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by dxdm 1y ago
I'm not arguing either side, but I'd like to note that human societies have been drawing various lines dealing with the legal and ethical issues surrounding the death of other people in various stages of age, competency and guilt,
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by dxdm 1y ago
> Not to be mean, but this has the trifecta of amateur programming But you are being mean. Also, the guy who wrote the article is no amateur, but a seasoned veteran who's likely been storing floats in files for decades. Check him ou
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by dxdm 1y ago
Just piling on to say it's super obvious to me, and I didn't even know of this meme before.
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by dxdm 1y ago
OP clearly (to borrow your choice of word) wants to express that they thought people simply learn how to find information by simply using a search engine over time, just like you can become proficient in other activities by repeatedly doing
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by dxdm 1y ago
Oh yes, people could be more level-headed and write more level-headed comments instead of emotional knee-jerk ones. But you know what? In this thread, you are one of them. I read what you wrote and I see pre-conceived notions about what is
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by dxdm 1y ago
> It's the literal definition of virtue signaling You seem to think people are responding here the way they are merely for social standing. At least, that's what virtue signaling is at its core, having looked at some definition
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by dxdm 1y ago
I don't perceive this as virtue signalling, this is your own slightly uncharitable interpretation. People are responding to what they perceive as bullying in line with what looks like extremely heavy-handee sales tactics that do not se
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by dxdm 1y ago
I don't think you can conclude from overall performance of a complex system that a particular aspect of it (the way of electrifying tracks) is done wrong. From what I understand, the problems in the German railway network stem predomin
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by dxdm 1y ago
> Here's "a thing that happened" vs "here's a tall tale" means whatever message is approached very differently. I agree. I meant to point out that tales can be entertaining and/or instructional, too, ev
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by dxdm 1y ago
It is good to be able to recognize charming tales and other biases and influences in a narrative. Having them pointed out counteracts the readiness of people to take things at face value. Knowing that something is a tale does not have to ta
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by dxdm 1y ago
Yes, the contrast of the code examples is not great. Grey on grey, light pastels and orange does not combine into an easy-to-read color palette for me.
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by dxdm 1y ago
I don't think that public transportation should strive to price out people of lesser means to fix demand vs supply problems. That's what Uber is for. Of course it's fine to give people an incentive to ride outside of peak hou
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by dxdm 1y ago
For me, most commonly ChatGPT hallucinates configuration options and command line arguments for common tools and frameworks.
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by dxdm 1y ago
Replacing expert opinion with engagement-baiting content from feed machines and hallucinating matrices seems to me is a part of the problem, and not the solution. Especially using TikTok to try and improve mental health issues seems a bit l
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by dxdm 1y ago
> Again, it’s probably pointless but it’s an interesting thought exercise. Coming up with ad-hoc solutions is easy, especially the less you know about a complex system and its constraints. I'd say it's not an interesting exerci
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by dxdm 1y ago
Jankee seems like a perfectly janky demonym.
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by dxdm 1y ago
I can relate. Never played EQ, though. Here's a cheers and a smile for you and everybody else who knows what that feels like.
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by dxdm 1y ago
The point is that more, different, better and cheaper options might exist. The fact that people are still willing to trade in a large captured market does not mean that competition is not greatly distorted in favor of the market's owne
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by dxdm 1y ago
Isn't reading more like pattern recognition than parsing letter-for-letter? It seems to work like that for me. There's also the somewhat famous text where each word's letters are jumbled and people can still read it fluently.
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by dxdm 1y ago
Of course it's nicer to get stuff for free. Leeching is leeching, though, no matter how you try to justify it. Maybe you can find some alternative way to support the creators of the content you seem to be enjoying.
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by dxdm 1y ago
At which point, if it ever gets to that, you're free to stop paying them. I do not understand what point you're making here.
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by dxdm 1y ago
I, as a human, enjoyed the flavor of this phrase, and I applaud this stylistic choice.
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by dxdm 1y ago
> Nobody is evil, they just have different interests and viewpoints. If you're arguing a fairy-tale definition of "evil" as an inherent property were people do evil for evil's sake, or simply can't help it, sure
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by dxdm 2y ago
Are you really trying to say that people should not protest, unless they are the overwhelming majority or easily ignored, because their protest will (or even just might) turn into a civil war?
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by dxdm 2y ago
Of course, but then let's not knock the OP article for covering a different subset of testable states, in a way that will need no adjusting for future schema changes, while still preventing the actual problem.
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by dxdm 2y ago
You're just over-generalizing the problem into something you will not be able to solve by proving that a migration works for a _specific_ arbitrary state.
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by dxdm 2y ago
> Then what's the issue or purpose? To not use a thing that symbolizes the indiscriminate incarceration of innocent people as some clipart for an article about oncall. It's in bad taste, and also the wrong metaphor, and it send
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by dxdm 2y ago
It's not just that people don't want to waste an investment into learning something; that investment can actually enable you way more than a more easily accessible interaction method, and you stick to it because it's _better_
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by dxdm 2y ago
What I want to say about the UX is that it is so annoying to me that I don't like dealing with the program at all. If something is so clunky that it seems to get in the way more than enabling me as a user, then I will find alternatives
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by dxdm 2y ago
Thanks for providing your perspective and a bit of backstory. It's interesting for me to hear from someone with such a different point of view. It certainly gives more nuance to the topic.

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