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by ahelwer 5y ago
There’ll always be something. When you have a presence and interests (???) in most countries of the world, along with a compliant domestic media willing to go along with whatever story you put out there about how our Capabilities have to be
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That isn't even ad hominem! Ad hominem would be like "your ideas are pathetic, therefore they are wrong" whereas what I said was "your ideas are wrong for these reasons, therefore they are pathetic". You are mixing
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The “personal responsibility“ and carceral approach to addiction is, thankfully, hideously outdated and you should join the rest of us with the medical community in the 21st century. When you see someone destitute under a bridge, have humil
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Since you're so worried about this problem why not try learning the first thing about it? I'm sure you know people in your life who have become addicted to various substances, which is at this point widely recognized as an issue o
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Your bullshit assertion that homeless people aren’t from here can’t even stand up to the data, not even from any right-wing news source you can find, so you come up with an idiotic story about activists coaching the homeless to respond inac
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Canada implemented socialized healthcare regionally. Provincial hospitalization insurance was available in Saskatchewan many years before any federal program. So your assertions conflict with the historical fact of how successful social pro
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Yes, this is the standard right-wing Seattleite bemoaning. Of course, what's always left unsaid is that the implied solution to the existence of homeless people is newly-hired & appropriately-worshipped cops kicking them out of the
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Yes, and in the GP we saw there were actual instances of people having their car stolen. This does not mean it was some violent wasteland as the media painted.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Programming Z3 https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html
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People & especially the media love to play up this stuff. I lived two blocks away from Seattle's CHAZ during the 2020 BLM protests. Watching media coverage of my area compared to the actual experience of walking around and living t
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Most Americans have a few hundred bucks in savings and you think it’s reasonable to pay $150 for a strep test and some penicillin?
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I guess I’ll provide a counterpoint that I have been incredibly impressed with the quality of Canadian healthcare after my sister had kidney failure, was on dialysis for a year, then received a timely transplant from me and neither of us pa
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Not sure about this model. I write open source software because of the inherent human desire to create. Benefits from admiration I receive comes a distant second to the happiness of exploring a problem then crafting a nice solution, on my o
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One way I've seen this going awry is when real functionality starts being built as event listeners. Data that would ideally be propagated back up the call stack instead just get consumed via published events because then the core logic
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I’ve been looking at putting my next open source project on a non-github site, anyone have experience with gitea vs sourcehut vs some other provider?
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by ahelwer 5y ago
“True scrum has never been tried”
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Right, and that’s how the bullshit starts.
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No, absolutely not. Many people, myself included, can’t just be firing on all cylinders all the time. The downtime is necessary for the uptime. “Help” of this type from coworkers (or rather managers, let’s be real) only drives home the idio
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by ahelwer 5y ago
And such help would not be useful, because these are problems of motivation. So to avoid such unhelpful help (which can often exacerbate issues - such are the mysteries of the self) I tell you everything is fine. Tally up my work at the end
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by ahelwer 5y ago
See how many days in a row you can say "I didn't make progress yesterday" to your manager before it becomes an issue. Myself and all the best developers I know have days or weeks of doing very little punctuated by days or wee
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Nobody cares what the agile manifesto says. The only way I have ever seen scrum manifest is as a daily meeting where everyone on the team reports their incremental daily progress to the manager. Of course, no developer actually makes unifor
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Doctors are essentially useless after graduating medical school and only reach professional proficiency after running the gauntlet of years of intense hands-on medical residency training (where there are more mistakes made than is generally
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If the wisdom of the classics stopped being applicable to modern times then they would die out and stop being read. So, only the observations remain that are most stable, general, and enduring over time.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
You may be interested in the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Pretty impressive you’ve come to the conclusions you have, I’d say. I suspect many of us choose these points of view by their explanatory power. There will always be
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Well, someone like Taleb would say that human nature (if there is such a thing) has remained unchanged for at least as long as there has been writing. So we have writings thousands of years old on what people thought about how other people
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I use a triple monitor setup with the LG 24UD58-B. 24", 4K, $300. 2X scaling is absolutely perfect on it. 27" is not a good monitor size for this, I agree. As an aside, a user here recommended putting the outside monitors in verti
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I too moved to bitwarden a year or so ago. Kept my lastpass account around just in case. This post inspired me to finally delete it for good.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I grew up in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Right in the middle of the bare Canadian prairie and near Winnipeg, commonly called "Winterpeg". In my teenage years and during university (late 2000s, early 2010s) I could look forward to r
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The straightforward 4% analysis is a simplification. It’s pretty easy (and pleasant, even) to do independent contracting for a couple months of the year and cover almost all your living expenses - so no or very little withdrawal. Since you
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I think it’s difficult to discover your “life purpose” while still working full time. Unless you’re anomalously lucky to be exposed to various subfields at your job, it requires a fair amount of leisure and self-directed tinkering (months t

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