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by nkingsy 5y ago
I don’t necessarily think engagement is the wrong metric, and I don’t mind some personalized tracking of that engagement to increase ad revenue. The issue is allowing any old engagement. I’d like to see the hacker news system scaled. Some t
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“Those eyebrows are tickling my brain’s facial recognition systems” would be my mindful take on the thought, though yeah, unless you’re asked...
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“I don’t like it” is a child’s statement. It is almost never calculated, and I strongly disagree with the assertion that anyone’s trying to cause discomfort. As someone who has said some really hurtful things, I can’t tell you how much it p
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“Tact is a virtue that we find somewhere on the spectrum of dishonesty and brutal honesty.” I like the thought, but I don’t think it’s that simple. More like tact is mindful honesty. The tactful statement may in fact be more honest than the
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https://www.amazon.com/Real-Book-Hal-Leonard-Corp/dp/1423424... Sorry for the Amazon link
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On a song like cottontail, I still can’t play it perfectly at speed, so I’ll stick to what’s written until I can. I fudge together a metronomic base line in the left hand and voice all chords with the right hand so the melody note is at the
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by nkingsy 5y ago
This sounds really hard. I guess my question to you is, what would be a helpful reply for your mental state? I could say “people like that shouldn’t have kids. They’re lucky you didn’t post their address or I’d go remove their ability to re
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I’ve lately been playing through the “real book”, sketching out each song quickly and doing a run through, maybe 8 songs per day. In just three months I’m on my third time through and have discovered probably 100 songs I just love to play t
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I feel nauseous when I accidentally stumble into Reddit shame and pity fests. I’m honestly terrified of what my children will blame on me some day. Just an example off the top of my head: “aita for cutting off my parents because they kicked
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The watching is the sticking point. It seems this could be ameliorated if the automation could be 100% trusted to know when it needs an intervention. Solving for that, even a system that was extremely conservative would be useful, as you ar
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Sure, but that’s not my problem as a new hire. I just assume any new codebase will be horribly sticky and hope I can smooth it out a little. Humans calibrate so quickly. With my latest job, I spent the first month thinking I was coding my w
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by nkingsy 5y ago
The most senior engineer I’ve met had a refreshing attitude that clicked with me. “It’s just typing. Typey typey type.” I take that to mean, no matter the code base, no matter the questionable choices made historically and that will be made
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On the plus side I feel much more sustained focus in work and enjoy endurance activities like mountain biking steep hills that I used to have to suffer through. I can practice piano for hours. Working on my bike I’ll have a hydraulic brake
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I’ve found that herbs like cilantro taste extra strong when unflushed (even I taste the soapy thing, which I don’t normally) I take my cues from the cannabis hobbyists, and they’ve largely moved away from hydro because of the taste. Unflush
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Hydro doesn’t taste as good as organic, and it needs to be flushed or you ingest a lot of nitrates, which is likely carcinogenic. Flushing requires careful planning and a system designed for it. You can’t just treat it like a fridge full of
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Apprenticeship. Good small time subcontractors show up to the job themselves but train others to do most of the work. Subs I worked with had pretty healthy markup over what they were paying their workers (>100% when invoicing hours). The
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by nkingsy 5y ago
Hanoi is at the top of my list of places where tourists are treated as walking dollar signs. Coming off a bus/train, you get swamped by drivers and you absolutely must know exactly where you're going and how to get there or you wi
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by nkingsy 5y ago
I Don’t get it. I certainly get grumpy when I get knocked out of flow state, but it’s more about having to cut my direct feed to the universe than any measurable loss of productivity. Maybe I’m lucky to be able to get into flow quickly, or
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The reason is that middle class life is insanely expensive, while poverty is by necessity not. If you’re living in poverty, a kid doesn’t impact your socioeconomic status in such a profound way, and in rural places they can be an economic b
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Surveil everything. Homogenize culture. Individuality is a myth. If we want to survive on this planet we need to be ground down into uniformity. Global governance is a pipe dream, but cultural smoothing and pervasive surveillance is inevita
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by nkingsy 5y ago
You could just say enforced. The violence is implicit. I think an infinite metadata approach also gets you there. It appears that culture becomes homogenized in a direct relationship with information transfer. So if we continue on the path
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I understand the drive to share here, as nothing fees better than hard work, but it’s a very intimidating read and feels quite navel gazey. In my experience, there is no such thing as hard work. There’s a universal river of truth that I can
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I was thinking similarly in the "FU IG" thread. The only way I see capitalism surviving long-term is if we can embrace data collection in all aspects of life and make it work for us to internalize negative externalitites on an ong
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Q: But what about the unauthenticated existing users we might alienate? A: There’s no way to gather data on that so it’s not a thing. This is the problem with “data driven” decision making in a nutshell. It has annoyed me to no end at every
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There’s certainly something here, but I agree the framing as if fetishization were the cause is a real stretch. Women are the “fairer sex” as they say. Maybe that’s a cultural phenomenon as well, but seems like a better culprit in this case
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What would be the ideal privacy standards?
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Ha I rode something like this with 2 stroke motors involved in Colombia. Everyone just jumps off and removes the car when another is coming in the other direction.
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American media is a global industry and is serving a customer base of much more than the US population.
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Yup. When I played online poker for a living for a bit after college, coming home for a few months and staying with my parents was more expensive than traveling.
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Popular open source tools are a poor substitute for standards, but they are better than nothing. Standards matter if you want to show your code to someone else

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