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by taneq 1y ago
I don't think this is an unreasonable stance. I guess we're going with downvote=disagree for this one. It's great if you can understand and connect with someone who's fundamentally decent but uninformed/misinformed
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by taneq 1y ago
Maybe you don't need to connect with everyone? If someone has a few different opinions to me, that's fine, I'm sure there's plenty of other things we agree on. Maybe we can find common ground and connect over that. If so
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by taneq 1y ago
There’s a simpler explanation, to do with the veracity of that tweet.
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by taneq 1y ago
https://hackaday.com/ - cool projects and interesting stuff https://news.sparkfun.com/tags/tutorial - tutorials on embedded software, electronics, etc. https://learn.adafruit.com/ - el
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by taneq 1y ago
Do things, talk to people, engage. Note that this is different to “hustle”. Don’t try too hard to minmax, because that leaves no room for serendipity. “Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer! But don’t forget to put out your nets!” - Llonio
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by taneq 1y ago
Arduinos and hobby servos. No, neither of them are "industrial grade" and yeah, you'll reach their limits pretty quickly, but building a physical thing that does stuff is (in my experience) a huge motivator. Or if you're
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by taneq 1y ago
I mean, “keep the nice thing you built and send a dodgy knock off” sure does raise your quarterly gross margin…
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by taneq 1y ago
No. The best form of government is never a committee, but the worst form is seldom a committee.
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by taneq 1y ago
The explicitly stated goal is the path, but for actual living creatures (of the kind that have this in-built bias) the actual goals are far more varied and nuanced.
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by taneq 1y ago
This is very true. Just because there's sunk costs doesn't mean you're falling for the sunk costs fallacy. Sure, sometimes you need to just cut your losses and start over, but often it's better to push through (maybe wit
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by taneq 1y ago
The Mechanicum will follow your career with much interest. ;)
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by taneq 1y ago
Thanks! Yeah the AOL link gave me a menu bar and a blank page on Firefox.
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by taneq 1y ago
Seems like it would be a survival trait in the wild. Doubling back reduces your exploration rate (you're not updating your map as much and you're less likely to spot some new snack) while increasing your exposure to unknown predat
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by taneq 1y ago
Dummy tokens work for humans too. “Shhh I need to think!”
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by taneq 1y ago
Haha yeah, or 'Deez'.
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by taneq 1y ago
Just piggybacking on this, if your bank (or eBay or Amazon or whoever) ever calls you to inform you of a suspected hack on your account, and says they're sending you a 2 factor authentication code to confirm your identity, do NOT tell
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by taneq 1y ago
Some of the worst practices I've seen are from FedEx. When you order an international package, you get a text from some random FedEx employee's personal mobile number, containing a link to a website where you're meant to ente
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by taneq 1y ago
Nah this is lawful evil (I Am Following The Rules Therefore I'm Doing The Right Thing) vs. neutral evil (I Just Work Here).
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by taneq 1y ago
If anyone here's thinking about logo designs, can I offer some related advice? Please make your logo fit more-or-less in a box, with the center of gravity in the middle of that box. Keep text nice and chunky so it can still be read eve
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by taneq 1y ago
Archive link to a playable version, wow I love living in the future! :D Seems like latency might be an issue in the emulated version, though (or I just lost all my skills >.> ) https://archive.org/details/msdos_Sl
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by taneq 1y ago
That description reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalker_(video_game) which I played to death when I was a kid.
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by taneq 1y ago
“We don’t know who fired the first shot in the war with the machines, but we do know it was us who scorched the skies.”
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by taneq 1y ago
Are we sure his car wasn’t a Twike or something? There’s ultralight EVs for which this could work. Edit: Never mind, “hybrid station wagon”.
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by taneq 1y ago
Maybe slightly off topic but I was surprised to discover that my glasses with photoreactive lenses (SpecSavers ‘Reactions’) are actually circularly polarised but only when they go dark. I originally thought they didn’t work because they did
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by taneq 1y ago
Eeeeh, I don't think 'completely bogus' means 'exhaustively false for all situations'. It just means 'demonstrably false' (for some relatively sane example, we're talking about C after all which means
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by taneq 1y ago
Well then it isn’t not one either. :P
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by taneq 1y ago
“There’s lies, damn lies, and datasheets.” Although, “All datasheets are wrong. Some datasheets are useful.”
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by taneq 1y ago
I don’t really like golf but I’d imagine that if I did, I might stop liking it once I had to do it professionally every day even when I didn’t feel like it.
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by taneq 1y ago
In a deterministic universe, the future is still affected by (and can be improved by) shaming people for behaving poorly, even when they have a predisposition towards such behaviour. Think of it like integral windup in a PID controller. The
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by taneq 1y ago
Yeah, and that the obvious “cause” of the catastrophe is the third or fourth etc. failure in a row that allowed the situation to snowball into something truly damaging. Reminds me (on the other side) of the “five whys” approach to root caus

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