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by troutwine 3y ago
Sure, and if you're ideologically opposed to a policy you can make a comment like this. What's needed is data on many alternative approaches, what policies _and_ executions taken as one promote better outcomes? Over what timeframe
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by troutwine 3y ago
Indeed, this question of morality and arbitrating it is not alien to the Bible itself. It's the animating point on which Job turns.
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by troutwine 3y ago
It's less 'save' and 'not destroy' although that's maybe a fine distinction. In Genesis God is drawn to do something about Sodom as the din of shrieks from that city has spurred him to action, shrieks either fr
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by troutwine 3y ago
Theoretically OP's concern is still possible with AEB but it would require non-trivial coordination between offensive drivers where each subsequent driver comes in at a lower speed than the previous, cuts OP's car off -- now slowe
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by troutwine 3y ago
I don’t think there is one example of “modern” software development. Some orgs will have a very minimal process, some won’t. Some teams will have more involved processes than their surrounding org, some more. I’ve seen worse than what is de
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by troutwine 3y ago
Hah! Fun question. While I think if you ripped the solar panels and other instrumentation off you could _just_ fit the Salyut in the Shuttle payload bay it was too heavy for a safe return trip. But, I think the Salyut's orbit would hav
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by troutwine 3y ago
It's also worth mentioning that materials wear out in space in ways we don't always appreciate and certainly did not in the golden era of the Soviet space stations. The Mir, an upgrade over the Salyut program, was pretty trashed b
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by troutwine 3y ago
I like it here. I like other places too but I like it here more. And, I think it’s worth staying and advocating for change that would mean other people who like it here could stay too if they wanted.
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by troutwine 3y ago
My understanding is this anecdote originates with Abner Mikva. It is Chicagoland but from the 1940s.
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by troutwine 3y ago
I don't know that I would call a community disagreeing with you -- however loosely defined 'community' is on a semi-anonymous site -- victimizing. Downvoting is not shouting fire in a crowded theater; it's an expression
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by troutwine 3y ago
> I wish lots of content disappeared - in the past the passage of time was a way to filter for quality, because we only bothered to preserve something worth preserving. While I agree that preserving through something through time does ta
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by troutwine 3y ago
The use of proof tools in software is very, very interesting but still a niche application because of the relative specialization of the programmer and the need: most software limps by just fine with shockingly high defect rates. But, of th
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by troutwine 4y ago
Alright? It's not clear by implication what you actually do want to optimize for but the weight/particulate problem is a fairly well-known problem. For instance, from the California Air Resources Board: https://ww2.arb.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> "Weight" is not the correct factor to optimize, basically. Is it not? Particular matter from tires is a major factor in air pollution and the heavier the vehicle the more that ramps up.
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by troutwine 4y ago
I'm not looking right now but I have several friends that are. It's not just you. With so many layoffs there's a lot of folks looking all at once and a number of companies see this as a chance to get very experienced talent a
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by troutwine 4y ago
It got me to abandon Spotify entirely and switch over to Apple Music. I’ve become more and more discontented with Spotify’s in-app experience and this was the last little nudge I needed apparently.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> In the physical world there are countless spaces that exist as an open ended resource that people can use in a myriad of ways to enhance their lives and community. Things like city parks, libraries, national parks, blm land, lakes, etc
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by troutwine 4y ago
Crane is one of the libraries(?) I came across. Couldn’t get it to work on an existing multi-crate workspace project. The crane documentation as-is didn’t provide enough context to debug the errors I saw in the process of trying to muddle t
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by troutwine 4y ago
Two of the major differences between terraform and Nix that I see are 1. it’s possible to muddle through in terraform and 2. Hashicorp has put a non-trivial amount of effort into documentation for all levels of users. I’ve taken a stab at u
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by troutwine 4y ago
That's making an argument about hours worked? > According to a detailed “time diary” dataset that measures work wherever and whenever it takes place, government employees work around three fewer hours per week and roughly one less m
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by troutwine 4y ago
Citation needed.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> Its worth asking ourselves why the offices that serve us, the citizens, on the daily are constantly underfunded to the point that the work is not rewarded in financial, social, or career oriented ways. I couldn't agree more. I fun
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by troutwine 4y ago
It's just rough that the richest country in the world provides such a negative incentive for working in the public interest. I fully accept that government work won't be a lottery ticket type opportunity but asking people to sacri
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by troutwine 4y ago
Okay, well, you're entitled to your opinion.
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by troutwine 4y ago
You’re aware that people’s circadian rhythms don’t align? I, for instance, am a morning person. Morning classes were never a problem for me but evening seminars were hell. My wife is the opposite, shifted about five hours, a “night owl”. It
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by troutwine 4y ago
I know, so sweet.
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by troutwine 4y ago
My book is on the list there. I wrote a blog post about my experience with the publisher. https://blog.troutwine.us/2018/06/07/hands-on-concurrency-wi... They produce A LOT of books and the amount of time the
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by troutwine 4y ago
> Not everyone has the privilege of living in safe places like Mountain View. I don't live, nor have I ever, in Mountain View. > Please don’t diminish others concern for public safety as a “panic fetish tool”, especially for thos
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by troutwine 4y ago
> When an engineer like this proposes something that adds unnecessary complexity, it's usually hard to argue with. The proposed change typically does indeed make the system objectively better, and they're the one taking respons
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by troutwine 4y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, except maybe to say that Citizen is not acting cynically? If that's so, it doesn't change my opinion that we'd be generally better off it Citizen tanks.

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