king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce
Obligatory as I have ADD.
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king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: The Power of Positive People
That’s an immature perspective. Actually, that’s not the most important litmus test; it’s whether you trust them completely to make good decisions with your life, kids if present and all your worldly life in their hands should you be incapacitated and that they can keep things together. Being insanely happy or at least content is a bonus.. but their job isn’t to make you happy, that’s your job. Another common antipattern: NRE lasts a year or two, so those new turnips expecting infatuation to sustain things and be “totally perfect” after their giant wedding is also a recipe for disaster.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet
Their hangers must be called teapots. Or would it be kettle?
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Don’t listen productivity gurus: why waking up at 6am won’t make you successful
Felix Dennis called it “point at the sky” cargo-cult success modeling. Even so, Walmart C suite and veeps were notorious about whom could arrive the earliest and appear to work the most. OTOH, 37signals would say “fire the workaholics.”
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article
If the death penalty were ever plausibly-beneficial, this sort of low-life would deserve it.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article
Yes and arbitrary state censorship via prior restraint is knocking on our doors right now. If this isn’t throughly thrown out with prejudice, things will only get much, much worse.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article
There’s already manufactured consent and corruption of civilizational-implosion proportions, but this is a shot across the bow that the day of the fourth estate independent press maybe numbered.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (2012)
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond is a mind-expanding read. Furthermore, it should be noted that many civilizations have problems roughly around the 250 year / 10 generation time, and the US is quite close to that. Combined with climate change and peak population, things gradually getting more than unpleasant might be the understatement of the millennium. I seriously doubt many civilizations went under quickly, and that most were “frogs” boiled slowly. The time for a dramatic, practical course-correction is now... not tomorrow, not soon and not later.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: NixOS on Prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix
Prgmr is still around? They seemed like they went tits up.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp rumors
You’re talking about India: where slavery is alive and well, college girls are locked in at night and rape/domestic violence goes virtually unpunished, with police as “quality” as those in Afghanistan. VICE did a piece on this. Also, sectarian violence there is normal.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: India: Google engineer latest victim of mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp rumors
There is an uncomfortable fact: many people only notice harm when there’s a victim similar to them involved, but are typically oblivious or unconcerned with the troubles not in their purview: impetus for mass-migration to Europe, genocides (ie Hutus & Tutsis), East Timor, PNG, nationless people (ie Rohingya, Kurds, Uyghurs, Palestinians, Catalans), terrorism in Africa and neglect/poisoning of poor people in rural areas.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Lisp and Haskell (2017)
Greedily evaluating both Haskell and OCaml for systems development work rn. Haskell seems a lot cleaner, perhaps too purely clean, and OCaml seems to have some rough edges where it can’t/doesn’t infer types without awkward syntax. Lazy haskell has STM, monads, parallelism, concurrency and a huge community. Greedy OCaml can do impurity and pseudo-procedural code easier but lacks much of what Haskell has. Thoughts?
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: The hotel bathroom puzzle
Both observations have equal validity for middle-/upper-class denizens whom can spend money on increasing entropy much faster. Go to anywhere remote and/or poor, and the better-to-do outsiders will be gobsmacked by inventiveness that, to the local, will seem mundane and vital. For example, one of my great-grandfathers made a continously self-cleaning oil-filter for farm equipment... the sort of thing corporations clearly wouldn’t offer for monetized consumables reasons.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: The hotel bathroom puzzle
If only London hotels architects had known this, the majority of showers might not be a size smaller than a phone-booth such that you cannot turn around in it and must enter/exit sideways... while not being at all rotund.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: ‘Downloadable Gun’ Clears a Legal Obstacle, and Activists Are Alarmed
DemoRanch, Taofledermaus or iv8888 fired shotgun shells bare, ICRW. They’re the lowest chamber-pressure lethal (22LR and .25 are difficult but not impossible to make lethal) rounds.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: ‘Downloadable Gun’ Clears a Legal Obstacle, and Activists Are Alarmed
The only completely polymer gun with a chance of not killing or maiming the operator is a shotgun cartridge blunderbuss with the shell/s place far away from the hands. With enough rubber bands, it should be possible to not need a metal firing pin.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: ‘Downloadable Gun’ Clears a Legal Obstacle, and Activists Are Alarmed
I already have AR and Glock lower CAD files. What’s new?
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]
Attention, interest, decision, action. AIDA. And coffee is for closers.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Paraphrasing a self-made billionaire: Give people a cubicle or an office with a door and make sure no one bothers them, including you.
king_nothing | 7 years ago | on: A biologist who believes that trees speak a language we can learn to listen to
Anthropocentric behavior typical precludes respect of life unless it’s cute and usually a tetrapod.
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