fugalfervor

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by fugalfervor 11mo ago
"anecdotally, some people in my life said something that was measurably true but that I didn't like. I think they're being phony." Who is using motivated reasoning here?
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by fugalfervor 11mo ago
Great, now I can procrastinate longer and still meet deadlines. By accelerating climate change.
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by fugalfervor 11mo ago
> year 4 of mass layoffs in the US (because outsourcing) A lot of the layoffs appear to be about conserving cash for investment in AI. In many cases the jobs that are cut are not backfilled by workers in the US or abroad.
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by fugalfervor 11mo ago
I thought/hoped that's what this thread was about.
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by fugalfervor 11mo ago
This site is hostile to VPNs, so I cannot read this unfortunately.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
A correlation has been established. No causation has been established. You are mistaken.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
Never put salt in your eyes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbegaT5CDfM
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> I found all of the first jobs I had in highschool and just after. 3/3 of my first roles now advertise a minimum salary over twice what I was paid 14-18 years ago. Prices have gone up around 20-30% since then overall so I would hav
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> That all went away with the helicopter parents. I want you to complete that thought. Stay with it. Explain exactly how the helicopter parents are responsible for removing the things you liked in American city recreational parks.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
Mallrats grossed 2 million against a 6 million budget. It wasn't a "hit"
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
That's opting out of notificationse which is subtly different. I'm advocating for something a little different. See if your mind feels less scattered if you don't have any notifications at all. Then allow back in the ones tha
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
On Android/Graphene, I recommend permanently turning on do not disturb and adding apps to the allowlist. Opt in to notifications, rather than opting out.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
That's an anecdote, not a citation. How are you measuring your output before and after you started using Cursor?
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
Interestingly, Elon Musk is also the reason Tesla is no longer successful (experiencing massive drops in sales).
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> Software engineers are pushing a magnitude more code and producing more functional utility and solving more bugs than ever before Citation needed
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The Three Woodworking Joints(youtube.com)
3 points by fugalfervor 1y ago|1 comments
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
Perhaps the transferable skill in hand-tool woodworking with the greatest relevance to a career in programming is this: recognizing when slowing down for precision is called for; perhaps for many of us, the implied converse is more importan
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted for quoting Spaceballs.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
If you read my argument, you will find out what I argued.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
I suggest trying to make life more fair for the citizens of a democracy and you make fun of me. Please proceed with your intimations that I am, what? Gullible? Naiive? You haven't presented a supported argument.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> if you are going to admit that a) people who are not supposed to vote do vote They do. And the system already functions: their votes are caught and discarded. > b) argue that laws to penalize such votes don't work I didn't
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
they should try harder.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> Why is that important to you? I am telling you that people are being prevented from voting. Why is that _not_ important to you? It is important to me because it is not fair.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
> I've never read about a single case of somebody being unable to obtain a government photo ID who was legitimately eligible to vote That doesn't mean your opinion is true. I don't know how much or how widely you read, nor
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
I think you mean "rogue". The "rouge" priestess is a Game of Thrones character.
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
Voter ID laws disproportionately affect a very specific subset of the population, one that reliably skews in one direction on the political spectrum. However, there is no evidence that voter ID laws reduce fraud, nor is there evidence that
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by fugalfervor 1y ago
China is doing just fine resisting the bullying. EU can do the same.
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by fugalfervor 2y ago
_Any_ skill? Great, so I can become a master woodworker ("master any skill") in 30 days. Hello, new career! Perhaps your marketing language is overselling what your software is capable of.
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by fugalfervor 2y ago
"I've decided I don't like the law, so AI companies shouldn't have to follow it. And besides, everybody does it." That's the gist of your argument. Take a moment to consider what can be justified by that same r
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by fugalfervor 2y ago
I read about this on Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.

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