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by wpietri 3y ago
You have made my life so much better. Thank you.
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Which is especially funny given that Pinterest's business is basically one giant copyright violation. "We'll boost everybody's photos, but god forbid anybody take any of our stolen content from us!"
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Who still has a printer? Maybe they could fax you one instead?
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> Yes, they have to. Nope. They chose to. Do some incentives encourage them in this direction? Sure. That's different than them "having to". Actual people are doing this, and they actually made choices toward maximum explo
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Henry Petroski, Whose Books Decoded Engineering, Dies at 81(nytimes.com)
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> Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power That's a weird framing to me. I'd say it's the other way around: current events show that Reddit-the-community has a
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> migrate to another platform I don't think this is the biggest threat. Twitter, being a unitary platform, mainly has to worry about other platforms, or protocols that masquerade as single platforms. But Reddit is built up of many c
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Thanks for the explanation. To address this: > I don't understand the people who don't understand Discord's value proposition. As somebody who doesn't really understand Discord's value proposition, it sounds like
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You're putting the burden on "people" here. I think instead, the right way to look at it is that institutions should provide both prompt reactive investigations and proactive work to keep investigations from being necessary
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That's overly binary for my tastes. You talk as if there's no nuance to being ethical. Ethics is hard because people are complex and the ultimate effects of actions in the world are hard to predict. An ethics class can't make
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Is Miller still a celebrated journalist? I had her down mentally as "noted fraud". Looking at Wikipedia, it looks like she's never done real news again, and has spent her time on what I think of as the "wingnut welfare c
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It's actually really hard to certify vehicles before use when they're novel vehicles. Try reading vehicle safety standards if you want proof of how complex it gets. Good regulation balances the need for innovation vs the need for
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I wouldn't personally propose that, because I'm not an expert. And I'm not sure that would ever be written into regulation; I think the ability to assess the danger may be more relevant for the civil suits that will presumabl
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I did not in fact say that. I'm addressing the broader false claim that the ocean is some sort of essentially unregulateable space. Indeed, I think the final paragraph makes clear that I think it's possible that no agency current
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It's not different. "OceanGate intends to make underwater exploration cheaper and accessible to private citizens", says Wikipedia. And the people on it look, aside from their wealth, like members of the general public to me.
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It's wild to me that you write "As I get older, I see this sentiment as very naive." And then go on to say some breathtakingly naive things. A lot of ocean activity is thoroughly regulated. For example: https://www
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by wpietri 3y ago
Totally. "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
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by wpietri 3y ago
Thanks! Really helpful comment. Especially this bit: > People who have really thrived with Nix are often at the intersection of 'FP people' and 'extremely stubborn Linux people' As an extremely stubborn Linux person,
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Yeah, as kid I thought "moral calculus" was literal advanced math, and was disappointed to learn that attempts to quantify morality had been abandoned. That turned to gratitude when I saw people actually attempting it in the wild.
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That is not in any way villainization. It was a polite and empathetic look at how well-meaning people could do harm. That they didn't know better is an explanation, not an excuse. If you are trying to intervene in other people's l
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, I often think that "just" is code for "I assume everybody else's experience is exactly like mine". I had a period of significant back problems and I can't count the number of people who said, "Why do
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You're missing something important here. Is Nix harder to learn for somebody who knows nothing about computers and OSes? Probably not. It might even be easier. But that's not Nix's primary audience. It's targeted at peop
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You say it's "absolutely not true" that it's "hard to understand", then go on to explain how you have to "invest upfront more time", and also that you have to learn "the way things are supposed t
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Part of the difficulty is it means different things to different people. That's definitely how it seems to me. The pro-Nix stuff I see is generally about the theory much more than the practice. Which was also my experience with fu
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by wpietri 3y ago
You are arguing with something that was not said. Neither the original article nor the person you are replying to said that sales wasn't needed. Indeed, the person you're replying to explicitly said the opposite. The actual compla
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For sure. One of the big questions for me is "what does the viewer understand?" So much of modern film is very quick. There's low redundancy. So if you miss a look or a motion, you're lost. If you can't be sure wher
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by wpietri 3y ago
> You don't need to declare who gave you the money on the income tax filing. Don't you? I thought that in the US you needed to have either a 1099 or a W2 for any significant employment income.
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Ah yes. There's no such thing as a safe party, which is why I always wear my stab vest and helmet to my mom's Thanksgiving dinner. You might want to look up this thing called "civilization", where we've been creatin
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by wpietri 3y ago
3D is known for its strong novelty effect. At least 5 times people have declared that it will change everything: the Brewster Stereoscope, the DOD purchasing 100k Viewmasters in the 40s, the 1950s wave of 3D movies, the 90s wave of VR, and
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by wpietri 3y ago
I agree with you on websites. But I'm skeptical of this: > The actual potential "killer app" is something like a holodeck: a movie that it puts you inside of so there isn't any screen at all. We'll see how this t

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