wildmanx

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by wildmanx 4y ago
While working any of these jobs will teach and grow you a lot, I would argue that most of them deal with entirely man-made preventable problems. A kitchen being too tight and too hot is not a law of nature. It could be built with more space
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Overall morale is declining. Call it the Trump Effect. Having a leader who behaves like he did normalizes this behavior and immoral behavior becomes more commonplace since people feel its legitimized. I'm far from being a liberal but t
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The strategy I've adopted is to first be polite by writing "hey" back [0] and then helping them with whatever they were asking. But THEN I end the conversation with a link to nohello.com to politely ask them to just directly
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Typical scenario though is that then they move on ask somewhere else. So they have to type it out anyway. If you don't reply, they can copy-and-paste the question to somebody else.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
CPAP: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. A device to push air into your lungs usually during sleep to treat or give support with different conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pre...
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Sure. Sibling comments to my comment explain that the continued "operating noise" is a cooling mechanism that's required by the microwave oven. So, it wouldn't be a good idea to just rip that part out of the design. Even
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The odd part is that for many people that's even the case if it's software _and_ they are programmers themselves _and_ it's open source. But they go complain instead of just fixing the minor annoyance.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The microwave makes a noise while it's operating. When it's finished, it will beep unobtrusively and then continue to make the operating noise. You can stop it from making the operating noise by opening the door. Check out Ch
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> (Our design team will never listen. This is because they, one, don't listen to anyone ever; and two, never use the products they design. Oh, sure, there might be a user study or two. But they never actually have to live with or wo
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I would really like to hear the other side of this story. It's not too uncommon that some automated process blocks something. And customer service not being too helpful is also common. But the customer service being that rude, twice
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I'd join the overall praise here, but some design choices in Scapy are quite weird and the implementations for many protocols are just plain terrible. Granted, that's not the fault of the original designers, since those protocols
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by wildmanx 4y ago
May depend on pronounciation .. do you pronounce the NAND gate as /æn-ænd/ or as a one-syllable world /nænd/ ?
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The only issue with that is if subsequent lines implicitly assume that earlier ones executed as expected, e.g. without error. Over-simplified example: 1. Copy stuff from A to B 2. Delete stuff from A (Obviously you wouldn't do it like
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> One step further, is learning different chord fingerings By the way, pianists use the term "fingerings" for which finger is placed on which key. For example your C-E-G chord which you wrote with 1-3-5, the standard way of pla
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by wildmanx 4y ago
1. Profit 2. Shifts blame to the consumer -- if you don't recycle it's you who's bad and destroying the planet 3. Plastic is cheap. Alternatives are more expensive and less convenient. So let's try to fix the symptom ins
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The overwhelming majority is. So much that it's not even worth discussing the rest since it makes it look like it's not all that bad. Yes, it is that bad.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> And anything that goes into the landfill does not get into the ocean. That's just not true. All plastic eventually ends up in the ocean. The "it's all decomposed in 50 years" is a myth. There was a pretty convincing
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Unfortunately, I think anything else is just posturing that will fall short. No, please don't go that fundamentalist route. The "all or nothing" approach won't lead us anywhere. Steady meaningful steps is the key. B
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I wonder from current generation of scientists who will be remembered and what would be a reason behind it. I don't know how it was in Riemann's, Einstein's or Feynman's times, but today, most of the actual original
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Yes, that is clearer, thanks. > i objected to the use of the word 'owe' in the advice, basically. I suppose the original post does not state the "owing" in an absolute sense but as a recommendation to shape your moral
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Hm, I don't think one should be contrasted with the other. That is, WFH somewhere in your home city is independent of traveling the world. We can promote the former without encouraging the latter, but Airbnb is mostly doing the latter.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I think everyone wins here. The airline industry surely will. The environment likely won't. (But who cares about a few polar bears if you can just work from Shanghai for a few weeks, right? /s)
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> You learn as a person when you understand why you should do something not just blindly following a list of advice. So you are trying to drive that point home by adding to that list with this statement? I read this list more as some ins
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The advice was aiming at the moral level. You missed that completely, unfortunately. > they are not entitled to anything just because they made a choice to perform in a public place. And you are making a choice of whether or not you supp
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by wildmanx 4y ago
"Hanging out somewhere where there happens to be music played" is quite different from "listening". The advice only applies to the latter.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Given the power demands of such an always-on analysis engine, that would show in battery runtime. At least if it's happening while the device is not plugged in.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The problem is lack of alternatives. Name a single privacy preserving smart home assistant that the average person can buy, install, and use. You are implying that all alternatives have to be "buying a smart home assistant".
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Lots of results in theoretical physics couldn't be verified in experiments until decades later. It doesn't mean that it's not science if you can't make an experiment at the moment . "Not falsifiable" commonly
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Sabine’s niche seems to be a confident cynicism or learned skepticism and is a much appreciated addition to the space. While I also appreciate a healthy dose of skepticism, and in weaker moments I can also get very cynical, this is not
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Not sure this is a problem. I work a lot from cafes and being the lazy guy I am, I've a selection of 3 places that I go to regularly. The times I work are not their peak hours, so I'm not taking a seat from anybody, but I'm t

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