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Is there still no visual indicator that the wearer is in transparency mode? I am frequently in situations where I'm out in public and something warrants saying, where one or both o…

He wasn’t being sarcastic.

None of those things is murder, which is unlawful killing, usually premeditated. Maybe there is a society which doesn’t hold murder to be wrong, but I’ve never heard of it, and it’…

FYI there’s a search mode called verbatim, and it’s not the same as putting the individual words in quotes. It’s hidden under the search tools menu. In my experience the results it…

Patch Me If You Can

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so th…

That seems decidedly unsafe to say, but even if you’re right, the second paragraph doesn’t follow from the first. “Everyone generalizes from one example! At least, I do.”

You are reading a great deal into an innocuous comment.

Did you read the memo as it was written, replete with links to supporting research? Or did you only read the maliciously leaked version which had stripped out all the links?

Stereotype threat is a product of publication bias. It doesn’t replicate. https://replicationindex.com/2017/04/07/hidden-figures-repli...

The phrase “black art” in the paper refers to a technical challenge which only experts can tame, via methods which aren’t widely known. It has zero to do with ‘black arts” in the s…

See also the video game with the unbeatable giant in Ender’s Game.

It says that, but it’s wrong. California has no statute of limitations on murder. This was recently demonstrated in dramatic fashion when the golden state killer was arrested for m…

It’s interesting how smoothly this logic can move between “your country”, “your religion”, “your ethnicity”, “your ideology”. I am not making a case for or against any of these. Bu…

I have a feeling you mean that they ignore known unknowns. Everyone ignores unknown knowns, because they are unknown.

Consider that you were far more likely downvoted because you show no awareness that increasingly onerous penalties are ineffective deterrents when people don’t expect to get caught…

Needlessly obnoxious retort, as gp is exactly right. There is no a priori reason to zero in on road design as a major contributory factor given the huge range of possibilities. One…

That’s Brook’s law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later,”

That’s Hofstadter’s law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.”

Nor with a certain super cool language of the future https://github.com/unisonweb/unison

This was very upsetting when it happened. The same version of unison was incompatible with itself if they had been built with different but consecutively released versions of the o…

Of course they do. Not sure why it’s something to brag about or not to brag about though, it’s an implementation detail. Scala for instance uses custom classes for each size set up…

Intentional programming is not tied to graphical representation even if that’s how it looked in a prototype. It’s more about separating program structure from detail, trying to bet…

I highly recommend ice cold showers to anyone looking to explore this direction. They’re easily available, don’t take very long, and produce immediate benefits.

Since apparently nobody else wants to tell you: your very high levels of passive-aggressiveness and silent grudge nurturing lead me to estimate it around 70% likely that you are th…