mrbombastic

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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Bribery can be done in a myriad of ways but the gift itself is not the valuable thing, it is the display of fealty.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
I am going to try to take this thread in good faith. Here is an event that happened on Saturday, 7 million plus people took to the streets. One side says this was a Hate America rally made up of marxists, hamas supporters and protestors pai
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
This is not some secret information, google it.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Still mad about the boring rebrand from Paw but it is still a nice app
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
It might not matter as far as profitability is concerned, ethically the second order effects will be very problematic. I am no puritan but the widespread availability of porn has already affected peoples sexual expectations greatly. AI gene
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
I could have been clearer but that is what i mean, there is a large contingent with very negative feelings for the actions of the current admin.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
if you look at any recent article here on the current US trajectory there is a pretty large contingent of people who are very much not happy with the way things are going. Of course the articles then get flagged and removed from the front p
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Yes just make user data hoarding and targeted advertising a nonviable business model, and watch the horrible secondary effects start to dissipate. it requires a lot of political will that currently isn’t there but we have become too resigne
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Yep, maybe i am destined to never make staff but I absolutely loathe that everything must be tied to some company wide target metric that moves in a quarter or it is invisible. Many things that are worthwhile and that companies absolutely
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
It is not exactly the same but i think it is some variation of the golden mean fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation?wprov=s...
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
They do really need to do something about this, I am not on regularly anymore but there was a period where i kept getting weird sexual posts of dudes in diapers, no matter how much i blocked or asked not to see that.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
"People are simply not as gullible as you think they are, but I don't have time to delve into this, so I'll just leave it at that." well i for one don't believe you :).
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
no worries, I kind of figured you had this all figured out already re: dev workflow. Wishing your best of luck on your search in any case.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
This is straight nonsense, why do you think Jimmy Kimmel had his show reinstated yesterday? The pendulum is constantly pushed and pulled in different directions outside of elections, if you decide you don’t need to care all you do is give w
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
His personal lawyer and mentor was also a lawyer for the major mafia families in NYC and a known blackmailer and fixer, the student has surpassed the master.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Fwiw and you probably know but being almost legally blind puts you in a protected class, most employers would make exceptions to allow you to do your job. And it would be entirely reasonable to say that you need speech to text tools to work
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
The strength of a theory lies in its predictive capacity. I used to think people who said “the cruelty is the point” were hyperbolic, but the predictive capacity of that theory is doing pretty well these days.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
See if you can spot the difference. And i am not defending past cancellations, but there is a not so subtle difference in kind here that makes these kind of both sides arguments fall flat.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
You have any write ups? Sounds like quite the interesting life
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
What why? An organization is made up of individuals who had a heads up because they had a bunch of meetings and made the decision to do this, if anything they had a head start on communication. Their silence is their choice.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
That’s not true
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
The power of the purse is currently being usurped by the executive branch with no pushback from a republican congress, armed forces are being deployed to American cities, media corporations are being forced to have admin installed bias poli
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Yes but how likely do you think it is that that will happen?
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Can’t speak for shopify but as someone who helps maintain a fairly large react native app there is not really the option to stay on the old versions of things, react native only supports 2 major versions back, and downstream react native de
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
This is a quote from “Office Space” by Mike Judge of “King of the Hill” and “Silicon Valley” fame. it is a great movie you should check it out!
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
As someone who likes his debugger, I am not sure this debate is cut and dried. I still use printing fairly often, printing predictably works every time and is built in to every language. It also typically has much less of an observer effect
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
“It’s the story stupid.” seems like a good mantra from hollywood execs to internalize. Toy Story, Shrek and their ilk were partially successful because of the new fresh medium but mostly successful because they told stories that resonated
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
Yeah maybe it is overkill but this would be a semi hard computer vision task not too long ago, it is pretty amazing you can get it that easily nowadays
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Their icon is also an apple with bite out of it, if they wanted to be the prefered OS of the divine they should have chosen better.
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by mrbombastic 1y ago
I will admit i am arm chair designing something i have not considered deeply but all your edge cases sound like solvable problems to me and if they aren’t just not a situation to use this particular solution for. E.g biometrics on phones, o

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