drewcoo

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by drewcoo 1y ago
Probably never. See parent. If all the completely un-unionized industries look terrible consider if there are reasons for that, too. Again, see parent. The US has seen a great deal of anti-communist and anti-socialist and anti-union propaga
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by drewcoo 1y ago
>> The visual arts are now having their Ikea moment. > Ikea didn't kill woodworking/carpentry/joinery. Ikea made build-it-at-home a thing. Ikea is the "first marriage" and the "recently divorced"
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> The US needs to make laws governing how copyright applies to generative AI Ho hum. By the time that happens most AIs will be running in China, most likely. The more restrictive the US laws, the more likely. China is very old, but geopo
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by drewcoo 1y ago
In software, we promote good engineers to management, effectively accelerating the Peter Principle. It doesn't have to be that way. Management skills are not an outgrowth of the skills of the managed, but orthogonal to them. This is si
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Getting a seat in a symphony involves skill. Brian Eno didn't just do rock.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Because good dating apps attract Match.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
And it started as simply rebranded Romneycare (the 2006 MA state plan), so Rs should have found it palatable. And for the first half of Obama's first term, Ds could vote in anything they wanted but we still got a terrible version of a
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by drewcoo 1y ago
You know when a programmer first moves from rote understanding of syntax and running through tutorials into that mode where they're testing the limits of what a new (to them) language can do and how it performs? This reminds me of that
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> If one can be selective about who is “in” and who is “out”, then it’s a social club If one can be selective about who is "in" and who is "out", then one is a leader of the social club. There can be plenty of animosi
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Community and selfishness don't mix well. And with more than 2 co-parents, a quorum might form that excludes you.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The nuclear family is also relatively new. It probably just seemed normal to you if you grew up in it. It was almost certainly not how families worked when your parents or grandparents were kids.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Replacing intrinsic motivation with extrinsic rewards cheapens the activity and makes it less enjoyable. Awarding me badges for brushing my teeth and taking out the trash is a great way to help me do boring tasks. Awarding me badges for hav
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by drewcoo 1y ago
A text record of what happened isn't just useful for new hires, not just useful for async comms, but for people like me who want to be sure we followed along. Spur-of-the-moment phone calls and meetings (especially camera-on ones with
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by drewcoo 1y ago
That moves the problem to "how do we securely manage shared keys." And it adds "how safe are those encrypted secrets [edit: changed from "keys" to more general language] that are committed?" and "what abou
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Quebec would be worse off independent of Canada absolutely Writes someone in English. I don't think everyone would agree.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> They seemed to expect the kids to look up every word they didn't know. Yes. They are students. They should look up any term they do not know. Should they prefer guessing based on context? Just ignoring new terms? Assuming any unkn
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Software employs a lot of typists. We have many strong typists.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
- Throwing shade because other people are building wrong
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I'll just add that I don't want more of the last years of my life. I'd like more of the middle.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
And it would be heartless not to. Those housekeepers need jobs and incomes.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Calculators also ruined the ability to understand and use logarithms (slide rules).
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Ideas are cheap.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Vonnegut already imagined aliens from planet Margo communicating by farting and tap dancing.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Disagree. He was a smug, utterly conservative Catholic who wallowed in his biases, an authoritarian and an anti-semite.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
"New challenges?" "Like any tool?" Impedance mismatch! Also, what is an American pope doing using a word like "defence," which is spelled with an 's' here?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
/me raises hook hand . . . Myrna Loy . . .
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Does the cockpit of a 747 count as "UI" for this task? https://www.popsci.com/747-cockpit-tour-mark-vanhoenacker/
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by drewcoo 1y ago
An age is a long amount of time. "An age" is probably an attempted cleaning-up of "a coon's age." https://grammarist.com/usage/coons-age/
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The senior center a mile away from me has weekly Scrabble afternoons! I was delighted to find out about that after being shocked to know that I'm eligible for membership.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Somewhat ironically, HD killed cinematography. Imagine Wild Strawberries in HD. I think it would seem bleaker. Or Blue Velvet. It would make Blue Velvet creepier. It would also make any Corman film seem classier. HD didn't ruin ci

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