Willish42

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by Willish42 2y ago
I think you're advocating for better mental health care and rehabilitation of addicts, which I agree with. However, the idea that addicts will destroy their lives regardless of whether they stop using, or are forced to stop using, thei
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by Willish42 2y ago
For all of the naysayers in the comments, I think the author has hit on a palpable societal trend, at least in the US. My leading theory is that the pandemic supercharged a lot of folks' individualist tendencies and/or nihilism, a
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by Willish42 2y ago
Thanks for throwing in references like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis even though this was a silly response to the science fiction implications. I found it an interesting read and hadn't hear
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by Willish42 2y ago
> Perhaps we need a corporate structure between a non-profit and a for-profit Maybe a co-op ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative )? There are also "for-profit" like businesses that are oriented around
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by Willish42 2y ago
Notepad++ was a life saver in my early days of needing to open and edit large files without having the tech literacy or familiarity required to use an actual IDE. I was a Windows "tinkerer" for a long time before learning programm
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by Willish42 2y ago
For anybody who's wondering, Nintendo doesn't _actually_ own Pokemon (a common misconception), but has a major stake in "The Pokemon Company", which does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo#Subsid
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by Willish42 2y ago
That's a pretty grim outlook, but I honestly can't poke a "hole" in its logic. Well stated, somebody's clearly done their reading on Marxist theory :) I've been struggling recently with limitations on "man
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by Willish42 2y ago
anecdotal / N=1 here, but I've uploaded standard 7z encrypted backups to personal Drive without issue
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by Willish42 2y ago
> And similar proposals like the Negative Income Tax would cost far less money and have none of the presented downsides. Most people file taxes once a year, meaning they would get this payment once rather than monthly, which makes a huge
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by Willish42 2y ago
Thanks for linking this. It's very "discoverable" but I probably wouldn't have found it, or realized it existed, without reading this comment.
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by Willish42 2y ago
I think so. My company's new refresh policy is "buy your own recycled corp device from us and we'll install all of our tracking software on it so you can use it as a corp device" (the _worst_ kind of BYOD imaginable). So
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by Willish42 2y ago
This author strikes me as one of the greatest "counter examples" for our hiring system. They sound more useful and experienced (IMO) than myself and most coworkers I know, and I think most companies would be lucky to have them . D
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by Willish42 2y ago
> Somehow, only Apple has seemed to be able to solve this Herculean problem. Bit of a stab in the dark here but I would assume ARM has at least something to do with this? Tablets, phones, etc. get standby a lot better than x86 systems se
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by Willish42 2y ago
Thanks, I'm a bit new to this entire concept. Do troy lbs also exist, or is that just a term when measuring ounces?
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by Willish42 2y ago
The fact that "worth their weight in cold" typically means in the single-digit millions is fascinating to me (though I doubt I'll be able to get there myself, maybe someday). I looked it up though and I think this is underc
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by Willish42 2y ago
I started doing a daily work journal in earnest when I began as a SWE and it's seriously saved my hide dozens of times. It's a habit that once you get used to, you can't function without it
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by Willish42 2y ago
This was well written and (imo) a pretty objective analysis of the sociopolitical shift of things in the US. Thanks for writing it, especially the part about the 90s not being all that much better. It kinda seems to me that many people forg
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by Willish42 2y ago
I hadn't considered the interpretation where "bank" is a verb. Thank you for clarifying, this was driving me crazy! The semantics of "how you <do thing> can screw you over" is still a bit odd, as "screw o
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by Willish42 2y ago
This was fascinating!! Please do consider bringing it back to life as a library and sharing with HN. I had no idea how much better such an editing experience is until your video, and completely agree about the benefit of not having to conte
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by Willish42 2y ago
Most of the new policies and court decisions, including the one I linked in my reply, have been disjoint with the will of the people. I don't see how your point about shifting sentiment (which I very much agree with) means we'll s
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by Willish42 2y ago
I became aware of this quite recently (on this site too IIRC), but it's worth noting that the "growth mindset" findings of the last several decades haven't quite panned out or been replicable upon further review: https:
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by Willish42 2y ago
> once the big regulatory hammers start dropping to protect American workers Have we been living in the same universe the last 10 years? I don't see this ever happening. Related recent news (literally posted yesterday) https:/
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by Willish42 2y ago
> How you bank can screw you over This is the first heading 3 paragraphs into the article (note the typo in "you"). Do people ... not even read their own writing before publishing an article these days? I understand people don&
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by Willish42 2y ago
Without naming names, I'm pretty concerned this is happening at practically every large tech company as we speak. It does not make me hopeful for the future of our critical digital infrastructure
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by Willish42 2y ago
AFAIK, the "borrowed" books on this platform weren't downloadable on the library site, merely viewable. Per TFA: > "We use industry-standard technology to prevent our books from being downloaded and redistributed—the
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by Willish42 2y ago
This seems like some sort of polarizing issue for some, but the reasons "why not" are totally unclear to me. I'm a regular advocate for detailed and self-explanatory code change "commit" descriptions, and I feel as
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by Willish42 2y ago
I'm sure I'm probably just less used to seeing StackExchange answers than StackOverflow answers but I am truly in awe at the length and thoroughness of the existing currently-top answer. By my quick + dirty JS console calculations
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by Willish42 2y ago
> I say the quiet part out loud: psychology as a field and the papers they produce is 90% charlatans and people who didn’t have the intellect for math or science. There’s some good ones, but it’s tough to stand in field with shaky ground
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by Willish42 2y ago
Have you read any of his other stuff? His essay on Bullshit Jobs ( https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ ) is a good example that isn't book-length (though he did write a book of the same name that came out later) He
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by Willish42 2y ago
> Actually, that’s the root of my org’s current capacity problems. They weren’t cheating a metric, but they were under pressure to deliver as much as possible. So they deferred a bunch of maintenance and took some questionable engineerin

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