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by lcuff 9mo ago
Again, I think this is likely seen differently depending on which side of the political spectrum one stands, and what sources of information one attunes to. I agree that both 'racism' and 'gender' have become flash-point
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by lcuff 9mo ago
Everybody's mileage will vary on this ... I spent a lot of time in the year after I read Paul Graham's essay on "things you can't say", searching for things that I thought matched the criteria he set out, and found
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by lcuff 9mo ago
"Core rhetorical tactic of the progressive left". Or the conservative right, depending on which side of this divide one happens to stand on. And speaking of Orwell, he was pointing out the doublespeak of the Fascists, not the so
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by lcuff 9mo ago
Interesting. I wonder how the expansion and contraction of the rails with changes in temperature is accommodated.
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by lcuff 9mo ago
I remember reading some time ago that there is a real difficulty running passenger trains and freight trains over the same rails. With freight, you can tolerate bumps at the rail-join points, and freight tends to create such bumps because t
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by lcuff 9mo ago
I agree that "the right thing" depends on point of view and narrative at hand (the context). And when I quote Drucker and point to character, I see it as the bedrock on which a good manager will stand. But people of good character
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by lcuff 9mo ago
Failing to understand the basic requirement is not, IMHO, overthinking it. I will admit, as I reread the question and the hint just now, that I just didn't read carefully the first time through. It's actually pretty clear. Sigh.
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by lcuff 9mo ago
Peter Drucker wrote that the most important thing a manager could have was 'character'. I've asked myself "What is character?", and the best answer I've come up with is: "The willingness to do the right t
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by lcuff 9mo ago
I thought there was too much ambiguity to several of the challenges: I gave up after the following exercise: On the eighth day of Shell my true love gave to me Eight elves in Santa's Workhop/ ... Hint: Try finding files named afte
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by lcuff 11mo ago
"It's a cheap trick to make me trust the interlocutor". Hmmm. Different interlocutors can have different intentions. Some are going to have the intention to understand. Echoing what you believe the person said is not a &#x27
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by lcuff 11mo ago
Yup. Weizenbaum knew about active listening.
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by lcuff 11mo ago
Nope, I don't see that. As a therapist, this is a big part of our training. Using it in a business context, there's more emphasis on ideas, whereas in therapy, you do ask people how it makes them feel. Often because people don&#x
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by lcuff 1y ago
A philosophy professor I had when I was an undergrad, asked the question "Why did Socrates deliver the Apology in such a way that was clearly unapologetic and designed to annoy the Athenians"? His answer was that he thought Socrat
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by lcuff 1y ago
For some "a little friction" is enough. For others, not. I keep less-healthy food treats in a cupboard in my garage, because the friction of walking out to get them is enough to reduce my usage to an acceptable level. Even less
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by lcuff 2y ago
Fun article, but the example of Hilbert Curve usefulness with hard drives is quickly aging out. SSDs, which are increasingly prevalent, have more-or-less constant access time. There is no equivalent of the seek time or rotational latency th
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by lcuff 2y ago
Okay, but my main complaint is that the medium (video) feels very under-utilized.
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by lcuff 2y ago
I confess I was disappointed in the video. As someone who decades ago read Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time, it doesn't substantially add to my (lame!) understanding of the Standard Model. It names the 17 entities
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by lcuff 2y ago
44% shorter: is your claim that limiting line lengths to 80 or 100 characters is going to 'massively impinge' your productivity? That seems unlikely to me.
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by lcuff 2y ago
Sorry to take so long to answer. Good questions. 2 space indents, in (say) 30 line functions, get harder to discern the more indent levels. This problem is exacerbated by bad eyesight. Bigger monitor with higher DPI does help, yep. Horizo
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by lcuff 2y ago
>at a comfortable 10 point font size. How lovely for you. As someone with significantly impaired vision, even when corrected, I have my font size set to 18, thank you very much. A coding standard that assumes a 10 point font size would
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by lcuff 2y ago
Except when there's not ... In this case, it was superseded by "more pressing" alarms, namely "pull up"/"you're too low".
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by lcuff 2y ago
In this incident, as with Air France flight 447, pilot and co-pilot were holding the controls in opposite directions, and the software averages the input. In this case the warning that the controls were mismatched was not of sufficiently hi
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by lcuff 2y ago
I did a lot of the work in my 40 year software career as an individual, which meant it was on me to estimate the time of the task. My first estimate was almost always an "If nothing goes wrong" estimate. I would attempt to make
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by lcuff 2y ago
"Hard times create strong men". At what age do the hard times start for this to be true? Do children who are victims of abuse become strong? Some perhaps, but I suspect not more than a control group. Do the hard times occur when
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by lcuff 2y ago
Does anybody have a pointer to a good description of what Alan Kay means by messaging?
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by lcuff 2y ago
> Wildly impractical I couldn't disagree more strongly. Part of the vision in PARC (and Alan Kay's life work) was to create learning environments for children, and this demo is set in that realm, so having kids figure it out th
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by lcuff 2y ago
When I hear Alan Kay talk dismissively about current applications and interfaces, and the lack of attention given to what was developed at PARC 40 or 50 years ago, I often wish he was more explicit about WHAT was developed. (I have watched
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by lcuff 2y ago
In a more consumer friendly architecture, the bank would send the consumer a list of the current organizations that have a recurring charge 'relationship' and ask the consumer which ones should be transferred to the new card. It
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by lcuff 2y ago
Evokes my favorite Warren Buffett quote "Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you."
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by lcuff 2y ago
>>> In place of anything like a novel proper, we get a would-be bildungsroman breaking through to the surface in disparate fragments. These scraps are Winston’s yearnings, memories, sensual instincts, which have, as yet, somehow go

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