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by mostertoaster 2y ago
The photo from Eric Vucci, felt instantly iconic (my submission on it was flagged which is understandable given the political nature of it), but what I was hoping to open a discussion about is what makes a photo iconic. Like how can a photo
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
This guy has some crazy knack for getting some awesome photos, but this one almost feels instantly iconic. Like this dude is set for life.
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
Yeah I chose “boring” names for my kids. I do think the best names are ones with the most meaning. You name a kid Isaac, you could be naming him after Isaac Newton. It puts something on to him. If you name a kid William, maybe you hope he w
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
I think wait but why really nailed the theory of baby naming - https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/12/how-to-name-baby.html
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
This made me think: the thing Microsoft has been good at for a very long time is developer tools. Think about how much better visual studio is was than Xcode. If Microsoft focuses copilot on simply making things more enjoyable rather than d
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by mostertoaster 2y ago
I don’t know if Copilot has made me more productive, I think I get the same stuff done, but I think it has made getting the stuff done more enjoyable. At times with better quality at times with worse probably.
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
Definitely have not. Are police in Seattle, or SF better then?
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
What about Miami? I would not think a black/brown gay or trans person would feel uncomfortable there? Or is it like the state politics? Like someone who loved Portland might hate eastern Oregon, but the state of Oregon as a majority is
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
When I was at UW in the dorms I felt bad for the students who came from southeast US, they’d start school like end of September, and then leave beginning of June and go back home and essentially only get the worst of western Washington weat
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
Higher level languages did make the ability to write a program in assembly language far less relevant. LLMs could end something akin to that, but not programming itself.
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
Lol that is so silly, but if I was buying an EV and all else was equal I’d totally choose having a fake manual transmission with that “feature”. Manual transmission cars are still way more fun to me, unless I had to drive through Seattle or
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
There are always trade offs. As someone who has essentially unlimited access to clean drinking water, I might not feel the trade off is worth it. But if I was someone who didn’t have a superabundant supply of clean drinkable water, I’d prob
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
Sometimes I think the reason human memory in some sense is so amazing, is what we lack in storage capacity that machines have, we makeup for in our ability to create patterns that compress the amount of information stored dramatically, and
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
As I’ve heard we will probably overestimate what will happen in the next five years and underestimate what will happen in the next 10. How much did the internet itself change coding, not a lot, then a whole bunch. I think since the industri
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by mostertoaster 3y ago
When I first read the headline I read it as the engineers behind the game street fighter.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
If our way of life could be destroyed by a bunch of youths going on tik tok because of how the algorithm is setup, we’re already screwed, and banning it is futile.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
Yeah I definitely want to leave Washington state if they continue down this road. For a time the state was socially liberal but still pretty business and tax friendly but there are too many greedy people who want to get their hands on that
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
What really sucks though is how much those who happened to acquire assets at the right time will do ok, and those who didn’t are SOL.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
And this is news? Hasn’t that been completely obvious since the fed was forced to hike interest rates? Nothing in life is free, and the easy money we had, especially post COVID craziness, at some point has to have a cost.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
Citogensis- https://xkcd.com/978/
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
That was my point. People would justify the one because it is “dangerous” for more subjective reasons, even though the other actual leads to real physical danger. But you could argue the other danger is more insidious and ultimately would h
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
This could maybe interpreted as saying the online world is more dangerous than a meat packing plant. That doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
I want my company to have a giant vault stacked with Benjamin’s. Every payday I come down and they shell it out and put it in my hand. Then a disgruntled but genius employee comes up with a crazy heist scheme and I get caught in the middle
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
The main issue that happens with both REST and GraphQL, is that people spend more time thinking of how to implement their thing, than what the API should be. The complexity GraphQL adds _can_ be worth it for its ability to better represent
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
Oh yeah. I order one 2 topping large pizza a week, for $5.50. Three lunches.
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
I find the most helpful way to think about it is to think that most tech debt is introduced by the product manager. A product is built according to spec, and then the spec changes, a new feature is added, a performance characteristic is cha
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
“This forced other disciplined startups to loosen their ad spend to be competitive in the venture-market industry and created an era of capital-inefficient businesses. With time, this will re-adjust back to historical norms and the process
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
Maybe they didn’t. Still smoke and mirrors though, we “gained” 500k jobs, even though payrolls would show a decrease in 2.5m. But it was expected we would lose 3m seasonal jobs. So voila! It’s like when the government says we saved 50 billi
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
The “good jobs report” is just smoke and mirrors to have something positive to say at the state of the union. Changing how you measure the number of jobs so it looks better is just par for the course for politicians. Using the old measure t
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by mostertoaster 4y ago
And now jagged edge is singing “hey where the party at” in my head, and if you know that song the party was 20 years ago and you missed it.

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