bishoprook2

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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Maybe because it's fun to cheer on a TV war from a barstool (USA! USA!). The early parts of a war, especially when fighting an incompetent enemy, make for great entertainment. Western countries aren't ruthless enough to really w
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
> Someone on the conservative side of the spectrum, please enlighten me what the reasonable argument for justifying the past military action there is at this point... I'd say that it's possible (quite possible) to be conservati
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
"This article makes me think of the woodworker's dilemma." I'll definitely say that this applies in the car hobby. It's a helluva lot more fun to arrange a garage than to pull out a transmission. In terms of softwar
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
I just read about that after your post. Even with the typical lawyer hyperbole it's pretty bad. It seems to me that Tesla door handles (in a world where they've been designing door latches for some time) are just plain ridiculous
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
I expect that to design self-driving you need to push the limits (with some accidents) a bit with a bunch of telemetry. Going from not-much to full-self-driving requires a lot of design increments.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
My tactic (which I'm violating right now in order to post this, mea culpa) was to move the few things that strike me as valuable to a newsreader and quickly grind through them with coffee in the morning. I don't give a damn about
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
I'd add.. 3) The urban public likes purty forests to go vacation in.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
To be fair, if you execute a murderer they're not going to do it anymore.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
...or simply the need to have version 6.0 after version 5.0, somethings gotta change. Sometimes I think it would be an interesting mental exercise to convert most (all?) web pages and PC apps to something like a bog simple Windows 3.1 appli
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
About as useful as Amazon search, Kindle giant list o' books interface, Amazon Prime Video on Android TV gizmos etc.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
question. Do peer reviewed papers make the reviewers public? That would be an interesting angle if not. Allow anyone to publish, but they compete for high-status reviewers. Also, the reviewers have some skin in the game so far as correctn
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Also, it's an actively managed index. Companies are added and subtracted.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>You see a doctor because something hurts, they look at the something -- often in isolation -- and if they can't figure it out, you're pretty much on your own. A quick Old Man(tm) rant. Concerning healthcare, you have to be you
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>Do you sincerely think these 70 year old politicians understand the technology and implications? Politicians of any age aren't domain experts and don't appear to be any smarter than they have to be to get and hold office. Jud
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
That's pretty cool, I'd never heard of it. I wonder what super secret representation of primes results in unknown patterns?
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
There is a depressingly large body of technology attached to movie film and we'll be living with it for some time (especially aspect ratios). Probably just best to stick to Cinerama and be done with it.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>Even if it meant objectifying people into a market segment just to make money, under the branding of empathy and identity? Not to be rude, but what do you think a 'market segment' is? What is there besides market segments? F
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Implementation issues aside, I'd say they'd get a lot further with a less creepy appearance. 'Robot police killer insect dog' is not a great look. Maybe it just needs a nice little crocheted jacket.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Luckily I managed to pop out of the other end of the machine with my limbs intact.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Crikey. This gives me a great idea. BoomerFlix. What better market to target if you want to make a few coins? Who's in?
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>You shouldn’t say “Netflix for black people” because Netflix is for black people already. Judging from the Netflix recommended videos and casting for Netflix originated shows, I'd say that goal has been achieved at this point. You
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
Looking back, that shouldn't have been so much of a driving force. Now that I think of it, the right answer would have been several 10k hour professions. I can't say that the products I designed in 2020 were more complex or amazi
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
After 30k/40k/??? hours of programming, I wish I had spent a chunk of the time learning how to play the piano well or something.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>This is a streaming service set up to elevate content by black creators, to make up for the fact that the mainstream media under-represents those people. I'm struggling to see the outrage on a cultural level and on a startup level
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
I think that eventually the vendors will decide that it's a waste of money.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>If someone takes a new picture of a child being abused, that won't be on the database so won't get flagged. Hah. That's an interesting point. If anything you are encouraging new child porn.
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
My take is that by simply announcing this sort of thing the Rubicon has been crossed. If you see one ant, there's 100 ants somewhere. The point in bitching to Apple isn't to make them change, but to bring attention to privacy issu
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
> A picture of child abuse is child abuse in that the abuse of a child was necessary to take the picture in the first place. People have made all of these points before, but I still wonder what the legal and/or practical basis of th
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
>There is no magic feature that is going to make me want a smart home. Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no replacement available, all for very little advantage. Maybe this is Peak Tech
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by bishoprook2 5y ago
You should spend a moment looking at survivalist magazines from the early 1980s. Lots and lots of doom (mostly Soviet) for tolerably good reason. Basically exotic gun porn (not such a bad thing, but realize that's what it is) and fun

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