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by ketzo 5y ago
And, to wrap around to the original topic, I think social media can really enforce a particular vision of what that ideal conversational partner “”should”” be like, making the disappointment stronger.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, I’m a front end web developer, and I get fucked up about how little I know about backend web development. Embedded programming? Dealing with signals?! God forbid, man. There’s just so much of everything! Terrifying! But fun!
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by ketzo 5y ago
I don’t know. It seems quite different than parenthood. Are these people complaining about something that’s hard-but-worth-it? Or are they regretful participants in a genuinely broken system? Many signs seem to point to the latter. Academia
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by ketzo 5y ago
Something that is not explicitly mentioned in this piece, but that I think is probably a large contributor to why Mr. Buffet found success with this path: It is very difficult to be wrong while you're reading. It's much easier for
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by ketzo 5y ago
Way faster for everyone. Most people are really bad at bagging groceries, and it slows down lines.
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by ketzo 5y ago
This is exactly it, IMO. People are so focused on the VR/AR/"immersion" aspect of the whole metaverse concept – rightfully so, given the Meta keynote – but there's much more to an actual metaverse than some cool gog
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by ketzo 5y ago
I think you’re thinking of “Ask for Angela” or an “Angel Shot”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_for_Angela
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yep, and Dota’s got a fucking miserable community, too. They have voice chat amongst teammates, though, which totally changes the way people communicate. Toxicity is an online communication problem, and particularly a multiplayer videogam
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by ketzo 5y ago
The point is not to shield people from the flame of their opponents. /mute exists, and in fact, you already have to opt in to having /all displayed in the first place. The point of this change is to stop people from engaging .
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by ketzo 5y ago
So, as someone with a lot of very strong opinions about both League of Legends and online communication, I am wildly in favor of this decision. The problem with all-chat in League of Legends, particularly in the ranked queue, is that it c
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by ketzo 5y ago
Wow, the fact that `as const` has such a meaningful difference from a variable declared as `const` seems... not great. Surely they could have gone with, like, `final` or `immutable` instead..? I'm sure they had their reasons. But seems
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by ketzo 5y ago
Ok, the comments that this is a little hard to read are fair... but this is really cool. Thanks for sharing.
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by ketzo 5y ago
That’s fair, but I think you have to acknowledge that the total opposite will be true for many, probably most, people. There’s a reason that “stop working at the kitchen counter” is, like, its own cottage industry of online writing. People
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by ketzo 5y ago
Our of curiosity, how would I do that? Or is this just something I should look up?
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by ketzo 5y ago
...wow. Genuinely can't believe that has never occurred to me.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Worth highlighting here: Stripe also publishes a software engineering magazine called Increment [1] that puts out some really high-quality articles -- on a different level than any of your standard "corporate eng blog" kind of s
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by ketzo 5y ago
I agree that this is actually a much bigger deal than it would initially seem. Any kind of friction is a huge problem when it comes to a task that people are already sort of reluctant to do; just the thought of "ah, fuck, I gotta get t
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by ketzo 5y ago
I like the look of this a lot, particularly the support for running-from-local. I think git is such an ideal backend for something like a wiki, where multiple contributors and version history are both so important. Tangent: how do HN folk
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by ketzo 5y ago
No, GP made a pretty specific point: that vertical integration can clearly provide some serious benefits in the realm of computer hardware. Now, the fact that vertical integration usually implies closed doors is relevant, yeah; but I don&
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by ketzo 5y ago
God, that's so infuriating, particularly given that for many people I know, the concern with Muni/BART is that it's oftentimes too empty , which can be a little freaky particularly as a woman.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Is this a rhetorical question? Because people do that literally all the time. This is an extremely real problem.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, that's a chicken-and-egg thing. The more people who use public transit, the more resources get devoted to it, and the less it feels "trashy" or like a place for "riffraff". Conversely, the fewer people who u
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by ketzo 5y ago
Huh, okay, after some very cursory googling it looks like you're right. I was misunderstanding how VR focal distance worked. Then your point definitely stands: taking off a headset in order to mix up your focal distance does sound like
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by ketzo 5y ago
What is a manager for if not to "front line" for their team and take the role of representing the team in meetings, then filtering and distilling that information down into action items? (I'm conflating a little with PM/
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yeah, but again, that's an issue that is shared with physical computer screens as well. It's obviously easier to look up from a physical screen and look around to change up your focal distance, but frankly, this is something tha
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by ketzo 5y ago
I mean... how would you do those things without talking and meeting? Like, I get what you're saying, but I think it might be a little unproductive to consider all communication work as "not doing."
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by ketzo 5y ago
> make retail as a bridge a self fulfilling prophecy And what if that prophecy is not fulfilled? What if, because you work 50 hours a week but make poverty-level wages, you can't bridge your way out? What if, because you're c
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by ketzo 5y ago
I mean, to be fair, it's not like you're sampling the fish at the market. Plus, most people don't assume they're being lied to; your thought might very well be, "huh, this is some pretty bad Atlantic cod" inste
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by ketzo 5y ago
As a personal testament: I did this for a side project, and it worked perfectly. Phoenix does very well as "just" an API/backend environment.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I think that's the point that GP is making -- they were contrasting a straightforward approach to their mother's more euphemistic explanation, which was unsatisfying to them as a child.

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