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by specialist 2y ago
Terrific criticism. Rings true. I've never done it (directly). Only watched teams and teammates get sucked into that void. Sadly, they eschewed most of your list. I do know that Google strategically used A/B testing to determine t
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by specialist 2y ago
> (originally iPhones) and then expand that to the mac Yes and: (as you know) Aggregate volume also benefits Apple's whole product suite. It's hard for a laptop mfg to justify pushing to next node process for just ~25m units.
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by specialist 2y ago
Noob questions: PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right? When I'm assessing the merit of any given project, I'd want see if there's a backlog of PRs, right? Do projects using email-patch workflo
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by specialist 2y ago
Are you arguing for or against offshore wind? Tackling climate crisis requires All The Above. Wind, nukes, solar farms, tidal, whatever, by themselves, aren't silver bullets. We also need heat pumps, renovations (insulation, air se
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by specialist 2y ago
You're complaining about bureaucrary, not government. All those "seeing like a state" aspects originated in corporations. (Who stole the ideas from the military.) Because corporations had experience governments needed. Is bur
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by specialist 2y ago
There's 3 choices. Both placebos and SSRI perform better than doing nothing .
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by specialist 2y ago
Yup. Have you read Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface? It's an explainer and retrospective for his Canon Cat. I want more of that foundation, vision, concept. With the recent renewed interest textual user interfaces (TUIs), maybe t
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by specialist 2y ago
> ...a euphemism for "ban or severely curtail moderation (and the associated liability implications)". Yup. Just more doublespeak. Remember "free enterprise"? Sounds awesome right? Yes, please, gimme some more of th
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by specialist 2y ago
Damn. That's awful. Methinks dentists could be doing a lot more screenings for diseases.
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by specialist 2y ago
French Labor have rights that are illegal in the USA. Taft-Hartley Act [1947] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act It's been all downhill since. With a brief respite under the Biden Admin, passin
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by specialist 2y ago
Yes and: > about cutting services in order to fund two things Gutting the administrative state. Then restaffing with loyalists.
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by specialist 2y ago
Sorry, I'm not a doctor. I've had DEXA scans (for bone density), MRIs, and x-rays. For me, the MRIs identified potential nerve impingements (from bone spurs) and the weakened S1-L5-L4. Getting a helpful diagnosis wasn't strai
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by specialist 2y ago
Me too. Tried all the things. No improvement. Turns out most of my anxiety, insomnia, etc sensations were caused by pinched spinal nerves. I say sensation because I believe, but cannot prove, that my physical sensation led to my mental
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by specialist 2y ago
> ...Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and put everything in the SOC... Maybe UWB, NFC, GPS too, right? Noob question: these things have software defined radio something DSP something angry pixies. And the just add Rx/Tx stuff as needed. Right?
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by specialist 2y ago
Yes and: fraud and errors are often indistinguishable.
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by specialist 2y ago
Yup. After multiple bad experiences with contractors [1], I decided I could fail all by myself, for free. So I bought all the tools, all the books (now youtube videos), do some mockups (eg practice tiling in the garage) before each project,
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by specialist 2y ago
Austerity (neoliberal) policy is left-leaning?
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by specialist 2y ago
I don't follow. Is there a constituency in favor of eliminating governmental nuclear safety?
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by specialist 2y ago
Maybe "virtual intelligence" would be more apt?
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by specialist 2y ago
Yes and: Lettering guides (sort of) allowed multiple people to maintain drawings. Even then, individual skill and technique allowed team mates to recognize each other's work. I knew one person who had perfect hand lettering. And coul
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by specialist 2y ago
Good. I vote for omitting the pipe lexemes. I hate them. Of the alternatives linked (elsethread), PSQL is the least bad. I'm ambivalent about the curly brackets; will have to ponder. Malloy would be improved by omitting the superfluous
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by specialist 2y ago
> You can straightforwardly privatize things that can't be allowed to fail. What are some examples of successfully privatized utilities?
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by specialist 2y ago
Yes and: Technology (progress) always presents a tradeoff. It is never wholly positive. h/t Neil Postman's Technopoly. On the balance, writing has been a net positive. Probably. Plato wasn't wrong; he could (or would) not ant
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by specialist 2y ago
Aside: I avoid ORM hell by using SQL to generate source code.
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by specialist 2y ago
> Threads has 320 million monthly active users and 100 million daily. At least that's what Meta tells advertisers and shareholders. Zuck has a long history of fudging the numbers.
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by specialist 2y ago
Andrew Gumbel's theory is that since "the left" obviously cheats (despite lack of evidence), "the right" feels justified in cheating harder . There's probably some truth to that theory. Steal This Vote [2005]
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by specialist 2y ago
Alternately: SELECT a, b, c, NULL FROM ... SELECT a, b, c, true FROM ... SELECT a, b, c, 'ignore me' FROM ... FWIW, my SQL grammar ignores trailing commas. IIRC, H2 Database does too.
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by specialist 2y ago
This would work (w/ a context free grammar) if aliases required the 'AS' keyword. Ambigious: SELECT a aliasA b c aliasC FROM d aliasD e Unambigious: SELECT a as aliasA b c as aliasC FROM d as aliasD e Alternat
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by specialist 2y ago
Yes but: Gore v Bush Aside: As you likely already know, Voter Action proved in court that Kerry won New Mexico. As in "got more votes" than Bush. They chose NM, to make their point about electronic voting, because NM's electo
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by specialist 2y ago
yes and: aka "administrative capacity". A favorite topic of David Roberts (Volts podcast) wrt to the challenges of the energy transition.

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