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by aeturnum 3y ago
I also tried a taxi riding home from SFO recently. I did not encounter any shenanigans - the taxi was in good shape, took me right home, and would accept card - but it was significantly more expensive than a rideshare! Even without traffic.
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by aeturnum 3y ago
That's fair to say! But I think the takeaway is less about "who is to blame" and more about "what should you ask of users?" No matter what the precise cause, most users will struggle to do anything complex, and you
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think tools like these are fantastic and I do not think that git "is easy" or anything like that. Lots of people do not need to understand the details of the git model and should not have to use git directly. That said - if you
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by aeturnum 3y ago
So - this feels like a convincing refutation of the article! You should have said this first! I'm naive in all aspects of the details here but I'm glad to see that you had something more in your coat than "there are bigger en
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by aeturnum 3y ago
You're trying to beg the question that "the point" must be: "which thing is wasting the most power right now?" It's not. People can talk about at least two things at once. This is critiquing the diminishing ret
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I really want scripting in Elixir to be better - and the addition of Mix.install() is a great step forward - but there are still a lot of awkward elements. Elixir will require you to be in a module to define a function and then respect modu
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This is absolutely what I imagine using Copilot for and also exactly why I don't understand the rapturous praise for increasing productivity. I have no doubt it will speed up the tasks I only need to do once or twice a year. I look f
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I am not an expert in this area, but I've worked around its edges, and video has always struck me as one of tech's great HARD problems. It's a really frustrating combination of: meant for human consumption, difficult to chara
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I mean, I think there have been plenty of examples of new moderation teams being able to kill popular subreddits. So I do think there's a good chance that the option is illusory. The subreddit will die if you piss off all of the modera
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by aeturnum 3y ago
A lot of the depends on if you think the moderator role is truly impactful in a meritocratic way where better work is rewarded with higher quality communities and content V.S. a largely rote role which involves correctly implementing the co
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Conversations like this, and the pockets of earnest polyamory / ethical non-monogamy feel driven by the failure of a relationship mono-model to keep up with reality. Even if one, in theory, would like to be married to one person and bu
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I find this blog odd because I think people in SF are very aware of the property crime problem? But like...because there's a property crime problem no one is shocked that you experienced property crime? I think part of this is that the
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> it's incredibly irresponsible (and probably racist) as well as dismissive of actual racism to pretend that's racist. Because of the entanglement of people who harbor individual racial animus and the systemic factors that le
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Those are all very fair things to think - though it occurs to me that feeling confident about the accuracy of your understanding of the "complexity and inconsistency of the underlying problem space" greatly depends on the judgemen
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This is very exciting! One possibility that is, I think, covered up by all the hype around "AI works like our brains" (which I disagree with) is that: our brains are too complex for us to understand and ML may allow us to build mo
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think it's good to be suspicious of things that we consider out of our control, but it seems to me that suspicion is pretty "built in" to modern psychiatric medicine and I don't have any reason to doubt their conclusio
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Sure - but the part I quoted is urging people to consider that they themselves might choose not to "follow the swarm" as it were. I think you could use this example to argue that a lot of the diversity in how human brains work (au
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by aeturnum 3y ago
It could be - but that's not what the author was invoking! They were talking about how having a subset of the population that doesn't follow the trends is essential for keeping up the health of the hive. It's wrong to say tha
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think there's a trap people fall into where they want to talk about stochastic processes that are facilitated by group dynamics using individualist language: > Knowing this, it might be worth ignoring the waggle dance of those ar
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Oh - I was trying to gesture at that feeling you get right before you start implementing a solution. The one where you think you see it perfectly and all you need to do is write it down and it will work. It's the feeling you get righ
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think there are lots of opportunities to be sardonic in programs! Either literally in comments or figuratively in programmatic structures you use, or at a higher level of project design. Any time the system is in a bad state, appearing li
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by aeturnum 3y ago
For me, at least, programming is simply the most profitable articulation of an underlying personality trait that involves productivity, play, mischief, sardonicism and critique all together. This is what people mean when they point out that
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This isn't my area of expertise so I can't get too deep but this is an extremely well organized and straightforward resource.
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by aeturnum 3y ago
It's a classic begging the question fallacy. Summary is absolutely a way to maximize certain outcomes of reading, but not all outcomes! Which outcomes to value is a question we can all reflect on.
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by aeturnum 3y ago
IMO this is correct - an implication of the inherent worthiness of each human and each of our rights to self determination is that people get to make choices about their lives (including this kind of choice). I have always approached the mo
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I see this comment all the time in this conversation and it strikes me as being in very bad faith. I would love to understand what you're trying to get at. Because - first, in a legal sense, it seems wrong? You cannot memorize a book a
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I'm not a de-growther and I also think people are reasonably worried about structuring things in such a way that future expansion is assumed. Of course you can do it for a while, but it seems very possible we're coming up on the
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think the aspect you're missing is Erlang's total focus on 'green threads' (erlang processes - or just process) as the basic unit of computation. Just like Unix's "everything is a file" philosophy it&#x2
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Look - it's absolutely not the same thing. The point is to allow non-profit-seeking uses first. To push off the free-for-all of commercialization until after an interstitial period. You can certainly pay the rights holder to use their
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by aeturnum 3y ago
My biggest critique of copyright is that is unnecessarily collapses financial reward & creative control. It also pegs both as starting at creation - which is not a particularly meaningful point for either problem. IMO I would rather a

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