in RT2 is broken in ways that make it fun, but also kind of predictable. You get paid a whole lot more for long hauls than for short ones, and you’re less likely to satiate demand that way. In most maps it makes more sense
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by sevensor 2y ago
> As an NZer I can say that unfortunately we sometimes get judged according to US language rules in some contexts I knew an American who, on his first visit to NZ, described how much he enjoyed eating kiwis to his horrified hosts. Of cou
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by sevensor 2y ago
The Secret History is a great story, and teenaged me came away badly misinformed about how many Bacchic cults I was likely to encounter in college.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Try working at a company that doesn’t know how to do sales, and you’ll learn to appreciate a good salesperson.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Time and place are inseparable, and a lot of confusion about time can be resolved by being more specific about one’s position and velocity.
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by sevensor 2y ago
When I was taking undergrad EE classes, I don’t recall it ever coming up. I think people’s comfort with and intuition for electricity are at least as good as for water, which actually behaves in deeply unintuitive ways. We’ve been living wi
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by sevensor 2y ago
Has he?
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by sevensor 2y ago
You can just smell the sweat, ozone, phenolic resin, and pizza grease on those photos, even after all these years.
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by sevensor 2y ago
A funny story from when I worked with a geologist. On vacation, I found a cool looking rock on the beach, kind of sandy-looking, with green crystals in it. I brought it to the office and asked about it. I heard him say, “this rock is nice,
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by sevensor 2y ago
The difference is that Thucydides was attempting to make his reasoning and evidence clear in a way that was quite unusual among ancient authors. Look at Herodotus. Entertaining as heck, interesting stories. Extremely dubious scholarship. O
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by sevensor 2y ago
Surely not! We could be a whole minute off and I’d still be standing on the platform when the train arrived.
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by sevensor 2y ago
What I don’t understand is why we would ever assume two clocks in two different places could be compared in a non approximate way. Your clock, your observations of the world state, are always situated in a local context. In the best of all
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by sevensor 2y ago
Thank you so much for providing context; this answers a lot of questions I had about how we got to where we are today in the U.S.
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by sevensor 2y ago
What a remarkable document! I’ve long been puzzled by the establishment reaction to the social ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Powell isn’t wrong about there being a strong anti-US element to it, nor that a great deal of that sen
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by sevensor 2y ago
Why are the moral panics always about the media diets of children? Let’s talk about old people for a minute. 1) They can be socially isolated in ways that few children are. An unsupervised septuagenarian can go literal days without speaking
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by sevensor 2y ago
Right there with you, and I’m surprised I had to read this far down the thread to find somebody pointing it out. My high school English teacher, who was of the old school, would have written in the margin, “elves of fire? Give me a break!”
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by sevensor 2y ago
> however, that saying applies to war, politics, negotiations It’s not even an argument against planning. You’d be a fool to go to war without a plan. The point of the saying is that you’d be a fool not to tear up your plan and start imp
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by sevensor 2y ago
Agreed, why not both? In fact, I’d say, first write up a theory, then demonstrate that it does or does not work using a prototype, then write the actual design doc. At all times, and continuing into the implementation phase, prioritize the
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by sevensor 2y ago
The striking thing about this is how widespread a problem constipation was and how desperate people were to solve it. What were people eating in Victorian England? Gristle and paste, sprinkled with arsenic?
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by sevensor 2y ago
> everything you mentioned at whatever purity you can imagine. Are you familiar with the trace metals requirements of semiconductor processing? And the volume of an iso tank? And the volatility of the petrochemical refining industry? I w
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by sevensor 2y ago
I skimmed it; I didn’t think it was ai necessarily, but in between topic sentences it was boring filler no matter how it was written. Even at a high level though, it’s poorly reasoned. If quality code is not maintainable, what are your cri
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by sevensor 2y ago
Adding to your addition, let’s not forget the “raw” materials, which are a constant headache to keep supplied and qualified. Consider a not entirely hypothetical example where your regular supplier of sulfuric acid is late. Your iso tank ru
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’d ask, “have we worked together?” since this is a spot on description of my former employer, except it’s probably a spot on description of thousands of mid sized companies.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m not sure that would be my go to movie for military discipline and effective teamwork, but I’d sure watch it again.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You owe it to yourself to type out your copied code again. So easy to lose track of context when you’re moving fast. Variables have the wrong name, conditionals can’t be false, etc. Copy, yes, but don’t paste. Do it the hard way.
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by sevensor 2y ago
That was the idea, before it all went terribly wrong.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Strongly disagree about datetimes; they exist at a different semantic level and are entirely too easy to get wrong.

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