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by tessierashpool 2y ago
we're for all practical purposes immune to the awful policies that are being put in place. this is probably not going to pan out. Trump's become the figurehead for an organized and motivated movement to completely dismantle the
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
ah, like Al-Jazari's water-powered musical automata in 1206, or Athanasius Kircher's marble machine in the 17th century. or (for more modern examples) Raymond Scott's Electronium in 1959, and the Rhythmicon in 1931.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
Not longer than Steve Reich, John Cage, Philip Glass, or Ann Southam. Nor for that matter Mozart, who wrote simple algorithmic compositions powered by dice. These were common musical games in his day.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
Chinese-Americans, at least, call it a game of Telephone, like everyone else in the English-speaking world except for the actual English. We call it “Telephone” because “Chinese Whispers” not only sounds racist, it is also super confusing.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
obviously, my reply to this comment's sibling repudiates these factually inaccurate characterizations.
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Kau7bO3Fw this is a debunking video. it addresses a video where Hossenfelder says that "normal people" think it's crazy to suggest that transitioning saves the lives of
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
this is a popular myth but never lines up with reality. studies pretty consistently find that kids are worse at understanding technology’s limitations. maybe because they don’t have enough prior experience to compare “the new way” with any
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
she really isn't, though. her papers are mediocre, so she compensates by pandering to conspiracy theorists and transphobes. edit : to be clear, my intention here is not to engage in ad hominem. instead I am saying that augmenting unim
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Harvard students hack Meta glasses to compile dossiers on strangers in real time [video](youtube.com)
15 points by tessierashpool 2y ago|18 comments
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
France 24 report describes it as "a surveillance nightmare" but it's arguably more a sousveillance nightmare. This would be an incredibly oppressive tool of surveillance, but in the hands of literally everyone, it's th
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
their “point” does not stand. they don’t even have a point. they cherry-picked an ideological hot button to be mad about for no legitimate reason. it is absurd to suggest those measures were not a good thing, and factually inaccurate to say
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
yeah, the assertion is entirely false. there doesn't need to be any such tradeoff. there's probably a term for the cognitive fallacy where you assert that however it happens to be is how it had to be. it's like normalcy bias,
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by tessierashpool 2y ago
as an old-school reader of the cypherpunks email list from before HTTPS existed, I'm still mad about this part: Outside of actually developing cryptosystems, security tends to be a practical affair where we are happy building systems
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
this is not just an ad hominem, it is also senseless. "you can safely assume this person knows nothing of our history, because he finds our tourists annoying" is not a valid argument. flagging for ad hominem
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
very surprising that Waymo would describe the accident in terms that blame the other party
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
Greek letters were used as numbers during the time of the Romans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals also, sorry to be that guy, but D&D hasn't had a thief class since 3rd edition came out, in 2000.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
DHH imposes this kind of cognitive dissonance on the Ruby community at a pretty regular interval. it's generally worth it, but it's still a kind of brain tax.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
easily disproven by reading the orignal Consumer Reports post (as opposed to the Reuters article that this thread links to) https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the...
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
Isn't there also limited to no evidence of harms from these in humans? nope, tons of evidence of harm
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
nope, phthalate-free cans have been a selling point for a while now. standard for canned beans at Sprouts or Whole Foods
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
this is a fine idea in theory, but in practice, the responsibility for managing such an index would (in the US) be split unpredictably between the FDA and/or USDA. the agencies have wildly varying budgets, a Byzantine web of overlap in
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
yeah, but the point stands. that’s how Adobe took over the world, as well as Apple products like the iPad, the iPhone, etc. “by Mac users for Mac users” is historically a very strong opening position.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
is there a way to reverse this trend? it seems to have decades of momentum behind it, but it should still be destroyed.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
flat fees fail for dev. as soon as you encounter an unexpected problem, your margin suffers. since unexpected problems can radically alter dev time, your margin can be obliterated.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
the number comes from "MyPerfectResume’s 2024 Workplace Trends Survey," and there's no information about its methodology on the page that I could see.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
it's horrifying how much software operates in defiance of consent. huge overlap with how much software provides "conveniences" which undermine utility.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
not what I said, but I will rephrase for you. the law is inherently always complicated, because it, by definition, must provide general and categorical solutions to a wide range of particular instances.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
nobody's advocating that. I used the example of making the world go 100% vegan because it is an example of a thing which would be incredibly effective, yet which any reasonable person would consider impossible.
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
> I mean, Musk went the practical route. sure. but going the practical route isn't being some kind of hero. you don't go to a hero's gravestone and see the words "well, he did what he could." Musk harnessed a ver
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by tessierashpool 3y ago
> I think temporary society-scale prohibition when drug use becomes a widespread societal ill is good policy. OK, but we passed a constitutional amendment saying the opposite, and the so-called "War on Drugs" operates in defian

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