drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Just showing up" can mean dealing with all the daily annoyances. https://www.inc.com/danny-iny/woody-allen-said-show-up-to-su... If it's not hard, why can't everyone seem to do it? I have a friend
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I guess it serves some evolutionary purpose, since it's so deeply ingrained. > We've done quite well with these people among us so far, despite them always, since the dawn of humanity, being wrong. Also known as "a ju
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Would you honestly prefer someone calling it en-sit-ification, combining "cleverness" with a Doctorow meme? Right. I didn't think so. Also, the sofas of the USSR are not relevant to the conversation any more than pre-capitali
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Not sure that I pickup the nuance If the use of "pickup" instead of "pick up" was intentional, that's hilarious.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> But who is going to risk not invest on what could be another possible major breakthrough in 3 to 5 years? 3 to 5 years is an awful lot of quarters . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> misunderstanding of what it means And in response, people will complain that they're being dismissed with "you're doing it wrong!" Because that happens with everything in programmer-land.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Side effects" are not the same as "less important traits." Side effects are usually unrelated or unwanted.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I can steal food. while I can also steal medicine, I don't have the expertise as a doctor or pharmacist, so I'm limited to self-diagnosis and pre-packaged medicines.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That explanation neatly leaves out governments no longer subsidizing education like they used to or state universities being forced to be "for profit" to survive. I can only speak for what's happened in the US and have no exp
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The other day there was an article about how toxoplasma gondii infection correlates with leadership in wolves, too. https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-happens-to-wo...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Reagan era neoliberalism Personally, I loathe Ronald Reagan, but neoliberalism and deregulation started in the US under the Carter administration.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Science is corrupted by funding. Scientists are people and people are swayed by influence, power, and politics. Any advice we get has to be understood in that context. We don't get "great advice" regardless of whether scienti
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> It feels so constrained and like I'm in school again. When I was in school I did most of my productive work at home.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
To lower legal costs, ask an Internet forum of randos, including possibly lawyers? That's terrible advice.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
>> I can't show you "green" unless I show you a green thing. > Green is quite literally a figment of our imagination All words are made up, so in that sense "figments of imagination." Green is a shared conc
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The article has a link to a wonderful Ted Nelson series on YouTube that explores that kind of thing in more depth: Computers for Cynics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk&list=PLlTLLSskDv...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If the back room had a "nonconsensual" shelf, it was always empty . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
a.k.a. "telemetry" Anything dedicated to "what deployed" and not "WTF does it mean to the business" is less than useless.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Have trodden?" If you're using verbs like "to trod" you could do better. Also, all of the jerks here who want to say you should have used their tech stacks should STFU.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If that interests you, you might enjoy the weekly radio show Music of Mind Control on WFMU. Show's archives here: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/MW
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The Big Bang Theory was incredibly offensive anti-intellectualism. Laughing at nerds does not make one a nerd.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
When I was a kid, nerds were bookish and into math and the arts and liked seeing how different ideas and disciplines worked together. Auto mechanic who's into 18th century literature and likes to explain how the cars are "just lik
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> I think the “full stack” trend is harmful. Please tell us why you think it's harmful. I don't see the harm in "too much to learn." That just sounds like software work to me. When people specialize, the different spe
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> to continue his general genocidal douchebaggery. Both "genocide" and "continuing a genocide" suggest intent that we don't have evidence to support. From all we can tell, his intent was to trade and to preach.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> "Shift left" is a relatively hot, relatively new catchall bizterm that typically makes one visualize pushing a workload "upstream" from its current place in the flow. I've been shifting left (and using those wo
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by drewcoo 2y ago
To those who constantly claim ChatGPT is "like an intern," just how low are the standards for interns?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That's always been "pivot," the "strategic" hail Mary play . . . just now with AI!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sure, but this is the US and they hadn't tried it on a contained black population yet . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Unless, I'm mistaken, this was at Pruitt-Igoe, the first US housing project, torn down in the 70s. The testing was long thought to be some kind of "conspiracy theory," which is a wonderful way to dismiss any claims of officia
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> If I'm not around, then all those things either don't get done That suggests at least one of: 1. a need to delegate more so that reports can be more autonomous 2. a need to groom replacements internally If someone has a well-

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