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by pcstl 6y ago
Beef liver is perfectly safe to eat. I wouldn't eat a bear liver, but we usually have enough knowledge to be able to deal with that.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I don't see what your point is here. You haven't met some arbitrary short-term goal as fast as some other person, therefore you should give up on all your long-term goals and other people should too? Seems like a non sequitur to m
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by pcstl 6y ago
People mostly stopped eating organ meats for social reasons - organ meats were associated with the poor, so not eating organ meats was a way to signal you were high class. I think it's the right time to bring eating organs back!
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by pcstl 6y ago
I believe the author's point is that accepting that errors happen and that we need to deal with them - fail gracefully, as it were - produces more reliable systems than trying to obsessively eliminate every single point of failure.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I'm not the person who asked, but I think their point would be that "being fruitful, multiplying, and dominating" are just natural human tendencies which religion was aiming to justify and did not create. I mean, we know of a
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by pcstl 6y ago
I believe ECS is in fact quite a bit older than that. As far as I can tell, ECS first started being talked about by AAA developers who were trying to find efficient ways to deal with the memory hierarchy in modern computing platforms (it go
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by pcstl 6y ago
I guess we can all agree that if someone wants to include analytics in their product, an opt-out would be nice.
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by pcstl 6y ago
It's really not that useful for Apple to collect analytics because they make physical products, where the potential of analytics is limited. When it comes to a SaaS or a web page, the possibilities of analytics are much greater. And ye
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by pcstl 6y ago
This, thank you. I feel like people are making big assumptions about what "analytics" are that don't even begin to cover the whole spectrum of analytics.
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by pcstl 6y ago
You're essentially arguing for qualitative data instead of quantitative, but both together is usually where the money is. I agree that qualitative analytics are underestimatd because they're hard to do, but I also think that havin
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by pcstl 6y ago
And both > one of them.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I don't think it does, no. I think our intuition is that it does, because that intuition works pretty well for tribal, hunter-gatherer life, but it doesn't really work in modern society.
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by pcstl 6y ago
For what it's worth, I can tell you I'm being completely sincere here and I just wish the literal most privileged people in the world would look a bit around them before claiming to live oh-so-horrible lives. I say so being a thir
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by pcstl 6y ago
Well, we are in the least violent period of human history, and we have a lot of evidence that violence has been decreasing almost continually for all of history. https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#&#x
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by pcstl 6y ago
Even if nature has about as much cooperation as competition, society seems to put a damper on the nastier effects of competition. While we can find amazing examples of cooperation in the record of human history and prehistory, we also find
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by pcstl 6y ago
Life is not a zero-sum game. The reason why some people have little is not that some people have a lot. This is not something we will agree on. I agree that the distribution of wealth could be a lot more equitable, but I fundamentally disag
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by pcstl 6y ago
My point is that even if US millenials' standards of living are decreasing, they still have it better than most of humanity. This is not to say that US people aren't allowed to try to claim a better future, just that keeping probl
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by pcstl 6y ago
My point isn't that people should "accept their fate", just that they should be more realistic about how bad things really are. If you start treating minor setbacks as gigantic issues, you start having overreactions that migh
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by pcstl 6y ago
Fair enough. But my point is to be disruptive. I don't think the author has a point here. I think he's appealing to the fact that, on an emotional level, humans think they're entitled to always have their standards of living
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by pcstl 6y ago
It is not irrelevant if you want to use an expression such as "nasty, brutish and short", coined by Hobbes to refer to the condition of man living by himself, without a social structure to support him. It implies that people in th
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by pcstl 6y ago
That's pretty much the same view I hold, I just couldn't stop myself being a bit less polite about it. When Hobbes coined the idiom "nasty, brutish and short" he was thinking of a lifestyle with next to no guarantees. Yo
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by pcstl 6y ago
No, not really. More of a statement on how out of touch with reality it seems first world inhabitants are, to the point where they think not having a guaranteed well-paying job or not being as rich as their parents is comparable to the kind
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by pcstl 6y ago
"Let’s state the uncomfortable truth. The future for many Americans is bleak and their lives are going to be nasty, brutish and short." I find it funny how first-worlders are horrified by the idea that they might have to live in m
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by pcstl 6y ago
I might be interested in Nano if it wasn't shilled so openly all over the internet. We're at a point where if you have even a passing interest in cryptocurrency, you'll get constantly bombarded by obvious bots spewing pre-wri
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by pcstl 6y ago
You are completely right that FP is lacking in guides that go beyond the basics. There's a great abundance of introductory material, but very little about how functional programmers structure large programs or deal with complex I/
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by pcstl 6y ago
In my experience, "narrow" professionals tend to heavily overestimate what they bring to the table, which makes them not very hard to outcompete.
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by pcstl 6y ago
I don't think there are too many people around who actually have no deep skill. That usually doesn't hold up too well in the job market.
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by pcstl 6y ago
Sure, but the time it takes to hit diminishing returns wrt different technologies seems greatly underrated to me. I've seen many engineers stick with a single technology so long that they were just memorizing standard libraries instead
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by pcstl 6y ago
This is also the strategy I tend to take. Strong, broad fundamentals so I can quickly pick up specifics on the job.
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by pcstl 6y ago
People whose value lies in coordination often need to dabble in multiple fields. Think of a technical artist in a game company.

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