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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I have no idea what you're talking about
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Adoption = number of users Adoption rate = first derivative Flattening adoption rate = the second derivative is negative Starting to flatten = the third derivative is negative I don't think anyone cares what the third derivative of som
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
The question under discussion is 'open source developers posting childish rants vs not posting them' Not 'open source developers posting childish rants vs no open source developers'
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
not the dichotomy we're actually talking about here...
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
True although perhaps that is part of (a), things move too fast.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
My hunch is that software engineers are averse to unions because they correctly perceive that unions are a wide angle away from the type of professional organization that would be most beneficial to them. The industry is sufficiently differ
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Of course the reason it works this way is that it works. As much as we'd like accountability to happen on the basis of principle, it actually happens on the basis of practicality. Either the engineers organize their power and demand a
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
It is one...
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
so what if it is? incels are obviously suffering too; it's not like the fact that they presently hold a toxic and sexist opinion makes them into a moral non-entity. Instead they're just tragic. Doesn't mean you can, or should
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I could see childhood friends mattering a lot precisely because it's the thing that can save you from the problems with your parents. Bad parents but good early friendships=turn out ok=don't show up in the data. Bad parents and ba
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
something I've always wondered about... have you ever seen anyone "recover" completely from ADHD or Autism? as opposed to finding ways of managing it. Maybe a nonsensical question but that's why I'm asking.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Well the situation changed
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
> You people call you 'liberal as a slur' in real life out in the world? I see it online... everyday? Especially if I go back to the places I used to enjoy but have had to learn to avoid. And yes, anytime I interact with friend
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I don't know how I ended up there! seconds later: oh, I clicked "original short stories" on the top of the page. and I have been thinking about trying to write some short stories myself and was immediately thinking "I wo
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
aside, but the link to ralan.com on https://compellingsciencefiction.com/guidelines.html doesn't work since the site doesn't exist anymore.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
hearing about Japan doing things intelligently gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling. (previous example that I remember: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/j... )
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
Really nothing in the article implied that whatsoever? It's not even about that if you actively try to read between the lines. Like--"liberal as a slur" is just a daily experience of american life these days, irrespective of
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
You would really have to ask a person to know that.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
dunno what world you live in, but that was the line that resonated the most for me...
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
HN is simple enough that it scales well with browser zoom, and so (imo) is excusable for not following that 12pt standard.
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
i sorta agree but also that's basically just what the word has come to mean. agree that it's a catchall, but also, like, it's definitely not the case that everyone's social experiences are anything like the OPs'; th
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I'd characterize the entire journey as "neurodivergent" but there's nothing wrong with that, and there are lots of other neurodivergent-ish people (regardless of whether you like that word for it, I just mean "outli
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
well they're not normal but they are getting to the place that "normal" people end up, I think. It seems to be the case that no amount of being in your head is a substitute for just not being in your head in the first place
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by ajkjk 11mo ago
I don't know what you mean.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
well.. no, not exactly. If u = u(x) then du = u'(x) dx holds rigorously, and then you can substitute du/u' = dx in an integral.
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by ajkjk 1y ago
the point of taking a big moral stance against Mozilla -- in fact, against anyone is > if not Firefox, who? Firefox! But run well! The point of complaining about someone fucking up, or shaming them, is to get them to stop. They're t
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by ajkjk 1y ago
yes, I'm sure. The claim is not "based on the (biased) examples I've seen, Mozilla is 'actually' evil", as if evil was some logical predicate that has a truth value which we are discovering the value of. The cl
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by ajkjk 1y ago
they hate it because all the news about it is bad, and falls cleanly into the unignorable modern narrative that "everything is being corrupted and turning against users over time". Embedding corporate interests in a browser that w
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by ajkjk 1y ago
I think the underlying motivation here is that employees at Mozilla want to deliver big projects to get promoted / recognized / advance their careers. The fundamental "cause" for the misanthropic behavior is a perverse i
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by ajkjk 1y ago
Why do holiday shopping when you can do holiday slopping?

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