pikahumu

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by pikahumu 3y ago
I'm assuming you read the article. Let's recap: > I launched the prosecraft website in the summer of 2017, and I started showing it off to authors at writers conferences. The response was universally positive, and I incorporate
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by pikahumu 3y ago
Don't you want to know if something restarts unexpectedly? It's a bug that should be understood and fixed. (If it's not a bug then it's not unexpected.)
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by pikahumu 3y ago
If you don't find it useful, don't use it. But why get outraged about something that others find useful? It's clearly a tool that other writers were positive and excited about. Why not let them have it? If you don't find
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by pikahumu 3y ago
> You are exactly modeling the chauvinistic Silicon Valley attitude that is causing the outrage in the general population to begin with. Just like the writers he talked to and got positive feedback? Everybody not agreeing with you repres
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by pikahumu 3y ago
The reasonable way to notice is to have alerts for any unexpected restarts. Relying on noticing intermittent service disruption is bound to fail. And so is "remembering to check for this": > in the future I'm going to want
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by pikahumu 3y ago
No, you don't avoid it. You just reduce the wait time in line. It's not just about the queues. Even with first class you still need to get body-scans, pat-downs, get your hand luggage searched, perhaps take off shoes and belt, and
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by pikahumu 3y ago
If you want to fly without the security theatre today then a first-class ticket won't cut it. You'd need to get a private jet, which is of higher relative cost than a plane ticket was in the 60s.
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by pikahumu 3y ago
(4) "Optima" is plural, "optimum" is singular. So, 1950-1970 seems like a local optimum .
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by pikahumu 3y ago
And which of those things coming out in the last 20 years do people actually need? Wifi-enabled fridge? I'd rather have the features from that b/w clip.