farleykr

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by farleykr 4y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Three questions that perfectly sum up the essay of a comment I just wrote.
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by farleykr 4y ago
I don't know that I have any good questions to suggest that you ask yourself but I just want to point out that "average" or "normal" are not pejorative terms. There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing a fine
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by farleykr 4y ago
My personal experience has led me to believe that there’s truly no substitute for reading a lot and writing a lot. But the funny thing is that you may not realize how true that is until you’ve gotten sick and tired of trying to find shortcu
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by farleykr 4y ago
Fair enough. My point is that any time spent communicating in texts, emails, chat apps, etc. diminishes your ability to communicate in meaningful ways. Electronic communication is incapable of fulfilling the requirements for effective commu
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by farleykr 4y ago
I cannot over emphasize how much I don’t want a computer teaching me to talk. The only reason this is a problem is that we’re relying on computers for communication too much in the first place.
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by farleykr 4y ago
> You mean three books, right? Point taken. My goal was to contrast the unsuccessful show with another adaptation that was successful imo.
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by farleykr 4y ago
Story tellers need to do their job to give us compelling characters. We don’t owe them watching an unspecified number of episodes - hours of screen time - to give them a chance to give us something to like about the characters. I liked ever
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by farleykr 4y ago
I am not opposed to that being her prospective character arc but she’s not portrayed that way. There’s nothing to make us like her and from the storytelling and craft perspective there should be. We should at least see her questioning herse
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by farleykr 4y ago
My issue with the show has nothing to do with the “woke” stuff mentioned here. I don’t like it because none of the heroes are likable. All of them have some form of sticking it to the man and doing what they want as their story line. True h
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by farleykr 4y ago
Have there been any studies showing why people are choosing to work from home that you're drawing the "most people" from? Also, home is not a quiet place for some people. I have two kids and my home is absolutely not a qu
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by farleykr 4y ago
Not everyone would have a 1-2 hour commute but I do think shaving that time off is a fine reason to work from home. Or getting to work for a company that's headquartered thousands of miles away. It's why I myself work from home.
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by farleykr 4y ago
I agree with a lot of this. It's about finding the nuance and letting people work in the way that's most effective for their context. There's no reason people shouldn't be able to work from home if they need to. But I
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by farleykr 4y ago
After reading a lot of the comments, it seems like there's a lot of black and white thinking in regards to working from home being an objective improvement over working in an office. For crying out loud, can we inject some nuance into
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by farleykr 4y ago
Working in an office isn't just for people who need someone else to have discipline for them. There are many reason why people could want to be in the office.
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by farleykr 4y ago
Working from home isn't synonymous with a rich social life. Personally, even though I have/had healthy work and personal relationships, I used WFH as an excuse to unhealthily isolate myself for just about all of 2020. Also, I&#x
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by farleykr 4y ago
I think this is true of some (I have suspected it among people I work with too) but there are objective advantages to being in the office just like there are advantages to working from home. For example, asynchronous communication over Sla
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by farleykr 4y ago
Do you think that would cause things to veer back toward a paid model or do you see a third way between straight up FOSS and paid software?
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by farleykr 4y ago
I learned recently, via a Tolkien biography, that this is the Medieval view of the world - that things are always getting worse.
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by farleykr 4y ago
This was the first thing I thought of. I love that the technique relates to the tone and themes of the movie instead of just being a cool effect.
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by farleykr 4y ago
I am totally onboard with helping folks who are handicapped and addressing other issues of disadvantage or injustice. My point is that I don't think it would be useful to try to make the act of strawberry picking itself easier.
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by farleykr 4y ago
I worked manual labor jobs of varying types for the first ten years I was a part of the work force and I experienced many types of suffering during such work, including being driven so hard I passed out and almost losing my foot to a stump
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by farleykr 4y ago
> You posit that humanity will never be able to extract more than a tiny bit of the satisfaction lots of people feel when they are useful to the community. The abilities to feel satisfaction and be useful are not directly linked to elimi
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by farleykr 4y ago
Point taken. But that doesn't mean we can't challenge the idea that hacking is the right approach to any given idea that is posed on this website.
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by farleykr 4y ago
Right, but why not just go out in the field and pick strawberries instead of trying to involve AI and robots? To me this is an area where Ian Malcom’s point about can/should applies.
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by farleykr 4y ago
I see what you’re saying. And I agree it would be nice to remove friction where possible but I think it would happen in very specific, local contexts instead of some revolution around work itself. In some ways work is in and of itself a pro
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by farleykr 4y ago
Why though? I don’t have an issue with your question or the idea of people remotely controlling pressure washers but whats the case for automation over elbow grease? Why do we always feel the need to automate and optimize instead of just be
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by farleykr 4y ago
Yes. That’s what makes it work. I think we sometimes have a perspective that we can optimize the struggle out of everything but that’s simply not true. It’s okay for life and the things we do with our life to be difficult and mundane. They’
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by farleykr 4y ago
I don’t think we’ll ever be able to eliminate friction from “real” work and therein lies the reason why these games are popular. Real work requires sacrifice, sweat, disappointment and all the rest. These games allow you some semblance of t
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by farleykr 4y ago
Fair enough :)
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by farleykr 4y ago
This is an excellent articulation. I’ve read dozens of books and articles about the cons of using technology too much and it’s never quite clicked like it did when I read your shopping analogy. Maybe it has something to do with the fact tha

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