Ntrails

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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that. Someone is going to need to explain to me why focussing on being happy is a bad idea. My historic view was "I'd rather chase being content and comf
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by Ntrails 5y ago
But some crime always persists non? The problem is the intersection between irrational actors being put in a game predicated on consequences.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Note that we are still spending a fortune globally on enhanced cleaning regimes and special anti viral detergents to prevent an airbourne virus getting onto our hands.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Could someone with more insight summarise how this compares to xmpp as an open chat protocol?
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I appreciate the context and the different point of view! I live in a bubble of how I perceive my coworkers (and indeed myself), alongside the culture of my employer where "getting it right is more important than getting it out"
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Will they still be reporting sex to the hosts as a discriminatory factor? I can very much imagine single female hosts being wary of letting to male tennant.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I don't believe that to be true. I believe the expected outcome is that people will still want code reviews on anything vaguely complex as insurance against fuckups . "Shit, WE missed something" is a nicer place to be than
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but holy hell I cannot read that format at all.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I hold to my initial opinion that the price of closing any schools at all for > 1 week was too high and simply should never have happened. I state that in the certainty that more people would have died of covid overall had schools bee
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I don't know, in principal I'd rather go and live in south america on a modest income (assuming you have carefully sequestered some investments) for the rest of my life than spend 20+ in prison which is effectively the rest of my
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I have explained multiple times why trading got shut down, how robinhood got caught short of margin, how we can literally see from released data that Citadels flows were not particularly sided. Never the less, the same people who now unders
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I don't know, I think once you're passing in results from functions rather than functions themselves to curry, the complexity is not centralised in the same way, but broken down. It's a bit like occasionally needing to create
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Currying honestly feels like a source of pain as a dabbler. I often encounter complex function signatures that I find very hard to grok at all.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Trading on the stock market is a negative sum game (you pay fees to play, so the sum of all outcomes is negative). Tooling is an edge, giving it away is not nothing. Typically data is also an edge. Realistically though, they're small
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Lets be clear, a gift card is just as shitty a gift - it just manages to be a mite less crass
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> do browsers really still need http support? There are some legitimate resources I use that are http only (eg the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup wiki). I turned Firefox over to auto-error/alert on http, and it bugs me every time I go th
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Netflix autoplays ads whenever you load it up or are scrolling around to find something to watch Prime returns things you cannot watch without paying in its search It forces you to watch ads before it starts the show They've all barel
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Doesn't even try a crisp packet? Madness.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
>This happened with cable TV too. You pay for the TV already, as a subscription even, why do you also get Ads? Drives me batshit that amazon does this on Prime. Play the fucking film you bastards
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Facebook choosing not to allow praise or support for a killer is, in my opinion, sensible and logical. Surely the hard question is "the line drawing". Claiming you support his right to be in a place at a time with a gun and
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> hey, i own an iphone 12 mini; you didnt get one? I got the SE as soon as it was out, was the form factor I'd been after so I bought it.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Unless I am missing something, it is basically the same theory as ascending a rope (typically climbing) but a really cool application
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> Of course, there are people, particularly older or vulnerable users, who are impacted by this as they might not be aware. It always fascinates me how poorly people understand the nature of scamming and confidence fraudsters. The banks
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I know a guy who runs a pretty neat old school forum for us. I think he sells the service if you wanna have a look. https://forum.catto5k.com/features/
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I still use pidgin regularly for various chat rooms and ircs etc. It is a great piece of kit imo
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by Ntrails 5y ago
It is a lovely piece, though I had an advantage of knowing ricochet robots already (which I immediately started thinking about solving).
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> The 5 stars are basically baseline if the product is good enough for the price it's sold at That is absolutely not my interpretation of such a scale. I would naturally map 5 stars to "exceeds expectations". If the best
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The real danger is not understanding that this "uncertainty" estimate is a function of your assumptions. How you model the distribution of your inputs is huge, and often not stated clearly. GIGO
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Basically there are not many places you can take a premise at face value and just throw thoughts out without worrying about consequence to social standing etc.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I don't see RobinHood worrying about people sending money to Nigerian Princes. Crypto trading being secure, reliable, engaging etc is important to coinbase. Not people being scammed in ye olde isk doubling trick.

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