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by alexb_ 4y ago
Imagine being so uptight that you see a harmless joke, get mad about it, make many assumptions about a person that you've never met, and not only tell them to change it but give them a deadline to do so .
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>if you make a GUI out of this, it will be a pain in the ass I guarantee you, 10000%, that it will still be more usable than CLI is without having to google everything. FFMPEG is so complex that doing anything with it feels like talking
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Most people don't want to do homework before they play a game. Super Mario Bros. is a game that was alien to many of the first people playing it, but people still played it without reading the manual because the game is intuitive at te
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by alexb_ 4y ago
All problems, and really all actions, can be explained by incentives. Once you understand that people will never under any circumstances do something that both takes effort and is opposite to their incentives, you understand why nearly ev
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Foolish to YOU, maybe, but if it makes Apple more money then it's almost a certainty it would happen.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Would shutting up have resulted in less jail time? Talking will never, absolutely never, result in anything but more jail time. There is absolutely zero benefit for you to answer police questions past basic things such as identifying yo
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>BTC inflates more than almost anything What the everloving fuck are you talking about? Bitcoin is deflationary to the point that nearly everyone uses it as an "investment" vehicle, not to actually transfer money. Do you even k
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by alexb_ 4y ago
inb4 the next iphone has no ports, and the excuse they give involves being waterproof or something
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Maybe this is annoying, but at least this came from something innocuous. A scammer could have very well used this to do something much worse - be thankful it was a mistake that did this! From what it looks like it's a brand new coder.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Prompt: "Who runs the world?" Response: "whoever pays the most" Didn't expect it to be correct....
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I've recently heard the acronym "MAGMA" thrown around.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Maybe it's cheaper than leasing the latest and greatest, but not everyone has an unlimited pool of money all the time , and the assumption that this type of purchasing behavior is in any way typical or representative of anything is ab
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>I owned 6 Teslas over the last several years. ??????? Why on earth would you need this many Teslas? Maybe if you are buying so many teslas then it makes sense why you don't need them serviced - you barely give them enough time to w
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Are these related to the YouTube ads I get all the time about how there's "a better way to make money through Amazon with Audible!" or similar "passive income" ads that I see all the time? It's astounding to me
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Because of Löb's theorem which is magic. I mean, I could try to explain it, but it would be a distracting detour and you'd need to be at least a little good at math to understand what the heck I was talking about. I should hav
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by alexb_ 4y ago
This sounds like it would absolutely ruin the internet as a resource for how-to videos. When anyone can use massive amounts of data scraping and underpaid labor to make extremely low quality videos and spam youtube with them, actually half
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Google isn't turning up anything - mind linking SteveY?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Look at it this way. Cheating and not cheating has its own risks associated. And when the risk/reward of cheating vastly outperforms on average compared to the risk/reward of not cheating, every single rational actor will cheat.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I think a lot of people here are missing the root cause of why students cheat. College for the longest time has not had anything to do with learning for the VAST majority of students. You go to college because you have to have a degree to
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by alexb_ 4y ago
swear to god if one more person talks about the specifics of this illustrative case, and then goes on to explain how they are so silly and should have used tool "xyz" my head is going to explode
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by alexb_ 4y ago
An astonishing number of people here are missing the point. Doing something like "making a small script to analyze CSVs" has become a massively complicated undertaking requiring you to follow random guides that might be 6 months o
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Have you ever actually tried to do this? Programmers are extremely opinionated people. If you somehow manage to get past the barrier of "pretending to look smart so you can even ask a question without getting flamed to hell and back (h
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Was going to edit this in but it quickly turned into a related rant about the state of things: if you don't want that, scroll past. The real problem is that there's no more room for the technological "middle class". We&#
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by alexb_ 4y ago
This thread is also a good read: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1522633160483385345 Shows that a lot of people, ESPECIALLY programmers, vastly overestimate the competence of the average person when it comes
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>go after Google ROFL
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>add a URL that points This works really well until it doesn't. I have seen so, so, so many videos have linked content in the description that links to sites which don't work anymore.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The description is not big enough to hold practically any data. You would need to link to it from there.... at which point the two are no longer linked into existence. Links go down insanely often.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The moment that any indicator becomes a goal it instantly becomes completely useless as an indicator or metric for anything.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
"this" probably referred to the concept of using giant water reservoirs for energy storage, not the specific location
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by alexb_ 4y ago
well the point is the video and the file are linked - the video cannot exist without the file

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