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I got rid of all mine after getting disillusioned with every one of the causes they represented.

Why does the next guy hate Citizens United? I’m not American, so this is the first time I’m hearing about them.

I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and it seems to me like a plain reading of the first amendment supports CU’s position.

Wouldn’t the opposing view imply that you are allowed to have political opinions, but only as long as you go at it alone and don’t organize too much with others?

For all I know that might indeed be a better way of running society, but that’s definitely going to take a big constitutional amendment.

I call it the Newgrounds animation effect. Digital-to-digital always looked a bit unserious to me.

I’m sure many young people feel the exact opposite.

> Also, guess where Saint George the patron saint of England is believed to be from?

> Turkey.

That would only work as a gotcha if DHH was in fact xenophobic.

Are people who understand relational databases and people who understand pivot tables disjoint sets?

I can look at someone’s finished pivot table and reproduce it from the data through other means, but any explanation of what a pivot table actually is and does reads like pure gibberish to me.

This reminds me of the great tragedy of not exposing the Nokia SmartMessage extension to end users. It could have given a new lease of life to grassroots low resolution 1 bit art in the 90s and early 00s in the form of operator logos.

Instead it was gatekept for grifters in order to separate gullible teenagers from their allowance.

From the video and what I've read at folklore.org it sounds more like what Agile purports to be, writing software in a tight iteration loop, trying things, getting feedback and adapting to the changing needs of the project.

I think where Agile goes wrong is people thinking that you don't need someone who is actually experienced and good at writing software like this (like Atkinson), you can just pick a random individual off the streets who a lot of the time can't even code, and have them take a theoretical course about writing software like this.

Does that really make the site insecure, though?

What’s the scenario, someone has launched an elaborate ARP cache attack in order to MITM a website about roads on Hawaii in order to get you mildly lost so that you have to pull over and look at Google Maps for directions, costing you an extra minute of travel time?

I don’t think the article made any claims about iron or heavy metals. At least nothing comes up when I search for either.

Flagging is one thing, but I assume that there is a human in the loop before a user is put in the dead state.

Flagged and dead? Are we to take that as Y-Combinator officially endorsing violent rioting and property destruction?

Wasn't the pointer always a hand in HyperCard?

Isn't this a problem of allocating and freeing resources being generally non-deterministic, regardless of what algorithm is used?

To work at sea it would rather need a way to manually enter an offset, since customarily the local time on board is entirely at the discretion of the master.

In order to be able to work on anything at all on the side, how do you propose solving the "it leaves me feeling drained at the end of the day" problem?

I still can't wrap my head around how the conventional wisdom in the industry to work around that problem is to add even more slow network I/O dependencies.

This reminds me of a rail trip I’ve always wanted to take: Western Europe to Singapore, which may not be as geopolitically interesting, but may be the longest possible continuous rail journey.

When I first had the idea there was still a gap in the way in Southeast Asia, but it looks like it may have been closed now: https://www.seat61.com/map-of-train-routes-in-southeast-asia...

That’s what killed my suspension of disbelief watching Idiocracy. Most of the automation would have broken down in less than a day.

I once made a DGG without knowing that it was called a DGG so I could look up how to actually do it in the literature.

I ended up making it an icosahedron and recursively subdividing each face into four new ones by inscribing a new triangle. The project went nowhere for different reasons, so I never figured out if it would have worked, and given this isn’t one of the examples I suspect it wouldn’t have.

You don’t think we could do it with human computers?

As long as the algorithmic complexity of food logistics is O(n) or better with respect to population size, I guess.

Didn’t most tradcaths ask for Cardinal Sarah from Guinea?

Is it possible to have forgiveness without contrition?

It’s possible that I misread it, since I don’t understand the accusation of anti-intellectualism.

Isn’t it rather pro-intellectual to found universities like that of Bologna in 1088 and pour massive amounts of resources into research to ensure we eventually get to the level of obstetric medicine that we have?

And isn’t it on the contrary intellectually lazy to throw your hands up and declare life to be disposable simply because you don’t know how to treat and prevent diseases and can’t be bothered to figure out how?

This happens on an organizational scale as well.

Once a company grows beyond a certain point it no longer needs to keep a razor focus on the core business, and a disproportionate amount of effort gets redirected to creating sometimes useful but often completely pointless and gratuitous internal tools. That way every middle manager gets to justify an ever growing number of reports and make his mark in the organization.

Couldn’t it be argued that this is a bug in Kubernetes?

Most of what it does is run programs with various cgroups and namespaces, which is what systemd does, so should it really be any more resource intensive?

The medicine in question comes from the very scientific establishment that grew out of scholasticism, which is why I find the accusation of anti-intellectualism rather strange.

My point is that you have to distinguish between arguing against the output of the intellectual activity and arguing against the intellectual activity taking place.

I don't like the association any more than you, but what's the greater threat to the United States, the capture of its congress, administration and intelligence community by a foreign power, or a ragtag group of politically and culturally irrelevant LARPers?

What's anti-intellectual about religious pro-lifers?

The KLM squirrel problem is arguably the opposite problem as all the other examples. It would have been a simple matter to call up KLM's corporate counsel and have them figure out how to both comply with the government's order and the country's animal welfare laws.

So really a case of not enough bureaucracy rather than too much.

Probably not a bad strategy. The people who go by Google reviews probably only visit once in a lifetime whether they like Thailand or not, so it pays to wow them with fraudulent reviews and then gouge them as much as possible while they’re in the country.

It’s not as if they’re going to leave early in the stay and go back to Europe or North America, because of the sunk cost fallacy.