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by drblast 24d ago
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in p
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by drblast 1mo ago
I did some amount of research into the feasibility of PHE and FHE about 20 years ago, and my conclusion at the time was that the space overhead of the encrypted output was a massive bottleneck, which meant that while it was potentially usef
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by drblast 1mo ago
I often imagine WWIII, as I witness the bombs coming down to destroy everything we've built, wondering, "what conveniences would I give up for this not to be happening?" And I also realize that this is more than a thought exp
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by drblast 1mo ago
In the 80's, many, many people looked down on electronic and synthesized music because it wasn't real music played with real instruments. And now it's just another instrument and has whole genres of music dedicated to it.
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by drblast 2mo ago
Satire pokes fun at what is happening right now ; it's not predicting anything. Just like 1984 warned of the dangers of totalitarianism that was already happening, Idiocracy was about current U.S. culture at the time. It wouldn't
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by drblast 4mo ago
This idea has been around as long as the web, but you can't get momentum behind it. A much better idea was a .kids domain where the content was vetted, and you could allow-list your child's device to that. Much easier than trying
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by drblast 4mo ago
I haven't tried this because I haven't played Magic in over 20 years, but I always thought it would be more fun if you had two draw decks where the second was only allowed to include basic lands. Then in the draw phase you could c
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by drblast 3y ago
I never realized the extent to which The Children's Television Workshop must have been fueled by psychedelics. But now Big Bird is making a whole lot more sense.
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by drblast 3y ago
Travel to Oregon or any of the various places these things are legal. Or produce the necessary items on your own. Growing things isn't difficult.
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by drblast 3y ago
The value prop is the dissolution of your own ego. We experience reality filtered through our senses and our own concept of "self," which is an incredibly limited view of the world. Imagine being able to see/experience a less
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by drblast 4y ago
It's interesting how everything is a balance abd experience and mastery count for a lot, but nobody acknowledges this in blog posts. There is an appropriate amount of architecture and design that should go into systems. One aspect of t
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by drblast 4y ago
Except sometimes you do fix it later. Approve the PR when there's a bug/task filed to fix the thing later and then prioritize that work as necessary. Just as bad as never fixing things later is never releasing anything until it&#x
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by drblast 4y ago
This seems like the first step to implementing personalized ads everywhere. Opt out? You get the most annoying ones.
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by drblast 4y ago
Imagine a star trek transporter was a real thing. In that show, I think the common explanation was that the transporter didn't send you places, but merely created a copy of you somewhere else and destroyed the original. Now imagine if
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by drblast 4y ago
Because it's a one-time cost and you can cheaply throw more CPU power at the problem, or just wait and then you're done. If you're doing this at such a scale that encoding speed matters (like if you're Instagram) the maj
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by drblast 4y ago
Having had these experiences, the god I saw and became one with was a being with a childlike sense of wonder at the universe it had accidentally created. More of a "whoops, woah cool" than a "let there be light" Very muc
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by drblast 4y ago
It's a better design, imo. Have you ever wanted to write a command line executable and gotten hung up on I/o and parameter parsing? With PowerShell you can write a cmdlet in C# as a PowerShell module and have strongly typed input
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by drblast 4y ago
This is so true, at least from my late 70's perspective. Star Wars didn't seem so much like fantasy when I saw it in the theater - it was more like the inevitable conclusion of where tech was going, and probably in my lifetime we&
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by drblast 5y ago
I used to have this problem with our triage call center in India. I'm in the U.S. It was like pulling teeth trying to get to the point. Most annoying were the delays between pleasantries... You've interrupted what I was doing thre
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by drblast 5y ago
Or do away with performance reviews entirely. In my entire career I've never once seen a review cycle that was a net positive, and more often than not they cause the best performers who normally don't care about such things to bec
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by drblast 5y ago
Now that you mention it...yes exactly that.
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by drblast 5y ago
I've been making homemade pizza. I make a few every few days. It started out pretty bad, but now it's delicious and my kids get excited to eat it - they think it's the best crust ever. It's not the recipe at all, either.
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by drblast 5y ago
This is good advice. Also, Windows is an excellent way to learn systems programming because the documentation and tooling is so good and things hardly ever change. There is a wealth of documentation on MSDN for writing device drivers and su
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by drblast 5y ago
Joining the military might be an option for you if you're not ideologically opposed to it. Try air force, then navy. Not marines or army. If you're halfway intelligent with technical skills you will find something to do for four y
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by drblast 5y ago
Most of the time I've seen dependency inversion "so we can test" the code is littered with hundreds of single-implementation interfaces and no mocks, or stub mocks that are written just to pass the tests. It doesn't actu
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by drblast 6y ago
I just miss Milky Way Dark ice cream bars, raspberry schweppes ginger ale, and Jell-O 123. I can't understand how these things aren't still widely available.
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by drblast 6y ago
The industry is cyclical and to be forward thinking all you have to do is describe what's already happened and assume it will happen again. ;-) The things being done with JavaScript today are not new, nor is the idea that a server and
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by drblast 6y ago
Yeah I think for Trump to win washington state, he'd have to do something to appeal to voters there in a way that would likely cause his red state base to abandon him. The negative correlation makes sense when we think about how diffic
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by drblast 6y ago
I think in many ways it's impossible to have this discussion with a U.S. audience. The idea of force and violence being the solution to everything is deeply, deeply ingrained in U,S, culture. Simply suggesting that reason and cooperati
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by drblast 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the exact layout is not guaranteed in this case, so while the above code may work in many cases it's not possible to represent all data structures like this, particularly if the bits are not byte or machine word al

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