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721.
by dools 3y ago
Yeah, less “my, how we’ve grown!” And more “meh, how’ve we grown?”
722.
by dools 3y ago
Those people don’t know what they’re talking about
723.
by dools 3y ago
Let's imagine a country road with a windy uphill bit, such as one where you might get stuck behind a cyclist going uphill. The speed limit is 80km/h, but through the windy bit, you can only average 60km/h. Let's assume t
724.
by dools 3y ago
"Originally, Twitter was one, monolithic application built with Ruby on Rails. But now, it's divided into about two hundred self-contained services that talk to each other. Each runs atop the JVM, with most written in Scala and so
725.
by dools 3y ago
> I've seen comments like 'cyclists are subhuman' I predict a large overlap between those people and the people cheering on vigilante violence against Just Stop Oil protesters.
726.
by dools 3y ago
Yeah I don’t think elon musk is sipping whisky with his landlord and the small business chamber of commerce of downtown palo alto or wherever the “X” office is conspiring to bring the workers back into the office. He’s just a myopic asshole
727.
by dools 3y ago
And there are therefore millions of hours of video that could be attack surface area already in the wild
728.
by dools 3y ago
See also “Plan to Throw One Away” from the Mythical Man Month: https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway#
729.
by dools 3y ago
The only time this happened to anyone I know was around 2005. I sent a txt to my brother and accidentally used his landline number and he picked up the phone and a robot voice said “I left your jacket at the Grampians” and then disconnected
730.
by dools 3y ago
> Trouble with climate is my carbon footprint would likely go up in retirement rather than down This is also one of my pet peeves with the "degrowth" movement's solution to climate change. Essentially they want to alleviat
731.
by dools 3y ago
I was thinking about this in the context of wealth inequality and the "existence of billionaires". I don't think that the common refrain of simply attempting to "tax billionaires out of existence" is functional or r
732.
by dools 3y ago
And is the monopoly issuer of currency used to make those payments
733.
by dools 3y ago
The bigger problem is a fear of public spending because of perceived incompetence. The stigma comes from a time when only governments had run big bureaucratic systems. Now we can see there is little difference between public and private b
734.
by dools 3y ago
So go through life hating people who do this and being poor because you don’t.
735.
by dools 3y ago
Except that’s not what being a fisherman is like at all
736.
by dools 3y ago
I would gladly use a chat bot if they were even remotely useful. But the thing everyone seems to do which is to present you a bunch of buttons anyway is no different from a web based menu and the only thing I use them for is to get connecte
737.
by dools 3y ago
But it’s still a choice right? Like a life of crime may be the lesser of two evils but even that is a choice. People for whom the system offers no advantages are far more likely to make that choice. My original point is that the current sta
738.
by dools 3y ago
No, I said: “For many, society doesn't provide any advantages and so they choose non-compliance and all the consequences that come with it.” So what I mean is you can choose to live outside of society, meaning not complying with laws.
739.
by dools 3y ago
There are millions of people who live totally lawless lives. Sometimes they get imprisoned, also sometimes they get killed or tortured. But living a life of crime is a choice available to everyone.
740.
by dools 3y ago
It’s not impossible at all there are millions of people who live lives of total lawlessness.
741.
by dools 3y ago
There are plenty of organised crime syndicates who live outside of society. They sometimes get caught by law enforcement and sometimes they get caught by rival gangs. I didn’t say you can live outside of society peacefully in such a way tha
742.
by dools 3y ago
Twitter's rebrand to X could also be a nightmare because it's fucking dumb.
743.
by dools 3y ago
On the one hand, we have digital watches. On the other hand, we may be about to bring about our own extinction and I'm willing to bet squid will be around no matter how much surface warming and sea level rise there is. Squid could well
744.
by dools 3y ago
There doesn't really have to be a moral basis nor does there have to be consent. You can refuse, and you can choose to live outside of society. That might be very difficult, but you have the choice. For many, society doesn't provi
745.
by dools 3y ago
So like, if you wrote a journal detailing a bunch of crimes and/or criminal motives, you don't think that journal should be admissable as evidence in a criminal proceeding? Nor do you think that a warrant should be capable of gran
746.
by dools 3y ago
Yes I spend far less time reading stack overflow answers now that I have GPT4. However GPT4 is occasionally still inadequate so I certainly hope SO sticks around, it is a tremendous resource.
747.
by dools 3y ago
> Yes -- once, like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. But for creating a highly successful company twice, luck can't be a similarly major explanation, since it isn't "bound to happen" It totally is bound to happen to someone.
748.
by dools 3y ago
It's going to the Wikipedia page about x.com for me. EDIT: oh wait my browser did that. X.com now goes to Twitter. So now a sizeable portion of people who try to go to x.com is going to go to the Wikipedia page for x.com I guess. Also
749.
by dools 3y ago
Can't wait to X about this and re-X other people's X's too. Maybe I'll sub-X or quote-X a few too. Looking forward also to the news outlets having to talk about famous people and politicians having X'd about a topic
750.
by dools 3y ago
There are like 8b people in the world. With that many people trying so many things, someone is bound to be successful. Elon was in the right place at the right time with his first big exit, which compounds to create additional opportunity,

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