banannaise

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by banannaise 3mo ago
Between this and the C.Ronaldo decision, I wonder if we're headed toward a future change to the automatic red card suspension. Part of what makes a red seem extreme for certain fouls is the automatic suspension. The point of the suspen
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by banannaise 3mo ago
A tool that encourages bad behavior at scale is a bad tool. Blaming individuals for a collective problem leads to no improvements.
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by banannaise 3mo ago
Bit of a double-edged sword, that. Worker-owned businesses are great, but if you instead make workers minority shareholders, you get... the modern retirement system, and inflated asset prices that benefit the ultra-wealthy far more than com
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by banannaise 3mo ago
This isn't just about residential rent. Commercial rent squeezes businesses, forcing wages downward and prices upward.
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by banannaise 3mo ago
Turning inefficient, unreadable code into efficient, readable code often results in an overall reduction in LoC. High-quality code and high-volume code are highly anti-correlated. Incidentally, low-quality code that is excessively long just
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by banannaise 4mo ago
Mental health is health. Negative mental health impacts are particularly significant when your job is to perform mental labor. It's not defiance, it's reality: if you drag down my motivation, that's going to drag down my prod
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by banannaise 4mo ago
This really hit home for me: In some cases, workers are also being asked to automate the parts of their jobs they enjoy most, Hinds said on the podcast, pointing to customer-service employees who enjoy building relationships but are increa
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by banannaise 4mo ago
Every time I review a new PR to my codebase, I go "oh shit, these unit tests are garbage, they've clearly been vibecoded" and tell the contributor to rewrite the unit tests so they do more than just game the coverage metrics.
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by banannaise 4mo ago
For the initial position, he has a case. Then he kept playing a market that was already fully decided, when the only step left was to resolve the outcome. I believe the relevant adage here is "You can't cheat an honest man."
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by banannaise 4mo ago
If your only motive is profit, then the cruelest actions are the most efficient, because you don't have to compete with people interested in morality. It sucks.
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by banannaise 5mo ago
They seem to be converging toward an asymptotic accuracy level that is not particularly close to 100%. That is not good enough when you're trying to instruct engineers, particularly junior ones.
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by banannaise 5mo ago
The ticket has subtle errors in its description that are only caught by someone experienced with the codebase. The code hides an exception behind an if-then-else that defaults to the most common state, which isn't caught until it break
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by banannaise 5mo ago
Thus replacing the work of the upper classes.
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by banannaise 5mo ago
"Lawful" as determined by the party executing the action is very different from actually lawful. The courts can intervene later, but they can't un-bomb a hospital. This is setting aside the obvious problem where governments w
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by banannaise 6mo ago
I've used a K4 for 6 years now and love it. The only thing is that I had to swap out the arrow keys for textured ones, which allows me to reach for them blindly and keeps me from losing my location when using them. It's insanely c
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by banannaise 6mo ago
It's honestly one of his worst videos, but Jon Bois has quite thoroughly documented how many mattresses they tried to sell him as a result of him buying a mattress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n36R8xlhe1U
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by banannaise 6mo ago
Any dataset involving police actions will show high concentrations in poor areas because that's where police patrol the most and where they're most likely to crack down on behaviors that might be allowed to slide elsewhere (in par
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by banannaise 6mo ago
That's also what NFT hypebros said.
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by banannaise 6mo ago
Ah, the eternal handwave for anything the AI doesn't do well - it must be user error.
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by banannaise 6mo ago
Bubbles don't pop overnight. In the aftermath of any collapse, you can generally see a pretty clear pattern of red flags (and attempts to minimize them or cover them up). Some parties notice earlier than others, but the realization is
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by banannaise 6mo ago
104.3a A player can concede the game at any time.
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by banannaise 6mo ago
Most professional stadiums display the pitch speed, albeit usually on one of the auxiliary boards rather than the main video board. Thanks to enhanced pitch tracking in the last few years, they can now display even more information. The Pit
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by banannaise 6mo ago
Paywalls can have the opposite of the effect you want. Implemented incautiously, they can fail to disincentivize parties who can make profit in excess of the cost, and it can succeed at disincentivizing genuine, non-profit-motivated interac
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by banannaise 6mo ago
The evidence that this controller was overworked is that practically all controllers in the US at present are overworked. As such, that should be treated as the null hypothesis, and it would require substantial evidence to show that he isn
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by banannaise 6mo ago
It's not unusual for airports to reduce staff at night, and the incident occurred at 23:36 local time. Even at a very large airport in a very busy traffic area, one controller can probably handle normal operations at this hour. The o
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by banannaise 6mo ago
This is an airport-specific vehicle that was on radio with ATC at the time and had clearance to cross the runway. Nothing in your comment is correct.
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by banannaise 6mo ago
> When did "I feel unsafe" become this ultimate i-can-do-anything-and-avoid-responsibility card? It only works if you deploy it against someone lower-status than you. The tactic is largely irrelevant and can be seamlessly repla
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by banannaise 6mo ago
If you can keep the public misinformed for long enough, you can gradually sell off your position instead of losing the whole bet.
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by banannaise 6mo ago
I would expect a dramatic rise in things like this, because they can be (1) monetized, and (2) scaled. Polymarket and Kalshi allow you to monetize almost any outcome (as they themselves will tell you is the goal). Therefore, there is profit
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by banannaise 7mo ago
This is weaponizing the situation of a single disabled person. The correct response is to make exceptions based on extreme circumstances, not to accept this behavior from everyone. Too often, advocates try to smuggle in their preferred poli

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