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by ravenstine 5mo ago
This seems akin to saying that humans shouldn't be personified because their brains are made of millions of neurons that are all doing different things. But the actions or motives of individual processing units are hardly relevant, es
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Amen! The only things that made the early web bad by comparison were popup ads and the lack of tabbed browsing. Popup windows that didn't rely on user interaction were always a bad idea and should never have existed. But besides tha
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Ahh yes, the origin of this classic clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkl4Yeh-BTo
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Holy crap, someone recognizes Neue Deutsch Härte as the legit metal genre it is! And the playlist includes 5 März by the Alexx-era Megaherz! Excellent work!!!
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
I see Mercyful Fate or King Diamond and I also upvote!
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
I've found it funny how many people still believe that most places in the US don't take Discover. I almost exclusively use my Discover card and the number of times I've had it declined is a tiny fraction of a percent. Most
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Based on my recent experience, Discover is spotty in Europe but some places definitely accept it. Not that great if you're on vacation and want to avoid hassle, though. Discover is my main driver (both credit and bank) in the US, but
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Vibe graduation?
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
There are butterflies that do this as well! I hate that I can't seem to find the video anywhere, but I clearly remember a nature documentary where they showed a bunch of butterflies drinking the fermented juice from rotting fruit on th
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
This answer makes two big assumptions that haven't been proven out yet. - Understanding code without writing it is as viable as understanding code that you've worked with directly or indirectly - Businesses care that you understan
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
> One of the problems with the Web is that as soon as a monopolistic entity can build a mechanism to extract revenue from it, there will be an incentive to capture the standard and change it to for their own benefit. In the particular ca
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
The only sort of problem this might solve is the insanely low barrier of entry that the Web has in 2026. The Web was arguably a better (albeit imperfect) place when it was dominated by geeks and kids who could learn to use it faster than t
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Exactly. I get why multiple people are replying that my company owns what I make on their time, but it's honestly funny as hell to me that people think most management at any company cares about or understands some CLI tool enough that
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Yeah, well, I challenge them to do that. In the meantime, I'll keep it to myself.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
What does an 80 year old (or anyone really) need with more than one or two cards on a daily basis where this would be an issue? Not being flippant; I legit want to know what leads to this. I have multiple cards but there's only one I u
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
I love open source, but you are correct in identifying it as a very similar problem, though it's more a problem with software licensing than source code being publically available. Usually the argument is made that FOSS ends up as free
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
> We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role. Experimenting or cost-cutting? Are these one-person "teams" you g to be paid
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
It kinda racks my brain how a lot of people don't think this way. For example, way before the current state of AI, I wrote my own CLI to make aspects of my job easier and easier to write scripts to automate; some colleagues have notice
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Yeah, that's it exactly. Films aren't reality, although they can be a reflection of what we might think how reality should go. Af the end of the day, films are made to capture an audience, not to paint a perfect portrait of the
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
When I grew up in LA 20+ years ago, seating was way more casual. Now everywhere seems to want assigned seating. I think this is in part because so many theater chains now offer a "premium" dining experience. It's yet another
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I'm just wired differently, but if I couldn't work anymore or didn't need to I'd be like "Finally! I can spend as much time as I need to make yeast glow with CRISPR, collect microscopic th
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
> Everytime I try to switch, I can't find a single userspace application that works half as good as windows applications. And if you do find one and update the package, suddenly you find the application has been severely rewritten w
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
I thought it did in fact catch on but most people still referred to it as "RSS".
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
That is true. AI reveals a festering problem.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
It's Linux's failure that one of the world's biggest corporations outspent it on marketing by orders of magnitude? You can sell crap like hotcakes with enough money and advertising minds. Yours isn't really an argument f
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
100% This AI boom is not a boom because its good for developers or users. It's a boom because it's a management dream; the promise of pumping up growth while reducing expensive workforce is simply too good for them to not throw de
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Research is of course useful but not even necessary here. This is common sense.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
And why wouldn't they? Companies are quite literally instructing them to do so. I work at such a company and have heard similar anecdotes from colleagues that work at other companies.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Amen! As professionals we are supposed to have opinions about these issues. This "everyone's right" thing, while well intentioned, is one of the factors that allows, frankly, dysfunctional dev teams like the OP's to exis
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Hah! I once did essentially what this page does, albeit in SQLite with one of those SQL workbench apps. The data was pulled from US census data. Kind of a fun little project. I wish I had my laptop with me (currently backpacking through Eur

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