mckn1ght

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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   I’m not arguing strongly in favor of “getting off it” so I’m not going to make much effort defending the position. But I can imagine scenarios where we have to leave earth with intergenerational ships and only then acquire the ability to te
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   I think the idea is: assume sufficient technological advancement to be able to reach or even create countless other essentially exact replicas of earth? Barring that, plenty of ideas have been floated along the lines of extraterrestrial col
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   I cannot. I am operating on an assumption that each dollar that goes to Amazon vs a local producer is an opportunity cost for the community’s long-term wealth. Saving a few bucks here and there on individual purchases seems like short-term
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   I find myself falling into this line of thought a lot: why should we make tradeoffs that favor the earth instead of hyper-accelerating progress to get off of it in preparation for its inevitable demise? But isn’t the entire universe also go
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   > when communities trade between each other > it comes back according to whatever goods and services you produce Extractive industry like Amazon kill the local producers and siphon the money out of smaller areas and concentrate it in
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   > if the shop owner is getting rich and most of those profits are going into a fat bank account, then it makes no difference to the local economy While arguably not ideal I would also argue that is still better than the same profits bein
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   All I could find was this implementation: https://github.com/drewmccormack/Forked/blob/daa1082ca0f8d4f... Beyond that, how does manual conflict resolution work, if it’s even possible? Git and the galaxy of to
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   I’m a touch typist as well but use a combination of swype/dictation on mobile and pretty much all my writing there looks like this. I will bang out a message, then have to painstakingly edit all the mistakes. It’s an annoying downgrade
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   by mckn1ght 2y ago

   True, no one is asked whether or not they would like to be born and then forced into it after disagreeing, but once they are brought into existence they will experience suffering in life, does anyone ever desire such suffering for themselve
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    Yeah. And I'll just add, so often the success of a project is not in its technicals, but the smoke and mirrors that are used to sell it. Be that to upper management, clients, regulators...
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    All models are wrong but some are useful and all that. Now I just want to see a megamodel combining this, the software "political" axis w.r.t. risk aversion (that I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I was also going to say, between the Costco executive membership's 2% rebate, and CC incentives, it's probably a wash anyways between that or the 10¢ difference.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I was thinking about how to describe the interactions between all possible pairings under a variety of circumstances, like on an axis of virtuous vs conflicting.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I think you'd have to work at it to be a successful grifter. If there's a sucker born every minute, then you really gotta be able to scale.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    You are talking about a third dimension that I thought of immediately upon reading this, which is risk aversion, mentioned long ago in https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150 (the original is no longer accessible, than
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    > I’m naming them this way because these are the names you’d give them when you’re complaining about your coworkers
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I don’t think you understand. Per your other comment: > it is cost of doing business and you can’t pass that shit off to customers What do you think prices are? They are the costs to the business plus some profit margin. Visa is passing
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    > 3% is the cost of doing business. Yes, it's a cost you pay at some places to do business with them using your credit card.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    You’re right, but some people out there will flex and grandstand in their reviews if they operate adversarially instead of collaboratively, which is what your suggestion would encourage.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    This is my life right now and it is terrible, can confirm. I’ve tried advocating for what you say to no avail. Or like, just opening a new PR into my branch, or directly committing to my branch. I’m not territorial, I just want progress. In
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    Looks great, like a combination of the gh cli and the many options available for maintaining chains of stacked branches!
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    Then you go from pre-linter arguments about line/function/class length to arguments over whether it’s appropriate to override the linter rule in those same instances.
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I would love this approach, but the people reviewing my PRs are 10 tzs ahead of me, so we basically can’t meet synchronously unless someone is willing to meet early in the morning or late in the evening. Maybe prerecorded code walkthroughs
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    Wow, this has existed for at least 10 years, although the domain has had some wayback machine snapshots since like 2002 but I was too lazy to pinpoint where the project started. I love finding stuff like this that have been going for so lon
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    Pfft, look at this one that _buys_ their food instead of growing/hunting/foraging it. Just another mindless sheep suckling at the teet of profit seeking corporations! And I’m sure you built whatever computer you typed your comment
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    > perhaps others consume things like tiktok or instagram like I do books > Five years from now I do not think I will fondly remember a post, but probably I'll think about the books I read Exactly what I was thinking. I can still
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    As well as knowledge of, and honesty with, oneself!
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    It can be both. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to buy sugary cereal, highly processed white bread, peanut butter with sugar, jellies and jams and "maple" syrup that is all just basically corn syrup,
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    > Sugar is not the cause of diabetes. That was a surprising statement to me, a layperson on the matter, so I ran to the Mayo clinic to check: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabet... As far
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    by mckn1ght 2y ago

    I don’t know how it’s typically done but if I’m taking a fixed cost project as a consultant I’d ask for some portion up front. If you can’t even put up a portion or pay for the first few hours then how are you gonna pay for the actual proje