unfocussed_mike

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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
At least you're honest in your nihilism. I prefer to live in a world where people at least try to navigate grey areas.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Oh god. Look. I'm sorry. You're right, obviously. And I am wrong and of feeble mind. But please, make the libertarian Gish galloping stop.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Well done shoehorning all of that in.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one. There was for a time a micro-industry of people taking flights to this location on Youtube -- it's one of the most fun examples of this that I've seen. And yeah; really quickly
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
> It may be a huge difference, but the problem with asking Youtube to take that kind of decision without a court order is that you're expecting them to have expertise in aviation law. This is a bit of a silly way to look at it, I&#x
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
> The only difference If you're pinning your argument on this, then fine. But it is a huge difference. Honestly this whole idea that Youtube should willingly be a party to this sort of thing is a libertarian take too far for me, but
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
This is what I thought at the time. It just goes to show that guys like this project their own stupidity onto their audiences (this is not always an unsuccessful strategy)
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
You're not factoring in the "He's the guy that crashed a plane!" impact on all his future earnings. He was speculating to accumulate.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
There may be no meaningful legal sanction for this.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
This guy crashed a plane for profit. The fact that US law doesn't seem to have any meaningful sanction for him is not a reason for it to stay up. They should delete the video. And I really don't understand the argument that they s
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
He is a fairly skilled parachutist and was wearing a skydiving rig. He also knew where he was putting his plane down. So he might have got to it. But on the other hand he's also an idiot. Nevertheless he at least thought he might have
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
5. Quit and do something actually worthwhile for education with whatever sum you earned from this blend of entitlement, carelessness and greed.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
No, this happens -- in really horrifying situations.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
This is a fair assessment. There is another strategy than asking them to remove it, though. Ask them to qualify it. I've done this in the past (a long time ago, mind you, and in the UK, where employers are still somewhat bound by decen
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
I think that for example good designers are usually good teachers, so maybe. Good design and good engineering explains itself; especially engineering that interfaces with other stuff. Well-designed things need less documentation. Both, I th
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
My take: Uber is a libertarian economic crowbar. All of its backers, all of its investors, imagine an Uber world where no individual matters except themselves. They wilfully break laws expecting to be able to overturn them before they are p
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
I tend towards the view that I do not understand any given thing until I can teach it.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Thank you. And yes -- navigating the line between the endings/beginnings bit, the loss (which it is), and tragedy (which it isn't) is difficult but this time around I am finding it easier. One of the things I have already realised
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
It is an outstanding movie. But I think this particular scene is one of the finest scenes in any movie ever made. It could stand alone as a short.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Right. You can't hide the detail with a wave of the hand, you can definitely overcommunicate detail that is unnecessary, but the art of it is finding a way to explain the bit that matters in a way that makes it clear to the users that
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
> So while doctors needs to be able to talk to laymen, the chemists working in medicine factories don't. But they for sure need to talk to lawyers, accountants and doctors occasionally. All of those (especially the doctors /s)
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
You are missing one of the great untold truths of engineering: non-technical people can be just as brilliantly intelligent. They just don't speak your language or have your experience. You do not particularly need to dumb it down. You
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
This was my telephone life with my Dad for thirty years, all of his later life and almost two thirds of my life, even well into his dementia (because his memories of his professional career were really untouched by it). After only one month
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
All very deeply true. Many moons ago I worked in a briefly-successful UK "dot com" integrator, and then took a break from work for personal reasons. When I came back, I rejoined in the design department, rather than return to a ro
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
And they are not good at certain kinds of colour subtlety -- even the Foveon sensors struggle with the colours of dim, diffuse light (sunsets etc.) and deep muted colours (the grey-green of ivy leaves for example).
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Amstrad's last great PC series (the 3x86 series made with very standard components, unlike the unusual 2x86 series) used this strategy for the 3386, I think.
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Enjoyably deadpan :-)
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Not going to respond to the unnecessarily rude tone here generally, except to say that any argument you want to have taken seriously is better not couched in terms of "hardons" and "jerking itself off". If you are a teen
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
There was a small measure of satire/hyperbole in what I said. But you have separated that one sentence from the second sentence that provided context, so I don't think I particularly need to defend it on its own. Perhaps I should
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by unfocussed_mike 4y ago
Well... you are eliding the one, rather decisive way TSMC could indeed end up in Chinese hands. We just have to hope that the Ukraine conflict has convinced China not to try to pull it off. We certainly would not be able to find economic sa

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