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by pnut 3y ago
I'd like to know what proportion of the working population is in such a strong financial position that they have a year's worth of (nonretirement) living expenses sitting around. If we're off in fantasy land, the real best st
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by pnut 3y ago
I was hoping to find out, that the actor's voice in the demo video was generated, or that he had recorded the video speaking in another language or something. That would have been the knockout punch.
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by pnut 3y ago
Drive through daquiri bars
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by pnut 3y ago
Depends on who you are, I guess? He's optimising for business growth and opportunity, I bet VCs and Moloch have him on on their Christmas card lists.
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by pnut 3y ago
I'm not sold on the correlation between intelligence, character, and producing value. How many self made billionaires achieved their position by utterly disregarding both moral and legal dimensions? How many tiny villages exist on the
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by pnut 3y ago
A less charitable interpretation is that "Nobody gives a f* about your clean code, because if you're dealing with code, you're a nobody in the business"
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by pnut 3y ago
That device is just the recording medium used for those recordings, don't forget the £100k in microphones and signal routing, plus the £1M in the building itself.
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by pnut 3y ago
There are plenty of people who have documented the actual cost of doing this over decades, to the penny. A couple catching their food, doing their own boat maintenance. $300k over ten years is the line below which you are arguably living h
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by pnut 3y ago
Devs are a general purpose resource that translate business requirements into software, you are describing a product management failure. Unless Google forces devs to also be product managers? I can't believe that's true.
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by pnut 3y ago
Curious what stopped you. Consider that narc'ing people for victimless crimes is something that can be done to you as well, and you definitely will make enemies and earn a reputation by casually reporting people to the police... so may
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by pnut 3y ago
At the time of Nirvana, a new CD cost what, $17 to $20 in my memory. Imagine today, paying $50 for any random album you wanted to own.
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by pnut 3y ago
The fact that the UK government's bank holiday API has bunting advice just makes my day.
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by pnut 3y ago
Hard really to say that elected politicians are running the country though. They serve at the pleasure of their benefactors.
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by pnut 3y ago
So what you're saying is that education is basically vocational training? What if LLMs and AGI usher in an era where subsistence is a given?
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by pnut 3y ago
That stray character doesn't change the meaning of the sentence, so yeah, stylistic complaints are subjective and beside the point. We're not in school.
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by pnut 3y ago
Pure Mexican water, what could possibly go wrong....
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by pnut 3y ago
Is that a euphemism for an unspoken licence for vehicular homicide? Would a trucker swerve to avoid a pedestrian, or run them over? Would they ram a stalled vehicle off the road at speed? Struggling to understand the implications of their e
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by pnut 3y ago
Whether due to someone being distracted, under the influence, a crappy driver, or a spirited, trained driver, I'd say someone driving fast and accelerating/decelerating hard is inappropriate behaviour on shared transportation infr
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by pnut 3y ago
As someone who lived to adulthood before cellphones existed, this behaviour is incomprehensible. My phone is my agency. I use it to access information, and to communicate. Why on earth would you subject yourself and everyone you know to ar
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by pnut 3y ago
In addition to US salaries being higher, energy (petrol and gas and electricity, each of them) are significantly more expensive in Europe. Random US person, imagine if your salary was cut in half, auto gas cost $6/gallon, and your mont
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by pnut 3y ago
Amusing that fossil fuel companies are now both - Acknowledging that Anthropogenic Global Warming is real, and - Revealing that their confidence on its effects is so strong, they can publicly predict its impact on global climate decades int
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by pnut 3y ago
They spent a metric f-ton, is the answer. https://gearspace.com/board/photo-diaries-of-recording-studi...
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by pnut 3y ago
Mssachutues
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by pnut 3y ago
It might be that you can redefine perfectionism. If you are putting your energetic resource in a way not requested or required by the project, then you are wasting it. Or your incentives are not aligned or properly communicated. How many ti
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by pnut 3y ago
Curious what these mammal fleshers would call the flesh of a chicken or fish then, to differentiate from its fat and bones. Pretty sure they'd say "chicken meat".
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by pnut 3y ago
Bad news, 1993 was 30 years ago. Maybe 50+ years ago at this point.
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by pnut 3y ago
I was a professional perl5 developer for years and when working through https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ , kept remarking to myself how similar the languages are, in terms of expressiveness, complexity, and implied devel
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by pnut 3y ago
"King" and "Country" sound like paying taxes and dying in a war for profit, i.e., someone else's priorities, no thanks. Betterment of human existence, preservation of habitable environment, etc, those are bigger tha
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by pnut 3y ago
Possibly they mean people with reliably high signal to noise ratio, analogous to the investment term https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp ?
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by pnut 3y ago
By 2050, we may all be retirees.

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