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by lucumo 4y ago
I have this issue with Google Family Link, where I want to add my child's voice to a Nest Audio. The app straight up tells me that I'm not connected to the wifi, which is clearly not true. Furthermore, the app knows I'm conne
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by lucumo 4y ago
They are responsible. Democracy doesn't mean that the people get to pick their scapegoats. It means that the people have a choice in steering the country, and consequently a responsibility to steer it right. Assigning someone with dumb
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by lucumo 4y ago
> EDIT: My understanding is that core-inflation isn't about "good or bad for people", its about "good or bad for statisticians". Bad for making decisions. If there's too much noise in a signal you can't
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by lucumo 4y ago
Rule-lawyering wise-asses try to mess with many policies. It's rarely a sensible indictment of a policy, nor is it very effective. Anyone dealing with such people just ignores them.
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by lucumo 4y ago
Not all reduction of consumption decreases output. For example, leaks could be plugged, insulation can be improved, more efficient machines could be used. Also, not all output is equal, not does all output have to be done at a fixed time. H
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by lucumo 4y ago
That's wealth though. OP is asking about income.
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by lucumo 4y ago
Interesting. The method signature is usually the last thing I create.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> It's honestly not that hard once you treat physical health as being an _essential_ part of the human experience. Maybe. But that breaks down quickly when you realise that it just isn't. It's perfectly possible to live a
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by lucumo 4y ago
This is only tangentially related, but former Autodesk CEO Carl Bass did an interview on Guy Raz' podcast Wisdom from the Top. The monopoly issue doesn't come up, but it could still be interesting to get a sense of the guy. https
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Whenever I have a family vacation, I can’t help but think how unnatural our present lives are. I feel it is as unnatural as not having cholera roaming around: better than the natural state of affairs. I love my family, but family vacat
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by lucumo 4y ago
> As a programmer with a CS degree who has also dabbled in writing, I can tell that writing well is a lot harder than programming. For you. Others will find the reverse. Specifically those that have been trained in writing and only dabbl
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by lucumo 4y ago
This happens for quite a few software engineering jobs too. It's not the 6 minutes I heard lawyers do, but I definitely have been asked to track intervals of 15 minutes.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Any white collar job looks better than McDonalds. It’s a ridiculous comparison. I've had a colleague who was paid worse as a software engineer than his previous job as a McDonald's burger flipper. I also have software enginee
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Or, you know, you could just listen to people. Well, that's all dandy. But when someone actually shares something it's "cry me a river". Their contribution is summarily dismissed because it's not the Right Evid
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by lucumo 4y ago
> You cannot simply say "it should be different" and then pretend that reality is what you think it should be. I was responding to a similar attitude. We can pretend caring about shit internet is important for software makers.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Secondly, I don't even want to be connected to high speed internet every second of my life. Then don't. Disconnect your device. The rest of us shouldn't do without something because you don't like it.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> It's extremily frustrating how little thought many dev teams give to the idea that users won't always have super fast internet available. We need to fix those places. Not permanently anchor the rest of the world to a decade a
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by lucumo 4y ago
Michael Crichton: the guy who turned reddit-levels of understanding into books before there even was a reddit.
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by lucumo 4y ago
You are so quick to pass moral judgement on parents that you didn't even bother to read (or understand) the post you're responding to. Good lord, if you want to talk about "these days": apparently it's more importan
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by lucumo 4y ago
I've been staying at that click for a solid ten minutes, but I can't figure out why minutes and seconds start on top, but hours on the bottom. Any idea why that particular choice was made?
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by lucumo 4y ago
> Agreed, wake me up when cheap outsourced developers actually works out. This actually happens quite a lot in my West-European country. Companies that aren't too picky about language knowledge can get cheap(er) Eastern European dev
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by lucumo 4y ago
This is the kind of bullshit reaction I don't see on Twitter, using supported features. I had no doubt that somebody who hates Twitter could find a facile excuse for that hate. I didn't need the demonstration.
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by lucumo 4y ago
> False; Twitter’s algorithm pushes lots of stuff you don't directly follow I don't see any of that, on the official mobile app with timeline set to "latest Tweets". The only stuff from non-followed accounts I see are
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by lucumo 5y ago
For bugs to be fixed, changes have to be made. If software is unchanged, by definition it will have the original bugs. It's not always clear if software is actually changed. A changelog is useful in that regard, but you won't get
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by lucumo 5y ago
This reminded me of that famous scene from The Devil Wears Prada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2fgquYTCg
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by lucumo 5y ago
If a site or app has a dated design, I usually discount it. I assume that it is going to be outdated in functionality as well. And that it will have a myriad of unsolved bugs, none of which is ever going to be fixed. New bugs have one advan
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by lucumo 5y ago
> There are way worse things for your mental health than habitual physical activity. I'd bet half the people here would benefit from a good tunnel project. In the update[1] he says it's calming and makes him feel safe. He'
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by lucumo 5y ago
I would also like to see more discussion of which activities and situations are better handled in person and which are better WFH. I think there's a lot of nuance there that could really improve the debate and work situations. E.g. - t
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by lucumo 5y ago
> I know several people who met their spouses online. Sure. But I'll bet you that sooner or later they've moved their relation from mostly online to mostly offline.
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by lucumo 5y ago
When the going gets tough, these people are very hard to work with. The lack of connection means it will be hard to understand each other when a solution must be worked out collaboratively. And the lack of a prior emotional connection betwe

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