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by kulahan 1mo ago
Can you not connect the ideas that “nobody pays attention to this guardrail in any meaningful sense” and “there are no guardrails”? I can spell out every point I was making just as specifically as this one if the only thing you were able to
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by kulahan 1mo ago
I’m not arguing that human labor shouldn’t be romanticized. I’m arguing that computer labor shouldn’t be romanticized MORE than the agrarian variety. Of course labor should be romanticized. Every single thing we have to show as a species is
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by kulahan 1mo ago
The last dude is scared of nuclear tech despite it fitting neatly into Berry’s rules except for him being anti-big-tech.
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by kulahan 1mo ago
Why should I care about tech? As someone who grew up in a city, with a family that ran a business building mainframes back in the early computer days, there is nothing to romanticize. That’s why your comment is not particularly well-receive
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by kulahan 1mo ago
I’m not sure I’m quite ready to take on 3 books to figure this out - can you explain a little bit what you mean about quality work? Consider my interest piqued!
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by kulahan 1mo ago
The extreme majority of people don’t have some secret massive project they want to do and are weirdly choosing not to. There’s only one way to interpret this.
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by kulahan 1mo ago
> do nothing after work. why do you have to do something after work? do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to. Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Our bodies are always aimi
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by kulahan 1mo ago
There is no wax. It was a typo.
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by kulahan 1mo ago
Family vans are super cheap. You can get a 2024 Pacifica for like $25k. Anyways, that makes sense. I can see how I got two studies mixed up if that's what I'm actually remembering!
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by kulahan 1mo ago
Nominative determinism is the name of this phenomenon, for the curious.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Does it play ad-free youtube? I see now that looking at their apple TV doesn't mention much about other products being available, but the app, which I guess is not the same thing, says something about it. Chromecasts seem to at least h
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by kulahan 2mo ago
What I wouldn't give to work for a company that actually cares about QA.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Windows used to always give a little popup saying it was installing drivers when you plugged shit into it. Now, apparently, TVs are for some reason trojan horsing this. There's no reason to expect a normal user to think "Yes, this
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by kulahan 2mo ago
But the stuff I want to watch isn't on Apple TV. I don't need another way to pay someone for entertainment.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I spent about a decade coding, then half a decade in QA. QA has always been a thorn in everyone's side. The amount of money some companies spend on these departments just to ignore them is wild. Now we've got an ability to push co
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Try finding a PC manufacturer that lets you choose Linux instead of Windows when customizing your PC. I remember one or two companies offering it, and even giving a discount for it (~$100?), but the rest simply default to Windows. Others le
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by kulahan 2mo ago
I don't know any who are. You sure you haven't just seen a few videos that were circulated online specifically because of how insane they were, or something?
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Isn't one of the main problems with meat factories that they're processing such an insane number of animals a day, which contributes massively to dirtiness? Not to excuse the idea that they shouldn't be inspected, of course.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
This is actually where I sit. In no way do I claim we’re the only intelligent life that will ever exist! I think the universe is extremely young. I imagine it’s more likely humans are “forerunners”, if you will, than that we’re actually spe
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Because in our solar system, they happened from highly specific events (e.g. Jupiter traveling towards the center of the solar system, rather than staying out near the middle… but only for a little while, then returning to its standard posi
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by kulahan 2mo ago
“Guys this isn’t global climate change, this happened once before at the end of the ice age!” I have no clue what point you’re trying to make, but I don’t think you got it across here.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
It's almost always about the money. Some studies have shown something as simple as free car seats can influence fertility rates. We know next to nothing about microplastics - pseudoscience can wait at the door.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
The Copernican Principle is looking weaker than ever. Almost every solar system we find has similarly-sized planets, or planets ordered in an unfortunate way, or shitty suns that bleach them every two weeks. We continue to find system after
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Yeah, the event primarily marked by receding glaciers probably has nothing to do with this glacier that weakened to the point of destroying a village. This glacier probably melted many times in the past, especially in such a sudden and viol
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Personally, I'm aiming for Pittsburgh.
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Ah, I can see how that would be the case. But I thought it was moving in the other direction? I am extremely ignorant here, so correct me, but the only example I know of is that they removed Asberger's Syndrome and turned it into gener
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Both figuratively and literally, this experience was the tip of the iceberg. Terrifying. People might think I'm crazy, but I'm choosing my retirement location 100% based on resistance to climate change. Local water, too much humid
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by kulahan 2mo ago
It's awful to see dozens of people running and knowing they're all gone. It wasn't even close. They were so small compared to that absolute FORCE .
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by kulahan 2mo ago
Why wouldn't we assume humans are special? We are, by so many metrics. We've become essentially a force of nature, rather than a simple occupying species. I find it much weirder that we're so dedicated to pretending we'r
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by kulahan 2mo ago
"Why don't we treat it as many disorders instead of just calling everything autism?" "we do, autism is everything that isn't ADHD" ...what? I must be stroking out, but I have no idea what point you're maki

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