pjmorris

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by pjmorris 5d ago
At a guess based on context, is Mahan 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History: 1660–1783', Alfred Thayer Mahan?
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by pjmorris 6d ago
True. 'The Secret History of Silicon Valley', Steve Blank, is essential viewing, IMO.
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by pjmorris 7d ago
"A computer can never be held accountable; therefore, a computer must never make a management decision." - IBM, 1979 I'd say society's, or maybe executive's, viewpoint has shifted on this.
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by pjmorris 16d ago
> How much do you remember these books your family was gifted before you were five years old? I remember nothing of the books that were read to me before I was five. However, I was five when I picked up a book that my mother had been rea
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by pjmorris 1mo ago
Why not both? I've got a friend whose firm has started using 'cognitive surrender' to describe the habit of delegating thinking to the LLM in the way that we used to skim code reviews and say 'LGTM' while missing so
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by pjmorris 1mo ago
> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? My take on that question is that programmers were in high demand because, for the last 60 or so years, it has b
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by pjmorris 1mo ago
Do you think 'At the end of the day, they can either demonstrate mastery of the material at an exam or not' is a reasonable expectation for an adult? If so, how would an adult be treated while still expecting them to demonstrate m
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by pjmorris 2mo ago
Exactly. Personally, I gravitate toward book and topic-specific notes and highlights in the book itself and use the notebook for bigger-picture things for which book references play some role. I do a lot of highlighting in ebooks and latel
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by pjmorris 2mo ago
And if that book doesn't appeal, Dr.Weinberg (he'd prefer 'Jerry' though) has an entire sub-genre of really useful books on humans doing software development. Three other favorites: 'How to Become a Technical Leader
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by pjmorris 2mo ago
My point isn't about a particular breed of nectarines, it's that they are part of a class of goods - food - that isn't optional at any time for any human on earth, and laws have tended to support the view that survival is a f
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by pjmorris 3mo ago
I can go for a month, probably longer, without, say, the internet. I could also go a month without food, maybe, but there are people who can't. Food is different because it is essential to life.
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by pjmorris 3mo ago
What this made me think of is life before computers, where people mildly handshake, create agreements on the fly. "Where communication is fuzzy and locked in on an individual basis." TBH, to me, this imagined future looks a lot li
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by pjmorris 3mo ago
Margaret Thatcher said "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." I feel like the problem that Greenspan, Bernanke, and friends have found is that the problem with capitalism is that
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by pjmorris 4mo ago
"I'll be gone, you'll be gone" - Wall Street phrase. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - J.M. Keynes
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
I pull from these articles when teaching: 'We should teach our Students what Industry doesn’t want', Kevin Ryan, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3377814.3381719 'Are you sure your software w
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
If you're going to invoke the UN, you should show the UN resolution calling for action in Venezuela.
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
I appreciate the enthusiasm for LAN parties and will talk to my gaming friends about getting one going. Related possibilities: 1. Dust off some DVDs and a DVD player, pop some popcorn and watch a movie or two. Explore the extended editions,
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
I confess that I had this in mind. Is it time to start running LAN parties again?
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
I feel like 'Party like it's 1999' could become the slogan for a movement. Sure, the tech was a little less convenient, but overarching control was also less hard-wired into everything.
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
Whatever the merits or demerits of 'marvelous human experiences' are from the point of view of production and consumption, the OP's conclusion leaves out the important point that Alexander's 'rationalization of forc
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
Funny, I am an FPC Bulldog, class of '80, then moved to Ormond to go to DBCC.
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by pjmorris 5mo ago
Seconded. This was a great read, and led me to a lot of great listening. And some wondering about how far Minutemen would've went if D. Boon hadn't passed so early. I also think there's a lot to learn from the book about DIY
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
I agree that the consequences are greater. There seem to be at least two perspectives on whether wealth makes you different: 1. In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the rich “are different from you and me,” and Ernest Hemingway supposedl
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
TBH, I was probably closer to 80 miles than 60 before we moved. to Daytona... Flagler Beach. You?
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
We lived ~60 miles North of the Cape when I was a young boy, and watching the Saturn V's go on the way to the moon was a forming experience.
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
Yes. "When whole squadrons of very long-range aircraft were operating out of bases in the Shetlands, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland (and, after mid-1943, the Azores), and when the Bay of Biscay could be patrolle
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
I think your original point stands; I was not intending to contradict it, only to offer a possible explanation. The Overton window of what is seen as possible and necessary in US policy has shifted from, say, Social Security and Medicare, t
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
That's because all the Democrats are Republicans. "”The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican,” - Ba
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
> UBW cannot be low overhead I suppose. There would be overhead in asking people to do something (UBW) rather than simply offering money (UBI). It strikes me that the benefits of being able to limit unemployment directly rather than indi
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by pjmorris 6mo ago
Agreed. I tend to think a job guarantee would work better than UBI: have the government provide a job to anyone who can't find one somewhere else, something like what was done in the 1930's in the US. Come up with a list of things

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