what-no-tests

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by what-no-tests 2y ago
Gee if only the Sun were somehow capable of beaming energy to the Earth. /s
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
The real question is: why are you using Outlook?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Great website! It looks wonderful on my powerful new Mac. Also, I like how the focus appears to be on how it will benefit the user, instead of focusing on tech specs. Data privacy and personal security aside, I understand there will be a re
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Al Jazeera[0] has some live coverage. [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
OK so this could go multiple ways. On the one hand, they might be very specific, like "anything other than the Missionary Position between heterosexual couples of the same race and age are banned." On the other hand, they might ha
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Any group who's core values do not include Integrity is a group to steer clear of.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Only someone in league with or benefiting from the centralization of power, mass surveillance, wealth, and the use of technology to further the rapid concentration and centralization of such could write such a one-sided piece. Unless they&#
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
That's very generous of you.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
When I was at GM Cruise we were using a "semantic map" - the robot cars would drive around the city trying to figure out where they were based on GPS, and then match up what their LiDAR/RADAR/Camera data showed after goi
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
flood...the market!
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
> "By re-running the same commentary it strengthens the original commentary tenfold each time. ... In the wake of these really terrible things, we have this comment that really holds up." I remember there was that one guy who s
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
The example "Hello World" program source code shows how simple the event-loop style of development looks here. I like it, and it does look like something that could be useful. Thanks for sharing!
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
I've been looking at RedPanda[0] for a new project. Any ideas on that? [0] https://redpanda.com/
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
What's the alternative? Nationalize all online selling, and have a central pricing authority? Where does one draw the line, with an interest in not taking it to the extreme?
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
> Our end goal is to use this engine to create an online Flash-like hub for games that people can share and remix, akin to Scratch or Tinkercad. AMAZING. Hackable games are such a great in-road for new developers, and for anyone who take
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Shades of Cryptonomicon, phreaking, and a flashy Perl script tweaking Finux to overcome the RF/Phreakers in the next room.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
I'm glad you're back out, but I know that this side of the fence never looks the same after being on that side. I don't know if it ever does.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Degeneracy is positioned as "tolerance" while traditional morality is repositioned as "hate". "Reality TV" shows like "Ridiculousness" (hour upon hour of groin-shots) resemble what the movie "Idi
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Considering all of modern entertainment has devolved into a lecture on correctness, yes, staying home and cleaning things up, organizing, and improving our living space does sound like the better option.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Nice. Prison-positive propaganda. Er...I mean...independent, investigative journalism. From the Guardian.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
No time at the moment to break it all down, but here's a previous discussion thread on a similar topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27483003
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Really unimpressed with so many people thinking it's OK to shoehorn their database as a message queue. Use the right tool for the job.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Wow - I just want to express some gratitude for the thoughtful response here. You've captured the essence -- although we have solutions for when the impulse to rewrite an application occurs, we don't have solutions that don't
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Rewriting is so attractive. If the code has aged and is suffering from many code smells and anti-patterns, a rewrite becomes even more attractive. "Why should I spend all this time adding a simple feature to this crappy code??" Bu
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Commas, so important, are so very, infrequently, and - unnecessarily - sparingly used.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
> Was this some kind of organizational failing? No...the organization is behaving exactly as intended.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Weird thing is, when I read that quote it makes perfect sense. But I understand how it could look like the undecoded bytefall in the Matrix for those outside the know.
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Exactly - cultivating one's ability to self-reflect, and increasing the critical distance between oneself and one's thoughts, to the extent that one can experiment with changing how one thinks in order to observe what one thin
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Jacques Lacan's "Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary" categories come to mind. Not everything we experience has a material basis (eg: emotions, inner dialogue, expectations, etc) but can be "anchored" in our minds through
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by what-no-tests 3y ago
Yes all that, and also it's worth considering Magick from the psychological perspective, rather than the "magic missile" idea that lots of folks have. Here is a link[0] to Crowley's definitions of Magick, in his view: [0

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