TheCowboy

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by TheCowboy 2y ago
> What would governments/policy makers actually be able to do with any of this data? Not to denigrate it as a step forward, but I'm having trouble seeing much practical impact at all. You can look at how beneficial hurricane fo
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
You're so caught up in your polarized hot take that you completely ignore why people don't want to live in empty areas. A lot of people don't want to live where it's empty. It's really that simple. They like being n
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
I'm fine with private sector unions, but public sectors unions don't seem like they tend to always benefit the public. If you were reading this in good faith, the writer of this article lays out a bunch of points that you cannot s
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
It's funny because it's critical of sites for low quality "AI written listicles" but it's essentially a list of domains written by AI. And the result is there seems to be no consistent application of the principles
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
Right. I also didn't find anything to corroborate this sentence with anything, so it could also be a case of a layperson referring to everything as "the algorithm".
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
Some things jumped out from the article as feeling sloppy. > The tech is so bad. The United States Digital Service found 17 days of downtime in recent years. If anyone is curious, a total of 17 days since 1999 according to a report obtai
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by TheCowboy 2y ago
Rotate 90 degrees, omit the acrylic, easy access to all cans. Maybe not practical for earthquake prone regions, but hard to beat the space you gain from solutions like this in small apartments.
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
A lot of this is speaking from personal experience and I've made all of these mistakes at one point or another, and other people might have different advice that's also useful. I think part of it is also learning how to be asserti
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
I took meteorology in high school and our teacher made us do a daily prediction exercise that I think would benefit all people, especially those who put too much weight into their own anecdata. We just had to make a prediction for the next
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Was he competing against other humans vs weather models? I'd hesitate to draw a conclusion from this anecdote. I also couldn't find a link to this, and if you have one I'm interested in reading more.
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
I'd love for RSS to make a comeback but one problem is a lot of niche data sources can be on platforms that don't provide a public feed, so you have the inclination of companies to put up walls in an attempt to capture user attent
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
It has become increasingly difficult to operate as a 3rd party seller on their platform. A lot of categories and items are "gated" requiring a lot of additional approval or limited access that's difficult to come by. For exam
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Maybe not putting pressure on this muscle memory to perform accurately, so a lack of intentional practice. We're not really punished for typos with spellcheck and IDEs picking up a lot of the heavy lifting, so there isn't a lot of
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
It really is underrated how effective calm direct communication can be when it's not coupled with attempts to injure with insults.
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Would you be willing to volunteer your time to open source their codebase rather than waiting for someone to volunteer their time to open source their codebase so you would be more likely to help out? I'm not trying to be snarky, but t
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
This lack of contrast can be annoying. It can sometimes be remedied on our end by playing with non-obvious graphics settings or monitor settings. But it's unfortunately not always as simple as adjusting the contrast. You can also point
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Touch is fine when done right with responsive hardware. I'm not making a blanket statement about if touch is good or bad. This was just a poorly designed UI and software. Additionally, the light pens could be prone to error due to dirt
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
I've often encountered software that feels like it was designed by people who don't have to use it to do work, and not necessarily because they're engaging in class conflict (though it can certainly appear that way based on t
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Repost from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790367
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by TheCowboy 3y ago
Or Github (nothing against it) can just be a form of nerd social media, where most people opt out of putting everything in public view for various reasons. For example, I've been participating and trading in prediction markets as a for
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
People have been wondering if this would come with better management of cheaters, but it looks like it's unclear. The main reason I picked Valorant over CSGO is mostly because of how well they deal with cheating. But I think CSGO might
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
The idea that tendencies for extroversion and introversion somehow perfectly line up with partisan pandemic politics is quite a terrible take. It's also unreasonably hostile towards a lot of people and you might want to consider what m
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I still see this idea brought up but it feels like the tide has turned against the idea of "food deserts" with a lot of studies undermining it, and worth looking into if you're interested.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I find this weird because I really miss having the thumb buttons from the Thinkpad touchpads. If it's a trackpad without buttons, then Mac does have an edge, but trackpad support under Ubuntu was fine.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
A year ago I bought my first Macbook after using Linux as my default for years. I was tired of declining hardware quality from Thinkpad and I kept having to replace them. I also was interested in the M1's battery life and bright screen
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Language learning has a lot of quirks and this just isn't the case for most people who didn't learn a language early on, and if you're immersed/actively using the language then you're way less likely to forget. Your
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Recent news suggests it's not for lack of trying that Alexa hasn't been monetized, and Amazon has started cutting staff as a result of the failure. People just want to buy the smart assistant, not a voice nag that tries to get the
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
I've played plenty of both and it really is just as annoying with play money if the rules of the game are flawed. It just feels like cheating if a loose interpretation of the rules let's people off the hook for a bad prediction.
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
One ever underrated challenge with prediction markets is creating clear and concise rules for interesting questions, while the easy part is the tech powering the exchange. For example, "James McIntyre is predicting that: There will be
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by TheCowboy 4y ago
Sunset clauses often just end up wasting everyone's time at best, and a common worst case is it creates a platform for political brinkmanship and grandstanding around passing an extension that should be straightforward.

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