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by mikkergp 4y ago
> A series of surveys suggests that people who identify as conservative are more likely to want to do this by buying products marketed as “better,” while liberals are more drawn to messaging that emphasizes that the product is “differen
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by mikkergp 4y ago
>I've worked with guys who have never written a single test yet ship code that does the job, meets performance specs, and runs in production environments with no issues. I'm curious to unpack this a bit. I'm curious what
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by mikkergp 4y ago
But what is your process for determining code is correct, and is it really faster and more reliably than writing tests? Sheer force of will? Running it through your brain a few times? Getting peer review? I often find tests that all thi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Really makes you wonder what the word "official" means
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> I guess my point is, it's very flippant to just say, "well it's easy for me, so it's probably pretty easy for everyone else, so it must be apathy as the only solution." Right but the data suggests that apathy i
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I was curious on the data on this. I mean difficulty voting certainly is a major narrative and passes the smell test but the survey in this article suggests 3/4’s of non voters say it is easy to vote: https://thehill.com&#x
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“Instead of having a complex, catch-all solution, consider multiple focused solutions” Aren’t most complex solutions just a recursive version of this strategy? I don’t hate this idea, in fact I often love this idea but it can more often th
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Have you noticed that young people use music less and less as a signalling device? Is this the result of some study, or where is this observation coming from? I have almost certainly not noticed this, in fact I might almost say the op
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by mikkergp 4y ago
P's man, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I suspect ai music will have the uncanny valley/98% done problem for a while. For 1 I suspect the 'DJ' in your example, being an actual DJ or the artist themselves plays a larger part in how people listen to music, especial
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Dall-E for music will be interesting, but I think it's different. In a sense I think we're already there. Not in the sense that AI makes music but that music is so abundant, and there already aren't a ton of jobs in music wr
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by mikkergp 4y ago
One thing that interests me about Dall-E and other art-making, is, I wonder if it will eventually lead to individuals making their own high-quality animated feature films and "triple-a" games. Will these tools get to the point th
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Art is a service industry. I'm into electronic music and it's interesting to think about the youtuber's I watch, who very likely make most of their money from not music. I think we as a society should aspire to art that pus
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If the school suspected bullying why wouldn’t they get the parents involved and ask them to look through the phone. I mean this isn’t a case where a kid came to a teacher and asked them for help right? I understand the case of a school he
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It all depends, I worked for New Relic, and Lew Cirne was known as the "Coding CEO": https://allthingsd.com/20131024/you-wont-believe-what-new-re... The real question with title is less what your job responsi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Tough questions are the basis for accountability not demands. The media asks tough questions of the government all the time, no one things they are being demanded something of. If you can’t ask tough questions you can’t make progress. Tw
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> It is arrogant to think that 1. people are too stupid to debate amongst themselves to let the good information rise to the top and 2. that the person in charge has all available information I can get behind number 2 but I can’t really
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I used to wonder what a conservative intellectual would look like, since there seem to be a dearth of them and Peter Thiel and Jordan Peterson come pretty close. The thing I can’t get my head around is one, the extremist thinking (Europe de
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by mikkergp 4y ago
1. Reasonable disagreements on the definition of “simplicity”. 2. Neither option is perfect, some people are victims of the bad examples of that, and the here are cases where people have made the wrong decisions. Three blind men and the el
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> I don’t know a single person who believes Facebook is the best place for research despite claims that it’s the primary cause of misinformation. Statistically speaking, you don’t know that many people.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wonder if there would be some emergent property of a body without a brain that would make it… sentient is probably the wrong word. Trying to do everything but the brain could inspire like stem cells to create nerves and “brain” cells som
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What is the difference between Musk and Holmes? Obviously one difference is he is at least 50% “successful/right/etc”. But it seems like the other half is basically the same. No wonder she thought she could get away with it.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This can be true and this person could also be misusing the term “demand” for clicks.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It sounds like you’re telling me you are biased by this centuries old concept, and you risk applying it in am overly broad way. This post could have been much less click beauty if he’d used a phrase other than “demand”. Encouraged. Influ
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by mikkergp 4y ago
A tacit request for action is not a demand. The government is allowed; nay encouraged! to make recommendations based on perceived threats, which it doesn’t even sound like it went as far as being a recommendation, just a “tough question”.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The sad state of our government is that I don’t care if this does anything I’m just glad something passed. That is tragic.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is this in web? It’s been terrible on mobile for a while. I think you have to login and be on the app. Reddit has added nothing but user hostile features over the past few years. It sucks because all things considered Reddit used to fee
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by mikkergp 4y ago
What do you mean? Questions are like the definition of curiosity. We can’t just fold because someone asks us a question we don’t like. If it’s a tough question, then maybe it leads to deeper thinking. It requires a giant leap to make any
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Oh good, let’s encourage an incurious government because it might be misinterpreted.

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