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by dxdm 10mo ago
Of course it is human nature. The question is what parts of human nature get catered to and amplified, and by how much.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> The confusing part is that modern physics is so unbelievably successful and useful for technology - if the underlying theory was way off, how could the tech work? Who says "way" off? It's not complete to explain everythi
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Very nice README, too.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Enforcement should live in CI. Into people's dev environments, you put opt-in "enablement" that makes work easier in most cases, and gets out of the way otherwise.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Stop using flake8 and use ruff instead. It's made by the same folks that make uv.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
It is an honored tradition. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/295674/origin-of...
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> The problem is, I don't recognise it has ever been a big thing. This is not a problem. Or rather, it is not a problem in the way that I think you mean. Em dashes do not need to be a big thing to be useful, which they are; they als
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> It’s pretty easy so I’m always baffled by people who have thousands of emails in their inbox. Because it's easiER to have thousands of emails in your inbox. Half-jokes aside, it's not as easy for everyone. I can speak only fo
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> customer success manager These words are so funny and so sad at the same time. Sorry for going off on a tangent, but seeing them used together unironically always has a fingernails-on-chalkboard effect on me. I know you didn't inv
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Merry Christmas to you. You are not entirely alone, in the sense that other people have gone through loss and hardship and have come out of it eventually, better, happier, and stronger. Also, there are strangers like me who wish you well. I
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by dxdm 10mo ago
idkfa iddqd idspispopd This is etched into my mind.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
I know nothing about any of this and I am surprised to learn that something that is apparently considered to be permanent is stored in something as ephemeral as a browser cookie, and then causes problems if deleted. At least this is how I u
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by dxdm 10mo ago
That's a good summary of the immediate drawbacks of putting network calls between different parts of the system. You're also right to point out that I gave no good reason why you might want to to incur this overhead. So what'
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Diagnosing "failure" in other people is indeed rude, even if you privately consider it true and an appropriate characterization. It's worse if you do that after jumping to the conclusion that somebody else has not considered
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> All of this arises from your failure to question this basic assumption though, doesn't it? Haha, no. "All of this" is a scenario I consider quite realistic in terms of what needs to happen. The question is, how should yo
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> If a user request is hitting that many things, in my view, that is a deeply broken architecture. Things can add up quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if some requests touch a lot of bases. Here's an example: a user wants to sta
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by dxdm 10mo ago
(Edit to add TLDR: I'm going to put some context around "Hitlers good move" of "founding Volkswagen". But first I am going to explain my original comment and apologize for scrooge-ifying you.) I made that quip becau
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by dxdm 10mo ago
no u
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by dxdm 10mo ago
I think it's a sign that you're being visited by the Ghost of Politics Present. ;) Rf.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_of_Christmas_Present
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by dxdm 10mo ago
This is a similarly bizarre claim, for the same reasons as before. You have not really thought about how representative democracy works, or you misunderstand or wilfully misrepresent it. In the end, your argument can be used against the oth
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> So, if the news say "it was home invasion" is that enough to trust and believe it was home invasion? Obviously not. It matters what surrounding facts and circumstances are reported, how extraordinary they are, how they are kn
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Asking questions is not enough, because there is an unlimited supply of them. You can keep asking question after question to sustain endless doubt or to avoid certain conclusions. Questions alone are not productive. Asking questions and bei
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> Most Europeans seem to be fine being under the EU where they don’t get to vote those bureaucrats in. The political power in the EU comes from the national governments (directly and via the European commission) and the EU parliament. Th
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Laws against the "promotion of homosexuality" are how public support and education are suppressed, and could easily extend to transsexuality if that's not included already.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> Honest question: was an LLM involved in writing this comment? The em-dash style stood out to me The use of em dashes looks pretty natural to me. This is how they were used before LLMs, and what LLMs learned from. Em dashes have a usefu
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by dxdm 10mo ago
As unnecessarily harsh as it was, the original comment said or implied nothing of the sort. If anything, it seems to be you who is suffering from an affliction not unlike the one you wanted to recognize in somebody else.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
> We should just start shooting down anything big enough to need a transponder that is not using one. Doesn't matter who's in it, doesn't matter what it's for. Maximum destructive, irreversible response. Even if you t
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by dxdm 10mo ago
It's been a while, but I found for me personally, that Perl flows while writing it, but stops flowing when reading the same code after some time has passed. It was good for getting things done once, but no fun to maintain and adapt - a
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by dxdm 10mo ago
"Love", the word, can stand for so many more or less related concepts. Is it something we feel? Is it something we do? We're always picking a nebulous definition, a different one each of us, different ones at different times.
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by dxdm 10mo ago
Of course there is a difference between anger and love. Either one can be present without the other, and that they can sometimes mix and play off each other does not change that they are different. You are playing around with words to prete

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