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by lhorie 5y ago
Knowing about them is supposed to be an introspection tool to help you make better arguments/philosophies. For example, I've seen some ex-christians who decided to turn atheists by learning more about cognitive biases, and then re
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by lhorie 5y ago
> accuse them of Arguing From Fallacy But then, you're just doing an ad hominem...
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Cleaning an office doesn't take 40 hours a week, so it makes more sense that a cleaning company hires full time people and contracts with multiple offices. The alternative is each office hiring individuals for a few hours worth each we
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> if the sanctuary believes that, why are they letting anyone through at all? Good question, especially considering that they did go on to say that if covid was found in this bat population, the cave would be closed off for human entry
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I mean, is there really any point in saying what would've or not have happened anymore other than some notion of nationalism? I was at Newberry Lava River cave, Oregon last week. There was a mandatory orientation before entering the ca
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by lhorie 5y ago
Thanks for the corrections, I haven't lived in Canada for a few years now and it's a bit hard to keep track of it all in my head anymore :)
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Honest question, why is this noteworthy? Isn't driving on the I-5 mostly pretty chill/straightforward? My understanding of self driving is that all the concerns are about handling potential incidents at high risk situations (e.g.
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by lhorie 5y ago
What strong push? You make it sound like not using Github CLI, for example, makes you old school. Cloud9, repl.it etc have been around for a while and are still mostly obscure. People are still using SVN, Angular.js, Eclipse/vim/V
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They're sorta at their mercy, yes, because they have no real infrastructure of their own. My understanding is that they get a discounted network usage rate compared to retail customers and that rate is governed by CRTC, but bigcos bull
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by lhorie 5y ago
My understanding is that some small telecoms run fiber directly into new condo buildings in downtown Toronto and get a foothold that way. The argument from big telecom is that it's extremely expensive to build infrastructure in rural C
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That's just for building though, isn't it? Package managers these days deal w/ network, registries, version management, transitive dependency resolution, etc. Not to mention Windows.
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The operator watching TV shows on their phone instead of doing their job was kind of a big part of it as well.
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Ah, yeah, sorry for not being clear. I completely agree that downplaying serious mental disorders is a problem.
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I noticed myself doing this more and more, but not in the context of personal productivity, but rather in the context of "how can I help you help yourself". The gist is usually "can we solve this in some way that doesn't
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I'm not aware of impostor syndrome being considered anywhere on the same level as actually diagnosed depression/ADHD by physicians, nor of it being considered for addition into the DSM, slow and bureaucratic as it may be. The vari
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I don't think this is right. They have to raise prices in some markets (e.g. California) to meet new regulations, sure, but some cities were already profitable pre-pandemic without money burning shenanigans. The single largest thing th
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm not sure about other places, but at Uber specifically, it was a combination of explosive early growth (and subsequently teams finding themselves having to justify their continued employment) combined with the notion that "Uber
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by lhorie 5y ago
My understanding of the argument is that the way Uber's elastic pricing works means that once supply reaches some critical upper limit, there's so much competition among drivers that the payoff for any individual driver gets too l
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by lhorie 5y ago
That was tragic and all, but it's just a blip as far as stock prices go. Aurora acquired Uber's self driving unit in December, so SDV isn't even part of Uber's strategy anymore.
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> look at the brain drain claim instead. I could maybe buy that argument if they were facing technical/scaling challenges, but that’s not the case Eh, yes and no. There's that famous thread about how they rewrote the iOS app an
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by lhorie 5y ago
Is gcc really starting to fade away? Wasn't Rust working on some backend interop with it? That shiny cool Cosmopolitan thingie was also built on top of it IIRC. I was also under the impression GCC still outputs better asm than LLVM ove
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm not advocating for anything though? I didn't even claim to agree w/ Youtube in the first place. I merely said that the way they went about this specific case could've been far less controversial if they deferred expl
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I think your description seems pretty spot on. But the way I see the term being used sometimes, it seems some people take it as some sort of shame-but-actually-pride badge (the connotation being that if you have the syndrome, then you'
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by lhorie 5y ago
Here's an unpopular opinion: this whole thing about impostor syndrome honestly seems like a thinly veiled humble brag. The narrative seems to be "nobody's perfect, but I am aware that I have imperfections so brownie points fo
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by lhorie 5y ago
This thread feels like a game of broken telephone: you're literally quoting a quote of a quote. Rand Paul's overall stance is basically "let's revolt against masks because freedom". Whether Rand Paul's carefull
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by lhorie 5y ago
My understanding (from reading arguments from language designers) is that curlies introduce error correction redundancy to a language. So if, for example, your editor decides to be stupid and mangle indentation of some copy-pasted snippet,
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by lhorie 5y ago
Might be more on topic to discuss the fact that the legitimacy of this reading is being disputed... With that said, I'm just waiting for articles coming out tomorrow about how mediterranean forest fires are being triggered by climate c
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That's 48.8 Celsius for the non-americans. Scrolling through the tweets, some people are saying it's likely a short spike in temperature due to foehn winds[0] and that this reading doesn't really mean much due to the source o
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Uber grew extremely fast in its initial years and that resulted in large number of teams starting NIH projects to "make themselves useful". Uber switched to Slack a while back, in addition to laying off a sizable chunk of the engi
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Sometimes I amuse myself by thinking that fantasy games are actually a thinly disguised sci-fi commentary on the direction of modern programming. Take for example the Protoss race in Starcraft or the Sheika tribe in Breath of the Wild - the

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