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by theyregreat 9y ago
Scapegoats abound. It’s never the readers’ personal responsibility for retweeting conspiracy theories, The Onion as fact or PR-manufactured articles. Maybe NYT trying to get the InfoWars demographic / fly-over country back on their sid
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by theyregreat 9y ago
You’re bikeshedding on a switch versus a button, still an extra, unnecessary step to forget. Same problem. You failed. Try again.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
There is more than one legal form of union-busting. They could’ve reorganized departments and “eliminated positions,” but instead they chose to throw everyone out on the street as collective punishment to send a message. This is why reporte
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Thanks, dad. In the meantime, the GP’s not “alt-facts” remain the apolitical reality of the rich vs. poor.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
More than binary nuance is needed. The ship that crashed is a system of humans plus machines, the UI being just the API between the two. Forensic incident analysis of ship design, UI, human factors, etc. is needed.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
I’ve seen hundreds of millions (!!) wasted at a university on a program of software projects that failed miserably. Having too much money allows for unproven, complicated or arbitrarily selected solutions and more bureaucracy that introduce
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by theyregreat 9y ago
That is super dumb and dangerous. They should just flip the inputs on one end. EDIT (since some people obviously don’t understand the problem): ... so that each set of controls is always correct for the respective side on which it is locate
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Redundant affordances are needed: Controls that are active should be illuminated in a particular color, say red. Controls that are disabled should be extinguished, physically-locked or track active controls, and sound a warning when manipul
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by theyregreat 9y ago
News and social media are legitmized gossip that create information overload / Tragedy of the Commons / false equivalency. This leads to InfoWars, Cambridge Analytica, foreign state actors and anyone with deceptive goals and fundi
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Probably drives a Mercedes, but not so bad as a BMW.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
This sucks. Wine subscriptions are big money-makers for vineyards. And, it will mostly hurt California.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
In the US, paying prisoners is technically optional per the 13th amendment loophole. Furthermore, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and combined with for-profit prisons’ political contributions, there are perverse ince
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Higher dpi maybe required for those kids these days whom hold their phones a few centimeters / inches from their eyes. I call it sera rubens myopia, Latin for glowing myopia.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
1G started in 1976 with the IBM 3800 at 240 dpi. HP’s first 2G laser (LaserJet w/ Canon CX engine) was 300 dpi in 1984. Also I had a 600 dpi LJ 4 which was released in 1992.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Served with a side of mealworms, or crickets, if you prefer. Interestingly, allrecipes lives up to the name on its tin: http://allrecipes.com/search/results/?ingIncl=frog&sort=re
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Yes. It’s similar to the difference between a mechanic and an engineer: a mechanic figures out something works, but the engineer can then take the next step to discover/know how. If someone cannot articulate or identify advantages, the
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by theyregreat 9y ago
I hear you, brother. Much less work for more benefits with benefits. Men and women both have sex on the Maslow hierarchy of needs, to varying degrees. Men and women both get mood and cardio improvements from getting laid regularly. PSA: Pra
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Aerion, Boom, Gulfstream, HyperMach and more. It seems crowded for such a niche product with a lengthy, costly and uncertain development cycle.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. S
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Yup. Pointers to functions and call equivalence of functions and pointers to functions are that in C. Prototype interfaces (ie plugins) are trivially had with a struct containing pointers to such common API functions. The plugin just needs
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Hmmm. It depends on the power, frequencies and distance to tissue. I remember a coworker at a GPS mfgr accidentially turned on a 440 MHz radio in high-power (25W) mode with only a whip antenna and received a nasty radio burn when he pointle
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by theyregreat 9y ago
My folks live in the nearby area not downstream. That’s what happens when preventative maintenance is ignored by reactive bureaucrats. Pennywise, ... Here’s one of the YT channels that’s been following the progress, filming and combining
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Thanks. I hate these pseudo-PDF, book shovelware sites that paywall/proprietarize/socalize content to be useless on readers and generally get in the way.
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Superscalar is an idealized notion of concurrent instructions per clock, almost MISD. Even the Pentium doesn’t really work like that, where one pipe isn’t fully capable, but it still has OOE, so it’s nothing like the Computer Architecture b
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Maybe interesting: ”How to Make Roman Concrete” https://youtu.be/tOhAfaFboNU
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Any rain or clouds?
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Confirmed. The iOS weather app even listed “Smoke” instead of “Cloudy” or “Overcast.” It’s not funny though. For example, my folks live on a mesa surrounded by pine trees and vegetation on three sides. Last week, an intentionally-set fire (
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Using even more fossil fuels is a nonstarter because CO2 levels aren’t leveling off, much less going down. Only consistent, severe international economic incentives and disincentives can motivate rapid deployment of renewables to hold-out &
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by theyregreat 9y ago
More likely the pathology of closed-source software and hardware screwing up because few people will see inside the code or RTL, and the limited/no penalties for delivering an insecure HSM/TPM, processor, baseband or almost anythi
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by theyregreat 9y ago
Yup. Increased potential for addictions like gambling, spending, sex, ideology, drugs or gossip makes someone a liability. A health-nut, teetotaler, nerdy dude (or dudette) uninterested in sex, doesn’t talk much and able to resist and repor

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