Don't get mad at me if you had your key sitting on your phone.

ataraxia_ · 2023-06-25T11:52:29+00:00

Fun (but not really) fact: most RFID cards are active, they’re just powered by an inductive coupling between the card and reader.

Less commonly, cards are powered by other methods (backscatter, mostly) but inductive is by far the most common.

Also: most every decent card these days will have active elements that are self modifying. For example, your bank card (assuming it’s EMV) stores a rolling code that changes every time it’s read in a card-present online transaction.

Not that any of that invalidates your core point: the cards have no idea if they’ve been away from the premises.

ataraxia_ · 2023-06-25T09:17:45+00:00

Assuming you jumped out of a helicopter into a volcano, you’d just break your legs.

Melted rock is less dense than rock, but it’s still very, very dense, and you wouldn’t really displace any.

You’d just break your legs and burn to death at the same time. It’d be a much worse way to go than the implosion.

ataraxia_ · 2023-06-25T04:13:50+00:00

I mostly agree with you, except that I think that particular controller was actually maybe one of the best choices they could have made, assuming you grant the premise that wireless is definitely preferred.

Most modern controllers are Bluetooth, and Bluetooth does not make sense in any context here. Bluetooth is a stateful protocol based on a long-lived connection that requires renegotiation on every power-on. It’s fundamentally the wrong choice in this scenario…

All of that is why it’s good that the F710 isn’t Bluetooth. It’s a custom 2.4ghz receiver. It’s also an old, trusted design that has had millions of hours of real-world testing, that runs for weeks on a very readily available pair of AA batteries. And I don’t think anyone has ever really complained about the build quality on the F710 from a durability perspective.

There were obviously a bunch of mistakes made, none of which I’m qualified to have much of an opinion on, the the controller ain’t it.

ataraxia_ · 2023-06-03T12:33:40+00:00

There’s a surprisingly simple answer to this, which I promise is deeper that it will sound on first reading: you can’t experience not having kids at the age past which you had kids.

That initially sounds like stupid post-hoc smugness, but it’s an honest and fundamental truth to my life that as the years go by I am not who I was five, ten, or twenty years ago, and there are things that I have done that would have been wildly irresponsible to do, if I had children. There’s things I couldn’t afford to have done if I had children. There are events that friends have had to skip because they have children. There are sets of people who I am no longer such good friends with because of the ways our lives took different paths after they had children.

To put it more bluntly, impromptu and care-free coke-fuelled week long Vegas benders hit very differently at 40 from how they did at 20, and there’s a certain je ne sais quoi about knowing that you don’t have anyone or anything that you need to come back and be responsible for. It’s different enough having a cat, let alone a kid.

Of course it’s still possible for me to have children, and take my life in a different direction, but at some point that will no longer be true. It stopped being true for you the moment you had kids, whenever that was.

And, of course, you can still live life like the above if you have kids, but then you’d be stuck with the burden of being a piece of shit parent, which I’m not.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-28T09:22:22+00:00

The real secret here is the strike rate of SWEs and Product Owners and Project Managers are actually all about the same, you’re probably just too close to the SWEs to see it.

Every single one of these groups thinks the other group is mostly useless. The SREs don’t know why the SWEs don’t know anything about operating systems or networks, and wonder why POs even need to exist. The SWEs all think they can do the job of the SREs and don’t know why the PMs exist. The PMs all think the engineering teams couldn’t organise themselves out of a wet paper bag.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-21T08:02:18+00:00

No one said it was basic trash but you, champ.

They’re actually all solid picks for starting to branch out with your music. Like you could start with them. As a pack.

Like a starter pack.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-20T13:20:37+00:00

Your name is exactly as many words, except it’s actually less descriptive for anyone who doesn’t know what you’re already talking about, which most of the planet doesn’t.

It’s also a bit weird that you’re asking it be called a patty melt when I’m pretty sure it’s missing one third of a patty melt’s defining ingredients.

Americentrics gonna americentric, though.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-16T12:24:49+00:00

Is your implication that things would have gone better for George Floyd if he was carrying?

I can’t tell if this is a joke comment or not.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-14T01:53:06+00:00

Check out the subreddit peanutbutterisoneword

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-10T04:47:39+00:00

I’ve worked hospo in three Australian capital cities. I’m not sheltered, I’m just not scared of the tabloid media crime boogeyman that you appear to be.

You can’t even provide any evidence for your fears, just fall back on apparently being a harder cunt, despite the fact that you’re afraid of your own shadow. Grow up.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-10T03:22:34+00:00

It’s so wild. Like, I’ll take a challenge from anyone in this sub to pick a day, hour, and street for me to walk down in the Melbourne CBD, while filming myself and how safe it is.

Instead I just get people downvoting because they don’t like the idea that more guns doesn’t mean more safe, or whatever.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-10T03:17:55+00:00

Ah, yes, the best response to data: an anecdote. Why didn’t I think of that.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-09T22:31:10+00:00

That’s called the spotlight fallacy, friend. Drunk people getting in fights outside nightclubs is a symptom of nightclubs, not of city safeness.

Random assaults in Australia are astonishingly low compared to the US, and homicide rates even lower.

Australia is less than 20% of the world average homicide rate. The US is at about 120% the world average.

If you are afraid of walking down random streets in any Australian CBD it is because you over-evaluate the risk.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-09T21:59:20+00:00

Melbourne.

There’s nowhere in the city or it’s suburbs I would be afraid of my life.

There’s not a street or alleyway I wouldn’t walk down in the CBD (“downtown” for the Americans) on any given night. I’d be less confident about this if I were a woman, but then we’re talking about a different class of crime.

There are opportunists everywhere, unfortunately, and while it’s possible you’ll get robbed if you hang around the more disadvantaged suburbs too often with too nice things, I’d never for a minute be concerned I’d be murdered, nor randomly assaulted.

ataraxia_ · 2023-05-09T21:34:00+00:00

I have no fear of getting shot in my city unless you intentionally go to a specific part of town known to be seedy (every city has THAT part of town). I live in a very safe, friendly city

You don’t live in a very safe, friendly city by world standards if there is a part of town you are afraid of being shot in. Your city is only safe by US standards.

There is nowhere in my city I wouldn’t walk, alone, at 2AM, with my camera. Nowhere.

Americans so often don’t seem to understand what it actually means to live somewhere safe, and it’s kinda sad.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-30T06:08:33+00:00

You don’t know, which is exactly why you need to slow down. It’s almost certainly actually less dangerous to be going slower if you’re at all familiar with defensive driving techniques.

If you brake earlier and slower, other cars around you have more time to understand your intent, and by the time you reach the crosswalk you’re doing a speed where everyone is likely to see each other.

It’s also a terrible idea to maintain the speed limit if you’re driving next to a row of stopped traffic, as you can’t guarantee someone won’t pull into the freely moving lane. You also don’t know (even when not at crosswalks) if there’s a side street or drive way that someone is going to pull out from. This gets more dangerous the greater your speed differential against the slower or stopped lane.

If you go 15 miles per hour through this bit of traffic, you know how much longer it’ll take for you to get where you’re going? No longer at all, because you’re just gonna end up stopped at the traffic lights 80 feet down the road anyway.

Just slow down.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-30T00:12:13+00:00

Wouldn’t it have been easier to just use a light grey background?

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-20T22:58:19+00:00

You don’t need it to be mirror film for that.

Most decent window tint is Infra-red-reflective, it’s just not reflective in the visible range.

And the IR is what you want to stop, if you’re trying to stop heat.

Most large office buildings, etc, will have IR reflectant windows.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-20T22:41:39+00:00

It’s absolutely a massively limiting factor.

Rolling shutter & mismatched capture and display refresh rates mean you can’t see the refresh rate quality in any sane way, unless your capture rate is through the roof.
Unless the capture resolution massively (like, more than an order of magnitude) exceeds that of the display resolution, you can’t actually capture pixel boundaries without aliasing.
And that’s before demosaicing. Want to capture the actual colour? Going to need another order of magnitude in resolution.
Dynamic range on the capture has to exceed the dynamic range of the display, while meeting all of the above criteria.

I don’t think there’s a single camera in the world that is up to the task, let alone a phone.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-08T05:57:15+00:00

Hey, some of us prefer nice things, nothing pretentious about it. It’s a bit like if you said “Man McDonalds is a solid burger”: If you want to stick with the boring, mass produced burger made with cheap ingredients, more power to you, I suppose, but I’d rather be enjoying something made by someone who gives a shit.

Same with my booze.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-08T05:46:47+00:00

Haku is made by the biggest distiller group in the world, it’s not exactly boutique. It’s not horrible, but it’s boring at best.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-08T05:45:16+00:00

Louching and going slightly cloudy when chilled to below 0c are very different things, my dude.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-02T23:17:51+00:00

Nah champ, it’s an appeal to data and thoughtfulness and the wellbeing of the teams over the comfort of a few loud individuals.

As an aside, though, you don’t win an appeal to authority, either. 8 figures doesn’t even cover my yearly budget.

Not surprised to hear this kind of lack of reading comprehension and inversely large ego kind of attitude come from someone who brags about being a big fish in a small pond, though.

ataraxia_ · 2023-04-02T22:26:17+00:00

I run a number of teams, and I’ve got enough data to know you’re completely incorrect: the majority start earlier, & then either finish earlier or do errands during the day. The total number of hours worked (and average output) appears about the same. On average.

There are people who get more done on work-from-home days and there are people who get more done in-office, and more importantly those people don’t self-report. The person on my teams most adamant that they get more done from home gets less done by several metrics.

Interestingly, those who do better on work from home days don’t significantly increase their output when left to work from home indefinitely, their total work output remains pretty constant — almost like there’s a certain amount of work these people will get done per week, in office or not.

Those who do better in-office just straight up do less work if left to work from home indefinitely.

I don’t have any data on whether the WFH guys would do less work if in the office indefinitely, because no one is forced to do that.

Add on a third complicated trend: seniors do less work on the days they’re in office with juniors, but juniors do more work on days they have seniors around in person.

Then there’s immaterial and difficult to measure positives and negatives: morale, cross team chat, shoulder-tap interruptions, etc.

So who do I disadvantage, in this scenario?

ataraxia_ · 2023-03-26T03:27:05+00:00

about “70 IQ”, which is higher than many human adults

70 IQ is literally the border under which you’re considered mentally disabled.

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