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by afarrell 4y ago
Yep. And Engineers often have pet projects. Marketing often has a slightly odd artistic vision for something. People are gonna be people.
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by afarrell 4y ago
This is an important thing to keep in mind when engaging with institutions which make most of their money from outliers. Their incentives are not aligned with the stability of your mental health. (Though they don’t follow their incentives p
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The setup is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by afarrell 4y ago
A person can gain knowledge and experience. That just takes time, effort, and people to work with. It requires overcoming the fear of being fired before gaining the required knowledge and experience.
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by afarrell 4y ago
The reason people (talking primarily about myself here…) over-complicate things is fear and their coping mechanisms to fear. Engineers like me enjoy making and solving puzzles. So when there is a task requiring social courage (such as publi
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> The looming question- what if pointless cruelty and prolonged suffering is an important part of the culture? What then? Then it would be irresponsible for the US congress to be spending public money to buy tools which create the expect
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by afarrell 4y ago
The Romans were not as smart as us because they did not have the tools to understand the neurological effect of lead poisoning.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> Why not just say "why I'm still bullish on crypto even though everyone says the opposite"? If you would like to understand why they use weird vocabulary, here is a request which I expect will induce frustration and then
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by afarrell 4y ago
On the contrary: I’ve made a leather sleeve to hold 3 portable external monitors.
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The reason for the glut of these apps is that people have a drive to create.
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Ability to print onto paper and then OCR. That way my habit tracking can be more independent of the cell phone I’m trying to habitually spend less time with.
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by afarrell 4y ago
You are not forced to pay income taxes anymore than you are forced to use toll roads to go to the grocery store or pay sales taxes when you get there. A taxpayer can choose not to engage in activities which incur taxes, so long as he is wil
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by afarrell 4y ago
Yes, but governments are much less murdery and much more predictable than the sloppy gangs which are funded by lotteries.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> why not a carbon tax scheme for everyone Because the world is not fair and a general carbon tax will not get passed.
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by afarrell 4y ago
I want a government which is humble about its ability to declare an activity valueless to society. It would have been vastly arrogant to declare that cryptocurrency is useless in 2012. In 2022 it is… debatable.
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If there was a auditable publicly-viewable record of all lotteries, then it would be practical to simply ban them. As it is, banning them does more harm than good by funding organizations which also commit murder.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Hmmm… okay you are making the distinction between judgement and discretion and saying I’m wrong to categorize this as discretion. Upon reflection, I think you are right. > writing is hard Oh definitely. I’ve certainly had the experience
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by afarrell 4y ago
This design is really pleasing to my eye.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Resources spent which, after their consumption, do not result in an experience which a human would look back upon with fondness or gratitude.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Effective coping mechanisms that are reasonably grounded in objective reality. Whose decision is it that the other songwriters are better at expressing this one dude’s experiences? Thats not an objective question. It is a choice.
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by afarrell 4y ago
The statement is in fact useless. Changing your mental actions is what is useful. When you notice you brain doing it, then imagine you are a kind kindergarten teacher guiding a child to take crayons out of his mouth. Kindly tell your brain
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by afarrell 4y ago
Or “do not compare yourself with others, for there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
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by afarrell 4y ago
The Tokyo Sewerage Museum was worth going out of the way to visit.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Sometimes it is a fear response to the anticipated consequences of giving a clear answer. In your example, I imagine that the engineer is trying to be seen as still worthy of employment despite not shipping a feature. That motivates them to
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by afarrell 4y ago
Can you see that there is effort which must be paid for it to be both?
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by afarrell 4y ago
This seems to be a consequence of a contradiction at the heart of calling what we do “Software Engineering”. A bridge which stands up for centuries without significant change is a good bridge. This is widely agreed. Nobody expects that a br
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by afarrell 4y ago
Is “bigger online presence and fame in the conspiracy sphere” beneficial to a person?
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by afarrell 4y ago
> I think both are equally irrelevant That is my point. They are analagous and equally relevant: no more. No less.
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by afarrell 4y ago
I doubt people make indie films specifically targeted at getting a job either.
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They are about as irrelevant as someone writing a unix tool in Rust, pushing it to github, and linking to it in an email to a hiring manager.

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