chucksmash

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by chucksmash 1y ago
To cheat someone implies there is some obligation owed which is reneged upon, even if that's just the minute obligation owed from one member of a society to another. In your hypothetical situation, I owe no such obligation to the Nazis
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by chucksmash 1y ago
That's all well and good, but when you have to put your trust in someone and person A believes "it's wrong to cheat people" and person B has a whole framework for thinking about the problem on a case by case basis, you j
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by chucksmash 1y ago
> which are favored by [...] underage users (price point and potential seizing by parent/teacher/police).
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Everybody wants to be the one who overcame the odds or struggled bravely on. Everybody wants their story to be special because of how hard it was for them compared to everyone else. I think some of it comes from the value the culture places
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by chucksmash 1y ago
What does somebody buying hundreds of vapes to resell and then having them stolen have to do with individual customers, which was the original premise?
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by chucksmash 1y ago
U+1F921
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Reading the thread, I don't see how that's much of a defense. A GNOME foundation member going through the thread to decorate the reporter's posts with clown emoji reactions is not great. It seems reasonable to say "even
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by chucksmash 1y ago
It's only existed for 6 of those years so perhaps you can be forgiven :) The last time I wrote Python in a job interview, one of the interviewers said "wait, I don't know Python very well but isn't this kinda an old styl
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by chucksmash 1y ago
You just did an ism...
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Maybe globally it's an average year but the DCA crash alone makes it an extraordinary year in US commercial aviation. Not all crashes are created equal. A 10 person Cessna disappearing near Nome, Alaska !== mid-air collision above the
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Thanks for the pointer. Looking forward to tracking down a copy.
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by chucksmash 1y ago
The "Who invented the steam engine?"[0] section of "The Book of General Ignorance" refers to a "brilliant essay" by Arnold Toynbee that imagines a global Greek empire enabled by a rail network derived from comb
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by chucksmash 1y ago
It's like saying "if you know half of your advertising dollars are wasted, why don't you just cut your ad buy in half?" I still remember the joke from my first job: Q: How many people work at this office? A: About half.
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by chucksmash 1y ago
This mindset drives me nuts. It's like the rhetorical opposite of victim-blaming. It takes something that is within an individual's locus of control and pretends they have zero agency in the matter. Last week I finished a two mont
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by chucksmash 1y ago
> That there's any cultural "degenerative debauchery" is an extraordinary claim. Can you back up this claim with evidence? What's the sense in asking for examples? If one person sees ubiquitous cultural decay and the
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by chucksmash 1y ago
It's not even intended as hyperbole. Watching kids first learn to program, there were many high schoolers who didn't really get the reason you'd want to use a variable. They'd use a constant (say, 6) in their program. Yo
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by chucksmash 1y ago
> Yet people were literally banned here just for pointing out that he hasn't actually delivered on anything in the capacity he promised until he did the salute. I'd be shocked if they (you?) were banned just for critiquing Mu
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Tbf, there's a phase of learning to code where everything is pretty much an incantation you learn because someone told you "just trust me." You encounter "here's how to make the computer print text in Python" b
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by chucksmash 1y ago
And nixing the endorsement in the US Presidential election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washin...
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by chucksmash 1y ago
https://www.twoscomplement.org/#podcast/pair-programming-wit...
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Ikea may be famously Swedish, but are they making my ROCKSJÖN and my EKENÄSET in Stockholm?
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Perhaps _why?
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by chucksmash 1y ago
https://archive.ph/7u5A8
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Come with Me If You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction(nytimes.com)
9 points by chucksmash 1y ago|2 comments
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by chucksmash 1y ago
Of course there is such a thing. Lifestyle inflation is a known phenomenon which you (and your spouse) can choose to avoid if you prioritize it, not some immutable rule of nature. If the treadmill of accumulation that lets someone believe &
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Long ago I started only using browsers in private/incognito mode with ads blocked with the idea that I was preserving my privacy in some meaningful way. It's been a few years since I realized this alone was a futile exercise becau
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by chucksmash 2y ago
"Teach me something" is how the test prep companies would interview instructors. Same idea—have a candidate explain a topic they are totally comfortable with—but they were more focused how engaging the lesson was, how the candidat
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by chucksmash 2y ago
Perhaps they meant censure instead of censor.
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by chucksmash 2y ago
My main complaint the last time I did this (2022) was the havoc it wreaked on my sleep schedule. Advent of Code is not kind to East Coast participants. Every year except for one has been kind of the same pattern for me: Day 1: this year, I&
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by chucksmash 2y ago
It's not a matter of agreeing accidentally, they just plain agree with you.

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