ergonaught

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by ergonaught 1y ago
A huge advantage for these services is that I don’t ever have to meet you in person. Availability for assistance is great, but otherwise I have zero desire to encounter you, as a “consumer”.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
I do believe that smartphones will eventually be recognized as one of the worst things the species did to itself, though it isn't the fault of the phones, "obviously".
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by ergonaught 1y ago
They shouldn't be trusted for any number of reasons, but the need for social systems to adapt to reality isn't their fault.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
My mom taught me how to crochet when I was a young boy and every now and then I still get out the yarn and pass some time. Even without attempting to make anything specific, it's quite engaging while simultaneously relaxing.
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by ergonaught 1y ago
I can only assume the author omitted context. ex: seems to be primarily expressing sympathy with complaining/venting, particularly when it is about another department or higher level within the company. It is commiseration, but without
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by ergonaught 1y ago
> unhappy people generally deliver shitty work I believe one suggestion the author likely intended but didn't make was that "commiseration" does not create happy people. It may deepen trench bonding, but it doesn't in
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by ergonaught 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
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by ergonaught 1y ago
1. Ignore lists of 101 anything.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Yeah. The 40% seems like the interesting bit.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Just telling it "Avoid upward inflection" or "Use a flat tone" prevents the lilt for me. Perhaps it doesn't "stick"? Perhaps it varies by voice.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
> There's some irony, is there not There is not.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
When Google's results are garbage I will sometimes ChatGPT or others. This is increasing, but that has more to do with Google producing ever worsening results than any desire to use LLMs to "search". Google wants to show me p
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I thought my mom decided for reasons lost to me that I should have a computer, and bought one for me in 1982 or so, but according to her it was entirely my idea. No clue what prompted it. Perhaps reading science fiction. Precisely zero infl
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by ergonaught 2y ago
> Packaging and deployment will soon be solved problems ... I hope so. Every time I engage in a "Why I began using Go aeons ago" conversation, half of the motivation was this. The reason I stopped engaging in them is because mo
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by ergonaught 2y ago
There is published research demonstrating the effect, but sure, snark your way into your own confirmation bias. Why not? The idea that humans in general actually do any thinking is demonstrably false.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
They recognized what was coming and knelt rather than having their balls busted. Also, they're already wealthy, they have what matters in the foreseeable future. This is unequivocally not an endorsement of their choices.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Third sentence on the page. Third sentence.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I’m sure that’s a factor, however we need to probably also acknowledge that “younger people” (whether developers or managers or etc) lack exposure to things that were genuinely better previously (and where technology is concerned there are
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by ergonaught 2y ago
This project uses Ebitengine, itself.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
You are confronted with automation. Individuals who have to do work in order to use your content to do work to create their own content is qualitatively different than automation trivially doing whatever.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
If acknowledging my opinion was dated based on older experiences constitutes “unsupported FUD”, well, have fun with the life experiences that attitude produces for you.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
O3 is a bad idea if the package is important. While that’s a dated opinion based on older experiences (Gentoo, various server software, etc), I suspect it’s still the easiest way to get exposed to compiler bugs.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
In practice, this sort of thing amounts to proclaiming lower primate tribal dynamics “human skills” and enabling them rather than supplanting or engineering around them. Sure, you’re more effective in the context of the game if you play the
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Most people I know using it were using insurance, so paying much less than that, however for many of them the insurance companies are dropping coverage for it. That had pushed some to the compounding, and thus ozempocalypse as that avenue i
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I’ve never been able to overcome general “hostility” toward Microsoft to really learn it. I like C# as a language, and think it does a better job of being “a better C++” than Java, but can’t get past it.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
No, but there there is a strangely prominent belief that "starring" a repo is supposed to convey a signal of some sort. I suppose people who didn't experience life without 'social media' lack a mental model to under
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by ergonaught 2y ago
> Flying somewhat in the face of the 1995 closure of the Star Gate program, an increasing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies seem to be positively addressing the cognitive dissonance that psychic (psi) related phenomena have enge
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by ergonaught 2y ago
If anything I think I like programming more in my mid 50s than in my teens/twenties/etc. It’s my desire to be exploited by uncaring corporate greed that has starkly diminished over the years. Maybe that’s what the author meant abo
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by ergonaught 2y ago
Of course, and that is why I repeated that I hadn’t bothered to read it before writing. Just sharing something I experienced.
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by ergonaught 2y ago
I haven't read it. The claim is silly. In 1992 a Calculus I professor showed me the coursework he was allowed to cover that year and the coursework he covered in 1982. It was 5-10%. He was forced to grade on a curve because the departm

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