Frost1x

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by Frost1x 6y ago
That's pretty much every employer ever in our economic system. Your labor force is a necessary evil and means to an end in far too many business leaders' minds. Any way they can reduce labor cost, the better, unfortunately they ha
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Agree with RMS on this point, but I think that battle is nearly lost. Opting out ("cancel culture") seems to be the only powerful choice left for your average citizen in the shambles of democracy we have left. It could just be the
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by Frost1x 6y ago
If you've ever tried logo design, I'd argue it's not really a commodity either. I've attempted it multiple times and it's non-trivial to create a good quality logo for a business. A lot of experience and creativit
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by Frost1x 6y ago
If there's a way to reduce costs, it will be done. This is why we have laws to protect baseline rights because they would otherwise be whittled away to nothing.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
This falls under the umbrella of "particulate matter" and is studied quite a bit. I'm not that familiar with particulates from road dust (specifically from tire erosion), but particulate matter is frequently studied (though n
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by Frost1x 6y ago
While I tend to agree with you WRT to diet and exercise, I think this is a secondary issue to what's being described here, similar to how I think modern science and technology has skewed the natural selection process with a bias that m
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Probably because it largely acts as a proxy for survival mechanisms. Give most people want they need and a little of what they want and you'll find most greed driven behaviors largely disappear except for a select few who I'd argu
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>The real reason is the incentives. Not just are there no incentives to produce good quality code, there are incentives which make people focus on other outputs. Publish or perish means that people put up with technical debt just to get
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by Frost1x 6y ago
This is changing drastically. The issue is that more and more science relies heavily on computation. Analytic platforms, computational science, modeling/simulation, etc. There's less "bench" science and more of the scien
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by Frost1x 6y ago
This is really an artifact if unreasonable expectations and modern software ecosystems. When I say unreasonable expectations, the issue is that people assume they can use the latest greatest trendy library and get reproducible results. Good
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I hear if you collect 10 million karma you can trade it in for a pack of Juicy Fruit or Big Red, but that could be entirely hearsay. I'm still optomistic and hoping for the best.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Deletion programs do this because it looks cool. It's not necessary - literally noone has ever recovered anything from a zeroed out HD sector. anything of value From what I recall, with an electron microscope you can detect polar
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I don’t think I've ever used this sort of time jumping with code. If I'm refactoring or testing a different segment I just comment out the original for visual memory reference and refactor based on the commented segment. Once I&#x
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The sort of financial gymnastics all these groups participating in hoping to leech money off gambles in the structural system vs creating real value makes it difficult for me to have sympathy for any of the parties involved gambling on what
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I'd love to see a pre-print database shared between all the major federal funding agencies which required any publications that go behind pay walls to share a corresponding pre-print that's publicly accessible for any paywalled pu
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>The author saying “Computers aren’t fun anymore” and then whining about web development is like me proclaiming that Earth isn’t fun anymore because I’m tired of my bedroom. I'd say it's more analogous to saying: Earth isn&#x27
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by Frost1x 6y ago
My personal favorite was: https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgr... I'm not sure why you'd even forge this photo. I mean, I understand it's portraying industrial agri
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Crony capitalism wins yet again. The US needs serious reform on what it allows corporate entities to do. Your common citizen couldn't get away with a fraction of the arguable theft to the general population most these companies get awa
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I agree completely, I think this is really the distinction that is lacking when people talk about superstar developers. Most aren't developing much of anything in terms of raw implementation, they're redesigning existing archite
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The limited empirical data I've seen shows the idea of superstar programmer in terms of efficiency may be a facade, unless superstar is a 1.5-2x efficiency developer (the slides are concise, there's a corresponding paper publish
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by Frost1x 6y ago
If it was lab created then you know some group intentionally or through their negligence caused millions and millions of people to die. They won't be held accountable unless China itself would decide to do so (assuming in this hypothet
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>But even then, it is better to have them within, collaborating on their terms, than to leave them outside, in which case it would be even harder to get any information out of them. I tend to agree with this sentiment, however I'm a
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Productivity in this context is also defined by what makes the most wealthy and powerful more wealthy and powerful. The old argument is that capitalism as is aligns with the people so when it benefits you benefit. As businesses optimize out
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by Frost1x 6y ago
This is the core problem with so many software efforts now, there are just too many efforts that portability suffers. I remember years ago mucking around with my home computing environment, making it so convenient, custom UI shell, monito
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Ingest bamboo? Sorry, couldn't resist.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
From what I understand reading through the memorandum, knowing a bit about how these agencies operate, and understanding how policy is made, what you want is what is happening here. Remember hurricane forecasts where Trump or one of his min
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Indeed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard I've been beginning to wonder for a few years now if there's a fatal flaw in t
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Sounds like business as usual, other than it being bitcoin.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Agreed. The issue is all those controlling the narratives of the argument are institutions that want to be the authoratities standing and the beacons of truth and information. If democracy and free speech are to survive, I'm all in on
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by Frost1x 6y ago
What isn't market manipulation? Seriously, market manipulation goes on all the time at grandiose scales and at small scales. This time, it's probably a handful of people who had critical mass and the mass is following suit. If y

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