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Honestly, it's remarkable how often they hold (or held, now that it's unpopular) people down in just that way. There's a few other not-nice ways to disable someone.

Usually they don't die. Designing a protocol is not such an easy thing.

Talk to someone who has worked in a cell-extraction team, it's a pretty outrageous scene.

'inherent racism'? Sounds like someone who has a purely internet knowledge of policing. The world's a complicated place. Save your outrage to bore your friends.

In terms of passwords, I just have them written down in a file that I print out in a desk drawer and keep a copy of in my email.

It isn't like Windows is a toy I admit.

My view is that it's the result of decades worth of customer demands (scarcely any of which I need) and a tendency to feature creep to do major releases. The cruft in a thing like that is remarkable.

Did I miss the part of the article that mentioned the average size of houses over time? The increasing code requirements over time?

cultural propaganda that promotes the idea that the justice system is fair and unbiased.

I'll take what you might think of as a third track.

It's not so much that it's biased, but that it's arbitrary. Especially at the Federal level, the disparity in sentencing is remarkable..and it isn't just the difference in lawyer quality depending on wealth.

regarding George Floyd's history as a pregnant women stomach stickin' bad man, dunno if that counts.

As a practical matter, I'd say it's more along the lines of just how do you control a crazy acting person without hurting them. A certain number of them are going to die, there's no way around it. Most people would probably agree that a lot of traffic stops and arrests are for chickenshit offenses. Add to that the fact that police are wired a little like German Shepherds. You run, they chase.

Things are "illegal" when they're in the law book,

Probably oughtta get the Kazakhstani Disney police right on it.

There is not even technology that would scale up enough to store a country's power for weeks or at least a few days.

My bet is that the Japanese will build some huge newfangled storage facility. There'll be a big earthquake. The storage will meltdown/burn/whatever somehow. It'll cause a great big semi-permanent problem. Everyone will declare victory and shout 'at least it wasn't nuclear'.

I agree but that trust was never there.

It largely was but misplaced. Walter Cronkite was never truthful, the Joint Chiefs of Staff rarely had your interest in mind. Public policy has always been people scrabbling for status while feigning morality.

Gotta ask how old are you?

I do remember a Playboy when it came out in 1971. The Willy Rey issue (girl on the stock certificate). Nice looking.

Not only were Playboys pretty rare, but they were a different kettle of fish than any modern adult images/video.

Are times better or worse? I couldn't tell you. Lots of differences. Many women never have children. Divorce is common. People aren't raised on farms with all the attendant physical realities of life. Slavery was common in most societies. People got married at young ages. Sex has been secretive or not depending on the era.

Probably the worst thing about porn is a scarring of the mind, sex as non-participatory act, exotica as normal, staring at screens, addictive behavior, the internet as a net negative.

Here's what I miss, and it mostly just shows my age, and that's truly huge screens.

Modern flat panels are so large/cheap that they're a no-brainer in place of most modern theatres. OTOH, the peripheral vision-spanning screens that used to exist were really a spectacle. I remember seeing 'Waterloo' (Rod Steiger) when it came out and that was really something on a giant screen.

Exactly. There's a bunch of opportunities for understanding by looking at different political units, but it's all lost in the posturing.

All of this focus on the point of origin is misplaced.

I think it matters quite a lot, but not for scientific reasons.

If the point of origin is sloppy lab practice (maybe it's impossible to not be sloppy) and everyone lied about it, I want to know everything. Trust is a hard thing to re-gain but I really want to know where we all stand. Realistic calibration of your position vs. power centers is always a good thing.

Personally I don't think responses were particularly botched, although it's tempting to think so for other political reasons. It's likely more a lack of real knowledge by anyone on what really makes for good public policy and the inability to do what it takes in any case.

And like any serialized TV series,

I'm too old to care about movies much, but that's an interesting point.

I wonder to what extent high-dollar bespoke TV series are hurting the movie business. Streaming and theatres at home were bound to change some habits, but would people prefer to watch a series now rather than a single work?

Personally, I think it's a shame how much movies (a lot them at least) and video games appear to have merged in terms of pacing, volume, general aesthetic, but you can't expect things to always stay the same.

oh, bummer. So you'd need a clean tool chain too.

It's funny that leather boots are probably the easiest US-made thing to find (or Mexican-made). Maybe it's the lack of pieces that you find in a modern silly looking athletic shoe.

It would be interesting to quantify the impact of labor cost vs. the impact of close-by suppliers and infrastructure. Once the aglet factory is right next door and run by your brother-in-law, there's not much reason to leave a place.

Oh. More like Lumena (Time Arts/John Dunn).

Amazing.

Nothing escapes Sturgeon's Law.

Weird, never heard of it.

Does it overlap with Discreet or Softimage stuff?

Ooh. Maybe a sedan delivery wagon (two door, front seat only). I think there may have been some Chevelles like that.

'round these parts (which is hilly and has wet snow), the limiting factor (given decent snow tires) doesn't tend to be traction, it's high centering.

Oh well, I figured that a PowerPC Notebook was for hobbyists.

What I would find fascinating is to think about languages and OSs for FPGA and try to break loose from the utterly boring C/Unix/68k,x86,MIPS,blah paradigm. Having something turnkey with attachment to various ports and a display would be kind of cool. Maybe that exists already.

I worked on a project with a processor-on-an-FPGA and while it wasn't fast, the video codec in FPGA made it useful. Kind of a neat thing I think.

I figure someone might as well go whole-hog on that and build a PC with just a big ol' FPGA.

For me, programming for free would be painful at a cellular level.

Better to learn the piano or how to do portrait art.

'it would cause a massive backward-compatibility problem to switch to something other than an integer.'

lol. of course.

Suggestion numero two. A dedicated syscall for additional syscalls that has a dedicated parameter for a GUID. We can add a third level in 2050 or so.

Imagine the game of 'telephone' you could play.

By the end of the last interpreter, the guy at the Apple Store would get an order of Granny Smith apples and his vintage Mr. Coffee machine would be repaired by a passing street musician.

This is like if you're in a wheelchair and you get a job to hang drywall.

You could view it as a full employment plan.

The next logical step is to have a deaf man who only signs in Irish Sign Language. The first interpreter converts that to ASL, the second into spoken English.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

In order to really reach people with vision issues, it seems like places like Bank of America (just an example) need to do a good job of Alexa skills. Dunno how you deal with security.

As a side note, it's funny how absurd online banking websites are. It's a thing that would be well served by simple/secure pure text interfaces but that certainly isn't what you get.

The amount of cruft on the web just blows me away, whether it's a weather or real estate or recipe site. We're living in a world of shit.

I don't know a thing about how this works, but if it's a collision problem it sounds like these entry points need the equivalent of a GUID.

I can think of a brilliant use case, but it's the only one I can think of offhand.

For the disabled, particularly blind people, it would be great to have interactive voice stuff if that whole ecosystem were really fleshed out. Some of this exists but a world of audio books, online banking, interaction with social media, all with interfaces optimized for voice use/audio listening would be great.

Interacting with a screen by having some software read it to you just seems incredibly clumsy.

Personally, I think the hands-off case for automotive use is dangerous. Talking on the phone or listening to email while driving is sketchy even though you're still gripping the steering wheel. AM/FM radio interfaces were perfected 75 years ago.