mechEpleb

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by mechEpleb 6y ago
The whole thing was started as a deliberate meme by /pol/ to take an innocent, commonly used hand signal and make the left treat it as a white supremacist dogwhistle. So it can mean anything ranging from "ok" to "th
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
>fully socially mobile society. Such a thing has never existed and never will. There's not much space at the top. >demonstrably false Then demonstrate it. And don't use spurious derived measures like some abstract social mob
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
I used to use music this way, until I started noticing that when I really got into flow I wouldn't even notice if the music stopped for hours. Then I started using white noise, and eventually just stopped relying on any kind of audio a
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Knowledge on how to make things is ephemeral, is constantly lost and has to be rediscovered even in the modern world. People whose day job is playing meaningless language games don't have any appreciation of how much idiosyncracy goes
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Historians are typically people with an utter lack of technical skills or any understanding of what actually goes into making anything work. A dry surface level analysis of literary accounts and archaeological finds doesn't mean much i
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Just because you wear a uniform doesn't mean you hold the same incentives as the grunts you're sending to die in some far off place.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Wait, this is a thing that people actually do? I thought the "talk to your representative" thing Americans say was a polite way to tell people off.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
>They also never challenged the authority of the state itself >(except for police), I rest my case.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
There are other countries on the planet. Rioters breaking into parliaments is not exactly common, but it's not particularly shocking either
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Nothing about the past decade of American politics suggests that escalation by any extremum of the political spectrum will do anything but deepen the polarization of their political system.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
The protests/riots aren't that bad IMO, this kind of stuff happens. What is bad is the root cause - an elected official fighting tooth and nail to retain power after being voted out, and finding real support among a large fraction
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
They literally declared an autonomous zone. If that is not an insurrection I don't know what is. Words don't mean anything I guess.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
90% dominance of what is increasingly a small niche market. Apple controls a large fraction of the mobile device market, and everything else runs linux.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
In case you have forgotten, last year saw literal insurrectionist leftist communes that took over parts of cities, and were left unsuppressed for weeks. This is definitely quite an escalation, but to me, a European looking from the outside
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
An engineer's job is to solve a problem creatively, not execute a rote technical procedure. The people who are just fed detailed instructions to execute are called "technicians" in the traditional industries. If you want to c
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Can't have pesky engineers with their pedestrian technical concerns mess with the business decision makers' thought process. A good engineer takes whatever the creative, smart visionary comes up with and implements it down to the
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Can anybody actually produce working code at the same pace as they touch type? Typing hardly registers as a factor when it comes to how long it takes for me to code anything, at least.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
RTGs are not reactors, they utilize natural decay heating.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
You way overestimate how much nuclear waste is being produced.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Nobody has a working fusion power plant.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
>it doesn't address the initial problem of finding a problem that a company needs solved and will pay for, but wouldn't solve themselves internally. Duh. If a general way to find such problems existed, everybody would be using
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
There is no way to know ahead of time what kind of contractor you are. And if you're not making an active effort to bill as much as humanly possible for the minimum amount of actual work, you are bad at business.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
You might (think) you know how long it will take you; we don't. We don't even know if you're being honest, or deliberately underestimating/overcharging for work. Because an hourly rate means you have every incentive to d
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
You agree on a very explicit set of deliverables upfront. Whenever the client attempts feature creep simply tell them that it's gonna cost extra time for you and extra money for them. If they persist give them a quote for it.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Isn't the incentive structure for hourly completely ass-backwards? If you're a consultant there is an implied information assymetry - the client doesn't know what you are doing and has a hard time judging the amount of work r
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
You don't need a backend server to make a smart doorbell that pings your phone over Wlan. You only need one if you want to add loads of non-trivial functionality for non-technical users who might not be on the same network. You'