deanCommie

12 ms·

91.
by deanCommie 2y ago
This would be an incredible way to stealth-release Episode 3, but I understand at this point it would be impossible for it to be not a disappointment, so I imagine nobody wants to risk trying to make it.
92.
by deanCommie 2y ago
> That's what the left is telling our society. Except they're not. They're saying "These things happen, and it's important to KNOW that." Nobody is telling people that they should feel bad for it, but if it
93.
by deanCommie 2y ago
There are many good reasons to criticize equity. But one should understand what that term means before doing so. This seems quite the opposite - promoting mandatory equality (equality of outputs in fact) rather than equity (which would expl
94.
by deanCommie 2y ago
This sounds like the promise vs. reality of Agile software development too :(
95.
by deanCommie 2y ago
You are BANG on but the solution to this problem needs to be extremely carefully considered. For one, keeping the economy going and growing is actually our only chance to tackle climate change and fossil fuel egress. The reason the western
96.
by deanCommie 2y ago
This is the key: if Harris makes empty promises and doesn't deliver them, the left won't vote for her again or vote for a 3rd party. Arguably that already happened with the millions of Biden voters that stayed home and didn't
97.
by deanCommie 2y ago
Is that true? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-i...
98.
by deanCommie 2y ago
> cash giveaway gimmick you mean fraud > providing a social media platform that doesn’t suppress conservative viewpoints Now amplifies ONLY them, which if you were claiming to be an impartial champion of free speech (as Musk repeatedl
99.
by deanCommie 2y ago
See this is the kind of thing that's not helpful. It's just an outlandish overly optimistic mishmash of different concepts. Let's start with your analogy: > Imagine if a round-trip flight from the US to Europe didn’t cost
100.
by deanCommie 2y ago
This is dumb. We've gone from "You don't get promoted if you don't show clear visibility for the things that you do" to "You can get fired for not showing clear visibility for the things that you do". The
101.
by deanCommie 2y ago
See even here there's no reason to be this doomery. Yes, climate change is a massive problem, and humanity is ignoring it to our own peril. But peril here means the unnecessary deaths and displacement of hundreds of millions of people
102.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I see no reason to doubt. I think at the scale of the universe life even thinking capabilities life is almost certainly inevitable. What's not inevitable is that it can thrive, and survive to a galactic scale. That's not even yet
103.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I wasn't trying to make a moral argument. With the information available at the time, dropping the nukes was immoral, and unjustifiable. The public justifications and the ones accepted by the standard western historical narrative do no
104.
by deanCommie 2y ago
The Hiroshimia/Nagasaki situation is one of the best examples I can think of with plenty of evidence of the "history is written by the winners" concept. It has been justified repeatedly over the years both in terms of relativ
105.
by deanCommie 2y ago
You are in the silent majority. This is a lukewarm take shared by most, but it at best doesn't cause outrage or go viral, and at worst gets you accused of being a bootlicker for the C-suite. So none of us speak up and the dominant pers
106.
by deanCommie 2y ago
The irony is that these people are exactly the reason why Amazon HAD to move to 5 days a week. Because people didn't actually embrace the hybrid model, wasted time on petty protests like this, undermined morale and the hypothetical ben
107.
by deanCommie 2y ago
You're making it sound as if working from home was something that everyone did eternally, and not something that started in 2020 out of necessity. Going through your routine: 1) Noone forced these workers to live 1 hour from the office
108.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I'm not disputing the difficulty of the problem, just the root cause motivations. I don't want to cast aspersions on your friends in Seattle, but...maybe you need better friends. I've been a local and I've been an expat
109.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I have! It was great.
110.
by deanCommie 2y ago
One thing I've always wished Microsoft would do with every version of Flight Simulator but especially this one is have an "Arcade flying" mode. I want to see the hyper-realistic rendered world in as high resolution as possibl
111.
by deanCommie 2y ago
> Uh, managing their reports and judging their performance is like the primary responsibility for most managers in big tech. It may be the primary responsibility by plurality but it almost is never the MAJORITY of the time you spend, ESP
112.
by deanCommie 2y ago
> I am describing things as I see them But you're not. > Once people there have established their friend groups they’re not looking to add any more to the group Is an observation > as they worry too many new friends will dimin
113.
by deanCommie 2y ago
This still happens all the time. * I search a keyword * I see a google result * I see the keyword IN THE PREVIEW on Google * I click on the link * No keyword And this isn't hidden SEO spam stuff, it was literally removed. The cache doe
114.
by deanCommie 2y ago
> Once people there have established their friend groups they’re not looking to add any more to the group as they worry too many new friends will diminish their own place in their friend group. That's such a cynical interpretation
115.
by deanCommie 2y ago
The same is true about the terms "waves" and "fields" when it comes to quantum mechanics. They're analogies. The concepts need names, but I think they do more harm than good because people then start with a mental m
116.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I don't know what you think "management" does, but it's not just being a panopticon on making sure every individual employee is performing to their expectations. In the same environment that is affecting SDEs right now,
117.
by deanCommie 2y ago
There is a second-order effect to this too, which connects to the original article. If the piano is slightly out of tune, and the orchestra is slightly worse, people stop appreciating it (not realizing how much better it COULD be), and the
118.
by deanCommie 2y ago
I get what you're saying, but being an obnoxious tightwad isn't actually against the rules, and it's not OK that there are some societies in the world where being an obnoxious tightwad towards a force ostensibly tasked with P
119.
by deanCommie 2y ago
Yeah, keep in mind at athletics competition, a "false start" is deemed to be anything within 100m of the actual firing gun - because that is deemed to be below the level of human perception, and therefore someone "bet" o
120.
by deanCommie 2y ago
Tell me you're Italian without telling me you're Italian lol. The Amazon "2 pizzas" are Two Large American pizzas. Something with 8-12 slices where 2 slices is enough for a meal.

More ›