notnaut

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by notnaut 2y ago
What’s awesome about words is we can just say whatever bullshit we want and if anyone understands and repeats it, bam, new words! They don’t start off in the dictionary!
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by notnaut 2y ago
Insurance exists. Money points to something in reality (usually). Negligence and duty don’t change and the implementing human (the person checking for mistakes) will be just as liable as the human implementing someone else’s work today. But
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by notnaut 2y ago
This is a fun way to imagine how it might go: https://youtu.be/ZMQbHMgK2rw?si=4KQPxc1yAyWzeatO
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by notnaut 2y ago
Epanalepsis? Chiasmus? Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?
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by notnaut 2y ago
“really good insurance” I’d guess a massive % of the us population is having a different experience than you.
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by notnaut 2y ago
There is this ongoing talk that the courts and laws are somehow the power we need to use to defeat the abuses of wealth but there’s a strong argument to be made that the courts have quite consistently been one of the most conservative force
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by notnaut 3y ago
Indeed! All art is based in the visceral. No matter how heady a thing you try to put out, when people pick it up, they’re using their dirty little hands.
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by notnaut 3y ago
My feeling is there is the high level classification which is quite difficult to fuck up. After that it’s all adjectives and analogues, which is the fluffed up phoniness that inherently presents itself in the process of converting our subje
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by notnaut 3y ago
Agreed that symbolic moves like this are often release valves for the pressure that ought to be applied to improving things really, but the pearl clenching about the loss of some remarkable piece of history in this thread is the hilarious m
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by notnaut 3y ago
“Disposed of” is what we do with corpses usually. Society tends to put quite a lot of weight on doing it the right way. If your home town was invaded tonight, everyone you know and love there killed, and their skin used to upholster the pre
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by notnaut 3y ago
You sound like a fun parent/partner.
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by notnaut 3y ago
The core of the analogy made was that economic models rarely account for basically any variables that all other reality-based models have to live on. Yeah your analogy highlights the silliness of designing for EVERY particular catalyst for
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by notnaut 3y ago
Over promising is better when you’re interested in money/power and have plenty of your own to start with, rather than any underlying pointless nonsense like working toward an achievable goal or trying to be a decent human.
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by notnaut 3y ago
Corporations aren’t people, my friend
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by notnaut 3y ago
In New Jersey I have to let an attendant pump my gas. If I have a heart attack while he’s pumping gas, but I never explicitly say “please stop once it’s full” and he, innocently enough, takes the still-flowing gas hose and pops it into a se
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by notnaut 3y ago
There is a sort of consensus that there is an inherent good to talking about, actively processing, analyzing trauma. The feeling is there must be truth there - something to learn, and explanations for personal tendencies based on it. For so
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by notnaut 3y ago
Consider a situation where you’re applying for a job that you’re 50% qualified for and then using chatgpt to cheat on the interview. Would be much more difficult to catch is my guess.
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by notnaut 3y ago
If you’re making money on it and have no inclinations toward either, wouldn’t it make the most sense to go with the open source option? Not sure what your company is doing, but didn’t unity recently change their cost structure?
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by notnaut 3y ago
Interesting and hadn’t considered that. Wonder if there’d be any quick ways to implement some sort of toggle based on UI dev vs. game dev.
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by notnaut 3y ago
Maybe the solution starts with the next generation of parents who have seen the direct harm the internet in its current state poses to human mental/social development. Maybe (hopefully sooner rather than later) these parents enforce re
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by notnaut 3y ago
While it’s almost never useful to correct irregularities in spellings and pronunciations, this is a particularly poor correction. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/espresso-vs-expresso...
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by notnaut 3y ago
Too late. :(
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by notnaut 3y ago
They have about 8 layers of useless customer service acting as ear muffs to deafen the noise, is the problem I’ve had when screaming at them.
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by notnaut 3y ago
I had one with at least two solutions as well and one of them was classified as invalid, though it should have worked.
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by notnaut 3y ago
I only recently started working with SWE type folk in the last few years and while they are, on average, the smartest people I have ever met, they’re also some of the least well-rounded and most siloed minds I’ve ever encountered.
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by notnaut 3y ago
People are people! Precision at its best!
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by notnaut 3y ago
>It's very hard to be precise about big groups of people. Literally impossible, by the nature of it.
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by notnaut 3y ago
I spend a lot more time with salt of the earth people than the big head engineers everyone else here seems to be around all day. There are bountiful fanboys. The same folks that would flog themselves 5 times if it meant the libs get hit onc
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by notnaut 3y ago
The line you’re drawing is arbitrary. It is clear to all that getting drunk, ever, lowers your security. You can couchsurf five hundred times and have nothing like this happen. You can get drunk at strange bars day in and day out and have n
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by notnaut 3y ago
I’m jealous as hell. I can only improve when given a list of tasks and a carrot/stick. Tried for decades to figure out how to self impose and have not had luck yet!

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