DancesWTurtles

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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
You're working very hard. Now and then, you grab a free soda. You work so hard that the corporation has a chance to grow. What is your reward for all that hard work? The chance to pay 50c for the previously free soda. From this point o
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
My point is that taking a physical does not change your physical attributes; being asked "are you nervous?" can't give a proper answer because the question, by itself, changes the outcome. Like the "whatever you do, don&
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
> No one on the board or the executive staff was trying to be stupid. But to save $10,000 or so, they unintentionally launched an exodus of their best engineers. Maybe the insight here is "keep your engineers happy, it's import
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
I would also be very troubled of the possibility that mass testing in children would, itself, cause some degree of anxiety. I know I don't enjoy being tested.
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
It depends: are you selling bras, or are you selling the bras' brand?
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
Little nitpick: "the algorithm" does not even find the things "most people wants"; it finds the things some executive or other decided it was the most convenient to find taking into account the needs of the corporation o
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
The gold ones better not be much gold at all. After a few hundred tumbles they would be so lumpy they'd be more useful as golden nuggets.
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
Just like Google is not an actual search engine but a "recommendation" engine that prods users into getting recommended just what Google needs to recommend ("did you mean...?") this is not an actual writing assistant but
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
> suggested he change it to “angry” or “upset” to “make your writing flow better.” Nope, it suggested to change from this to that so the writer could be Google's avatar on writing what Google wants to get written
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
Here is my hunch. It is not a shroud, as in, it is not a piece of cloth that was used at some point to envelope a dead body. But it is not a forgery per se, either. What do I mean? I think this is what happened: at some point, after christi
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
Of course games are boring, the same way an old towel, a broom and bucket for your head are boring. The purpose of the game is giving you a few (ok, maybe a few million) rules so you can make your own fun out of a couple random things that
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
> For example, you come up with some (...) idea (...) and no results are found -- I'm almost always headed down the wrong path. And by that you mean, Google is telling you how to think, and that you should think in some way and not
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
"When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to understand the environment is just huge." Unless I am understanding something
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
Clicking on a cookie prompt would be admitting it will do something useful, which is a clear falsehood. The problem is "some cookies are being abused for tracking", and the purported solution is to shove in your face a message cla
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
"If the computer knows I’m missing a semicolon here, why won’t it add it itself?" The computer does not know that. The computer is being too smart. And probably wrong.
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by DancesWTurtles 4y ago
That would mean adding a rule to the language. The rule of "you can use 'print' as an statement". A rule that, time after time, has been shot down. Which leads us to the real issue at hand: if the compiler is going to do
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by DancesWTurtles 5y ago
Strictly speaking, yes. Strictly speaking, invading a territory that is just a border away from the Atlantic Treaty's borders, with no clear indications that the advance will stop at any point, is very clearly 'akin to declaration
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by DancesWTurtles 5y ago
What do you know, I tried, and found it to be impossible. You cannot block msn.com at the DNS level, not inside Windows anyway. It's been discussed and everything: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Apr&