tux1968

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931.
by tux1968 8y ago
It's not like it's the only factor, or even a primary one.
932.
by tux1968 8y ago
Please explain.
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by tux1968 8y ago
Of course it's only one small factor and not the most important by far. But all other things being equal....
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by tux1968 8y ago
It's baked into evolution and sexual selection. Guys with hair look better because it says something about their suitability for reproduction. Not much different than say breast size in women. We can combat such bias at an intellect
935.
by tux1968 8y ago
It's seen as a waste of time that is holding back innovation. When arguing for progressive enhancement, I've been essentially told "We're focused on customers who have a real browser, not old nerds who have javascript d
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by tux1968 8y ago
It can be dressed up in a number of ways, but the fact is that Google is biased against conservatives, as evidenced by the ratios not matching that of the general public. The same argument that is used to justify and measure diversity hires
937.
by tux1968 8y ago
Careful, a lot of those same graphs apply to currently specially-favored diversity demographics. But whatever the case, at least be consistent. If all you care about is diversity, not intelligence, bring in all those conservatives too, lo
938.
by tux1968 8y ago
Do you honestly think that all conservatives have low IQ's? This kind of argument seems so counterproductive. For whatever it's worth, i've met a lot of highly intelligent people who happen to have different political belie
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by tux1968 8y ago
Indeed. The entire effort is so transparently biased and agenda laden it should be scrapped.
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by tux1968 8y ago
That's not the point. The point is there is an identifiable group that is underrepresented within Google. It doesn't matter why, it doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter if it's "political". All that ma
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by tux1968 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I grew up in a relatively poor neighborhood, in a rented home. Was part of a huge community of kids who all played together unsupervised, especially all summer long. In the school yard, downtown, down by the river, in t
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by tux1968 8y ago
How well do they operate with iced roads, deep snow, and active snowfall? I'm not aware of any such operating conditions for SDV's yet, but maybe I missed it.
943.
by tux1968 8y ago
All stars are zooming through the Milky Way. :) The Sun does a full orbit in 225 to 250 million years. Although I have no idea why we can't calculate it more precisely than that.
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by tux1968 8y ago
Yeah, it was just surprising to me that people were praising this document.
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by tux1968 8y ago
This has bothered me for a long time. It looks like i'm seeing something other than what other people are seeing. So many of these documents just look awful. In this particular case it does not look good either: http://i.
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by tux1968 8y ago
Hasn't had a release since 2013, but the Github code is still getting updates as recently as the last few weeks. It appears to be written in a mix of itself and D. Wasn't clear to me how you would go about bootstrapping it.
947.
by tux1968 8y ago
Namecheap online support is seriously kick-butt great. Only complaint is that they don't support Letsencrypt certificates with their web hosting plans.
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by tux1968 8y ago
One notion is that it reduces the time available where you can be more deeply involved together in activities that are more life affirming and relationship sustaining.
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by tux1968 8y ago
Blocking ads will become nearly impossible once WebAssembly becomes ubiquitous. Sites will simply have their own custom render engine and transport protocol; it will be game over.
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by tux1968 9y ago
I'm not sure it should be based on cost-of-living at all. If it is, then you're middle class while living in SV, but all of a sudden rich when you sell your home, collect the equity, and move to Montana. It should be enough to sa
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by tux1968 9y ago
Went looking for this after you mentioned it. As far as I can tell, Cherry is not licensing that tech or selling it yet except in the form of a complete keyboard. https://the-gadgeteer.com/2017/08/11/cherry-m
952.
by tux1968 9y ago
He talks about all this in the context of "NFP" offload but then never explains what this device is.
953.
by tux1968 9y ago
Well, they're not seen as wounds by the people who are causing the problem, they're seen as victories.
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by tux1968 9y ago
I have used Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember, so I don't know how to compare its speed to Chrome in general. But animations are stutter filled and janky in Firefox yet work buttery smooth in Chrome on the sa
955.
by tux1968 9y ago
You're trying to advocate for Google to make a certain decision by asserting that it is "necessary". I'm doing the same by asserting that it is decidedly "not necessary".
956.
by tux1968 9y ago
Disagree that there is any necessity at all -- the supposed cure will be worse than the disease.
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by tux1968 9y ago
There isn't just a risk of picking up biases -- there is an absolute guarantee that biases exist and always will. In a sense that's the whole goal when giving _relevant_ results. The idea is to return information biased towards
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by tux1968 9y ago
If you walk into a store and don't see that it is being robbed at gunpoint, it would be very nice to hear the assailant ordering the cashier to empty the til. You have two chances to steer clear. Either your eyes or ears may fail you
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by tux1968 9y ago
Okay. However the main point is there is something objective, and external to the observer, that is being perceived. That phenomena no matter how complex or disjointed, can reasonably be labelled color. The experience of color, even with
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by tux1968 9y ago
Colors do exist as named segments of the visual spectrum. The internal experience of each color in our minds, is something separate and different from that external stimulus. What did I get wrong?

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