DradisPing
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DradisPing
6d ago
From https://paulgraham.com/taste.html
Line drawings are in fact the most difficult visual medium, because they demand near perfection. In math terms, they are a closed-form solution; lesser artists literally solve the same problems by successive approximation. One of the reasons kids give up drawing at ten or so is that they decide to start drawing like grownups, and one of the first things they try is a line drawing of a face. Smack!
To get good at drawing you have to happily suck at it for years. There are a lot of things like this. Drawing is a special case because we tend to not be aware of how much time someone spent practicing.
DradisPing
7d ago
The chronological or purchase order make a lot more sense to me. The only issue I can see is that I might not remember buying some of them.
DradisPing
7d ago
So I've been getting an ad on Xitter for a tiny bookshelf with a whole lot of fake books you can organize. Then you can dump it out and organize them again.
This blew my mind because it never occurred to me that this was an activity people enjoy.
I just assumed that people who alphabetized their CDs (dating myself here) just never did the math on how often they actually search for a random CD by name.
Does anyone good stories about seeing a product that made them realize their failures at modelling the minds of others?
DradisPing
14d ago
Antibiotics are interesting because bacteria do develop resistance to them, however that resistance fades over time.
So it's possible that penicillin was discovered multiple times but abandoned when it mysteriously stopped working.
DradisPing
20d ago
I don't think he's actually particularly pissed at Harvard specifically. It's really the combination of a few things.
- It's the most sacred institution to DC people.
- If anti-Trumpism has a Westpoint, it's Harvard Kennedy School
- Harvard administrators are unbelievably arrogant and will be unable to present a sympathetic defence in public
- The Trump base has zero sympathy for Harvard and love to see them get put in place
- Harvard isn't what it used to be at the administrative level. Claudine Gay isn't up to the standards of Harvard 30 years ago
- Harvard admin doesn't seem to grasp that a lot of their behaviour over the past few decades is explicitly illegal and they only got away with it because the feds were on side. There's no case law protecting them.
- As the most prestigious school they make an obvious target for all of Trumpism's issues with academia.
DradisPing
22d ago
Also the market. They can use early robots in Disney's films and parks until they are ready for the home market.
DradisPing
22d ago
There's a strong bias in the US around not viewing white on white conflict through an ethnic lens. The differences in geography, religion, and ancestry would be enough to label the conflict as ethnic if it were to happen in a different country.
Red tribers already see DC as more of a colonial occupier than their elite.
Also the US civil war is seen as the template for a civil war. But that was a war of secession, specific regions had military organizations and used them to try to separate from the national government.
Proper civil wars (an attempt to change the government) are more of a sliding scale of actions by locals.
It'd be more of smaller scale disruptions followed by either an attempt for the feds to regain legitimacy or a brutal crackdown.
DradisPing
27d ago
I'd expect that it's like a conservation easement. The rights are transferred to the HOA before the first sale, so you never have the full title to the land.
DradisPing
27d ago
Planned obsolescence implies it's part of a plan that they have meetings on. It's more that they don't care about you once you've ceased to provide them revenue.
DradisPing
30d ago
My guess is that due to whatever labour laws and corporate rules, they can do the shirt protest but can't talk about it with customers. She probably assumed you were some kind of spy from corporate trying to get her fired.
DradisPing
1mo ago
A lot of departments want courses in the core curriculum because it guarantees jobs lecturing. They don't particularly care if the students learn anything or if it provides any value. Forcing students to write papers on indigenous studies is just the easiest path to getting paid to write their own papers on indigenous studies.
So basically everyone involved is a fraud, and it goes forward because we've let colleges control credentialing.
The students just want the credential. The lecturers just want their money.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Perhaps I wasn't being clear. I'm suggesting that there have been significant changes to federal law regarding name paperwork since 1982, particularly since 2001. A judge could easily decide to cite federal law changes as a statutory restriction.
Your whole argument depends on their being no statutory restriction and you're going to need to do more research to be sure that is the case.
DradisPing
1mo ago
The "absence of statutory restriction" might also involve federal laws, since as far as I know state and federal have the same voter registration.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Trump's comments were incredibly influential in the election.
The boomer left has a very strange relationship with the US. They love Obama, vacation in the US all the time, and frequently fantasize about living in NYC. However they rage against the US and Americanization.
The "51st State" comments triggered a key part of their political identity.
The results aren't so much that Conservative support collapsed. It did go down a little, but the NDP basically committed suicide this election. Hyperbole, they can come back later obviously. But this is their worst result ever, and they've been running since 1963. 7 seats is 2% of the house. They got 9 seats in 1993, but that was 3% since there were fewer seats. They lost 70% of their seats in the House.
The Bloc Québécois also lost 10 seats, or 30% of their seats.
The Green Party went from 2 to 1.
Basically the Canadian left decided to rally behind Carney.
I think the motivation isn't so much that they thought anything would happen. It's more that they see Canada as a showpiece of centre left governance, and losing to the Conservatives after Trump's comments would be globally embarrassing.
There's a lot of dislike for how Trudeau II ran things but the Liberal Party brand is incredibly strong in Canada. Back in the run up to the first Quebec separation referendum in 1980, Trudeau I, in the name of national unity, talked the Conservatives (then the Progressive Conservatives) into backing a new national identity that was closely related to Liberal policies. So "Liberals Good" is basically taught to all school children east of Winnipeg.
Switching to Carney allowed them to create some space from the unpopular policies. Most of which are probably going to continue.
Is it because they really like what Canada is becoming under Trudeau?
This is actually a very interesting topic. It's surprisingly easy and common for Canadians to not follow what's happening in Canada too closely.
Canada has two cable news networks, run by CBC and CTV.
What's the most popular cable news network? CNN.
Plus the Liberals ramped up subsidies to news media in 2018, so reporters have a strong financial incentive to stop the Conservatives from getting in.
As a result people tend to be less aware of problems than you'd expect. Things sort of have to penetrate their social networks to become aware of them.
Also the age breakdown is interesting.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1918071839365980483/photo/1
The Liberal victory came from voters aged 55+. People who are much less concerned about things like housing affordability. Also they probably figure that staying the course until they die will be less painful for them personally than making dramatic changes.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Trump is not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid. If he does it won't be until after he's cut so much from DC and NGOs that the average Trump voter feels that those orgs have sacrificed enough.
DradisPing
1mo ago
Any real attempt to build a semi-permanent Mars base would have larger political, legal, and financial problems. You can't throw in the towel in the face of a much smaller problem and expect to make it.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I think the problem is that this is the first time they've done it. California specifically has messed with shipping and importing a lot recently. Things like the Advanced Clean Truck Act (and similar bills) as well as increased port fees.
But they never added on a "California compliance charge". So this would be seen as a direct protest because it's Trump.
DradisPing
1mo ago
People who want to colonize Mars really need to think smaller first.
They should start by trying to build pleasant domed habitats somewhere marginally habitable like northern Minnesota first.
Then a resort hotel near the peak of Mount Whitney where people can take in amazing views.
Thirdly I'd go for a resort hotel on Mount Foster in Antarctica.
Really if a comfortable enclave in Minnesota for remote tech workers isn't practical, I don't see how we're remotely ready to go to Mars.
DradisPing
1mo ago
A lot of news anchors basically wear a latex mask that is then painted to look human. They aren't in any position to call out the guests.
Expensive makeup gets away with being expensive because it works. People going on TV pay some professional to do their makeup because the results are worth it.
DradisPing
1mo ago
I think that the press' ongoing refusal to publish Banksy's name really shows that they don't have any real standards about respecting privacy.
DradisPing
2mo ago
What's interesting about ET is that it's biggest problem was from a design point of view. It was programmed as a top down game, but visually it was a 3/4 view game. So it had a big problem where people fell in pits because their head hid the bottom of the pit on screen.
I don't know if it's quite on the same scale, but have a look at "Robot Alchemic Drive" (R.A.D.) for the PS2.
It took the perspective that piloting a giant mecha would be hard, so it should feel hard to the player.
You walk the mech by controlling each leg with the paddle buttons. You're controlling the mech and the guy sitting on his shoulder at the same time and he jumps off it you hit the wrong button.
Of course the ridiculous controls were the main selling point of the game, so it doesn't really qualify.
In general I think it will be difficult to find good examples. Movies end up with more interesting results because there are hard limits to what an editor can do once the shooting has finished. Releasing a bad movie is the only way to recover costs.
Video games have the advantage where once you have assets and a working engine you can tweak the mechanics until you get something at least mediocre. Fortnight was famously saved in beta by introducing all of the construction mechanics to an unimpressive pubg clone.
DradisPing
2mo ago
To be a little tighter, it's like telling them to have some willpower and just use drugs in moderation. Which is precisely what they have proven to be unable to do.
DradisPing
2mo ago
The current strategy of deporting foreign national students is bad, because the negative publicity far outweighs the tiny changes on university campuses.
Hard disagree on this one. The values of the managerial class are forged in universities.
Right now they learn that being a lefty edgelord and aggressively supporting Hamas means they get to break laws.
The deportations are sending a strong signal that a supportive school admins and lefty law firms can't protect them from consequences.
The negative publicity has only minor effects. The public doesn't find the students being deported as very sympathetic.
DradisPing
2mo ago
There's a theory that it's instinctive to try to stop parents from having sex and having another child too soon that would compete for resources.
It's early so things are still confusing, but there are reports that he was in 11A. That's right by the emergency exit. He opened it and jumped out before the crash.
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