Ntrails

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541.
by Ntrails 5y ago
> am worried my generation won't live as long as my grandparents' on average. I worry more that my generation will work longer in order to have a drawn out period of ill health before death. I want to maximise Quality Adjusted
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I am not sure I buy into the idea there is a problem here. The light is on the right side of the car. The light is flashing. Ergo the car is turning right. If it were turning left (as per the "arrow" direction) then the light w
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The interesting concern for me is always "i won't go see anyone about medical issue X because the copay/deductible structure dissuades me from checking". Even if you have a spare $800 for [insert tests here] you're
544.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Yup. I think that fucking up the education of children, especially those from low socio-economic status backgrounds, is worse than the deaths not doing it causes. It is not that lockdown is bad or wrong. It is that I do not agree with all
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The job of Governing is not solely to minimise loss of life, or to utterly avoid tail risks irrespective of cost. (imo) Focussing so myopically on the above has had unmeasurable consequences on a huge variety of fronts. My prime fury is re
546.
by Ntrails 5y ago
I was responsible for an in house tool, it required local admin to write to the event log I think? I don't even think that was a useful feature, but I never explained why or removed it. Merely demonstrated that debugging crashed out
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by Ntrails 5y ago
See, i watched 3-4 episodes and I just don't get it at all. I don't care about a single character and I am not sure any of the episodic plots are interesting in and of themselves. Like, I am missing something there.
548.
by Ntrails 5y ago
The joy at a standup when you hear someone talk about fixing bugs they had to fix the first time they wrote the thing in a different language. We learnt nothing
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I lived in all sorts of properly rural places with no public transport of any meaningful kind. If you needed a cab you phoned a minicab office and an operator would give you a time slot. The only thing changed by uber is that the minicab o
550.
by Ntrails 5y ago
> I'm not sure if it's a messaging thing, or if culturally we're just primed not to care. I think that lots of people don't give much of a shit about prison experiences. The classic maybe you shouldn't have com
551.
by Ntrails 5y ago
I went back and played a little while ago. Dungeon Finder was near instant, and would stick me in a dungeon I had zero context for. Magically transported there. Nobody was from my server. No conversation/chat. The encounters/d
552.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Github PRs also lack syntax checking etc - so it isn't something you'll never see at work right? (Admittedly if the PR doesn't build why are you reviewing it but whatever)
553.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Better support to what end? Walking out of school age 16 with 4 GCSE passes is not much of an improvement on 2, and maybe we should accept that there exist people who cannot via standard schooling do better than that? Maybe those two addi
554.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Slight devils advocate. Is everyone happier with mandatory schooling for longer? It isn't that we shouldn't give everyone the chance to learn, but maybe some people really would be happier dropping out at 14 and just getting a j
555.
by Ntrails 5y ago
I would argue years, genuinely. I still hear conversations about how great it was etc etc.
556.
by Ntrails 5y ago
> I think we all wanted it too Definitely not true. However, post hoc I am forced to admit it was not as colossal a waste of money as I'd expected, and honestly there was an astonishingly positive societal response. So, I was wro
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I think the honest truth is that the government could not give less of a shit about coverage on Assange. It's such a hilariously marginal story, and doesn't play badly with their base. That's ignoring the fact that 99.9%
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by Ntrails 5y ago
Anyone with a net worth over about 100m (and many a fir chunk lower) isn't working for money anymore. He hasn't retired to enjoy his wealth is imo because the jobs selection bias excludes the sorts of people who would do that
559.
by Ntrails 5y ago
For me some of the problem is how hard it is to find an alternate opinion from another source. Once you click on a shared link, you are down a rabbit hole. Anyone can stick anything up on a blogpost or whatever, but whilst old information
560.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Sometimes I want to do something quickly, and I dump 20,000 rows from a db query into csv/excel and fiddle. Tableau is often nicer for pure visualisations. The downside is that something useful you make keeps getting extended and adde
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by Ntrails 5y ago
You're going to get downvoted into oblivion I suspect, which may have been your intent? Is History a _useful_ degree? Is Economics? Is Politics? Psychology or Sociology? I actually don't want to make those determinations. I do
562.
by Ntrails 5y ago
I don't doubt they're incredibly adept at taking a client who wants good press and helping them craft a storyline around ESG and their business. I'm beyond dubious that they might be driving any actual change based on their o
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by Ntrails 5y ago
> remove the requirement for seatbelts since "if it goes down, they're all dead anyway." I mean, he's got a point here. Surely if we actually wanted plane passengers to survive crashes they'd have something more
564.
by Ntrails 5y ago
That is not precisely true? When an article runs about a merger announcement, or earnings releases or even a new supplier relationship or big sale agreement... all those things are legitimate news that should affect your expected future ca
565.
by Ntrails 5y ago
The list is 200 long, no positional information was likely intended
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by Ntrails 5y ago
The modern engineer treats their salary as a birthright, worried only that it is not large enough to justify their true best efforts. But seriously, the psychology of worker incentives has been studied. Things like employee of the month
567.
by Ntrails 5y ago
> People often pay electricians even for tasks that are just "flip a switch and turn some screws," after all. My Grandfather used to tell a story about an old aeroplane that wouldn't start. They found a retired engineer w
568.
by Ntrails 5y ago
Can someone actually explain what the actual flaw in the proposed anonymisation of the data is? This sounds a lot like people are in complete dismissal of the potential benefits of a countries worth of aggregated health data to research.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
It's an offshoot forum of a video games guild subforum built from another larger forum. It's not going to grow (indeed, it is dying / dead at this point). All things must pass and all that.
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by Ntrails 5y ago
I am on a forum with like 20 other posters and bots were stopped by the addition of a call/response field. Nobody who wanted to register would forget the classic response, but no bot was going to be able to answer it without some pret

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