OneEyedRobot

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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'll pitch in my own two cents. In the worlds I've worked in it would help a lot for every engineer to do a stint at a customer site. The bigger places I've worked for could have easily placed people with a customer for a wh
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
As someone with a similar time in harness in industries that rhyme with that, I feel your pain. While I'd prefer to work, not needing the money implies the ability to avoid the interview process. It's a funny thing being in an in
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Very cool. A person can really appreciate simple web design looking at something like Luke Smith's recipe page. So how on earth do you take an idea like this and scale it for both broad web coverage and high traffic? For that matter,
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
That's a shame since I think that Youtube can be really amazing. My main (practically only) use for it is to watch amateur-produced special interest shows that are done on a regular basis. Usually it seems to involve automotive bodywo
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Looking at the US Constitution, IP law should be designed to heavily encourage innovation. I would think that the actual details of law would reflect that rather than maximizing the value of an idea to it's owner. To be fair, the curr
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I wonder how you tell illegal optimizing for a test vs. legal optimizing for a test. Lord knows what sort of magic they stick into 'Energy Star' appliances.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>These questions are always asked in bad faith, I'd say not. I'd genuinely like to know if a cloth bandana has any value, if grocery stores are dangerous, is the mass of people actually better off for an early and hard vaccine
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded. Modern newspapers and news magazines (they still exist?) don't read at all like the on
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>FB is what my racist parents use It looks to me like you've got bigger fish to fry than Facebook. It's probably time to give your parents a break.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I did it for three decades (3.5?) and the only code reviews were with friends of mine who worked at multiple companies together. The whole point of the review was to find outright errors, not to optimize. Scarcely any ego involvement. It
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people. At this point, I'd say that that's the entire newspaper. They operate in the same ad space as Facebook.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>the proliferation and promotion of medical misinformation. I can see that working both ways. The anti-vax folks are never going to believe the 'get vaccinated or you'll die' sort of rhetoric. Better to use real numbers.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I'd love to talk to the folks that work at the outrage porn outlets. Are they true believers doing whatever it takes? Actually think they print news? Just in it for the money? How honed is the writing and how is that done? How do ad
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>a smart dude works on a problem that saves World War 2 and now powers your phone and your TikTok app. So much for the Polish Cipher Bureau. Not so many tragic hero opportunities there.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>All children have heroes they look up to. After reading that I sat here for a minute and racked my brain as to who my childhood 'hero' might be. I can't remember a single person. It's amusing to me how much of intel
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
While I think that EVs are cool, the subsidies not only distort things but are essentially tax breaks for the well-off. It's funny to me how the whole ICE vs. EV argument just isn't that much of a slam-dunk. Looking at page 5 her
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
But why use the marketplace when you can legislate? Actively managing things is ever so much fun.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I wonder if it wouldn't help if colleges/universities fissioned into more specialized institutions. By building gigantic clumps of education a single approach or philosophy drives too much of the bus. A sample set of new schools.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Perhaps college abandoned them.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
5) diverse ...and then you've got something. I'm actually surprised that I've never seen a tire with some kind of closed-cell super lightweight foam, some kind of aerogel maybe. I suppose the problem in that case is that you
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Perhaps it would simpler to encourage some companies to leave those cities (tax policy?) rather than to build/subsidize new housing.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
another issue is that changing something, greenhouse gas let's say, is harder on the margin. The first improvements are cheap, the later ones aren't. Looking at an EPA webpage, I see that current per capita US CO2 emissions are
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I can't say that it has dropped much. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-cons...
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>This isn't a given, but American comedy relative to our palette can seem very fake I get it. Benny Hill: real Doug Stanhope: fake
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>and why do we have seatbelt and helmet laws? I don't have the slightest idea. It would be like making sugar or alcohol illegal as it merely involves the person wearing the seatbelt or helmet.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I went down the rabbit hole of looking at COVID cases in Scotland, where vaccinations are quite common. It's worth considering all of the numbers here. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-53511877
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
I absolutely agree. 3..2..1 until someone blames or credits some President or the other or a famous worker strike. Models are particularly comforting when they are so simple as to be useless. Now, back to some work on the lathe while weari
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” -some Russian guy
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Wow, that's a bummer. It's a pity he didn't have Dick Shawn's timing.
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by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
Huh. Brilliant. I would think that the main selling point, besides clean-up issues, is to break some kind of parasite cycle.

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