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by gdulli 5y ago
There's some kind of law of conservation of complexity. Often we don't solve it, we just move it around or repackage it.
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I'm internally motivated to do high quality work, but externally motivated to do a high quantity of work. In a low pressure environment I'll do good work but won't create pressure to do the most I possibly can. I don't w
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by gdulli 5y ago
A lot of blogging is shallow or wrong or irrelevant even if it is high quality. Knowledge is free, knowledge alone isn't important or very impressive. We don't get self doubt from not finishing the encyclopedia. You could be in th
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by gdulli 5y ago
In my 20s I had this mindset that I always needed to be learning a new tool or language. After a decade plus of that, I found a tech stack that I liked enough to stick with long term. I didn't plan it that way, I just found one that ma
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by gdulli 5y ago
Same energy as: https://ptrthomas.files.wordpress.com/2006/06/jtrac-callstac... In that the image works equally well as elegance for some, and criticism for others.
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by gdulli 5y ago
A single human driver can't kill other people at scale. Human drivers are predictable in aggregate, from decades of observation of driving patterns. Every single software update has the potential to turn the whole fleet into murder mac
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by gdulli 5y ago
If you're anti-Tesla due to your experience with and observation of their product, legitimate reasons like that, that's not a conflict of interest. You're not starting out with a bias. You're allowed to form an opinion f
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by gdulli 5y ago
That reminded me of this: https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538
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by gdulli 5y ago
Or: https://www.twitter.com/wwwdotyoutube/status/148445664628177...
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by gdulli 5y ago
If you mean Textpad, they released 8 updates in 2021 alone: https://www.textpad.com/news
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by gdulli 5y ago
> easier to buy from the producer’s website and pay shipping You shouldn't even have to do that and pay shipping. For the last 5 years at least I've had luck going to a more trusted vendor like Best Buy or Target which have com
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by gdulli 5y ago
The one you don't throw away after two years because the industry has convinced you that something new is better. But there's a distinction between losing access to SO, which shouldn't be a hardship, and losing access to onli
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by gdulli 5y ago
I'd never seen that meme before, but there's a Bruce Lee quote (maybe apocryphal) that has had a lot of meaning for me ever since I got over the same hump myself. “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, ju
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by gdulli 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Providence, RI | Remote, or partial on-site in Boston or NYC I have 20 years of software engineering experience across contract and employee roles in Boston, Silicon Valley, and southern California. My greatest broad areas of
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by gdulli 5y ago
I just looked at two of those lists and 100% of the options listed were from companies that also make smart TVs, which violates what you said: "you are still giving money to the company that engages in this kind of behavior". I do
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by gdulli 5y ago
I have a Vizio TV that's never been on the internet. I've never opened its apps and don't know what it is I'm avoiding. Given my other product requirements for a TV, eliminating all that have smart apps would probably le
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by gdulli 5y ago
If that's Samsung interjecting onto other apps, that's horrible. I guess if it's Hulu it's still horrible, but feels less chaotic and it's easier to reason about whether the Hulu value prop alone is worthwhile given
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by gdulli 5y ago
Is this a Samsung app that you would never see if you have no interest in smart apps and leave your TV off the internet? Because if so that's easily avoided, Netflix would also profile me and advertise content to me through its app, an
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by gdulli 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Providence, RI | Remote, or partial on-site in Boston or NYC I have 20 years of software engineering experience across contract and employee roles in Boston, Silicon Valley, and southern California. My greatest broad areas of
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by gdulli 5y ago
There have been conspiracies put forth about covid, but with various other vaccine mandates already in existence I don't know how it would ever have made sense to call it a conspiracy that we'd add one more. Nothing's changed
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by gdulli 5y ago
"The best life is one the gods don't notice." - Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
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by gdulli 5y ago
Does the same principle apply to us when we want privacy from Apple?
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The "horse dewormer" aspect is definitely a red herring, while the underlying problem is the choice to self-medicate based on culture war status of vaccines vs. talk-show-host-endorsed drugs. And the inevitable overdoses resulting
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by gdulli 5y ago
This is normal. Not all science is as clean and unambiguous as 1+1=2. There's often judgment and interpretation in science. And that's even before science starts getting turned into policy. It's not our job to be virologists,
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by gdulli 5y ago
I think it was the Galaxy S4 that I had for 4 years, then the S8 for 3. I don't remember if/when updates stopped. I probably only had the phone I bought in 2010 for 2 years because back then they were still subsidizing new phone p
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by gdulli 5y ago
I got an iPhone in 2008 and 2 years later an OS update rendered it too slow to be usable. It annoyed me so much that it became the last Apple product I ever bought. Every non-Apple smartphone I've had since then has remained usable unt
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by gdulli 5y ago
82% of the age-eligible population is either fully vaccinated or has started the process with the first shot.
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by gdulli 5y ago
> why would someone decide for others what they want or don't want? Because economists and others want to assess the state of the economy, which is influenced by whether people have jobs that provide health insurance, savings, secu
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by gdulli 5y ago
I got the vaccine, and I would hate to think that the people protecting us are less willing or able to face minor or imagined danger than I am.
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You just did.

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