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by rkachowski 2y ago
by the same following, this would mean that any statement on the members of an empty set can be made and it would be logically true? e.g. "all my lamborghinis have magical goat skin seat covers" is true if 1) I have no lamborghini
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Burnout babyy. You lose the joy in life and become a cynical gremlin full of spite. Or develop substance abuse habits or any other myriad coping strategies
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by rkachowski 2y ago
What's the Embassytown mislead? I read that recently and felt it was pretty direct.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
tbf the BBC does a lot of mid tv miniseries. I don't feel many people will know this adaptation outside of fans of the book.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Same, I was blown away watching the making of video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLv2uHxygc0 ) and discovering that these environments were created physically. The whole world had that soft handcrafted feel, and it turne
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I like it, you have the FEATHER cushions of the SOFA. > I think both this and the article's "SOFA" are useful frameworks to deal with perfectionism. I feel it's understated how perfectionism and fear of failure are tw
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by rkachowski 2y ago
most of these issues disappear with the introduction of first class functions. There's nothing noble about the thick indirection inherent in old school enterprise programming.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
ahh that's incredible. I've attempted similar projects with various devices over time. this looks cool!
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I feel this. The situation would be more obvious if it was framed as "how to make the organization give a shit about the organization's architectural proposals"
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by rkachowski 2y ago
> People easily forget about the hidden costs and why the software distribution model from ancient times doesn't cover the costs nowadays anymore. If this was true then there would be zero solvent software businesses that don't
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by rkachowski 2y ago
almost 20 years ago the exact same sentiment was expressed in the ground breaking classic "I'm going to scale my foot up your ass" by Ted Dziuba http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2008/04/im-go
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by rkachowski 2y ago
amazing work! ultimately it comes down to a firmware bug - I would not have had the fortitude to continue when it came to debugging
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by rkachowski 2y ago
In a recent conversation I had with a KYC implementor for mobile it came out that these "fit your head into the frame / make a gesture" prompts are indeed to get unfakable images of the user, but the real use is in the attemp
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by rkachowski 2y ago
the costs of maintaining something well built that no-one uses are very low indeed. unfortunately trash is cheaper and faster, and it takes a certain kind of genius insanity to sell something well built that doesn't exist yet.
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by rkachowski 2y ago
what were the terms and examples that feel like word soup? it has been quite a while since i read it, but i remember the ideas being quite self consistent (with some serious sci-fi conceit of course)
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by rkachowski 2y ago
seconded, the quantum thief series lives in my brain rent free
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by rkachowski 2y ago
seconded, i've been looking for exactly this kind of machine in EU and this would be ideal.
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We've Been Lied to About Work(danielmiessler.com)
4 points by rkachowski 2y ago|1 comments
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by rkachowski 2y ago
> They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. I find myself regularly thinking about this sentence
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Oh wow, that came out when I was in university. I often think about that series of articles and the little tricks and techniques he used to simulate the feeling of a city at night - almost entirely via artifice and very little intentional d
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by rkachowski 2y ago
what exactly do you feel is weird entitlement on behalf of the author?
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by rkachowski 2y ago
it's pretty much the exact same principle, the chain of hashed commit contents being part of the input to the next commit in the branch have the same property
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by rkachowski 2y ago
in 2013
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by rkachowski 2y ago
we must imagine Sisyphus happy
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by rkachowski 2y ago
elements of the past and future combining to make something not quite as good as either
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by rkachowski 2y ago
Java is seemingly the first thing they considered[1], but it was too fragmented and complicated for their purely pragmatic usecase. [1] https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
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by rkachowski 2y ago
It's pretty crazy that the sales guy was able to connect the water cooling and power with enough hosing and cables to bring it outside, as well as know how to operate the device enough to activate it - but couldn't correctly point
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by rkachowski 2y ago
It's absurd that you have to become a being of continuous price comparison in order to be considered conscious. This is predatory behaviour loaded with decades of psychological research around manipulation strategies to increase purcha
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by rkachowski 2y ago
absolutely terrifying power play from someone who wants you to know both, that they can identify your anonymous activity and that they're unhappy with you. It just stifles further whistleblowing
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by rkachowski 2y ago
I love this book, but what is your point? :) Exploiting shame is a valid strategy, and defencelessness is a weakness? People are feeling shame because they're inexperienced in power relations? Power relations are fun if you view them a

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