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by alecbz 5y ago
> whatever the origins of our desires, advertising arises from the needs of advertisers and seeks to repurpose our attention and desires to align with those needs rather than our own. It sounds like you're saying something like: &qu
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think you're answering the question "is modern advertising bad for any reason?", I asked "is this particular facet of advertising actually bad?"
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Sure, just look at all the decades of cigarette advertisements and the tobacco companies paying Hollywood movie studios to include their brands in films. That's engaging in subtle mass manipulation that resulted in untold millions
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by alecbz 5y ago
So people are mostly talking about ads in general or hypocrisy, but I do think the author's point has some merit here. Frictionless payments and eliminating transaction overhead is a real benefit of ads, and I think one way to reduce r
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by alecbz 5y ago
What? > Advertising is an attempt at making the customer pay for stuff. Yeah that's who's supposed to be paying for things? It sounds like you're maybe alluding to a kind of advertising that's unavoidable by just exis
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm sure this is a line of reasoning ad-apologists use all the time but... philosophically, is there really a way we can claim that advertising makes you want things in a way that's wrong , as opposed to in way that causes enjoym
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by alecbz 5y ago
This is a really good point. The only reason your attention is valuable is because it is (on average) going to cause you to spend enough money to actually pay for the product, but in a sneaky way you won't quite notice and won't a
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by alecbz 5y ago
I tend to prefer the trailing paren on the following line. I'm not sure if there's a principled reason it helps (or hurts), but stuff like: assert outputs.get("foo.bar.baz", "default") == pytest.approx(
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by alecbz 5y ago
Uh so is your take "don't do broad refactors ever?" Beyond `.git-blame-ignore-revs` (which is neat and TIL), in GitHub's web viewer, if you find the line you're interested in and see that the most recent PR is a ref
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by alecbz 5y ago
OOC what are your grips with black's style? I generally find black pretty "beautiful" ( concise maybe not as much).
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by alecbz 5y ago
> not forcefully expose yourself to a shitty situation for no reason. Well my whole point is that there's not 'no reason'. (Except sometimes in the case of genuinely bad/toxic people, like I mention). Maybe a more gen
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by alecbz 5y ago
It wouldn't, but I'm not sure that would happen (everyone deciding not to work). Especially if UBI is only enough to live ~reasonably comfortably. I'd imagine a wide spectrum of people, some of which are fine with that level
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think these kinds of difficulties with dealing with people are a common but "normal" and "intended" part of life, and my 0.02 is that it's better to learn how to navigate and live with these situations instead of
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by alecbz 5y ago
1. I'm not saying it's not more of an issue for some than others, but I still think learning to navigate that is part of life. It depends a bit on what kind of life you want, but I think we're inherently social beings, and le
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by alecbz 5y ago
What do you mean by attention? I mean that e.g., software in large organizations often needs to fit in with the rest of the software the organization is writing, and that producing code is only part of the work; there's also working wi
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by alecbz 5y ago
Managing fine is different than it being insane to go into an office. And I don't know on what basis we can conclude that it wouldn't be better if core Linux devs were working together. I don't know much about the nitty gri
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by alecbz 5y ago
Do you want to feel powerful or to have productive devs?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Totally just my 0.02, but this reads a little like "opting out" instead of addressing issues interacting with other humans. Like yeah, humans are sometimes great, sometimes make you feel not great, sometimes are genuinely bad. I t
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm not sure we can, or should. I imagine the future looks more like different companies/teams with different working cultures. True "remote as an office" and "working from office" work styles are inherently in
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by alecbz 5y ago
I quite like my (short) commute. Though it's either bus, subway, or bike. It's nice to get some exposure to the city, get some bookends for the work day, and (if biking) get some exercise in. Generally we're talking 20-30 min
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm confused, what makes it hell if nothing's wrong with them?
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think maybe this is some kind of local optimum, but a poor one. Like if your devs already don't give two shits about anything, pressure from you watching over them might improve things somewhat. But like the real fix is a path to a
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by alecbz 5y ago
> the hit to team cohesion led to long term productivity losses It obviously ought to, right, or else why does (should) anyone care about team cohesion in the first place?
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Going to an office to write software is absolutely insane. Why? Writing software, especially in a large organization, is often an inherently social job, just like many others. You often need heads down time to actually get into flow an
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm working from an office now but my direct coworkers are all in other cities. I think actually working colocated with the people on my team is close to my no. 1 criteria for any new/teams jobs going forward. Maybe not totally ig
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by alecbz 5y ago
Big +1. I think this is a really good distinction to keep in mind in general. Teaching and debating look very different. E.g., it's going to come off as condescending if you try to "educate" someone on something where they al
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by alecbz 5y ago
That's just a side effect, not the reason to do it.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think the key that leads to 3b is that costs are hard to measure. I.e., I think it's less that the PEG are coming into it with the idea that they want to cut and are cherry picking for that, it's that they will happily do whatev
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by alecbz 5y ago
FWIW $employer is also okay with candidates working in their local environment if they're comfortable screen sharing. IME most people seem to prefer coderpad though, even after being nudged that using a local environment may be more he
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by alecbz 5y ago
FWIW I think you can absolutely ask practical, grounded coding questions in a coderpad environment (I believe $current_employer does).

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