JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't think I understand what you're asking here.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> The framing is "life is better", which I think ought to be interpreted broadly. I don't understand. Surely, happiness ("satisfaction" is probably a better word, true) is the only measure that counts. What else
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Adam Smith would also have been greatly opposed to the deregulation that the extremely wealthy have been pushing. He viewed appropriate regulation as being essential to keep the free market free. Without it, he said, it will inevitably devo
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
My friends use the upside-down face to mean "reacting to something silly" (the tongue-sticking-out emoji means "I did/said something silly") But this is both the strength and weakness of emojis: they don't real
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Because it's more nuanced than that. There's a sweet spot in the middle here. Studies show that having too little wealth and too much wealth are both about equal in terms of life satisfaction. That said, my observation is that how
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I think aesthetics matter as much in SF as anywhere else. People hew to a certain look. It's just that the desired aesthetics differ there from most other places. Looking different from the normies is part of the aesthetics of that sub
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I'm fortunate enough to have been in the field from way back when people only ever did it because they were genuinely and obsessively into it. The only people who were doing it for the money were the ones making office software. Things
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I think it matters about the same as it always has. Appearance is a critically important part of communication and social interaction. Always has been, and always will be. As Frank Zappa once said during a concert: "Everybody in this r
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
> It really should say "In the US, social security runs out in 2032. 65 million people die annually. AI progress is critical to solving these and other issues." No, it should not say that. That's posing speculation (AI pro
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I would rather live on my feet in a dangerous world than live on my knees in a safe one.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
There is a tremendous difference between residents being aware of what's happening in their community and mass governmental surveillance.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I won't ever get over it. Some things are so important that they're worth fighting for regardless of how futile the battle may seem.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
I don't really know why, even though I did the same for a lot of years. That my laptop never left my desk is why, when it came time to replace it, I finally switched to a tower instead. If mobility isn't a concern, the cost/b
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Interestingly, I'd already disabled update notifications and automatic updates in Firefox because the one-month release cadence was so fast that I found it seriously annoying. As a result, I update much less often than I used to.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Most people I know who use a laptop do that.
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by JohnFen 3mo ago
Software engineer, last laptop was Dell Inspiron, I use it until it breaks in a way I can't fix. Laptops typically last me 7-10 years. However, I decided to switch away from laptops entirely when my last one broke. Towers fit my situat
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Why is software development any different? It's not. Software subscriptions are a relatively new thing. For a long time before this madness came around, software companies made money hand-over-fist by just selling software in the
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Then I can move on and find something else. This is a highly suboptimal solution to a problem that doesn't have to exist. If the application as it exists meets my needs, but an update makes it worse, I should be able to keep using
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
The odds of this being effective are very, very low. Low enough that I'll still avoid being near anyone wearing a pair of spy glasses regardless of whether or not an LED is glowing.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I hate Flock (and similar companies) and the horrific things it wants to expose us all to. Trump has nothing to do with it.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
You wouldn't expect him to risk damaging his shiny new bribe, would you?
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> I think what they did was the right call. I don't. That's far, far too intrusive.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> This honestly seems pretty ideal. I disagree. A decent response would have been for the car to simply refuse to continue the ride rather than kidnapping the ne'er-do-wells. That Waymo did this means that the hesitations I had abou
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
My social circle has been talking a lot about this problem and question. I have no idea what's next, but suspect it's going to be more balkanization. My friend group has been moving more and more to a private, invite-only, interne
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
The defining feature of hackers and hacking culture is not computers (hackerdom is larger than, and predates, computers), but curiosity. The drive to know how things actually work.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
While there are bad companies to work for of any size, in my experience, small companies tend to be much more enjoyable and meaningful to work for. But "small company" doesn't have to mean "startup". I'd be unl
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
The actual title is "Actionable Security is Missing on the EU Horizon"
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> my point was that for some reason people refuse to consider new projects if ur not well known in the community You don't need them to. If your goal is to get people to join you on a project, then just start doing the project on y
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
This strikes me as yet another reason to never set foot in one of these things. Both being spied on and that the company has the ability to straight up kidnap people is just too chilling.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Try having a five-minute conversation with a co-worker where you don't ask a single question and absolutely refuse to complain about anything. I reckon you will last about forty seconds before the silence becomes so suffocating th

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