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by chefandy 3y ago
Roughly what how much volume would 15m tons of pegmatite take up? I have no intuitive sense of scale with these things.
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by chefandy 3y ago
An addendum: not sure if you were speaking figuratively, but an inner voice constantly preoccupied with potential catastrophe (even at a small scale, like minor social embarrassment) is a pretty strong indicator of an anxiety problem, which
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by chefandy 3y ago
That’s weirdly reductive. The point isn’t to feel persistently happy —happiness is fleeting— it's to not feel hopeless and inconsolably miserable. I’m chemically prone to depression— diagnoses and everything— and even at my most depre
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yep. Order of operations matters. This isn’t a theoretical “future problem” for a lot of people.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah but we need the Star Trek society first . In principle, I absolutely agree that IP is bullshit. The problem that many people in the “smash IP” camp tend to ignore is that people needing to eat, have a place to live, not having a stage
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by chefandy 3y ago
> minimum of 47 million jobs What would you propose the US workforce did with some 47 million knowledge workers with suddenly useless skills if you removed the only widespread economic mechanism our society has to support them?
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by chefandy 3y ago
Ah-- I've got super bad ADHD so I usually don't even catch things like that. I'm a terrible editor. I wouldn't be surprised if the paper authors were paying attention to this thread, and gave a call to Nature after seein
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by chefandy 3y ago
The problem is that our society has no other viable widespread mechanism to support the many millions of people who do intellectual work, and lots of intellectual work is really important for our society-- far more important than would make
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by chefandy 3y ago
Not a subject matter expert, so forgive me if the question is unintentionally obtuse, but It seems like a reasonable statement. They seem to be inferring that problems with existing public solutions wouldn't be a good indicator of perf
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by chefandy 3y ago
Similarly, I know Harvard and MIT, and also parts of Boston have centralized steam heat systems. Harvard uses theirs extensively still, at least in the old buildings, but I'm not sure about MIT. Boston's is fed by an old commercia
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Any tool, even if it had near-zero marginal utility must necessarily improve performance, as you can simply elect not to use it. That might be true for any tool with consistent, predictable output that you thoroughly understand. Someon
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by chefandy 3y ago
Holy crap. Actual clear design with a cogent visual hierarchy, intuitively purposed controls, and functionality exposed enough to be useful for people without a working mental model of software development, that’s FOSS . I am honestly shoc
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by chefandy 3y ago
Seems weird. I don’t know anyone that lived in Portugal that didn’t love it. Maybe the authors were from way up north and consider summers that don’t even frost over once to be stiflingly hot. Personally, I consider the percentage of the ye
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by chefandy 3y ago
Apologies of it read as salty rather than mildly tongue-in-cheek.
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by chefandy 3y ago
And since nobody implied it was a problem with ChatGPT itself, I pointed that out. Glad we cleared all of this up.
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by chefandy 3y ago
You moved a family to Singapore without a job based on the assumption you'd get hired? That's what the comment I'm responding to is proposing. If so, you are unrepresentatively wealthy.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Stockholm syndrome. Mercantile utility being the only driving factor that governs these actions is exactly the problem. You're expending your life-- no more or less valuable than the life of the CEO or shareholders-- to give the CEO an
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Most don't even work anywhere adjacent to tech. We call them migrants. As I indicated, at the beginning of your career as a young person without a family or much tying you down, moving to a place where you're more likely to g
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by chefandy 3y ago
Picking up and moving to the “it” tech city assuming you’ll get hired sounds like a great solution… that is, if you don’t have family obligations, or, really… a family, long-term responsibilities of any kind, a chronic health condition, or
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by chefandy 3y ago
And the question was how to get the their coworkers to stop giving copy/pasted ChatGPT technical answers from prompts written by nontechnical people, not how ChatGPT can do a better job.
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by chefandy 3y ago
If you’re not used to using regular design tools, I recommend using a spreadsheet like a low-res bitmap to make a map. It’s as simple or complex as you want it to be, short of making a 3d or writing a real application—- from painting cells
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by chefandy 3y ago
This is cute. Nice job. Good feels. It reminds me of some of the things I made in my interaction design classes in art school.
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by chefandy 3y ago
It can sting to realize your grand, genuinely useful technical idea won’t sell itself, but it just won’t.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Agreed. Even then, I used to take the subway to a regional big box wholesale club to grab stuff that made sense. If I lived nearer to a Costco, I’d take advantage of their fantastic sustainable fish program. Lot’s of good quality stuff has
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by chefandy 3y ago
There’s less than no shame in not having expertise in something outside of your area of expertise, and realizing that’s the case puts you way ahead of the pack. There’s a reason most designers you work with have relevant degrees, and the on
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by chefandy 3y ago
In dense cities? Yes. You don’t need a car to transport a load of groceries if there’s a grocery store on the 20 minute walk home from work. For larger trips, backpacks, rolling folding grocery carts, or even wagons do nearly everything a c
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by chefandy 3y ago
Feel free to show some comparable statistics.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn’t really change the comparison of risks. Escalator rides, for example, are just plain old more dangerous than car rides regardless of why, just as car rides are just plain old more dangerous than train rides.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Single biggest technical thing, anyway. IMO, the single biggest thing is focus and clarity in their communication. If people without a working mental model of software development can’t instantly understand the tangible problem it solves
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by chefandy 3y ago
It’s certainly true in NYC. Even if it takes a touch longer than taking the subway, lots of folks walk. If the infrastructure supports it, people will use it.

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