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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
There should be an alternative version of Poe's Law where the view being parodied is so common, so ludicrous and associated with bad faith actors that it wraps back around to the person deserves all the ridicule and an assumption that
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
People also starved to death if there was a late frost or potato blight. When I was a kid we had an half acre potato patch a quarter acre vegetable garden. It was a fuck ton of work. It was only possible to keep up because my brother and
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
> Has anyone else considered that producing code faster isn't necessarily a good thing? This has been an relentless goal of the industry for my entire 40 year career. > At a point you're more work for your self/organiza
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
> Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all. I would offer as counter to this view: massive layoffs across the early adopters of AI, the tech giants.
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
I recently did a contract at medium sized business with a large retail and online business that had a CFO and several accountants / bookkeepers. You're describing a situation where that CFO only needs two or three accountants and
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
Where did I say there were only downsides? There are definitely upsides to this business model, I'm just refuting the idea that because there are for profit motives the downsides go away. I hate when people mistreat the people that p
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
> Running a successful OSS project is often a thankless job. Thanks for doing it. But this isn’t that. No, even if you are being paid, it's a thankless, painful job to deal with demanding, entitled free users. It's worse if yo
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
> > Working for free is not fun. Having a paid offering with a free community version is not fun. Ultimately, dealing with people who don't pay for your product is not fun. > Completely different situations. None of the MinIO
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
The failure mode of clever is “asshole.” ― John Scalzi
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
Actually, it's a human like response. You see these threads all the the time. The AI has been trained on the best AND the worst of FOSS contributions.
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
The later, "−6°C and +2°C relative to" is relative to the mean of 14.
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by Ensorceled 8mo ago
Why would you be worried about being drafted during a war AFTER the war?
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
Understandable, but you wrote all of that and you still haven't even named the newspaper.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
It's going to be sunny this morning, but also -14 and also I'm too far north for adequate Vitamin D synthesis in winter. But thanks for the advice.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
Can you provide a link to the newspaper article at least while whining about the downvotes?
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
This is nonsense advice for pretty much anybody that is shovelling snow right now.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
/s is the sarcasm tag.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
Are you sure? Lots of people are telling me that batteries only last 4-5 years tops and solar panels usually burn out before 10 years /s I particularly love when they are telling me that my 11 year old Prius' batteries will only
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
When I went to London, I went to the British Museum, the Wallace Collection, the Tate, the Tower of London, ... You can also say "reading comic books is not education".
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
> It's interesting that overall spending doesn't decrease that much in the end Only after discontinuation. GLP-1s should be considered chronic medication for most people.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
It's actually true that American's eat mostly processed food ... (Canadian's are not much better at just under 50%) https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ultra-processed-food-consum... https://nutri.it.
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by Ensorceled 9mo ago
I think you are misreading the comment you are replying to: > Your comparison of your friends in Germany vs "insanity" in the US doesn't feel relevant It's incredibly relevant, why are GLP-1s less needed in Germany vs
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
You are presuming that people are monogamous up until their divorce when infidelity is one of the top reasons for divorce.
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
I mean, that's also exactly what you would say if you had a $150M offer on the table, had received a lot of push back and were now just checking the waters and waiting to consolidate your position.
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
I just had flash backs to a previous job where I was brought in to optimize another teams builds since they were now taking minutes instead of seconds. I tracked it down to a folder with thousands of C++ files called things like uint_to_int
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
> There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't. I think this is my entire problem with most of these conversations. When they say "The walled garden has to end." ... they mean
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
A friend of mine works beside one of the Eglinton line sites and called me a few years ago to tell me they were taking down the hoardings... because the hoardings had rotted and needed new plywood and studs.
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
Yeah, the blue lines under a random word in a perfectly correct sentence is such a waste of time ... did I mistype? Nope.
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by Ensorceled 10mo ago
Yeah, something happened a few months ago where by iOS I'm now "hitting" the wrong key a lot, words like we'll and we're are constantly being automatically "corrected" to well and were and, most frustratin
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by Ensorceled 11mo ago
Oh they TRY to ... it's just that the "non-technical unqualified people" get brought to heal (usually) by regulations. I've been in the room where people have tried to force a decision and a PEng, Lawyer, or CA/CPA

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