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by noirbot 2y ago
Code is both much smaller as a domain and less prone to the chaos of human interpretation. There are many factors that go into why a given civil or criminal case in court turns out how it does, and often the biggest one is not "was i
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea! I don't mean it to be dismissive at all. It's part of what I love about them. There's good character and world building, but a lot of the book is just well-crafted puzzle boxes of "how do you get out of this",
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by noirbot 2y ago
They reminded me a lot of a sci-fi version of the classic action hero airport novel stuff like Jack Reacher or the Bourne books. Just a super competent hero who generally succeeds despite things being messy and chaotic.
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by noirbot 2y ago
I don't think that's why people are giving them money at this point. They're paying for stuff in the game that happens to be rewards for "crowdfunding" the game. It's not a "Just 100 more bucks and maybe t
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by noirbot 2y ago
For as big a country as Brazil? Totally. I've worked at companies that had minor code freezes for all sorts of holidays in countries we had a big client presence in, specifically to avoid releasing changes to client that wouldn't
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by noirbot 2y ago
I just cannot imagine being this upset about someone else doing something they enjoyed that hurt no one. This is pure gatekeeping at its finest. It's a cool use of technology! Maybe this is Bobby's first API. Why the need to tel
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by noirbot 2y ago
What is there to respond to? "This thing may happen at some point in the future" isn't insight or commentary. I can formulate a response, but it's already required more thought and effort than you seemed to have put into
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's also that a lot of management "decisions" happen in the moment. Is how they phrase something in a meeting or a one on one. It's how they respond or ignore questions. It's how strongly the push for someone to be
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by noirbot 2y ago
The most obvious reason, in my mind, is that merely proposing a decision is enough to be a problem. Suggesting we're killing a project a dev has spent months on, or moving someone to another team, or saying we'll miss a major KPI,
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by noirbot 2y ago
The difficulty is the small sample size. Most people won't have a ton of different managers in their career and you'll change over time and your role will change over time and want/need different things from your manager. The
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by noirbot 2y ago
There is no code-review process for management decisions. Management is essentially like writing code on the production server all the time. The stakes are maybe a little lower, it's a good bit harder to make disastrous mistakes, but t
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but saying "isn't this just what any capitalist would do" necessarily demands a discussion of the legalities. Trying to ignore if it's legal or not in a discussion of if it's a normal end game for all companie
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by noirbot 2y ago
Do you not think the endgame of this is to funnel everyone to Automattic and then raise the rates now that he's exerted a monopoly over Wordpress hosting? Because at this point, I don't see what other exist he has here. This is pu
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by noirbot 2y ago
But the legalities are the important part of this. You may as well say "Legalities aside, robbing your competitors at gunpoint is a good idea, if unethical". He's essentially setting up a system where if you ever make too muc
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, the company that I left due to RTO a while ago laid it out very clearly as about a sense of "fairness" towards the jobs that had to be done in person. That they couldn't allow the developers to keep working from home bec
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, he's certainly acting as if he's entitled to train on all of it for free as long as it's not made by a big enough company that may be able to stop/sue him. And then feels entitled to complain about artists tainti
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by noirbot 2y ago
Yea, even if they're practically as bad, there's value in not having someone like Altman who's out there saying things about how many jobs he's excited to make obsolete and how much of the creative work of the world is w
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by noirbot 2y ago
Nintendo's always been on its own for these sorts of things, but even the folks I know with an XBox just use their Playstation these days if they have both. XBox just isn't really in the conversation any more. That could totally c
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, and we get to look at the fact that he silently pulled rank to kill a story for craven reasons and decide worse of him and decide that his control of the news we get from that paper makes it suspect to his whims. If he's willing
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but let's not pretend the writers at the paper are deciding this is better for their future. And let's not even give Bezos the grace that this is about if the Post succeeds. It's clear this is about if Amazon or Blue Or
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by noirbot 2y ago
Also, do you seriously think any more right wing paper wouldn't have leaked it if their owner had prevented them from endorsing? That if their owner had come in saying he preferred Harris and they couldn't endorse Trump that they&
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by noirbot 2y ago
That's ignoring that he's running a business that's literally to report on things that important people like him do. An engineer at Amazon's job isn't to write about Amazon's business dealings to the public. Th
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but then Bezos should be writing something explaining it. Instead, he's silently just using his money to squash opinions he doesn't agree with. The is the exact sort of conspiracy that Trump likes to claim where Soros is the
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by noirbot 2y ago
Let's be clear who "them" is. It's Bezos. The people at the paper wrote up the whole thing and then were blocked by Bezos and the CEO of the paper. You can argue it's game-theory sensible, but it certainly tells you
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'm really not sure of this. The argument I've mostly seen is that the endorsement was always mostly meaningless. If anything, this is a "coverup worse than the crime" situation. Killing the endorsement is much more nota
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by noirbot 2y ago
Honest question, why would they de facto be better? Is it harder to fly a jet-engine plane? Especially when we're talking about generally flying safely in terms of "in airspace you're allowed to be in and being aware of other
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by noirbot 2y ago
You clearly know this more than I do, and I'm probably wrong in general, as it seems. I guess I find it hard to believe ATC is just flagrantly flying planes full of people in airspace they shouldn't be, but maybe that's norma
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by noirbot 2y ago
Ok, I used imprecise language in using the colloquial term. I'm not a pilot. I don't work in ATC. The exact nature of the plane doesn't seem too relevant to whether they should have been flying across the path of an airport r
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by noirbot 2y ago
Private plane then. The point is the same. If you're flying a couple miles away from a commercial airport and across the path of the runways, maybe you're not required to be listening to ATC, but that's definitely a choice yo
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by noirbot 2y ago
That's essentially the approach for the landing to the airport. I'd assume the AA flight was on its way in for landing. It definitely strikes me as a place that wouldn't be a great idea to fly your plane past if you're n

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