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by Justsignedup 2y ago
This is why people argue for fixing the earth. We already have a planet we're perfectly adapt to. We just need to keep it habitable. My favorite fact about Mars is the soil fucks with our hormones. Children born on Mars won't be a
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
A good point is made. If you're in a hole, the best way out is not to keep digging. It's hard to see that you have to accept a delay but a delay is exactly what you need when you're not making good progress. Slow down, finish
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
The problem of "free to leave" is that that only works with unlimited resources. Why should I allow a random person into my house to eat my food and promise to assist, only to be free to leave at any time. And they have to go to a
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
You're probably onto something. Being too big leads to problems. But also leads to power. You can't fuck with the US/China, even if nukes were removed, because they are a massive force that will crush you beneath their heel.
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
The problem with ideologies is that they work really well in small communities. Communism works. In a small communjty/village. Same with anarchism. Because that's basically how small villages work. You can adjust as needed in the
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
A critical motivation for dumb web was blackberries and early iphones. They had extremely limited computational power. Remember flash? It was just too power hungry to run on phones. Today's phones are stronger than yesterday's com
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
They're kinda the only game in town in China. Which translates to they can dictate what language chinese developers code in and lock out any potential non Huawei hardware while they sit on a monopoly.
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
I tend to only do these when desperate. And I found best companies don't need to rely on such gimmicks.
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
For me, I'm not worried about artificial beings being smarter than us being able to reason about things better. I am far far far more worried what a corporation would do. Look at the TikTok algorithm and how good it is at hijacking our
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
What I found as an interesting point is the concept that an imitator can't really tell it a different way, because to explain something from a different angle requires you to see it as a 3d object, and not as a flat painting just seein
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
An alternative view on things: EVE online taught me more about commodity trading than anything else, because I didn't have the cash to sink into trading and I was able to understand concepts that were only weird and theoretical in the
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Whenever a company is gleeful for regulation this is where my mind goes. Do they see regulation as an extra moat? We have the cash and years head start. It's love government procurement. Companies love it because once they are in, they
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
We are not always the target demographic. I know many people who use apps because they were the default. Most people used Internet Explorer because it was, and many still don't know that there's an alternative, or even why use an
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Sadly this will take off, and be tied to everything apple. From a tech perspective I would never use their tools even if they are the most convenient. But the reality is most people will see this as the only option for password management,
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
I often attribute this to free layoffs, but the problem is that if your _senior_ leadership and employees leave, the problem is that you're in a bad situation. Laying off some people who recently joined, are a bit underperforming, etc
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Can't use Mac without rectangle. You don't need magnet. Owly is my fav for anti sleeping at certain times. Though critical to disable the ads via startup features. I haven't found abetter one. Though it has quirks. Also some
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
What you are saying makes sense IN THEORY. however in practice in the US most people have the shittiest insurance, at the highest cost. A chunk of america doesn't have insurance and we all pay a lot extra for their problems, and a fri
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
How about health insurance not being tied to profits. Startups pay the full brunt of health insurance since they don't have real profits they have nothing to write off. Meanwhile large orgs get to write off a ton of profits as Healthca
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
its a one-click stop for most people. Though all I can think of is: "All ads are bad, block them... except for mine."
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Dating is very messy necessarily. I mean it is the literal end goal of our biology, so difficulty is kinda the point. But. Anyone who's not aware of trends is gonna have a difficult time. Old strategies don't work well. Old outloo
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Honestly, I never allow people to abbreviate. You have to say "authenticate" (who are you) vs "authorize" (what are you allowed to do). In fact I flag most abbreviations in code, for exactly this reason. We aren't c
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
The problem is news requires money for research. Bullshit doesn't. So news sites need to fund journalists and somehow make enough money. Bs sites just need to make cheap shit content fast enough to sell enough ads or "zing the lib
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Interviewing for Sr eng positions (IC5) most gave me 400k or so total compensation (about 230k in salary and 200k in stocks give or take). Then again this may be due to being in NYC. IC6 were higher. However I could be in an area that is ab
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
In new york that's below McDonald's fry cook employee pay. Also maang total compensation for Sr engineer roles is about 400k+
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
This is more or less where my brain was heading. The utility of exactly once system is quite high. But the utility of coding knowing that it is at least once, hopefully, and if not we'll do a catch-up, means that I will code knowing th
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
To be honest. I like the at least once constraint. It causes you to think of background jobs in a idempotent way and makes for better designs. So ultimately I never found the removal of it a mitzva. Also if you don't have the constrain
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
The uniqueness of Helldivers 2 and Deep Rock Galactic (owned by a very pro-consumer company), is that it is a highly cooperative game that gives no reward for not being cooperative. This spawns kinda the best of humanity. And the fiction is
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
They likely realized that maintaining their own language is very risky and going full on standardized means they can take advantage of massive progress in the entire ts ecosystem. Custom is great right up to when the lead eng leaves.
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Talking to people, settings terrifies them.
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by Justsignedup 2y ago
Command line dominates in quick flexibility. But is awful when it comes to discoverability. Most people can't even find the turn off ads button in windows 11. And people hate that. So what hope do they have at a terminal.

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