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by ryandvm 2y ago
> the best conversation isn’t the one with the most people I think this has to be the sentiment that saves discourse on the internet. We spend too much time focusing on the size of the network graph and not nearly enough time considering
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I don't understand Teslas. I take a ride as a passenger in my friend's Tesla about once a year. And every time, the ride ends with me going, "how the fuck do I open this door?" What is wrong with door handles? Tesla shou
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I got lasik when I was 42. I just wish I had done it 10 years earlier. It's a pretty amazing difference in quality of life, but I hated glasses.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Not even remotely farce. I hope the rest of the world is taking notes...
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I joined shortly after it was apparent that Twitter was turning into 4chan. Bit of a ghost town at first, but in the last few months it turned into a perfectly suitable replacement for what Twitter used to be. Then after the election I dele
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Fucking gross. The industrial advertising complex needs to die. Advertising supported business models are the root of so many of our problems. It's turned news into ragebait political bubble machines. It's why we have an epidemic
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Open Source software should fight back with license agreements that include poison pills for companies that distribute products that have nefarious terms in their license agreements. Most of these companies wouldn't get very far if the
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I'm betting on Tesla not for the technology, but because President Quid Pro Bro is probably going to issue an Executive Order that turns every Tesla company into a federally blessed monopoly.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Great read. No surprise that the author reads Pratchett. I've been writing software for nearly 30 years and he's preaching the gospel. It's clownfuckery all the way up. I will only add that running your own consultancy can be
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by ryandvm 2y ago
A Staff Engineer is a Senior Engineer that has been doing this for a while and doesn't want to be a manager or director.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Agreed. Github Actions are the wonkiest, Rube Goldberg shit I have ever worked with.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Don't build today what you might need tomorrow.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Funny how two people can look at the same chart and see exactly what they want. One person sees a roughly flat multi-year sales chart (true) and another sees significant growth in the last quarter (true) and somehow they arrive at opposite
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I prefer it for better control of the shift points and I have an admittedly unfounded theory that manuals are more reliable and longer lasting than automatic transmissions.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
> Elon said a camera is all you need. This was when I really started to doubt that guy's genius. That was a phenomenally stupid assertion. I can drive with 2 eyes because I have a bunch of other sensors as well as an entire world mo
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Same. Ten years ago I was predicting that the long haul truckers would be the first major segment of the workforce to be replaced by AIs. Turns out it is going to be junior devs and entry level artists. Oops.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I want to do book recommendations from the other direction. I need to know which books to avoid based on the books people like. For example, if I hated The Three Body Problem and you loved it, then I'm probably going to hate the othe
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I dunno. I suspect you can only watch people vote against their own interests for so many years before you throw in the towel and decide to just support whoever is going to increase your own wealth.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I have a different thought about that kind of stuff in that in 100 years or so landfills will probably be literal gold mines (or whatever else you're looking for).
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by ryandvm 2y ago
I won't be so brazen as to suggest I could have done any better, but the claim that never actually completing the upgrade was the only way is a bit too hand wavy I think.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Absolutely bonkers analogy. Ironically, I have no doubt that GPT4 could come up with a better one. What does that mean?
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Jesus, maybe they should let the AIs run the product naming.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
IPv6 and Python 3 are case studies in How to Not Upgrade Something. They basically created entirely different products that provided a marginal immediate benefit to the users and then said "upgrade whenever you get around to it"
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Yeah, 3 profiles: personal, work, side-work
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Oof - doesn't bode well for Tesla. And that isn't even considering the "Tony Stark to Andrew Tate" brand transformation of the spokesman...
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Pointing out that some people don't need an 8,000 pound grocery getter isn't elitist, it's just being real.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
Yeah, fuck this. Advertising is literally the root of so many of our social problems. Advertising has completely gutted the news and information ecosystems to the point that every site is a rage-click race to the bottom.
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by ryandvm 2y ago
For what it's worth, pretty much all ceiling fans work this way. They are brushless and both the stator and the rotor use copper windings instead of permanent magnets. The trick here is that ceiling fans get the necessary voltage switc
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by ryandvm 2y ago
This. The people with the wealth have captured every regulatory environment. As long as that situation persists, do not bet against the wealthy because they will move heaven and earth to make sure they always come out on top.

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