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by troutwine 4y ago
> I don't know about your neighborhood, but when I check Citizen real events get filled with hundreds of verifications, comments, and videos. It's not a case of Citizen trying to invent things that aren't there, sowing som
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by troutwine 4y ago
> It's just basic neighborhood safety awareness of where not to walk. Sure, I disagree with none of this particularly. My fundamental contention here is that Citizen with its sloppy text-to-speech of the police scanner plus no real
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by troutwine 4y ago
> Would you apply the same level of scrutiny to the media? Absolutely. Loudly.
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by troutwine 4y ago
By panic fetish tool I mean something of marginal utility — not no utility, mind — that panics the afflicted into a mailable state. So, for Citizen, that’s meant to make you pay them money. For, say, fascist politics that’s meant to make yo
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by troutwine 4y ago
Yet, even if I accept the thrust of your argument here, which I do not, I would still point out that there is a wide gulf between one of your kin keeping watch and a company attempting to promote enough general anxiety in their users to dri
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by troutwine 4y ago
If Citizen tanks that strikes me as a beneficial outcome. One of the other commenters here described this app as “snitching-as-a-service” but I think it’s more insidious than that. Citizen is very much in the same pattern as listening to th
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by troutwine 4y ago
I don't think I'd take one even if it was free. The logistics of charging are challenging but not insurmountable, I manage to charge my Prius just fine. My primary concern is the ever-changing interface inside the vehicle. I'
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by troutwine 4y ago
Keeping just to the utilitarian perspective, cooperative strategies in humans overwhelmingly have better outcomes in both individual well-being and output (innovation, manufacturing, zero-sun games). Cooperation is extremely hard to achieve
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by troutwine 4y ago
> wait ... what!? There's whole allocation strategies built around this idea. One of the simpler, more charming ones is a 'bump' allocator. The implementation of malloc bumps an offset in contiguous blob of bytes and free
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by troutwine 4y ago
It actually makes a very effective copypasta, in my personal experience.
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by troutwine 4y ago
The Apollo missions varied in the time they took to reach lunar orbit but it's worth considering they had limited consumables to be concerned with.
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by troutwine 4y ago
For a little more context, there were Apollo flights planned out to 20, Nixon cut those. The Apollo Applications Program aimed at building a lunar base and observatories up through '76 but the Johnson administration declined to fund it
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by troutwine 4y ago
You might be interested in the approach Author & Punisher has taken.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> No trolls. While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole
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by troutwine 4y ago
What a horrifying worldview.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Fair enough.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> Yep, and it requries computers. Does it? Wrasslin' has had Battle Royals as long as I've been alive and conscious and I'm sure -- although I can't find the reference now -- that English bare-knuckle boxers used to h
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by troutwine 4y ago
> Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.) Who is banning words? At least in the US you have every right to say 'deep state' all you want but it probably does
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by troutwine 4y ago
Alright, well, this is not a Scala community so I'm sorry you've seen this in your select social circle to the point of annoyance. Still, you aren't forced to read it.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> I don't understand why do we have to listen to this boring crap. You don't? You chose to read the article yourself of your own free will. At least, I hope you did.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Trolling for violent reaction was one of the reasons the Westboro Baptist Church would post up outside of funerals. So far as I know it rarely worked, if ever.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Ah yes, fair point. I think it’s Gandalf that says the Hobbits are stouter than even the Wise know or something to that effect but, like you say, they aren’t impervious to the charm of the ring. Except perhaps Sam, with his abundance of hob
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by troutwine 4y ago
The eagles could be corrupted, yeah. They're sentient and (some at least) are ancient. One of the central themes of The Lord of the Rings is that the Powers of Middle Earth are very, very tempted by the ring and must overcome the test
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by troutwine 4y ago
That's an interesting approach.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> I'd much rather have a config file I can point it towards than an endlessly long shell script I can't comfortably use comments in (maybe this is a criticism of shell scripts in general). I end up designing a lot of CLI tools
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by troutwine 4y ago
My wife and I own everything in common and split the household work along the lines of our capabilities. My money, her money never comes into it. It’s our money.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Ah, apologies. I read you as agreeing with and clarifying GP's argument.
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by troutwine 4y ago
It, like so many things, is a balancing act. How much does the working programmer need to know about binaries, symbol tables, platform calling conventions etc etc to use a debugger well? The author of a debugger absolutely has to, the user
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by troutwine 4y ago
Eh, I think it’s naive to believe that greed is sufficient protection. Owning a bunch of ETH so you can set ETH on fire would be a waste of money, only so long as the person setting the fire didn’t value the mischief more than the ETH. I do
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by troutwine 4y ago
At least from the systems programming perspective I think productivity gains have been significant. Valgrind had _just_ appeared as I was doing my undergrad and it allowed me to focus on the high-level math of data structures -- as an examp

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