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New comment by MrPatan in "Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard"

MrPatan — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:43:48 +0000

The Chesterton fence defense (yeah!) doesn't apply.

Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?

New comment by MrPatan in "Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers"

MrPatan — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:38:23 +0000

You mean "hotel booking sites offer discounts to non-bay area customers", surely?

New comment by MrPatan in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

MrPatan — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:16:28 +0000

Intuition forms because it works. When it doesn't it's remarkable to the point of writing books and movies about it.

New comment by MrPatan in "Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)"

MrPatan — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:24:12 +0000

You're right, no badness there.

New comment by MrPatan in "Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways)"

MrPatan — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:44:13 +0000

I couldn't make it to the end of the "Badness 0 Knuth's version" paper because of the keming. Is it on purpose? I can't tell, it was too distracting to keep reading. Ironic.

New comment by MrPatan in "Feynman’s Razor"

MrPatan — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:46:48 +0000

In UX, the right way to think about your users is not that they are dumb, but that they are very smart but very busy, and don't have time for your app's bullshit. It puts you in the right frame of mind when designing interfaces. It's not about dealing with dunces, but about being efficient with peoples time and attention.

New comment by MrPatan in "We Are Made of Waves"

MrPatan — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:09:51 +0000

Waves on what?

New comment by MrPatan in "Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052"

MrPatan — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:53:50 +0000

Can't spell "copilot" without "clip"

New comment by MrPatan in "Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated"

MrPatan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:08:05 +0000

Is that 5% growth? Or is that a piece of paper with a number "5" in it? There is a difference.

New comment by MrPatan in "Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated"

MrPatan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:05:48 +0000

> any foreigner who lent Evergrande money thinking this wasn't a huge risk is a moron.

Or they are very smart while investing your money. Check your country's pension fund, see who manages it and what they invest in. Or better yet, don't.

New comment by MrPatan in "I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]"

MrPatan — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:40:17 +0000

It's not taboo in the slightest, it's everywhere.

It's just that it wouldn't work because any group defecting and having more children would inherit the earth and you'd be back to square one, only now not even in control.

It's the same mistake as every other decel "solution".

It's so obvious, and so unbelievable that proponents don't think of it that one has to wonder, who pushes this? Qui bono?

New comment by MrPatan in "Mourning Google"

MrPatan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:54:07 +0000

The market, made up of a lot of people, seems to think the richest man in the world is pretty valuable.

A subset of people around here don't think that way. Why? I have my own opinion, not very flattering.

New comment by MrPatan in "AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry"

MrPatan — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:16:31 +0000

Not a lot of humans do

New comment by MrPatan in "What I learned selling my company"

MrPatan — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:45:41 +0000

The world is easier to understand when you replace "fair" with "good for me and mine in the shortest of terms"

New comment by MrPatan in "Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital"

MrPatan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:21:53 +0000

The non-austere "Free stuff for you! Vote for me!" political strategy has worked pretty well while technology improvements has made stuff faster than politicians can give it away. But it's a precondition. If technology ever stops improving at this rate, we're going to have a hard time, and no amount of words will change that fact.

To be for free stuff and at the same time be for degrowth, decel, limit resource use, etc.... seems naive to say the least.

New comment by MrPatan in "A Canadian payroll dependency chart"

MrPatan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:38:53 +0000

Do you also worry that rogue employees or literally anybody with the keys to the office of a printer could have been changing the texts of laws as printed in official publications and books for the past few hundred years?

If not, why not?

New comment by MrPatan in "We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't"

MrPatan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:32:15 +0000

Is the secret in the running of it? The policies?

Or is there a source of funds in the Isle of Man that is not applicable to the rest of the world? Like, if it was applied to the rest of the world the funds would stop going to the Isle of Man?

Is there also something not present in the Isle of Man that elsewhere is a sink for money? Something you would have to stop incentivising in other places if you want to have them "rolling in money", but that many people can't bring themselves to do?

New comment by MrPatan in "Programs are games, programming is a game"

MrPatan — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:56:05 +0000

I'd call it a puzzle more than a game. But yeah

New comment by MrPatan in "X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says"

MrPatan — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:08:12 +0000

Yeah, you never saw it

New comment by MrPatan in "Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In"

MrPatan — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:54:37 +0000

Preach. Angular 2+, btw, can (and should) be used the same way. V=f(S) is the only sane way to live.

Just don't change application state from a component lifecycle function and you're golden.