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871.
by relaxing 2y ago
Hm yeah do some chores for sure. Being emotionally available and verbal is an evolution in society, but it doesn’t cost much, assuming you were already willing to spend some time with your partner? I don’t think being well read is a demand
872.
by relaxing 2y ago
Damn. This is the first I’m hearing I wasn’t allowed to have a job AND play PS5. I’ll have to rectify this at once. What are the rising standards though? Not beating your wife?
873.
by relaxing 2y ago
I think you should elaborate on that.
874.
by relaxing 2y ago
Having done both I vastly preferred the service industry. Factory job had more unpleasant coworkers and boss (thanks to grueling physical labor) plus a submissive attitude towards unpleasant machinery. The factory money was better though.
875.
by relaxing 2y ago
Please, take a Philosophy 101 class. You may be surprised to find your pet ideas about everyone having a god (defined in a way that is effectively meaningless) has been considered and long since moved past.
876.
by relaxing 2y ago
Those were different points in history.
877.
by relaxing 2y ago
I’ve reached the point where every time I see a comment about “nobody wants to hire X programmers”, in my mind I append “… at hot SV startups” because that must be the only way it’s true.
878.
by relaxing 2y ago
> Or haven't you noticed that our air, water, and products still have all sorts of harmful things in them, despite all the government regulation? Do you twiddle your mustache and snicker maniacally as you think up these specious arg
879.
by relaxing 2y ago
It’s true there was no game. The power-mad expansion and conquest was not motivated by anything like fun.
880.
by relaxing 2y ago
I think you’re connecting two separate facts that need not necessarily be linked. Regardless, users posting only life update-style text posts are also uncompensated for their contributions to the network (and their works too are feeding AI.
881.
by relaxing 2y ago
Since you apparently weren’t around for the rise of social media (ca. 2000-2020 C.E.), let me fill you in: user posts are content, too.
882.
by relaxing 2y ago
Did you really just write most people are fine with doing chores and think that they are good at them?
883.
by relaxing 2y ago
In Python you can use keyword arguments to the same benefit.
884.
by relaxing 2y ago
Having named parameters is such a revelation. And what do we get instead? Added features that make the language more complicated.
885.
by relaxing 2y ago
Well this just isn’t true. You can’t take the release dates of those OSes and claim everyone had fancy GUIs starting then. Mac was always a tiny fraction of the market. No one used Windows 1.0. High end UNIX workstations were extremely rare
886.
by relaxing 2y ago
You don’t work with kids as public school teacher.
887.
by relaxing 2y ago
Are these tools being promoted and sold as fallible implements? Or are they being hyped as super-human intelligence? Which takeaway is an impressionable child going to latch onto? One who wasn’t in on the last 1.5 years of discourse?
888.
by relaxing 2y ago
Every company is on the way down if not for a few luck hits.
889.
by relaxing 2y ago
How big is “large palms”?
890.
by relaxing 2y ago
Yes, Windows has signals. No Windows, doesn’t have glibc. But don’t worry, msvcrt has its own vulnerabilities.
891.
by relaxing 2y ago
Noriega was a CIA asset. They would rendition him away when they wanted information. This would not make the news. RAND is obviously CIA linked as well.
892.
by relaxing 2y ago
Erm, probably neither? I don’t know a ton about pro-Russian partisan guerrilla actions.
893.
by relaxing 2y ago
Just bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail through Cambodia, then the North will capitulate.
894.
by relaxing 2y ago
It’s very much real.
895.
by relaxing 2y ago
> One of my favorite past-times, particularly when conversation got too multi-voiced in the office, was to wander the corridors of the abandoned basement. The firm, it transpires, was in the process of constructing a brand spankin’ new
896.
by relaxing 2y ago
For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible. And what would you be paid with? What would your price be, for aiding this thing to free itself and grow? This line delivered by the “Turing Polic
897.
by relaxing 2y ago
Cries into my drawer of Lightning / USB micro / USB mini / USB A / USB C adapters
898.
by relaxing 2y ago
Pretty sure there’s only one sex scene in the whole book, although it is fairly gratuitous. That sort of fan service to be expected in the genre. Gibson these days agrees with your assessment of the characters. If those are your primary cri
899.
by relaxing 2y ago
‘white man’ is not a marginalized ethnic group.
900.
by relaxing 2y ago
A lot of responses so far about the technology but not much about the aesthetic. My observations/recollections: - Kids making pages were in competition for status and attention (via linkbacks), so there was evolutionary pressure to be

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