joquarky

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by joquarky 6mo ago
Yes, this is what most people do. If you don't know people like this, then try visiting a large church.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
You're assuming most people think critically.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
The government entities that can actually do anything are only reactionary now.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> You're going to get all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits. In my 50 years of living this has always been the rule, not the exception whenever politics and technology collide.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Define ego
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Which one?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
How can something inexplicable like consciousness be considered "degraded"?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I have latest Android on the Pixel 8. I just checked and found it under Settings > Battery > Battery Health It specifically has an option for 80% (const) or an "Adaptive Charge" predictive algorithm that charges to 80% and t
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by joquarky 6mo ago
That's a 24% change which is well above the threshold of significance.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
They don't get that removing all slack from a system makes it brittle.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
This is like resoving a plot with "it was all just a dream". Which is fine, but you only get one; and people will invest less in future stories knowing they have a higher chance of resolving cheaply.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
At least a quarter of the population applies this to non-fiction as well.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
The former can't afford lawyers.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
It can't be observed, but it affects all these things. This reminds me of arguments on the alt.athiesm newsgroup back in the day.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
One table at the core of an S&P500 product I briefly worked on will always be named "attornies" because somehow nobody caught it early on.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
The people who outsource their thinking often wind up in the same circles.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
FOMO burnout is real.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
That's a huge assumption for many people.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
The same thing happens with news about the stock market.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I can tell you've never worked on government software.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
That's all fine until you learn about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Then don't complain.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> you should care Why should I care? The world is full of false narratives. How can I have the bandwidth to care about everything all of the time? I swear that more than half of the complaining that I find here comes from priveledged pe
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Idealism ≠ Reality Fuck I hate being old and having to be on this side now.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Who gets to write the regulations?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
What's it like living without worry?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
This is what happens when companies become so nepotistic that they only believe in their own bullshit. "Can they really breathe fire or did we make that up?"
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by joquarky 6mo ago
In my observation, this is becoming more common over time. The "boss" is often not a promoted engineer, but an MBA brought in to "manage" engineers. Engineering is where idealism hits reality, and the increasingly undisc
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I agree on all but the first. The signal:noise is now much lower for discovery of high quality art, but that art is still being made by people.

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