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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Was this meant to be a reply to the top-level story, and not a specific comment? It seems really bizarre to respond to “there should be easily-accessible examples of code that demonstrate the language’s key features on the website” with “th
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
> In many ways, beltway media is the most informed, at least with regards to the government picture of things — after all, the job is talking (informally and formally) to key stakeholders (and their underlings). Certainly, we need report
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
This whole article led me to believe that a lot of people who work in big-corp news orgs don’t really understand what the rest of our lives are like in many ways. Be it the Times, Post, Fox News, or CNN, they think they are the centers of t
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
I think something like Apple News (one subscription, many publications) is the best thing we’re likely to get in our current market conditions. In an ideal world, 10-25¢/article access fees, charged in a clear and uniform way, would pr
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
macOS will always show the user yellow/green notifications in the menu bar when apps access the microphone/camera, as far as I understand. I keep Notion Desktop open pretty much all the time on my work laptop, and have not seen th
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
It’s almost like our social norms prevent “good” and “okay” people from becoming parents, waiting for a “perfection” they’ll never achieve… but those norms have no real effect on the people who will be “shitty” parents.
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
If you know anything about dating and relationships, that’s an extremely narrow window. More so if you want 2-3 kids.
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
When I meet people who immediately use hyper-specific jargon with strangers, I either distrust them, or assume they’re not emotionally intelligent (because it’s a choice demonstrates little respect for the person they’re addressing). It als
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Why do you associate tipping with “work harder => more pay,” exactly? I don’t see a clear logical route from “socially-forced customer tipping” to that, at all. If anything; tipping leads us to “leverage information to ensure you get a l
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
How “high paying” a job do you need though? My last three companies, I’ve worked on products that don’t involve marketing or data mining of any sort that I’d consider unethical. While they have certainly involved automating away jobs (car s
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
HR isn’t irrational; you’re just making the mistake of thinking their role is to serve you, the employee, as opposed to the C-suite and shareholders.
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
But why did the USSR dissolve? A lot of it had to do with citizens’ dissatisfaction with what was available in the Soviet economy, compared to media images of what was available in the 80s-early 90s American economy. And, well, the fact t
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Have fun! Note that it is GPL-licensed. Also, note that the "main" branch is for a very old Dart/Flutter version (but it does correspond to what's in the App Store and on the site today). I've been working on a sepa
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
I was shocked at the amount of smoking I saw in Copenhagen 3 years ago. And I live in Durham, North Carolina, a historically tobacco city, whose nickname (Bull Durham or the Bull City) literally comes from old tobacco ads.
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
This is what I did for BeatScratch! https://beatscratch.io My music model is all Protobuf messages, which go from Dart/Flutter land to Kotlin/C/Swift/JS audio backends on target platforms. I also use Protobuf
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Is there actually a viable alternative to Amazon that ever-increasingly-overworked people can use? Not tech workers like (I assume) you and me, but say, a single dad janitor or mechanic? Many of these same things happened with Wal-Mart in t
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Is the argument here that Harvard, an institution (not a human being), deserves to exist more than descendants of slaves (human beings all) deserve reparations?
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
To be clear: I have spent the years to memorize and be able to perform a few Beethoven sonatas (not to mention the years required to even get to that point). I can also play them drunk (though not as cleanly, and wouldn't do that in
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
This is all built on an assumption that arts/media can all be strictly ranked “best” to “worst.” There are a million metrics by which we might try to measure it, but well… that’s just not how art works. Thinking this way indicates a fu
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
I think the “cure” to this is fostering curiosity within ourselves, and learning to balance our curiosity in real world objects, locations, people, activities, etc. in a way that’s balanced with digital information. And understanding that a
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Super cool! If the author/creator happens to be reading, I’d suggest that, when the user is at the top of the page (ie on first load), the default demo wheel’s should animate between a few different curves. At first glance (before scro
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Unless https://www.math.net/pounds-to-tons is severely wrong, a US ton is 2200lbs, UK 2240lbs, metric 2204lbs. Put a different way, US to metric is a <0.2% difference (the smallest), US to UK is a <2% difference (the
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
I’ve said the same things elsewhere (see my profile), but we need to differentiate between centralized publicly-funded and decentralized publicly-funded approaches. A lot of libertarian types’ arguments against publicly-funded infrastru
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
The deprecation of third-party cookies, that all browsers were at one point on track to implement , was pretty much the most realistic first step to that. Which is why Google killed it last year by leveraging their control over Chrome. Whi
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Sorry, yes, it’s actually at https://github.com/JonLatane/BeatFlutter . I initially open sourced it under my “Fully Automated Luxury Robot Music” organization, but I mostly use that for music projects I no longer plan t
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This does assume the direction you see is accurate, which I’d argue heavily depends on communication skills.
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LLMs are also very prolific programmers that don’t actually understand any of the math underlying what they’re doing.
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
I’m in the midst of reviving https://beatscratch.io ( https://github.com/falrm/BeatScratch-Flutter ). I’ve let it sit unmaintained (because it’s been “good enough” at its job) for a couple of years, through t
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Have you considered that maybe metriculative education systems, and the prestige- and status-seeking behaviors they invoke, aren’t exclusively Western at all? You might give “The Scholars” a read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by pseudocomposer 1y ago
Are there specific problems? I’ve been primarily Ruby at work the last 6 or so years (before, also doing Ruby, but also lots of Java, Kotlin, Swift, FE stuff, and some Python)… exactly that period… and haven’t really noticed any issues. Gr

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