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by nefitty 5y ago
I guess I'm not smart enough to understand this.
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by nefitty 5y ago
You mean like when ethereum split to reverse a transaction some of the devs didn't agree with? Or how huge Bitcoin mining operations basically decide what chain to work on, with no accountability to anyone who "owns" Bitcoin?
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by nefitty 5y ago
> Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner w
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by nefitty 5y ago
Yeah, it's a weird industry. I first registered to vote when I was 16 because the canvasser that stopped me in front of a gas station wouldn't leave me alone. I told him I wasn't old enough to vote. He said, "It's a
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by nefitty 5y ago
When I was a teenager I worked at a phone survey company. I quickly realized that many of my colleagues were making up answers to hit their targets. I somehow did well for my first day, getting through 3 50-question surveys. It was not enou
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by nefitty 5y ago
In Narcos, something similar happens. Some money that was buried was found by a farmer, some was lost, some rotted... Escobar preceded to violently murder the people that brought him the excuse.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I imagine that how I feel about crypto developers, good lawyers feel about ambulance chasers.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Whitelists for network requests. Config files. Favoring a server even for a simple SPA. Hidden documentation pages: "Theres some stuff that no one ever uses but I guess click here if you want to see it."
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by nefitty 5y ago
I agree on the readability. There's a TC proposal floating around for a pipeline operator. I don't think it's moved but that would be a game changer.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Do you have a better answer or do you prefer devolving this into meta?
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by nefitty 5y ago
It's an amalgamation of opinions, yeah, and they somehow all result in slightly worse and worse dx.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I just want to take a second to share that Next.js is the worst thing I've ever used in my life. I am a react dev. They somehow managed to make Next.js harder for me to use than Django, which is in Python, which I've barely ever t
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by nefitty 5y ago
They're pivoting, so to speak.
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by nefitty 5y ago
No. I provide value to companies by solving their business problems, not by memorizing completely trivial puzzles. I resent the implication that we should beg to be paid what we're worth and be grateful to be made to do a jig in a tutu
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by nefitty 5y ago
I thought my ability to build a prototype in a day showed that. Maybe I should have learned every variation of FizzBuzz instead of learning how node works.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I welcome the feeling that I may be the first person in history to not die. I've tried the opposite, holding my mortality close to my chest. The crippling existential terror was not worth whatever "authenticity" it came along
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by nefitty 5y ago
We can keep inventing and looking for new lenses to apply to our mind's eye, but for some reason, we find that every lens we try is slightly warped in different ways. There are people who tire of the search, settle on one lens, and the
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by nefitty 5y ago
The difference between what is and what can be is the space from which all human achievement stems.
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by nefitty 5y ago
The Cetacean Translation Initiative is doing a similar thing with whales. That one is scary to me. I remember hearing that one researcher joked that the worst case scenario is that whales end up being really boring. That's not true. Th
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by nefitty 5y ago
There's no way to verify that any other mind is actually experiencing what you interpret as consciousness. We can only ever measure signals, leaks in the form of behaviors. We are reducible to chemical reactions, even as the emergent p
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by nefitty 5y ago
There are some logging modules that might help debug error messages: https://chatterbaby.org/pages/ It doesn't suppress the audio notifications.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Yes, I do consider that a failure by the majority. I'm not sure if it's just your hesitation to truly consider the experience of suffering in other creatures, or laziness, but majority views don't always align with moral corr
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by nefitty 5y ago
That's a personal failure of empathy. Any reasoning beyond need is a rationalization. Humans can survive without killing animals. Nice try though.
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by nefitty 5y ago
It reminds me of the zigzag data structure and Xanadu project. I try to emulate these sorts of ui's in my own experiments. It feels more intuitive, spatially.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Of course the crypto space is allergic to accountability mechanisms.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I pre-commit to supporting AI and automaton rights. I am an ethical vegetarian.
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by nefitty 5y ago
Don't token limits reduce attack surface?
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by nefitty 5y ago
Peter Thiel (gay man), Caitlyn Jenner (trans woman) and Kanye West (black man) all publicly support Donald Trump. It's not identity that's the issue, it's economic inequality. Even as part of marginalized groups, these people
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by nefitty 5y ago
I was interviewed by some engineers as well.
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by nefitty 5y ago
I've resolved to share my experiences candidly here, on Reddit, on Glassdoor, etc. I urge everyone to do so. A lot of us are going through it, as exemplified by r/antiwork's huge spike in popularity, the "great resignati

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