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by gerbilly 7y ago
No I'm not often surprised, but it is interesting to run across someone who thinks so differently from me. In fact I've had a great deal of experience with a person exhibiting what seems like a similar cluster of behaviours. Call
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I'm not sure how you rationalize stating falsehood as any kind of "acceptable journalistic practice" You're just being obtuse¹ now, it's such a reasonable inference given the circumstances that it's petty
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I did read your post, and I disagree, the writer presented the speculation of the two main characters¹ as to the nature of the 'relationship' between the prison warden and Bernice. Basically, the writer related to us what those tw
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by gerbilly 7y ago
As if there ever could be a conviction of rape against a white prison warden raping a black inmate.¹ The standard of proof that you are demanding here is disingenuous. Also, I noticed that on this site people have a profound misunderstandin
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by gerbilly 7y ago
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard¹ 1: Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard )
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by gerbilly 7y ago
You don't need to get all the customers, you just have to find your customers. As long as you find enough of them, you'll be ok. You are wise to avoid trying to make an everything for everyone app. No one will want to use it.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
This is called induced 'demand'¹, and it is why I love biking in downtown. I like to play a game where I pick a distinctive car 3 blocks ahead, and see if I can catch up to it and pass it. If the car does not turn off the road, I
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It might be nicer if they curated more up to date versions instead, but of course it's easier to remove things than to carefully manage dependencies. I'm not a big fan of brew however. Last time I checked it didn't seem to w
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah it seems the nacirema had a 'font' of dihydrogen monoxide which they used in their ablution rituals. Can you imagine rubbing that stuff all over your skin?
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Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World(nytimes.com)
546 points by gerbilly 7y ago|244 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> It seems like it was a class of problems that you have fixed with "good devops process". I'd argue that it probably was a problem at once point, and you improved your devops process to make sure it wasn't. It certai
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> if you can take the time to understand VMs then you can (and should, IMO) take the time to understand how containers work as well I don't see it as VMs vs containers. We have a good devops process to deploy onto our instances, so
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> do you want your process to be isolated, or not. No, not always. Why?. At work I have a few coworkers pushing hard to dockerize (isolate?) everything. This makes debugging when things go wrong a lot harder. I see isolation as one of se
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Freegansim: A Radical Rejection of Consumerism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't think they refuse features because of design aesthetics. Go has many warts already anyway.¹ The design goal for Go seems to be to make a language where there is only one way to express a given algorithm. They are trying to crea
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Then why use it? Is there really nothing better? For me it's good enough for some small tasks. I could find something better, but it's not worth it in some cases.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Except the sneering condescension of the guys behind Go when we make reasonable requests and critiques.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
If it’s so community driven, then why does this issue resonate so much? It seems like we will never hear the end of the apologias about how open Go is. To me that betrays that it’s exactly the opposite. I use Go, it’s useful, but i do so wi
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The US has no food culture, come on they sell cheese in spray cans.¹ Generally food in the US is sold for size, not flavour or nutritional content. For example US roaster chickens are huge but basically live short sick lives and taste bland
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> The sanest people, I think, are those happily unafflicted with ambition — whether for power, wealth, fame or achievement — who want only to work at some useful job, to love someone and to live in a nice place with some wind chimes on t
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It's funny I feel the opposite. I feel Go's 'opinionated' language design insults my intelligence.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> If a study doesn't replicate because society has changed, and so the results, then that study cannot be used to infer things about current society. Not necessarily, again it depends what you mean by replication. For example in the
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> I do not think people understand how bad of shape psychology is in right now, social psychology in particular. Social psychology replication studies tend to be hitting around 20%. Yes I think we do, at least on HN, because anytime any
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by gerbilly 7y ago
There is a parenting style described in the literature, i think it's called the 'deliberate cultivation style'¹, where parents train their kids in test taking almost from the time they are born. In this parenting style, many
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Well maybe the companies should make it easy to extracts and delete people's data? SV is full of people telling themselves how smart they are, and they can't come up with something as simple as this?
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> But I find all hell breaks loose when you want to get a slightly different formatting than what's offered. Then suddenly the entire system becomes something you need to fight against. That's why for anything custom, I prefer
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> pull your head out of the clouds. Wow, that's uncalled for, but moving on. I actually know a lot of journalists, so I'm familiar with the way they work. Even though they don't include hyperlinks, most of them go to great
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by gerbilly 7y ago
In the end you have to decide to trust someone. Who says the link might not be to some sock puppet websites? See: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Fake news gives an advantage to parties who are unconcerned about the truth. This will only remain an advantage as long as we expect messages to contain verifiable facts. We are in a transition period right now, and seem to be headed toward
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I had that setting set to true since before the update. Every site that mentions letterboxing claims this is the setting to use to enable it. However, unless I misunderstand, it does not seem to enable it.

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