wilburTheDog

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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
>Just stop letting them buy their competitors. And how would you stop them from simply replacing their competitors? From the article "Budding companies that resist being acquired are pruned through flagrant copying." Would yo
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I don't use facebook. I never plan to use facebook. What's stopping me from publishing Unfollow Everything myself? What standing would Facebook have to sue me for publishing a chrome extension?
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
It sounds you're saying the article was oversimplifying complex problems because in the real world it's not so easy to just eat less/better and move more to loose weight. I think you may be missing the distinction he was mak
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
In the first case the request worked when executed in Postman but failed when executed from a browser, which said it was a CORS error. Using the logs we traced it up to the authorization step in APIG, which wasn't being executed (beca
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I think this is very true. The most vexing problems I've run into lately have all been because something is going wrong in a step I don't have much control over. Like in one case the proxy was stripping out the Authorization hea
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
>Rob Pike of golang fame noted that while he reached for the debugger first thing, Ken Thompson would ignore what Rob was doing and just stand and think. Then after a while he'd say: "I know what's wrong" and very of
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I've had my pixel 2 for almost four years and I'm still perfectly content with it. Google, however, stopped supporting it after 3 years. The 5 year support guarantee fairphone provides looks really appealing to me. The fact tha
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I read it like this. Alice gets in the machine and creates ten new copies of her. Each of them thinks they are Alice. Are they all right? If so what does the concept of 'me' or 'self' actually mean? Are you a unique
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
>Stop being an asshole, and find non-assholes to work with. I think the process of realizing he needs to do that and doing it is what he's describing in his article. Generally people don't open up about how their behavior is t
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I look for two things when I'm interviewing someone for a developer position. One, can they think logically enough to write a couple simple example problems in code (fizzbuzz level stuff). And two, do they clam up or try to bullshit m
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I think, no matter how hard you try, you can't produce something like this without it being biased toward your own opinions on the topic. And those of us with different opinions would phrase things differently. I suppose I would
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
The question has been debated longer than the shrine has been around. See: Ship of Theseus.
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
I think there is another level to what this guy is doing that's hard to see if you just believe what he says about himself on its face. I feel like to be able to listen to and or be with someone while they do whatever and have no judg
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
Last time I moved I gave USPS a change of address to a PO Box. Then, after updating all the important ones I forgot, I let it expire six months later. I'm still getting junk mail at my new address, but some of the more annoying ones
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
I think that's unavoidable. There is always a level at which your understanding of your tools gets fuzzy and incomplete. Do you understand everything about what your compiler is doing? Your OS? Your could provider? The hardware an
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
It appears the author wants to convince us of his credentials as a progressive and then use any good will that generates to try and persuade us that environmentally progressive ideas are wrong. He claims we have been 'badly misinformed
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by wilburTheDog 6y ago
I think that until we get everyone tested we aren't going to know the real fatality rate. Some portion of people, perhaps larger than we expect, experience this virus as a cold that passes normally. Some people never even realize the
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by wilburTheDog 7y ago
Charles Ellis wrote a book(1) about that. He asserts that any professional sports competition is a winner's game - you win by successfully executing difficult plays and being better than your competition. But amateur sports is usuall
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
A few things to consider on the topic. It is estimated that there is, on average, a ten year lag between the time CO2 is emitted and the time its maximum effect is felt in the climate. Some estimate the lag can be even longer. So we haven
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
Well, one can lead to the other. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heatwaves-may-dram...
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
What a strangely touching article. I'm not particularly interested in oil rigs, but that was a compelling read.
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
I think the suffering is the result of your desire for things to be different than what they are. It's natural to feel like you want a headache to go away, but it seems to me that the more I accept that this is just the way it is righ
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
I guess it's hazardous to your career to project any further out than that. Given the various positive feedbacks(1) at play, however, I can't think of a realistic argument for why anything would get better in four years. 1. http
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
I recently stayed at a house which had an alexa device. In a conversation where I said the words light switch several times Alexa beeped and responded to me each time. I think most of us just believe Amazon when they say "Alexa respo
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't heard of frequency binning(1) before. It makes sense that stationary objects would be filtered out before they even reach the signal processing software. But Uber did seem to be relying more heavily
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
Wow. That Chinese accident video confirms my worst possible understanding of this. There are no special conditions. If a truck is parked in your lane you're going to hit it. More people should know about this. Maybe people don't w
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
The article linked mentioned "B was the problem", meaning it ignored the sensor input. Another article(1) about it mentions that Uber had reduced the number of LIDAR sensors from five to just one rooftop sensor. The president of
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by wilburTheDog 8y ago
If I understand it right, this is the biggest blind spot of all the automated driving systems. The software just ignores stationary objects because the sensors don't have the resolution to determine whether they are in front of the ca
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by wilburTheDog 9y ago
After reading about this for a while, just now, I'm much less comfortable with the idea of trusting an automotive autopilot system. Just imagine if your taxi driver told you "I will drive perfectly safely, except if there is a tr
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by wilburTheDog 9y ago
If this is true then how can we have had Collision Avoidance systems[1] in cars for years that are able to automatically apply the brakes to prevent this sort of accident? And If the answer is 'autopilot doesn't work that way&#x2

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