RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 2y ago
I would argue just the opposite. Thinking without doing accomplishes very little. Doing without thinking might accomplish something, or it might be utterly destructive and take 1000x the amount of "doing" (and a lot of thinking) t
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Before movies were invented, we had books. There is value in each
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
You're saying (at least as anyone seems to be able to determine; I don't want to correct you on what you're saying) > Instead of blog posts, we have videos They're saying > In addition to blog posts, we have videos
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Of course, wired means you need to plug and unplug a USB a lot more often. And the USB port is the first thing to go on many phones.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
There's other options. For example, the automation could open up other job opportunities. And it could get rid of the job completely. This is a problem we've faced for hundreds of years (if not longer). > What do we, as a socie
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
CEO work/responsibility doesn't really scale up with company size, though. Sure, they're "responsible" for more people; but it's really the people that work for them that are responsible, and the people that wo
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
When I studied AI in grad school (decades ago), most of the classes were done in Lisp.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
And yet we have laws that disallow things that the buyer could just avoid by not purchasing. Because, as a society, we find it unacceptable for vendors to do certain things. And we hold them at fault if the do bad things, even if the buyer
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Your use of “only cause” was the first in this discussion. No, but this statement implied Kia wasn't at fault because someone else committed the crime... > I’ll take victim blaming for $200, Alex. Breaking into a house is easy
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
We used to have to travel to the next state over to buy Everclear (you know, for the _good_ parties) and bring it back.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
It's a balancing act. We limit <some thing> if the damage to society caused by it is greater than <some amount>. With the caveat that getting those limits put in place can be complicated, given the influence of money on pol
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> The media over-simplifies things. There are a lot of cases (to the point where I expect your average person sees dozens of them every day) where the media isn't just "over-simplifying"; they're presenting things tha
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
That seems completely unmanageable to me (though, clearly not to you). Between picking up/dropping off my daughter, (food) shopping, making meals, going out to dinner, and so many other things; I'd fine it impossible to schedule a
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Using the 25% on-call rule, we can derive the minimum number of SREs required to sustain a 24/7 on-call rotation. Assuming that there are always two people on-call (primary and secondary, with different duties), the minimum number
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
It's a fantastic "starting point" for asking questions. Ask, get answer, then check to see if the answer is right. Because, in many cases, it's a lot easier to verify an answer is right/wrong than it is to generate
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
To be fair, car sellers have also started things like being able to brick your car if you're behind on payments. Or, for the up and coming ones, have the car just drive itself back to the dealer (Ford).
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
The last 3 phones I purchased, it was a choice between - plan + buying new phone + no contract - plan + phone "free with plan" + increase in plan cost because of phone + 2 year contract For one pone, the first was a clear winner.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Personally I can favour privacy intrusion, if and only if, there are checks and balances. There really isn't a possibility for "only specified individuals, under specific conditions, can bypass the encryption", because i
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Were the pagers military grade I don't mean to be "that guy", but "military grade" means nothing nowadays. It can mean anything from "made to exactly standards" to "made by the lowest bidder, and
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Before that webpack. And before that grunt. I do back end web development, but need to be able to build and run the whole thing locally. I've been through webpack, and grunt, and.. um.. something before that. And throughout it all
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Why? People trademark words from _every_ language, for specific contexts, all the time.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> I know this might be an "unpopular opinion," That's the thing, though; it's important to remember that it very much _is_ an opinion/preference. For some people, working from the office is better, for others, it
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> People using the wrong word for something doesn't mean the original definition of the word is invalid. Yeah, it's literally the worse thing you can do. I mean, not for the original definition of literally, but the new definit
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Well to both of those camps I say: if most attempts ended up implementing it "incorrectly" in the end, it's not a very useful framework to begin with then, is it? If your process to trim the hedges is much faster than no
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> 2) the standup's facilitator now stops devs from going into too much detail, "you guys can discuss it further after the standup" I said this in another comment, but a standup I'm part of tables these until the end o
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
One of the projects I'm on has a standup every day, and it generally lasts less than 15 minutes. Sometimes, a topic comes up that needs more discuss and it's tabled until the end of the call. At the end, anyone that doesn't n
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> It's impossible to predict the future, and it's impossible to predict the complexity of something you've never done before. Given that, estimates can not be useful, other than as a tool for political post hoc justificati
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> The stand-up is an opportunity to call out things that are blocking you, not for giving status updates. I find it very useful for allowing everyone on the team to have a general idea what everyone else is working on. You can call out t
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> The meaning of MEDIEVAL is at the heart of this. D&D is Medieval, as it has markedly and prominent medieval world characteristics. That's the important part for me, too. The general idea I always ran with was that "mediev
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
I'd never even heard of it before you asked.

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