pliftkl

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by pliftkl 2y ago
I didn't really remember the "blow up the moon", but he sure posted a lot about "Time has Inertia" on sci.physics.
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by pliftkl 2y ago
This was my reaction as well - every article I've read seems to call out "changes the way we think they navigated because out of sight of land", but this may be a perverse form of survivor bias (ships tried this and sank), or
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by pliftkl 2y ago
The fact that this is completely unmentioned in the article really surprised me. The physicians may not have done insurance fraud, but they absolutely committed medical malpractice, and they did so for the sake of personal profit.
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by pliftkl 2y ago
This is a common practice at many large companies, though it isn't explicit, and it's rarely transparent. Managers try to find roles on other teams for their worst performers in order to get them out of their organization, becaus
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by pliftkl 2y ago
Not the author you quote, but Christopher Schwartz, who runs Lost Art Press (which printed what you quoted) can also write a heck of a wood-working book: "The journey to the summit of Mount Vesuvius has all the romance of visiting an u
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by pliftkl 2y ago
It's a weird collection of topics, all in the same dry style. Definitely AI.
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by pliftkl 2y ago
I have a Mormon neighbor who did his missionary work in Thailand. My wife is Thai, so he came by to chat with us once with some missionaries who had visited us. I spoke to him for a while about his experience in trying to evangelize to a
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by pliftkl 3y ago
Well, the punishment for Facebook is twofold: (A) they probably spent 10's of thousands on fighting this in court, and (B) it sets precedent that they are liable for this sort of thing. If they start getting sued regularly in jurisdic
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by pliftkl 3y ago
Thank you for posting this and giving me an injection of nostalgia. :) I loved these books as a kid, and have probably not thought about them in 40 years. Unfortunately, my own daughter is probably too old to enjoy them the same way I did
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by pliftkl 3y ago
If you're really talking about universal rights in the modern sense, that really didn't happen in the US until the 1960's in practice (unless you were white and had the correct chromosomes). Women couldn't vote until th
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by pliftkl 3y ago
Depends a lot on the jurisdiction. In Austin, the police will declare "no-refusal" weekends (typically holidays) in which they declare in advance that they'll get a warrant for a blood draw in the case of refusals. If you l
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by pliftkl 3y ago
In case you take it up as a retirement project: what I'd love to see is an avatar builder's kit. Create the core engine, a basic level, monster, item, and class editor, and let people mod it. The basic party mechanics and att&#
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by pliftkl 3y ago
I loved the avatar gameplay and the fact that it wasn't a "massively" multiplayer dungeon crawl, but rather something small enough that you knew most of the players. I'd trade a lot of the scale and graphics of modern g
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by pliftkl 4y ago
Becoming disciplined enough to use the CPAP every night was a real struggle for me. Ironically, what ultimately helped me was starting to take modafinil during the day. Taking that as a stimulant in the day gave me enough energy in the da
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by pliftkl 4y ago
If you tell a police officer that you did a crime, then your words are admissible as evidence against you. If you tell a police officer that you did not commit a crime, you can't have the police officer testify in your defense that yo
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by pliftkl 4y ago
"By then Alexa was getting a billion interactions per week, but most of those conversations were trivial, commands to play music or ask about the weather. That meant less opportunities to monetize. Amazon can't make money from Ale
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by pliftkl 4y ago
I would absolutely be willing to pay a monthly fee for a Facebook that wouldn't serve me ads or "suggested" things in my feed, and only showed me things that I explicitly said I was interested in. I'm curious how much I
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by pliftkl 4y ago
[Speculation] The issue is probably not the upkeep of the services, but rather the servicing of debt that they took on to get here.
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by pliftkl 4y ago
One of the things that made F# "click" for me was Wlaschin's "Domain Modeling Made Functional". It's largely a focus on how to think about the underlying data, and getting in that mindset helped tremendously i
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by pliftkl 4y ago
I'm 52, and probably watch more youtube than any other content provider. However, that only started when I got premium and no longer had to deal with ads. If I had to deal with ads, my watching would drop like a rock.
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by pliftkl 4y ago
I picked up wood working in my late 40's when I was on a soul crushing IT project, and could no longer code recreationally in the evening. Wood working uses a different part of my brain and feels very cathartic. I don't think I&
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by pliftkl 4y ago
"I believe that in general, some people are more allergic to wood dust than other people. Some people seem to breathe in pine dust all year long and are fine. If I sniff a single crosscut of pine, I'll get stuffy and snotty for 3
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by pliftkl 4y ago
While I don't do enough C to comment on some of the other items, the global static variable named "last" seems likely to collide with a variable name that would be commonly used.
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by pliftkl 4y ago
There are many bad outcomes to unattended children that don't involve kidnapping (think uncommon but normal childhood injuries of kids on playgrounds). That being said, none of the facts presented here indicate that CPS action would ha
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by pliftkl 5y ago
Ah - but the population of people-travel-days is also probably quite high, and while it doesn't impact a "whole population", it impacts a subset of the population frequently enough to be a comparable order of magnitude to the
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by pliftkl 5y ago
From article: "Sleep is also necessary for the body to heal and repair heart and blood vessels. Lack of sleep has been linked to an increased risk heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and stroke, expert
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by pliftkl 5y ago
One area that senior developers can have significant advantages over junior resources is in having much stronger understanding of their business domain. I know plenty of developers in their 60's who will likely be able to keep working
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by pliftkl 5y ago
While I realize that this particular drug is just an example, we could run some numbers here. The current owner of the drug made $27M in sales this year in the US. At $10k per 30 day supply, that implies that there are at most 2700 people
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by pliftkl 5y ago
As an older guy this made my smile, and also a little nostalgic for the flame war that this might have ignited 20 years ago.
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by pliftkl 6y ago
Personally, I've written zero lines of production Haskell code, and expect that this will still be true when I retire. Despite that, learning Haskell was probably one of the best things that I've ever done. The learning process

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