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by pnt12 3y ago
I just take my rare (and voluntary) office days as socialization days: more talking, longer lunch hours, longer breaks. Its fine once in a while but I don't wanna get back to WFO again.
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by pnt12 3y ago
For some, it's a pay cut, in money and free time. It's a valid reason they'd rather change job.
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by pnt12 3y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538 If encryption is illegal, you are suspected of having to encrypted data and don't provide the keys, the police won't be puzzling about what's random or encrypted bytes: th
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by pnt12 3y ago
I also think there's something to it: each person is different. I've smoked and quit a couple of times, and still get urges to go back sometimes. Meanwhile, I know people who casually smoke once in a while and don't get the h
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by pnt12 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. One one hand, I have experimented with co-pilot and this was my experiencerience - great when it worked, easy to fix when it didn't. On the other hand, I worry people are not ready for this - get thes
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by pnt12 3y ago
It is. OP is stating his love for the worst parts of games. This would be like someone saying they love pages filled with ads, chat bots, pop-ups, auto play and scripts which take seconds to load.
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by pnt12 3y ago
I hate when a long technical document doesn't use BLUF, ie omits a summary at the start with the main topics. There's too much info on the internet, and even in internal documentation: if I have to read half the thing to understan
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by pnt12 3y ago
That's the status quo - a distinction between owner and employee. And it's good for the owners, who get to maximize profits - but is it good for employees? I'd say there's less risk, but they get impacted when business i
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by pnt12 3y ago
Or just "free hosting", no further details needed. Later they may say "this was unsustainable and we will drop this", and that would be OK.
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by pnt12 3y ago
I feel you - I worked on a project with pdf generation and the tool to generate it was quite heavy.
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by pnt12 3y ago
Looks great, thanks for the experience! Personally I'd like a "table of contents" where you get the title, a summary and an example. Then you could scroll and learn a bit about all techniques, clicking in one that piqued your
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by pnt12 3y ago
And does Utah have a strong sex education curriculum, to teach children about it? I assume no - it's just a ban on sinful behavior.
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by pnt12 3y ago
Thanks for the link. It's surprising how much credit is given to a charlatan, even in hacker news.
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by pnt12 3y ago
In general, people with a conscience and acting accordingly suffer more or less gravely. Perhaps this is to be expected, unfortunately. We should support whistle-blowers much more, but this feels like a problem very hard to solve. How can w
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by pnt12 3y ago
Weren't there millions of pages or documents to review? But even so, those demand him to be 100% ethical, why don't they also demand that from the NSA and the rest of the state? He did it in a responsible way. Perhaps if there wa
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by pnt12 3y ago
I think I read this about the original Simpsons: they were very critical of certain things, such as environmental dangers. But most people tuning in fantasize their role in protecting the environment, then go in with their lives without do
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by pnt12 3y ago
UX and usability tests are dead. It's all shiny UIs and A/B testing now (and the metric is always profit, never ease of use or safety).
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by pnt12 3y ago
I think you can use this to rationalize every shitty practice as long as it gets you customers. I'm not annoying: I'm annoyed by these annoying practices.
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by pnt12 3y ago
That's an interesting dilemma between free speech and moderation. I'd also say the current system is better, but losing the dislike button and pushing for positive sentiment can lead to fake positivity which we should beware. Remi
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by pnt12 3y ago
I wish the headline said that: "methane not as bad as thought, still very harmful".
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by pnt12 3y ago
The video of Google driving a blind person to taco bell was uploaded 11 years ago. I don't think it's that fast paced.
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by pnt12 3y ago
Trying to schedule things with people gets harder with each new element. So I usually schedule with my best friends (3 people) and just let the rest know about it: if they can join, cool, if they can't, there's always next time. B
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by pnt12 4y ago
I'm a night howl. Having a work schedule helps this, but when I was a student doing my thesis I had awful sleeping schedules (6 am - 2 pm) which affected my social life a lot. I wanted to improve this, but going to bed earlier would ma
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by pnt12 4y ago
Or more likely, spy on its citizens and find a loop hole to get privacy for themselves.
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by pnt12 4y ago
Yeah, many of these seem solvable with access tokens and permissions systems. I think it's wolves by treating the LLMs assistants to the user, who should have no more permissions than himself. Not as a process system with permissions t
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by pnt12 4y ago
That's very speculative. We are not that worried about other Sci Fi concepts such as teleportation and aliens. I respect the rationalist argument if there's a 1% chance to achieve AGI, we should spend 1% of our resources to think
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by pnt12 4y ago
Not every racist is a neo nazi, not every leftist is a stalinist. Lumping them together is a cheap tactic to aggravate people, which I think it's dishonest and not very effective.
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by pnt12 4y ago
Where I live, lots of burger restaurants opened up in the last years. Emphasis on the restaurant part, not fast food like McDonald's or Burger King. I very much prefer them, as the food is better and the places are cozier, even though
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by pnt12 4y ago
The printing press was an upgrade, the FTA is a cost cutting downgrade.
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by pnt12 4y ago
What works for me: forcing myself to start a task, with permission to give up at any time. It often extends to my true goal once I start, but still allows me to exit early when I'm in a bad mood without feeling too bad. Going to the gy

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