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by matrix87 2y ago
> There's no mysticism wrapped around our secular societies like there are around religions, so people tend to not notice it. The claim to not having mysticism is part of the mysticism. The current economic system funnels economic v
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Google knows they can't win in hardware cameras on pixels tend to rank well compared to competitors, so it's arguable that they are winning in that regard. maybe not in the camera hardware itself, but the pictures the hardwar
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by matrix87 2y ago
why the price increase? is it really $200 better than the 8 (which already has 6 remaining years of updates)?
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Do you ask a clarifying question (and risk seeming foolish for not knowing something obvious) or just let it pass because everyone else seems happy with it? Two different kinds of foolish here: etiquette or technical In some meetings i
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by matrix87 2y ago
I used to have the same cynical feeling until I realized that there's very little overlap between the things that are actually cool to work on vs the things that other people need done. And if you prioritize the former over the latter,
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by matrix87 2y ago
most of the time when people don't ask questions in industry, it isn't because they already know the answers, it's because they don't care what the answers are blogging is culturally different because there's way mo
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Maybe I am a callous person, but I have never agreed to this "don't speak ill of the dead" thing. If they're rich and powerful who cares... here's John Oliver's reaction to Kissinger dying [0]... tl;dr &qu
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by matrix87 2y ago
made that mistake once and never again, not fun when it's pitch black out, you're waiting for a bus, and there are drug addicts crawling around doing weird shit
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by matrix87 2y ago
Relevant quote: > They say San José is going to become another Los Angeles. Believe me, I'm going to do everything in my power to make that come true. [0] In SJ, you usually have a car door separating the homeless from you. Seems li
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by matrix87 2y ago
the brand is already trashed, at this point the workplace doesn't really matter. only thing that will save it now is if elon sells it
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by matrix87 2y ago
> That said, forcing folks to endorse speech they don't wish to endorse... is wrong Ehh, suppose advertisers didn't want to have ads appear next to tweets by users of specific ethinicities or religious affiliations? Do you thin
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by matrix87 2y ago
Most of the people who did this recently (at least in SV) aren't westerners, they're people from different parts of Asia who want better economic opportunities. Doesn't have anything to do with western "alienation"
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by matrix87 2y ago
Not sure why South Koreans don't try to get out, since education is super strong they could probably move to USA or some other country with more money, easier working culture, and relatively lower housing costs
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by matrix87 2y ago
Sometimes when I'd get really stoned in college I'd go through the same thing
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by matrix87 2y ago
The whole introversion vs extroversion thing doesn't capture the essence of how people actually are. People have different levels of energy depending on who they're around. They can feel drained or recharged depending on who they&
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Communities should be allowed to preserve their character and charm and preserve quality of life for their existing residents. It really doesn't look good (especially in SF) when most of those long-term residents are white and the
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by matrix87 2y ago
My degree (somewhat recent, CS) had a more top-down approach and started from programming DS/A, then you could branch outward into OS fundamentals and hardware knowledge. End result was probably similar, but starting from user-level pr
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by matrix87 2y ago
this is completely unrelated but amazon quality has gone significantly down over the past couple months 3 out of the 4 times I've ordered something from them it either didn't show up or the wrong thing showed up most of these sell
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by matrix87 2y ago
biggest thing is age verification and how it gets done. If online services require e.g. a driver's license for registration, then that's too much to ask
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by matrix87 2y ago
> I know this site is pretty pro-union This site is pro-union for anything outside of tech, but staunchly anti-union for tech. except maybe gamedev, which has a reputation of underpaying
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by matrix87 2y ago
> will let them pay you less and/or exert more undemocratic control over you. the latter isn't necessarily bad for the worker, e.g. if a tech union tries to force divestment from Israel if more money for workers is involved, su
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Newsom Will Order California Officials to Remove Homeless Encampments(nytimes.com)
14 points by matrix87 2y ago|1 comments
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by matrix87 2y ago
I don't understand how these "critical decision-makers" can do that and not be afraid to go out in public Or maybe they are, who knows? Maybe they hire private security?
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by matrix87 2y ago
I think another problem is just a general lack of value. Why should the average person care about a 1% gain in convenience and adjust just to appease some C-suite delusion? It's like they all want to be Steve Jobs without offering any
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by matrix87 2y ago
> It replaces all the David Graeber "bullshit jobs". Those jobs were already replaceable to begin with? Isn't that already implied by their name? Also, is it possible that the recent investment in LLMs have actually produc
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by matrix87 2y ago
> I think it is pretty fair to say that LLMs have already achieved several magnitudes more real use cases than crypto ever did. If you include black market economic activity, then crypto has done way more and over a much longer period
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by matrix87 2y ago
I'm more bothered by the fact that customs agents can demand people unlock their phones [0]. The government already has your picture, but letting them copy device data over is a much more significant invasion of privacy Also kind of po
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by matrix87 2y ago
Kind of, idk if you can call it that. Git frontends like gitea already have markdown rendering so idk what the point is of having a separate thing for blog writing
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by matrix87 2y ago
> For example: for years I was using Pythons requests library incorrectly. The way I was doing it worked - but it wasn’t correct. Usually I prefer a git repo for this kind of thing
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by matrix87 2y ago
> The very mention of "climate change" as being a factor for reducing offspring and second guessing kids is certainly not a right wing idea. I mean, they aren't saying that idea because they agree with it. They could be sa

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