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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean - all ethical systems favor boldfaced lying in some situations? Even Kant's Categorical Imperative simply says that, if you lie, you should do so in a situation where anyone in that situation should lie (i.e. hiding Jews from th
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by aeturnum 4y ago
My flow is window-centric - there's a "new container tab" option that will give you a tab in the selected container. Any new tab opened while looking at that tab will be in the same container. That's how I maintain my &q
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Oh really? I find them excellent. I don't know how you're trying to use them - but I have a "work" window, which opens new containers in the "work" container (which has all my work accounts). It's a great
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It's not that poverty causes all crime. Wealthy people commit different crimes than poor people. [1] You bring up the 2008 recession, but the poverty rate, rose from ~12% to ~15%[2]. A meaningful but not earth-moving change. Median w
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, people are not robots, but I think it's pretty obvious people do work that way. Famously, one of the factors in the collapse of the USSR was people realizing society was breaking and starting to work with grey market or crimi
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think they initially had hopes that they would be able to make some disruptive innovations in auto manufacturing - but all the evidence suggests they went way over their skis as Teslas are notorious for having extremely poor fit and finis
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Many of these things are annoying, but I wanna check something.... Lists in python are called lists because they're linked lists right? They are not called arrays because they are a different data structure. Edit: Well TIL! Thanks ever
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Yes! Especially in the 90s. The multi-platform story for most things was SO BAD for SO LONG. Now we have better toolchains and we can deploy to most systems easily, but that's a historical aberration. We spent a lot longer struggling i
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think this is true, but the way I would put it is: While you have influence over 95% of what happens to you, you can only really survive the other 5%. Take solace in the fact that, sometimes, when it seems like there's nothing you ca
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm not sure that Apple has lost that focus? I too have noticed many more bugs in my day-to-day use, but I have always wondered if it's because my way of using the computer is slowly becoming "the way people used to use compu
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Having shipped a little golang code (back in ~2017) and having watched things evolve, my sense is this: - Golang doesn't fit comfortably into the spectrum of "low level & fast v.s. high level and easy" languages, largely
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by aeturnum 4y ago
But that doesn't describe what we are paid to do. I regularly have to ensure solutions work in both OS X and in Docker / Debian. If the question was: "Which operating systems does your company target" the answer is both
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by aeturnum 4y ago
There is a clear ambiguity that feels very important - in one way my work's "primary operating system" is Debian because that's what our images are built using and what we deploy. But my computer is running OS X.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Like you, I could not care less about the page turning animation. As long as I see the next page it's fine with me. The thing that prompts me to comment is that this feels like yet another place where the "artfulness" of soft
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Hah - I suppose by that standard all organization are criminal organizations (because someone who works in them commits crimes). I suppose they are all drug smugglers as well (as doubtless some of their employees use drugs). Someone should
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Did you read your links? They seem like really good evidence against your position. There are two individual people who happen to work for the TVA charged with individual crimes which don't implicate the organization. There's a la
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, the Tennessee Valley Authority?[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority#Pow...
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by aeturnum 4y ago
From a Pro Publica article [1] some years back: "Use of the national airspace is generally considered public information because pilots – whether airline captains or recreational fliers – rely on a system of air traffic controllers, ra
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Before ElonJet was suspended their pinned tweet pointed out that Twitter's acceptable use policy was that it was ok to republish data generally available elsewhere - which is exactly what this is. It would be illegal to operate the jet
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> I have no idea how you think the author doesn't "connect the dots". You are pointing to a different set of dots than gbronner. They are talking about the advantages of post-and-beam construction - extremely tolerant o
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by aeturnum 4y ago
The work the police do has almost nothing to do with "having a general location of a crime." In a boring, trivial sense there is probably always a crime of some sort being committed in every large apartment building. In general, u
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by aeturnum 4y ago
To me, the core of what I am pointing out as "very Paul Graham" is in these two quotes: > I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. and If people can't think clearly abo
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by aeturnum 4y ago
It's generally the wealthy and the high class who can pick and choose how much they feel the impact of politics. Most people don't get to choose how large "their identity" is - as others will put them into groups and mak
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is SUCH "Paul Graham" advice - useful mostly to people who sit on top of a hierarchy of power which does not demand any of their personal attention. I think the good version of this advice is: actively evaluate what is import
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by aeturnum 4y ago
If that's the issue what is this lawsuit about? Chess.com did not accuse him of cheating OTB. Here is a quote from the report[1]: "Despite the public speculation on these questions, in our view, there is no direct evidence that pr
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Activation is a feted hulk and I hope they collapse under the weight of their misdeeds. Certainly everyone who owns the game has bought the right to play offline. That said, the question of what "owners" are allowed to do in a mul
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think a fundamental challenge to what Venkatesh calls "Mediocre Computing" is that humans are very good at leaning boundaries in a way that current AI is not. Much of what separates mediocre humans from exceptional ones is corre
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Doing something to someone "for their own good" rightly has a terrible reputation. It happens most often in traditional parent / child relationships where the parent makes a change that is in the child's best interest in
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about how hard a time you've had forming friendships. I think you're right that I'm talking about how to invest energy and focus once you've found something that's stable and natural on
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I don't know if I quite said it before - but I don't think a relationship just "succeeds" or "fails." A good relationship occupies the "right" amount of space in each person's life for that pair

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