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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Your excerpt is a bit misleading, here's a wider cut: When it published the article, the newspaper reported that it had delayed publication because the George W. Bush White House had argued that publication "could jeopardize conti
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Since profit controls everything in this society and we are in a regulatory capture government, there is only incentives to build murder robots, not disincentives.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I've been using Firefox for years now after being an avid chrome user and I do not miss it at all.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I'm not seeking your advice. When I look at a cathedral built out of sand and call it meaningless that is not elitist, that is humble. Engineers who think their tools make all the difference are the pretentious ones. Things are not tha
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I think you overemphasize the pain. A good design will handle lots.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I am a builder trained as a computer engineer. I scoff at languages as abstractions over fundamentals that do not change. This isn't like a hammer and a screwdriver, it's like fifteen different hammers. Just give me the thing, I&#
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I see that a lot from the Go crowd. That's why I consider any strong opinions on languages to be a poor indicator for ability. Sure there's differences, but a language does not make the engineer. Someone who is attracted to flashy
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Do not be addicted to metrics. Steve Jobs would tell you that while you might help profits in the short term, you're undermining the long term product experience. Don't sound like an executive whose compensation is tied to profit
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
He's probably rational, but he's certainly not democratically elected and has ousted all his enemies. What do you define as a dictator? He's accountable to no one.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Unrelated but I cannot imagine anyone on this site still using Chrome. It's an advertising tool and with the change to remove Ublock and enforce DRM every more aggressively, it has so little to offer. I only use it for casting. Hard to
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Just dance is for young children playing with their friends. That is not the core gaming market.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Let's stack up all PC games and all console games and let's see which ones involve physical movement and then see how long people stick with those games. Do you know any gamers? I do. They don't want to move.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Eh, fundamentally when people game they don't want to move. In the west the culture of leisure, particularly entertainment leisure, is sedentary.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Consume less, grow your people and community. It's a quiet, purposeful kind of rebellion. Just do anything that doesn't involve a corporation. It feels amazing and it has an immediate obvious impact.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
That's how I feel about Reddit. They just keeping adding things nobody wants because otherwise how do they justify their salaries and their stock price?
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I think code design can often cover just as much as actual code anyway. Just describe to me how your solve it, the interfaces you'd use, and how you'd show me you solved it. As an interviewee it's insane to me how many jobs I
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I have never been able to rid myself of my earlier career instincts that people who spend time debating the pros and cons of languages are not really builders. I am a computer engineer, I have very little respect for coding languages since
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Indeed, I often think if I were transported to the past I would use rivers and dams to make logic gates.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Im going to try do what you described. But if you happen to write down the steps I'm interested. I hate that to post photos or chat with friends I have to be exposed to reels.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I really do think we should just use the symbolic systems of math rather than trying to bring natural world numbers into a digital number space. It's this mapping that inherently leads to compensating strategies. I guess this is called
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
It's a bit like being a teacher. You get paid terrible money which is not an abstract thing, that has a real life impact. And you have to deal with the politics of academia, which is like the politics of industry but with less leverage
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Trump and Elon are purposefully deconstructing the government offices that would regulate their business. Via whatever false promises and claims they made to the public, the net effect is that private corporate owners are dictating the law.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
How old are you? All it takes is one bad experience to show you the emperor has no clothes. Corporations, executives, and middle managers are almost by definition self interested and short sighted. Just look at the over hiring during covid
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
Well, yeah. What's the privacy policy and retention policy of this new social network? How do you answer that in two days.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I'm not sure we as a collective have any autonomy. At the macro scale humans are very much shaped by environment + incentives. I suppose governance can help.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I think any app that tries to minimize your usage needs to have mays to moderately allow that usage. Black and white thinking, particularly at the beginning, seems likely to fail.
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
I think about this all the time. I have tried a few different strats: * ScreenZen on IOS breaks up screen time into discrete sections rather than a lump sum (e.g. 10 segments of 10 minutes each) making it much easier to know each time I&#x2
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
This should be an indication that tracking as a personal health methodology is inherently flawed. Your body is your most accurate measurement system, both in terms of precision and accuracy but also in its multidimensional, intersectional m
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
"Only a fool would take anything here as fact"
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by darkhorse222 2y ago
If there's one thing I've learned from executive responses to COVID, it's that unless they are the founder with a personal relationship to the company, executives are short sighted sycophants to the market who hire short sigh

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