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Oh yes! The hard drive spin up delay always scares the shit out of me. I always think the drive crashed.

I had my fair share of being forced by higher management to commit insecure code, obfuscations and encryption security theater despite vehemently protesting. They seriously don't give a single shit. For them it's acceptable risk.

And once again we stumble on the Internet's weak point we could never fix -- the DNS.

Google wanted to fix the problem and, despite their best intention, became evil in the process. Now instead of racing for a .com name, people are fighting for search terms, bending to the opaque, machine enforced rules of a single entity driven by advertising revenues.

This reminds me of the early 2000s when .Net was still in development and nobody knew exactly what it was because Microsoft would never admit it was just a better Java.

When everybody was confused enough, they did the next logical thing, they peppered the .Net suffix to all their brands, that way they could tell the DoJ it was an integral part of all their products.

They quickly reverted everything when they realized what a cluster fuck they actually created. They kept the stupid name though.

You also get "Subscriber benefits" if you get the annual subscription. No idea what they are though, the site is rather vague.

Sounds like one of those tech articles that pop every year about that "new" discovery that will be usable in a "decade" for ever and ever.

Yeah, a cop is like a body cam that can lie, has imperfect memory and if used in court can only testify against you.

However, the problem with technology is the scale. You can't systematically collect everything a cop sees in a database; with a camera, you can.

Yeah, until you realize dozens of them have been peppered across the code base in a desperate attempt to "fix concurrency issue".

I agree once you know about it is much easier to manage. When I get it, I definitely know what is going on and can now manage it most of the time. However, from time to time I just can't prevent myself from falling into a very bad trippy situation. The problem is, when it does devolve into paranoia, I can feel the trauma for a few days afterward.

All that said, it doesn't prevent me from actually seeking it to get a lucid dream though. So yeah, I agree a technology that helps it would be interesting.

The article suggests the same mechanism is used for danger perception. When REM sleeping you enter a state of deep paranoia. If you are conscious at the same time (what we call sleep paralysis) the fear is almost unbearable and you start hallucinating extreme danger and evil around you.

A lot of research has actually been done on how humans and individuals perceive colors and tons of statistics exist. The results was the creation of many perceptual color spaces such as XYZ and CIE Lab that more closely match human perception axes of lightness, blueness and green-red-ness.

While it is true that our perception differs, we mostly share the same attributes close enough that we can fix standards (except for different cases of color blindness). For instance, we physically perceive blue, yellow, green and red as distinct colors and the rest is a mix of those (magenta being kind of a special case).

What we see as pure blue is actually a precise color point defined by how the eye physically perceive light. Reds, yellow and green are a little bit more fuzzy because they depend a lot on the ratio of red and green cones in our eyes so the brain is taking a little more liberty there.

The major difference between individuals is how precisely they can differentiate two similar colors.

I think the problem with CSS is they tried to qualify way too many colors with subjective terms instead of sticking to a clear and predictable system (either mathematic or designed), even if imperfect.

There is an inherent overhead to free speech and democracy. One could argue this is part of it.

Spending billions to make a whole country stop working and cast a vote is another one. Should we take all those billions and put them in more pressing issues in exchange for despotism?

Maybe our society tolerates it because it is the only way to play the game with the current rules.

How would you do that? How can you prevent anyone from knowing you layoff 300 person until you contacted all 300 persons?

They tried to contact him and failed. Should they wait until they reach him before contacting all other employees? What if he was number 100 on the call list? Do they tell the 99 others to please not say anything for a few days and ask for a media embargo because they couldn't contact Joe?

What if he was on vacation? Should they wait until 100% of employees are not sick/away/in vacation and postpone the announcement a few weeks? (Weeks? I'm being generous here).

I worked for one of those mega corporation that followed Welch's book, only they didn't have the courage to openly state it, oh and screw the top 30%. They would "layoff" 10% every year blaming the bad economy.

A friend even tried to fire a guy for bad performance and high management told him to wait for the next "annual layoff", that it would be easier.

Do people actually go off road with SUVs? You just need to stand near any speed bump, pot hole filled road or construction zone for five minutes to realise that the cars that slow down the most are usually SUVs.

People with SUVs want a smooth and "safe" ride, not to throw themselves down a mountain and conquer nature like in TV ads.

Exactly, we used to have those every year in Montreal. Downtown would be completely closed for motor vehicles.

The first year, it was so refreshing, people were smiling and relaxing. Then the next year people started to get pissed as they realised blocking cars from going somewhere would not magically spawn buses and metro stations. The year after they reduced the perimeter, then the schedule, then the perimeter again, to a point where it is now rather pointless.

It is now this day of the year when you might be late at work because they closed a few blocks and put some grass and electric car demonstrations on that street that is almost always pedestrian anyways.

I find the hardest thing for me related to ad blindness is finding the download link for a software.

We get spammed with so many fake "DONWLOAD HERE!" buttons that it becomes impossible to see the real one.

It's a soft release. There is actual scarcity depending on what device you have.

I have chronic ear infections and pain because of earplugs overuse. But I have no choice, some sounds literally drive me crazy, yes, literally.

Driving a car is a social exercise. The challenge is making something navigate through human chaos, not make it move.

Even the article itself hints that comparing the two is kind of stupid: "[...]where there are few pesky pedestrians or federal rules to get in the way." and then immediately proceeds laughing at the general population ignorance because farmers did it first.

I remember when I was a child, my father explained to me that depressing the right pedal makes the car go forward, the left one makes it stop and this round thing makes it turn. "WOW! Easy!" I exclaimed, "I know to drive now!" Yeah right.

Elevators are automated. Subways are automated. Even mother fucking planes can fly and land themselves (with the right equipment). Yup those giant flying monsters containing hundreds of human souls got automated before our cars.

But wait, Google is stupid because it didn't do it first.

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This is why most of my personal toy projects are coded like a 12 years old with giant functions, god objects everywhere and horrible, horrible, one liners. It's liberating.

This is also why I like game programming that much. A big chunk of the codebase is throwaway code that won't be transported to the next project. When the final deadline comes, you don't feel bad making hundreds of hacks everywhere, and it's fun.

This raises the question, could Wikipedia reference itself in the past when it's an historical article about itself?

Actually, if you reserve well in advance the surcharges are much smaller, even on high speeds. But I agree, it's situational.

Not a single word about income taxes? I'm not saying it's making a difference, but it should at least had been investigated.

For instance, someone playing for the Montreal Canadians will get taxed for about 55%. That's a significant difference compared to any American team where income taxes of 40% is considered high.

Edit: Wow, I grossly underestimated how rich people are taxed.

Totally agree. I always felt that Subways offer was too low and couldn't scale well. It takes too much manpower to make a single meal and their work is hard to parallelize. When they introduced the inefficient microwave type toaster to compete Quiznos it just made matters worst.

Is it me or does it seem to have an easier time with the highest obstacle. I though it was a fluke but then it had the same behaviour in free range mode.

Is it a random result because of the phase of the obstacle in the run cycle?

This is /Build week. That's why there are so many news about MS.

Yeah, they say the algorithm erroneously sees an Amarillo. But wait, I actually see an Amarillo and I actually see a centipede.

As a matter of fact, I think that its simplicity is what makes KSP so fun to play. If it was real n-body orbital mechanics with real drag the game would quickly become much too complicated and tedious for casual play (and too slow).

That's funny, because despite having no clue what muonium is, I instantly knew that line was typical science journalism bullshit. Am I too cynical or does dumbing down something to the point it makes no sense have actual value for some people?