irjustin

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by irjustin 3y ago
This is super awesome! The trouble I ran into was after eating the ghost, the spawn point of the new ghost was too close to my current position and simply sped over me. With this and all the considerations you've noted above, I'd
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by irjustin 3y ago
Kind of reminds me of Data.
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by irjustin 3y ago
> faster, faster, faster. Everything is about speed. When will things be about quality? Ironically, quality is the enemy of a startup. You can only do quality once you've got Product Market Fit (very very subjective thing, i underst
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by irjustin 3y ago
I _love_ Japanese dedication to craft; really any hyper-focused efforts, but i digress. The problem that I have with this of course is families who cannot afford these really well made pieces of gear (touched on at the end of the article) a
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by irjustin 3y ago
Thanks for the longer writeup, I appreciate it. It'll take me some time to digest the concepts.
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by irjustin 3y ago
> So, as a blunt statement - your experience is typical. That is, it's average. Definitely a fair judgement and would agree that this constitutes poor architecting on many many companies' parts including ones that I've bee
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by irjustin 3y ago
> This strikes me as overly cynical. > My current job is working with around 20 other engineers on an extremely bloated and coupled monolith. I'd love to be able to separate myself and my team from others by an agreed-upon interf
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by irjustin 3y ago
> Modern cars are much, much more reliable and durable than ones built at any time in the past. Forget "durability" - safety is paramount. Those old cars were tanks, simpler, last longer and easier to repair but absolute death
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by irjustin 3y ago
> De-centralize and de-nationalize schooling. It's clear the feds have no idea how to make the education system work. Let the states have ~50 different curricula, or individual schools to have ~hundreds or ~thousands of different cu
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by irjustin 3y ago
This has been a huge contention point of Common Core and why so many kids had such huge problems with the overall test. Hard questions that seem/potentially-are vague, but are hard questions first. Personally, I'm a big fan of wha
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by irjustin 3y ago
Because it has a clear target and a very defined line. They can't keep doing it, that's the biggest part it stops. Mass surveillance has a definition[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#:
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by irjustin 3y ago
It happens in the US for worker's comp, but that's if you lose an arm. Pretty hard to fake that. Mental health, "relatively easy" to fake esp if there's a lot of money waiting for you on the other-side if you get it
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by irjustin 3y ago
This protects the pilot pretty well, but this leaves the airline open to some pretty crazy fraud, no?
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by irjustin 3y ago
> make mental health non-reportable to the aviation authorities. Instead, the shrink can report if they think there is an issue to public safety, as they would currently do for patients at risk of harming the public. Put yourself in a pi
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by irjustin 3y ago
This is terrible for everyone involved. I have zero idea what the solution is. [Edit] After a little thought, honestly, automate the whole thing. Yes it removes an entire industry, but progress?
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by irjustin 3y ago
> Does the (real or perceived) need for immediacy justify the incredible level of invasiveness of this mass surveillance? "mass surveillance" this is not; invasive - absolutely. What you're proposing, if I was a woman (I a
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by irjustin 3y ago
> If only there were any less invasive way to determine biological relationship between a mother and a newborn. There isn't if you're looking for a fast answer.
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by irjustin 3y ago
Ah got it. You've got a weird requirement for steelman arguments.
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by irjustin 3y ago
Wait... Why?
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by irjustin 3y ago
Was steelmanning what I quoted which was not the OP.
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by irjustin 3y ago
> Any usage on your part is an investment in the company. Of course you would feel entitled to know why they are ceasing effective immediately Going with the Steelman path - This is true if I sincerely believed in the company, likely pro
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by irjustin 3y ago
yes, agreed.... but we're talking about being owed an explanation - i think you missed that part of this thread.
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by irjustin 3y ago
> It matters a lot if the team goes on to found some other product that will go away in 3 years. You follow team members' track records and avoid products based on who is there? Just trying to point out how unrealistic this logic ac
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by irjustin 3y ago
> To me, it only communicates that the issues were embarrassing, inconvenient, or otherwise do not shine a good light. > Am I reading too much into this, or does this kind of pithy announcement usually hide skeletons? Genuinely curiou
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by irjustin 3y ago
Thanks I appreciate the deeper explanation. For discussion, using MSFT vs US as the central point, it seems as if US was arguing that Windows and IE were "one and the same" or at least inseparable as concepts while the US gov said
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by irjustin 3y ago
This is conflating problems. This thread is about asking the government to step in to allow 3rd party devices into iMessage, which is decidedly outside of SMS, but gov won't step in because iMessage isn't a monopoly on messaging n
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by irjustin 3y ago
This is awesome to see - always support new options tackling big fundamental systems. I haven't looked at Ninja CRUD in detail, but I want to tell you about the pain points of DRF that we have and hopefully that can help you in you jou
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by irjustin 3y ago
thanks I appreciate the link. Looks like the one we're interested in this thread is Option 4 (also 5b to cover other things like granite). They did a pretty good laying out the details.
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by irjustin 3y ago
Agreed - I'm surprised the Aussie version of OSHA isn't the one taking care of this problem. I feel really bad for the early workers who didn't know getting affected. That's downright terrible. But I imagine there's
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by irjustin 3y ago
I'm super excited by all these new prospects. With Starship and ..... SLS...... anyway.... coming online I'm extremely excited at the prospects of reusing JWST concepts/tech on larger arrays or larger single mirrors. A whole

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