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Comment · 4 years ago
Ah yes, Florida, Land of Innovation, Crocodiles, and of course, Florida Man!
Comment · 4 years ago
> If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness

What if they'd been invented hundreds of years ago to stop the spread of disease, and prevented millions of deaths since then? Curious that you use a weak and hyperbolic analogy when the reality is so readily available.

Comment · 4 years ago
For the sake of discussion of sensitive topics, I recommend you ditch the hyperbole and stick to facts if you want to maintain credibility with reasonable people.

I don't believe anyone has tried to literally force any restrictions down your throat, nor do I believe that the feds are killing people who don't conform to restrictions. I wouldn't associate your writing with disbelief or skepticism if it didn't contain this type of hyperbole.

Comment · 4 years ago
> Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions.

Tangential, but I've noticed that all the psilocybin trials I've read about are combined with therapy as well; my knee jerk assumption is that there are legal/moral/funding powers at play causing that. Not sure a study would get funded if it consisted of "we're going to get a bunch of depressed people to take shrooms and see what happens!".

The more scientific approach would be to separate the therapy group from the shroom group.

Comment · 4 years ago
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Comment · 4 years ago
It's a rough time when the 2nd Amendment gun nuts start to look prescient.
Comment · 4 years ago
> You don't have to joyride in a car to show the owner that they dropped their keys.

This is the most accurate analogy I've seen in months, thank you for sharing it!

Comment · 4 years ago
I've used it before in a military capacity (actually during test deployments of the system). Interface-wise it's basically google earth, complete with ability to turn on layers and filter temporal ranges. The real magic was how data was induced into the system, and how it could be parsed. Basically geographically aware SQL, with a bunch of tools for correlation and inference of different data types. At the time, our head of intelligence was smitten with it, thought it would end our current conflict.
Comment · 4 years ago
> This seems very naive. Media companies are not working for the public, which pays pennies to the dollar compared to advertising.

I agree that the advertising is where the money comes from for most media... But that supports the parent comment, in that it incentivises the media companies to tell their audiences exactly what they want to hear (or, more correctly, exactly what will keep them coming back and watching more advertisements).

Comment · 4 years ago
> and for what benefit? Some smoother graphics? I am on Linux, that is the least important thing.

This really sums up this side of the argument for me (though it doesn't address the security features of Wayland). If I want to watch an ultra high definition movie, or play a game, rebooting to windows is a miniscule price. Almost all of my work is done on Linux, and I value it because everything can be made to work, usually with little effort. Wayland adds some severe overhead to that work.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think you may have put yourself at a social disadvantage by using the phrase "high impact product", which is a trigger phrase for several developers I know. It's a trigger phrase because they work at places where hearing that during a meeting means "we are about to throw away a lot of work you've done, because we didn't bother to do any market research before we did the first 6 months of sprint cycles". To them, it just sounds like a lot of low-level manager speak that results in massive technical debt, rushed redesigns, working overtime, and the expectation that "changing software is easy".

I found what you said really interesting, and am sharing it with my SO who is a marketing and business contractor. Thank you for sharing!

Comment · 4 years ago
I have one, and have found it quite excellent. Easy to play around with, pretty good documentation, and the eink is really nice. There's something like 30 watch faces already designed, so you can just fork off one you like.

Highly recommend the anodized aluminum case. The plastic one is sturdy enough, but with the thickness of the material, makes the watch feel bulky. Also, the aluminum one has such a good fit (they are precision CNCed) that it can handle water splashes with no problem, and a few gaskets can get it to IP64 or 65

Comment · 5 years ago
If you're on Linux, xpra might be an option here. Just stream the rendered window from your sensitive access computer to wherever you need to show it.
Comment · 5 years ago
> One such people screwed my career development for 7 years because at one internal interview he asked me out of nothing about the „half sync half async pattern”, that solves a problem that he wasn't able to describe to me. And since I failed, I was forever on their s*t list.

This is a sign, that in order to solve the problem, you must move on to a job that isn't the problem.

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