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by scott_w 2y ago
Speaking as a manager: any managers that think that are wrong.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> If it's large Then make the PR small.
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by scott_w 2y ago
> It just seems like a decent proxy for "do you care at all?" Because the reality is, when it comes to Git history, no, I don't care in the slightest. I get all the information I need by: - Reading previous PRs (the final
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by scott_w 2y ago
The way I’ve explained this before is “would you rather small issues that we can fix one by one until anyone really notices or would you rather we hit all those issues in one big go?” Your mileage may vary.
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by scott_w 2y ago
You're free to expect for-profit businesses to fully support a free product forever. Just as they're free to decide they don't want to do that.
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by scott_w 2y ago
He made that claim but then conflated it by talking about "those links being gone" which isn't true. I'm going to defend Google on this. They don't need to maintain products forever but this case is a good way to sh
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by scott_w 2y ago
> I find it interesting how in american corpspeak "uncertanty" pretty much always means "our lawyers can't find a way to avoid this law without getting caught" ^^ Only if they're doing this.
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by scott_w 2y ago
And it's wrong when they do it, too.
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by scott_w 2y ago
The title initially put me off but I’m glad I read this article as it reminds me that the work isn’t even close to finished when it comes to equality in our field. And of course the first two comments on the article proved the article’s poi
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by scott_w 2y ago
Honestly, it's really tough to pick it out from such a high level. You can also see countless companies that succeed in spite of the fact they're doing the wrong things, if you follow the business success playbooks. Businesses and
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by scott_w 2y ago
It’s a different challenge. Batteries are simply less energy dense than petrol or diesel, so most people don’t need to fill up on a daily basis. If you want an answer to your question: look at what happens during fuel scarcity scares (like
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by scott_w 2y ago
> His footnote has a painful resonance: "I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it." Oh I can totally picture this being used as an
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by scott_w 2y ago
> It's pretty simple, the different realities like you said. Agreed. > Your info stream probably told you that people were gobbling horse goo and aquarium cleaner and dying by the droves, while threatening your grandmother That&#
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by scott_w 2y ago
> What does Hunter Biden's laptop have to do with preventing Covid disinformation? Nothing you said answered my question.
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by scott_w 2y ago
The length of the Wikipedia article on this nonsensical conspiracy theory runs counter to your argument that it was "suppressed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory
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by scott_w 2y ago
> censor posts about both those topics for political reasons In the context of Covid disinformation, "political reasons" is simply not correct. We're only 2 years out but it was clear even at the time that there was a conc
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by scott_w 2y ago
This whole article is really confusing. It sounds like there were two things: - Covid disinformation - Some nonsense about Hunter Biden and they're being conflated. What does Hunter Biden's laptop have to do with preventing Covid
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by scott_w 2y ago
That’s why you need domain experts and clear explanations and hypotheses before you experiment, otherwise you’re throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks. Companies can continue to monitor cohorts to compare retention to check the potenti
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think it’s helpful because, as the author says, Telegram put effort into making you think it’s secure and Signal isn’t. As someone who's not close to this, it’s handy to have regular reminders.
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by scott_w 2y ago
You’re overthinking the issue. The laws not authored but enforced in the U.K. are done so with the express authority of Parliament. Treaty ratification is literally “passing an Act of Parliament that implements the treaty in U.K. law.” Parl
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by scott_w 2y ago
The examples you gave are nothing to do with Parliament creating a law, they’re all based on individual actions. And in any case, my disclaimer already covered the bases you’re discussing: > If it has knock-on impacts in other areas, it&
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by scott_w 2y ago
If it were done by an Act of Parliament, no they wouldn’t. If that Act explicitly overrides external concerns, the Supreme Court must find in favour of the Act and the ECHR would have to find against it, which the UK Parliament is free to i
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by scott_w 2y ago
They can try to protect it but anything inside the UK is subject to UK law and no other law. As I said, there may be practical concerns (read, consequences) for a course of action but this is separate to the domain of law. Inside the UK,
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by scott_w 2y ago
To never have given would have simply required the government to say "this is not part of the sale." To take it would likely require either lengthy court battles or legislation. Given the priorities of the Labour Party, the latter
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by scott_w 2y ago
Just to be clear: UK Parliament is sovereign. If it passes a law forcibly legalising it, the privatised Royal Mail can sue the government but would need to find an international treaty obligation to win. Even then, if Parliament flagged it
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by scott_w 2y ago
The axioms you state must be backed empirically by observing things that happen in the real world. The article explains the real world activities that back those axioms.
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by scott_w 2y ago
This was a great read and definitely fits into something that regularly crosses my mind: “what you say is incorrect but it will take a lot of time and energy to explain why.” The length of this article definitely proves this point! Just to
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by scott_w 2y ago
Speaking as a manager, I’d much rather my team(s) tell me the plan is pure fantasy and a total joke than blow smoke up my arse. At least I have information to take to the other teams. Generally, I’ve learned to accept that non-managers won’
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by scott_w 2y ago
I wouldn’t even blame the authors of the system that existed. Even in a perfect culture, compromises need to be made. If the time needed to adapt land warfare AI to the new sea warfare AI in Empire(?) is high, better to just focus on making
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by scott_w 2y ago
I think we can. We have archeological records showing us what even the fittest people looked like and what clothes they wore. Modern equipment is so much better than what ancient people had access to, it’s just not even close. Better nutrit

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