ethbro

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by ethbro 6y ago
You'd think people would look at the initial healthcare.gov mess and make some conclusions. One of which should maybe be "Don't strictly isolate teams, with unowned space between their output and the next team's input, a
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by ethbro 6y ago
Wait until they learn a jar company makes aerospace parts... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Aerospace_%26_Technolog...
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by ethbro 6y ago
DCS? https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/ ? (It's been Janes-90s since I sim'd)
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by ethbro 6y ago
> winding roads Don't get me started on the folly of single-path, non-grid road planning. It's literally encoding the assumption "There will never be more than X people living here" into the city fabric. And then in 1
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by ethbro 6y ago
Haven't read the paper yet, but could you expand on the tuple use? It seems like the odd person out in that list of primatives.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I'd include the addendum that wisdom is holding mutually-exclusive truths at once, and deciding which governs in any particular circumstance. But I've found the previous to be right, more often than not. Hope the inspiration helps
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by ethbro 6y ago
I considered including all the caveats you mentioned before posting, but decided the base points cover more circumstances. ;)
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think I found that paper. Posted in a reply below.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Yes. The gist was that your brain gets caught in a loop in which your perception of time was continuously skewed, leading to a constant feeling of hurrying / lacking enough time. Spending time in nature essentially jumped your brain ou
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by ethbro 6y ago
The opportunity of company towns is the opportunity of dictatorships: with fewer decision makers, longer-sighted decision can be rammed through. For example, California could presumably make better housing decisions if existing property own
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by ethbro 6y ago
Used to live down the road from Avalon. I'd say it's better than a mall, but still too profit-first to be when I'd hope we're pivoting towards. As context for others, Avalon is a mixed-use development, with restaurants a
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by ethbro 6y ago
If you don't need a decent school zone, can confirm. 38 minutes from downtown. 3 acre wooded lot. 1900 sq ft house (currently refinishing full basement). $135 when I bought, probably $200 now. In the process of selling a much more expe
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by ethbro 6y ago
I can't lay hands on a link, but there was an article about the psychological phenomenon of time passing too quickly. It was a measurable state you could detect a brain as either being in or not in. One of the most reliable ways to res
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think a few things aren't hammered into young people enough today. 1) Any action is greater than no action. It doesn't matter how much you suck at something. Do it. Congrats, you've beaten everyone who never started. 2) Fin
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's amazing how many cryptocurrency users are citizens of Panama...
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by ethbro 6y ago
Isn't that the whole security / obscurity point? That true security only comes by being exposed to active, intelligent, informed adversaries for a sufficient amount of time? Or, another way: each exploit and oops only improves the
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by ethbro 6y ago
> Otherwise your goal should be to find the easiest most phone-in-able class possible. Thanks, COVID!
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by ethbro 6y ago
One question I always ask of my interviewers is "How often do your developers sit with end users?" If they look flummoxed and confused as to why that should ever happen, I politely start looking for the exit.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I spent a while on word choice, as nothing seemed to fit. The best I can describe the alternative is (most of this via conversations w/ kids in the 12 and 18 age ranges) essentially as you've said: "adhoc" or "reali
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by ethbro 6y ago
Most of the source books are still in print. There are a few that are harder to find. https://talsorianstore.com/collections/cyberpunk
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by ethbro 6y ago
Snow Crash is Last Action Hero for cyberpunk.
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by ethbro 6y ago
> there's nothing wiser or more edgy or purer about cyberpunk that would have prevented this from happening to it. If anything, it's very apropos. But that never happened to punk musi... oh, I see your point.
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by ethbro 6y ago
As an older millennial and prolific fiction reader (more so when I was younger and had time), there seems to be a 1:1 correlation between lack of consumption of... "intentional" creative media and lack of hope. Zoomers and younger
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by ethbro 6y ago
Read it on the basis of recommendation here (along with Skunk Works), would highly second. The fascinating thing about successful, lean, scrappy defense projects is there are almost no incentives for them to be such . Consequently, if they
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by ethbro 6y ago
Good lesson for organizational engineering. Longer tenures in a job tend to increase risk aversion and technical conservatism. So unless there's a mechanism to blunt that (and select for lifelong learners), you end up with a tyranny of
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by ethbro 6y ago
Ham radio (the human component) seems to suffer from the DnD 3.5 problem. A lot of people invested considerable effort into obtaining knowledge. Once obtained, they were free to coast. I take it there's no true continuing ed requiremen
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by ethbro 6y ago
If the Fed wants to print their way out of this, the Fed can print their way out of this. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
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by ethbro 6y ago
This device is intended to help with social anxiety issues. In real-time , while you're currently interacting with someone, it can offer a helpful "WARNING! YOU SEEM ANXIOUS. CALM YOURSELF. OTHERS MAY CURRENTLY BE PERCEIVING YOU
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by ethbro 6y ago
FAQ on Tone component: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/devices/a-new-tool-to-help-you-... "Once you’ve opted-in by creating your voice profile, Tone will run passively and intermittently in the background so you don
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by ethbro 6y ago
Because I was curious, Friday might have been a better analogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1939#September_1,_19...

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