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by wat10000 3mo ago
There's a general problem on the web (and to a lesser extent computing in general) that UX is just widely terrible. I think part of this is because developers tend to work at the very edge of their competence, and getting something wor
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by wat10000 3mo ago
That "if" is the critical thing. There's no way to know that in advance, not even probabilistically. If you try to stop prevent deaths in this way, you'll just waste your time, and you might even produce more deaths rath
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Altitude is the least accurate dimension for GPS, and it's also the one dimension that's provided with great accuracy by a really simple mechanical gauge present in every aircraft. There should never be a situation where an incorr
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by wat10000 3mo ago
This has been an ongoing debate since the computerized proof of the four color theorem fifty years ago.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The point is that they don’t cause hurricanes, despite the fact that some hurricanes might not have happened if not for the flapping. I can point to at least one fatal crash that wouldn’t have happened if GPS was unavailable. Would it be re
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It was, and one of the pilots was doing the right thing and would have saved the plane no problem if they had been the only one flying the plane. The problem was that the other pilot insisted on doing exactly the wrong thing, didn’t say wha
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by wat10000 3mo ago
> a procedure only allowed when "local altimeter setting [is] received" - apparently referring to GPS Ok, please just stop. A certain minimum level of knowledge is necessary to discuss these things and you don’t have it.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
“If X was different then Y wouldn’t have happened” is a useless way to evaluate things that leads one to blame a butterfly flapping its wings for causing a hurricane.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The author referred to themselves in the third person, so I did the same.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If it was wholehearted then the lack of long-range ground-to-ground precision munitions wouldn't be putting a damper on things, we'd be bombing round the clock from the air with way more sorties than are actually being flown. Vene
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by wat10000 3mo ago
This all sounds like a really elaborate way of not taking advantage of the fact that modern windowing operating systems don't require windows to be full screen, and allow you to position the sides of your browser window wherever you wa
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by wat10000 3mo ago
The author should not intend that, and if they do, my browser should do its best to put a stop to it.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
What business is it of yours? Manage your own privacy. Let other people decide theirs.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
HomeKit works great as long as you have devices that support it. The only thing you need a server for is if you want to be able to control things while you're away from home. Control/notification on the LAN is entirely local. Setu
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I know, hence why I pointed out the very important difference between those two things. I wouldn't describe this as "poaching." What OpenAI is accused of doing is industrial espionage and IP theft. It did this as part of hiri
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by wat10000 3mo ago
How are those things even related? The US has lots of munitions, because US goodwill is the reason Iran isn't glass? That's a complete non-sequitur. The US's stockpile of conventional precision munitions and the US's nuc
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Iran has survived this war so far because the aggressor hasn't made any attempt to actually defeat them. It's very different from Ukraine, which is holding its own against an all-out invasion. Iran might well be able to withstand
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Military competence has nothing to do with running low on munitions after months of war. There are four ways to address the issue: have larger stockpiles before the war, ramp up production during the war, end the war, or don't go to wa
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Return your work devices immediately upon leaving. Don't even attempt to access any internal systems or accounts you previously had access to. It's real easy to avoid this sort of trouble.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's more like if you left your door unlocked, and I hire somebody to break into your house and make copies of documents you left sitting on the counter. They discover that the door is unlocked so their job is real easy, hooray! Doesn&
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's worse. "Cutthroat" implies being ruthless but legitimate. So-called "poaching" is completely moral and legal, whereas trying to get others not to "poach" "your" employees is immoral and ille
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I'd like to see someone try it, just to see how incredibly slow and noisy it is.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
I'm the other way around. For doing real, useful work, these things were barely more than toys even just a year ago. Now they're very capable when used well, and still getting better at a fast pace.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
It's nothing particularly special in that regard, there's plenty of apocalyptic fiction that came out of the nuclear arms race. What's really bleak is that the story's depiction has been a real possibility for longer tha
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by wat10000 3mo ago
There's plenty enough to make the second-worst war in human history look like an enjoyable beach vacation by comparison.
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by wat10000 3mo ago
What's the difference? There's no such thing as "incorrect C++, but still C++." A program is either correct/valid/conforming C++, or it's not. We can reasonably describe "not" as "incorrect,
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by wat10000 3mo ago
Isn’t it only writes that kill drives?
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by wat10000 3mo ago
If the C++ standard imposes no requirements on such a program, then that means that the program is not C++ . It's quite reasonable to describe such a program as an "incorrect [C++] program."
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by wat10000 3mo ago
They have the power to confiscate my device for an indeterminate amount of time. They have the power to detain me briefly. I accept those as possible consequences of refusal. If you're referring to the power to do illegal things, do yo
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by wat10000 3mo ago
So we’re supposed to ignore all the context leading up to it? What did I supposedly not read, then? Some other comment that’s no longer relevant here?

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