Ntrails

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by Ntrails 5y ago
> I mean isn't half of it that everyone has a chronotype? I still don't buy this as an idea, an unchangeable genetic (?) marker that defines "night person" or "morning person". I think we make choices and
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by Ntrails 5y ago
(Uninformed view) I feel like a part of it is a refusal to be accept anything other than a very thorough explanation of why something is the way it is . He's not going to accept someone saying "nah, can't do it that way&quo
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. I'd probably rather just do a retrievable abseil to ground level
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Does it matter?
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Genuine question - can I just get a refund if they're intending to force this change? I assume not, but I don't see how it isn't breaking the agreement I made with mojang in the first place
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I loaded up minecraft for the first time since pre covid a couple weeks back. Was surprised to see it telling me my mojang account was on life support vOv
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I use the desktop site on mobile because it may be garbage but it at least works
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> It's the biggest no-brainer since seatbelts. What if I told you I don't wear a seatbelt?
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by Ntrails 5y ago
As a non smoker, I still used to love chilling outside chatting to smokers. It would be quiet, relaxed, and everyone was open to the idea of just chatting whilst enjoying their cigarette. The idea of standing still for 5 minutes and talkin
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I am also not from the US, my views are not merely a representation of a weird pocket of the world you can just dismiss with a smug self satisfaction...
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Jointly taking such measures for the greater good - ending the spread of a virus - is not a "taking away of freedom". It absolutely is taking away freedom. It is also taking away opportunity, damaging mental health, and stun
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Did you use a Facebook-specific link in the ads? I do sometimes find it odd that such a thing is insufficient for tracking sources of traffic in and of itself. No doubt there is a complexity that I have missed
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by Ntrails 5y ago
More young people die or are horribly injured in the years of "normal" living than would have died or suffered long term consequences from covid. Indeed the typical death spike in young people from normal risk taking was essenti
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I will grant some of what you've said, and so I will take a different tack. I have not seen a Daniel Craig Bond film that didn't have noticably CGI elements bringing me out of the moment. Some of the old (especially Roger Moore)
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by Ntrails 5y ago
There is a reason smart phones won. That discord trumps irc and xmpp. I am not sure how secure a Nokia 3210 really is, but I could phone and text with it even today I expect. The users are rare, and that is not accidentap
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by Ntrails 5y ago
And practically nobody would buy that product, secure or not
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The only thing in an office that gets close to the buzz/flow of a busy service, is dealing with an outage/incident. I miss elements of it, for sure. I do not miss working hard for 50+ hours a week at less than minimum wage (wo
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by Ntrails 5y ago
It is for reporting and analysis. "Why are 2/3 of our maths grads white men?" "Hmmm, don't know. What were our applicant demographics?. Ooh, they are only 60% white men. Lets dig..." etc etc. If you don&#x27
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Privately owned companies merely enrich their owners. If anything they are more likely to prioritise profits. Large charities accumulate wealth endlessly through active fundraising despite having enough to cover their costs for over a de
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The alternative is you give yourself the low priority low probability work. The 'noodle around this nasty thing nobody wants to touch' work that delivers tech debt reduction or a velocity win. It can be very fulfilling, but no cr
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> The way I see it, companies literally ruin the world for mostly imperceptible, and mostly abstract, benefit of the very few. How do you build a car without a company? How do you get 100 people to work together? How do you get compone
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> It seems normal for people to use the same laptop for four or more years — a far sight longer than the two-year life expectancy of laptops twenty years ago, but about half of the replacement rate of smartphones. Are people really stil
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> its currency is like any other decentralized blockchain base currency. You did not answer the question of what is it good for. What thing is it doing that makes it important/interesting/useful/valuable?
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I really do miss my headphone jack. Not being able to charge and listen to music at the same time is dumb as hell. However, my 6 was proper dying, so once they bought out the SE or whatever with a sensible form factor and fingerprint scann
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by Ntrails 5y ago
If someone says 12 things and I know 1 of them is true, I can only rebutt that single point. If I do so clearly then certainly you should use that to weight their other claims. If I try to argue about 11 things I'm not an expert on, i
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by Ntrails 5y ago
A CEO spouting a contrived storyline where they are fighting against nefarious SV forces makes me question their rationality. Which, you know, is an attribute I care about if they're running a payments processer
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> The goal is to help align incentives of parents and kids. Instead of taking the time to teach your child empathy and personal responsibility, you want parents to give them a virtual candy bar for doing things so they keep doing them.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
What if I claimed that "neat digital art images" do not have any value to be monetised, due to usable by anyone at any time from the internet?
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I think my argument runs counter to this. Stop chasing things you think might give you happiness/contentment in some long run, as though it is some intangible second order effect.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I'm not sure that happiness == hedonism? I would contend that most people spend too much time and effort chasing eg "being an expert in field x" or "getting a job with consultancy k" because they mistakenly think i

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