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by 9rx 6mo ago
> e.g. "[They might assume] cows simply produce milk like chickens lay eggs." You may have a point that many have no idea how chickens work. Egg laying being like giving birth isn't an unreasonable explanation if you had
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> After many months of thinking I found a plausible reason. Carnivorous potatoes aren't as tasty?
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Heifer. Possibly freemartin under the right circumstances. Cattlebeast if you are looking for something more generic.
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> they don't have to make calves. Where else are you going to get them from? A calf factory? > And the calves are an unwanted byproduct Am I misinterpreting you again? Heifer calves are the prized possession that ensures that
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> A cow couldn't have a calf if it hadn't become pregnant. Not just that. A cow couldn't be a cow if she hadn't become pregnant.
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> Most people think that cows are simply bred to produce milk without pregnancy Am I misinterpreting you here? You're saying most people think cows are bred (you know, what causes pregnancy), and presumably think that that calves
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> Just ask somebody if cows give milk without being pregnant Is that... controversial? Obviously a cow normally gives milk without being pregnant. It wouldn't be able to feed its calf otherwise.
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When you get right down to it, collecting a salary is running a business with a client of one. So virtually everyone will start a business. I acknowledge the false dichotomy I submitted earlier. But what you don't often see is one bein
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> If starting a business was so easy, almost all of us who work salary would go do it. Would we? Starting a business is easy. Building a profitable business isn't even that hard. Wanting pleasure in our work is what stops us. Ru
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> AI has nothing to do with it. "Nothing" is a stretch. Major capital being now being allocated towards building AI data centres, away from what it was doing previously, is absolutely a contributing factor. Of course not the
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I did long enough to know that in large teams you won't find many accepting of usable type systems. For the same reason the blub developer cannot write good tests, if they can figure out how to write tests at all, they equally fail wit
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That is what brought some interest, but at the same time there are no steals in farming. Although in the end it was largely technical. The M7 wasn't enough frame for my needs, but I didn't really need the HP of the M8 (which is ac
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I considered one for my last tractor purchase. The depreciation on them is hard to square. Units are selling or 1/3 of the original price with only a few hundred hours on them.
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> he doesn’t know how to use a computer or a phone. Or how to interact with other humans? Because if he understood that he would find someone to do the computer stuff for him. Of course, he spoke to the reporter just fine, so we know i
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> later one new dev adds one more case and forgets to handle it in every call site Okay, so you are dreaming of a situation where you allow a new developer who doesn't know anything about how to engineer software unfettered access
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> In many cases, these are objectively better techniques to use once mastered Given a certain set of quantifiable measures that is no doubt true, but then that only pushes the question to how are the measures determined to be objective
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> He opted out of getting tickets over learning how to “navigate a computer & phone” Which is just a cost. Either he has to pay to learn, or pay someone else to do it for him. A cost you maintain is just $40. > If the price of
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> Some of the fastest and most famous guitarists had shockingly bad technique. The universe didn't offer a manual on how to play guitar, so how are you determining that their technique was bad? Given what you say about them, maybe
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> it just says he won’t get one. Right, because the cost blows his budget. If money was no object his personal assistant would already have the tickets purchased and would be busy putting the game schedule in his calendar. The only hur
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> Effort is what is being replaced here Not really. The effort required to produce the same result has declined, but it has been on the decline for many decades already. That is nothing new. Of course, in the real world, nobody wants t
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> but every time I push I discover they have no clue how networks work Obviously. Anyone who does understand how networks work aren't going to spend any time talking about it. People don't talk about things they are certain a
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Racism is a social bias that isn't "hardwired". It does not trigger the "fight or flight" response like was described in the earlier tale. Anxiety, of course, describes a "fight or flight" system that is m
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by 9rx 6mo ago
It says he cannot get tickets because, as we established, he needs to spend $40 more over the price of the ticket in order to facilitate the transaction. So, either: 1. He cannot get tickets because the cost of the ticket plus $40 exceeds h
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Well, yeah, they'd call me a yokel. They'd also call me that when I'm at my tech job. But not the farmers they see getting rich and wish they were.
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> of course architecturally the ideas are all mine. What else would you need to correct? I've never had trouble with LLMs generating basic syntax in any language. Architecture is exactly the aspect of language where LLMs seem to l
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> And do you think he would not buy the season ticket if it were $40 more? That is the implication in the link: That he will not be able to buy season tickets this year due to them costing $40 more than he anticipated. But if you are t
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> I don't know why manual work has been so denigrated over the last century. As a farmer, it is funny to see how people react to you based on the current profitability winds. When farming is a money maker, everyone acts envious an
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> And maybe "looking good" just amounts to exposing some public API to do various things. Maybe, but you still need humans to make that call. The software is still built for humans no matter how much indirection you add. Ther
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For the sake of simplicity, let's assume the ticket is exactly $2500. It was earlier given that he has enough to buy it. But if he buys the $40 smartphone first, then he only has $2460, which is less than $2500. Now he no longer has en
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> Go unwillingness to add even the most simple enum kind of type. Go has enums, under the iota keyword. But I imagine you are really thinking of sum types. Technically Go has those too, but must always have a nil case, which violates w

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