kahmeal

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by kahmeal 10mo ago
> I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but I get a lot more value out of targeted social media ads than I ever did billboards or TV commercials. They actually...show me niche things that are relevant to my interests, that I didn&#x2
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by kahmeal 10mo ago
You're not wrong. Even simple "page hit counters" became a target of manipulation once they were common. Human nature is tough at scale.
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by kahmeal 10mo ago
Facebook then wasn't what facebook is today. The social media of the early internet was largely a digital expansion of otherwise healthy social norms. Then the internet blew up. Now it's more akin to the drug dealers DARE warned u
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by kahmeal 2y ago
I mean that's one of the value propositions these folks have to weigh into their product offerings. At some point you either have a reputation for delivering accurate responses or not and that will dictate who uses it and how much they
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by kahmeal 2y ago
first time?
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by kahmeal 2y ago
Has a LOT to do with how it's configured and what plugins are installed.
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by kahmeal 2y ago
>I say all this as a parent of an almost 6 year old boy, doing everything I can to shield him from the wacky parenting style that seems to be the norm and provide him places of community and activities away from screens. He won’t have a
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by kahmeal 2y ago
As a long time gamer, I can anecdotally corroborate your theory with my early experiences playing FPS games using a dial-up connection. Average ping was about 200ms which allowed for an enjoyable and accurate experience after some adjustmen
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by kahmeal 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but you basically just described good logging practices, yea?
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by kahmeal 2y ago
This entire thread is an epiphany for me and I can vouch your bit as something I share as well.
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by kahmeal 2y ago
Sounds like a great personality type for a platform engineer..
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by kahmeal 3y ago
The only real "trickle down" that actually exists, heh. Invent cool stuff, protect yourself from having it stolen, eventually give into the ridiculous sums the giants will throw at you and pivot with that to your next endeavor.
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by kahmeal 3y ago
The ceremony just undoes the efficiency in most cases; That's the rub.
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by kahmeal 4y ago
You are saying dumb shit.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
I think you missed the point here -- people synonymize googling with searching and therefore aren't choosing to google -- they're choosing to search but ending up using google despite having made no conscious effort to do so (it&#
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by kahmeal 5y ago
All this granular bullshit is entirely too much overhead and an unnecessary layer to "manage" imo. "Tech debt" and handling it should be part of your culture and by default included in the scope of any estimate that touc
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by kahmeal 5y ago
This is tech debt.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
Seem being the key word. The messaging is poor, the idea has quite a bit of merit.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
How daft can you be to think that scale makes no difference? You can drink water and be hydrated or you can drink too much water and die. Scale is critical in determining appropriate rules.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
Sure. Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and any other celebrity do not employ the same nefariously data driven agenda on a scale that begins to come anywhere close to that of Facebook; They are not comparable in this context. Scale is a highly diff
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by kahmeal 5y ago
False equivalence is an easy fallacy to fall prey to -- this is not the same thing. It is similar and in the same domain, but hardly equal.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
Elsewhere at their own expense? Yea that's gonna be a no from me.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
> The Walton family can't throw my in prison. In fact, they can't do much of anything to me besides perhaps denying me a Sam's Club membership. They most certainly can. They simply have no reason or motivation to.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
It's the same as voting. You give everyone a vote because that is the least exploitable, fairest approach given the situation. You don't try to determine who is "most qualified to vote" because you end up with what the r
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by kahmeal 5y ago
This might just end up doing the same thing with extra steps but for me the most effective has been holding breath until it starts to become slightly uncomfortable and then start drinking a full glass of water while allowing myself to take
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by kahmeal 5y ago
push causes the error, the resolving pull creates the merge; the correct resolution has been pointed out as git pull --rebase but most people don't realize this.
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by kahmeal 5y ago
Perhaps satisfaction and contentment are more accurate?
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by kahmeal 5y ago
present day
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by kahmeal 6y ago
Honestly, you're absolutely correct in encouraging an empathetic perspective but I would counter that your dismissing the very common reality of the victimhood mentality being a root cause to a lot of these types of outbursts is a bit
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by kahmeal 6y ago
This, to me, defines the heart of a true DevOps mindset. It's not easy to find this role defined as such, though, and you'll often find yourself fighting to carve it out of a more simplistic definition (i.e. automate stuff) at mos

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