kempbellt

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by kempbellt 6y ago
I'm not so sure it's a conflation. Having a single app store makes for a more consistent user experience when moving from device to device. You can tell people about apps and they know how and where to get them. See an app you lik
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by kempbellt 6y ago
"Apple has lots of money so they can afford to give some of it away because we want them to" is not an argument that Epic can take to court, and it isn't a great argument to support adding app stores. As an iPhone user I pref
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by kempbellt 6y ago
If your status is "Online" it gives the impression that you are simply online, sure. If you are "Online" on an team-based instant messenger application, it also gives a certain impression... Life happens, focus on work h
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by kempbellt 6y ago
No, the bullshit copout is showing that you are available when you are not, to give the illusion that you are working <- which more a cultural issue than being disrespectful of people's time in my opinion. I have nothing but respect
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Slack sets you to "Away/Offline" after 10 minutes of inactivity by default, and by "relatively quickly" I mean, within an hour or two. If you can't close Slack or update your status to let people know you are u
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by kempbellt 6y ago
This is a common theme in my workplace. Especially with everyone working remote and odd hours these days. We use both email and Slack, but most conversations tend to be asynchronous regardless and I frequently wonder why we even have an in
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by kempbellt 6y ago
I wouldn't. And I'm sure many others wouldn't either for similar reasons. Public transportation is great and I love using it when it makes sense, but in many cities it does not compete with the convenience and security of hav
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by kempbellt 6y ago
These boards are designed to run whatever script you flash to it in a loop and will do so as long as the board has power. The script your write is the operating system. Think: relatively simple, dedicated, repeatable applications (if&#x2F
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by kempbellt 6y ago
TIL: smile.amazon.com and just added Signal Technology Foundation. Thanks! Note: Signal Foundation is officially "Signal Technology Foundation", so this appears to be the correct recipient in the list on Amazon. Hopefully someone
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Your shameless self-advocation for your opinion here, and use of caps to YELL your point makes it seem like you disagree with...yourself? "We" call this cognitive dissonance. Arguing that shame is good, while demonstrating the opp
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> absolutely not true Only the Sith deal in absolutes. > I feel obstructive amounts of shame, but I fought that and asked for a lower rent on my lease, and I got it. Genuinely: congrats. Self-advocation is extremely rewarding, and som
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Only if there's some magical elemental material that exists in one place and not in another and just has to be shipped... As someone's who has gotten into 3D printing lately (it's super cheap now...), I'm still wrappin
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> Shame - is good Gotta shamelessly disagree with you on this one. Shame serves only to erode morale and damages society more as a whole. It turns the world into nothing more than a petty blame-game whereby everything comes to a halt bec
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Piggybacking on @flatline's comment: AWS is great for hobby projects as well. The beautiful thing is that AWS has free tiers for a lot of their services, so you can play around without committing much (if any) money. Check out https:&
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by kempbellt 6y ago
"AWS Proton: A one-stop-shop for managing your CodeDeploy, EKS, and CloudFormation and Lambda assets - providing a single place to monitor the state of your infrastructure and role out updates to your code" ^ understandable (or at
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Literally nothing in that sentence explains what Proton really does, how people will use it, or what problem it solves. What "different tools"? What kind of "infrastructure provisioning"? Code deployments from where, and
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by kempbellt 6y ago
And it costs even more if you need that Lambda function to have access to the internet. A possibly useful comparison: A Raspberry Pi 3 (~6.5 watts) costs $6.83 per year to run full-time (at 12 cents per kWh). You get a full computer with mu
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by kempbellt 6y ago
It would be better to glob them together for a space station to repurpose the materials. A lot of time, energy and money is spent getting material into orbit. No sense wasting it, unless it's completely useless. Then de-orbiting in the
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by kempbellt 6y ago
The article probably has more value than my comment.
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by kempbellt 6y ago
It holds enough sway that any time a conversation about veganism comes up, I find it easy to point out the flaws, again . Beyond that, it holds incredibly little. For a short while I dated a vegan, and that was the most veganism has had an
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Are people actually asking for these things? As in, en masse, and in general? Or is it a loud and frustrated few, suggesting that "people want this"? I genuinely believe that there are a few people who have raised the above conc
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by kempbellt 6y ago
I don't find it rude to point out that you asked for citation in this exact thread, and then didn't provide any yourself while making some pretty serious claims. Thank you for the citations. These make a very strong case for showi
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by kempbellt 6y ago
Individuals have all kinds of reasons for doing the things that they do, which is why I wouldn't use the phrase "vegans in general", and why I haven't addressed my comments to vegans at all. Veganism , however, has st
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by kempbellt 6y ago
I'm not sure you understand how citation works. A first-hand account of farmers' living conditions in your local area isn't a reliable source that shows that there are "whole continents where people are treated as commod
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I interpret OPs point to be one that highlights the already existing Nirvana Fallacy that is the core of idealistic veganism. My analogy adds directly to that point.
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To quote you : > There is a whole lot of citation needed on this reply
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by kempbellt 6y ago
The cognitive dissonance is the perfectionist idealism of veganism, and the assumed "ethical superiority" that constantly gets thrown around while taking zero constructive criticism that the people promoting it are in fact, living
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> Vegans don't face any such dilemma. This is such hand-wavy bullshit. It's such a lazy response to OPs point... Are humans animals? If so, should we not consume the products that humans create, in order to achieve perfect vega
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by kempbellt 6y ago
This is a reducto ad absurdum takeaway, but I wonder if at some point will we consider the humans required to create said food, part of the "animals treated as commodities"? Unless humans are somehow exempt from the list, I don&
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by kempbellt 6y ago
> No, it's literally not. Yes, it literally is. It's a remote-accessible listening device, controllable by someone who is not you. By any classical definition, this is a spy device... > Yes, the argument that anybody who

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