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by scubbo 4y ago
(I'm now extra-glad that my reply style tends to rely on replying-to-direct-quotations :) )
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by scubbo 4y ago
Huh, the comment claiming that "Salespeople are people too" got deleted. I guess responses were along the same lines as what I was going to post. It would be a shame to waste that piece of writing, so I'll put it here (while
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by scubbo 4y ago
I agree with the broad thrust of your argument, but I cannot emphasize enough how useful DnDBeyond is for character creation, rule/item lookups, shared campaign content, etc. Sure, you don't _need_ it, but it makes the experience
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by scubbo 4y ago
Others in comments have (rightly) called out the similarity to "Do Nothing Scripting", so I'll instead post a broader (but complementary) article on automation, perhaps my favourite technical "position paper" of all
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by scubbo 4y ago
Politeness is not a supreme virtue. These people have already proactively disrespected others by invading their privacy - they simultaneously sacrificed the right to be treated politely. Would you respond to a home invader with a polite req
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by scubbo 4y ago
"Engaging with the world" is an extremely euphemistic way to frame "invading others' privacy". Not all forms of "engaging with the world" are positive ones, and holding boundaries about who has your consen
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by scubbo 4y ago
I've seen a lot more "free trial of Unlimited" offers around recently. Notable that this comes reasonably soon after https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1587449674277191680 (check replies - far from a
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by scubbo 4y ago
Agreed - from a philosophical perspective it's distasteful for a company to be "successful" purely because they can "do underhanded business better" rather than because they are genuinely providing a better product.
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by scubbo 4y ago
Right, yeah, absolutely no argument that there was significantly bad communication from IOI about compatibility - that was a clusterfuck.
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by scubbo 4y ago
I was really surprised when I learned my second language (after Python) to realize that this wasn't standard!
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by scubbo 4y ago
Fair, thanks! Implicit in my "I don't _think_ it particularly negatively affects anyone" was "I don't believe that seeing occasional non-contributive comments are a strong negative effect", but you're righ
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by scubbo 4y ago
I'm a big fan of the recent Hitman trilogy, and I remember there being _outrage_ when the 3rd installment launched first on Epic. So far as I could tell, the primary criticisms of Epic Games Launcher were 1) it didn't have as-good
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by scubbo 4y ago
Thank you - though, that would require me to build "checking my favourites" into a regular routine to remember to look for replies (and, more than that, I'd need metadata or brainpower-expenditure to distinguish "this is
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by scubbo 4y ago
TL;DR you're probably right :) Ah, I see what you mean now. Sure, I can't absolutely confirm that, from a physical point of view, all locally-generated power is sent out and comingled with grid power. Rather, from an _administrati
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by scubbo 4y ago
Fair question. In addition to what others have said about the business/technology model being moderately interesting (though admittedly not unique), I think the Hitman series and its problem-solving would suit the HN crowd pretty well.
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by scubbo 4y ago
I just got solar panels installed (in Berkeley, CA). I can confirm that this setup (you feed into the grid, and then get supply back from the grid) was the primary option suggested (it was possible to request and receive a self-contained &q
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by scubbo 4y ago
Replying to remind myself to check back on this - I'm also interested!
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by scubbo 4y ago
And, when you are unable to evaluate the truth of a statement for yourself, the expertise of the person making the statement is a helpful datapoint when deciding how much to trust it.
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by scubbo 4y ago
Haha, don't be silly, I remember watching that episode, it only came out a few years ago... ...wait...
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by scubbo 4y ago
You can very simply host your own server providing and syncing markdown files with rsync! (/s, referencing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 )
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by scubbo 4y ago
> What I've seen done is that the staging environment is skipped, but instead concentric releases are performed on the customers. So released code goes first to a small group of users, and then widens from there if everything looks
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by scubbo 4y ago
> Emissions credits accounted for $518 million in revenue in a quarter that saw a pretax income of $533 million and a net income of $438 million on a GAAP basis. Needless to say, the credits account for almost the entirety of Tesla'
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by scubbo 4y ago
I don't have a recent article backing this up, but this has been false as recently as last year: https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36266393/tesla-mad... I guess a definition of "value"
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by scubbo 4y ago
I agree. This slide into barefaced shittiness hurts all the more because, at first, he felt like the hero we needed. EDIT: "barefaced" intentional because there's significant evidence to claim that these character traits were
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by scubbo 4y ago
Bravo :)
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by scubbo 4y ago
Well, the summary is that a lot of Elon's shitty selfish controlling misogynistic tendencies were very much on display from an early time. But the most important point in the context here is: > Still, there were warning signs. As we
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by scubbo 4y ago
Replying to remind myself to check back here, because I agree with giaour and I'm curious where the misunderstanding is. Being an employee is simple - do (good-enough-to-not-get-fired) work, get paid. Entrepreneurship requires you to i
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by scubbo 4y ago
+1 for Restic. I'm only just barely scratching the surface of its use, and it's still just amazing. Here's the article I referenced: https://www.seanh.cc/2022/04/03/restic , though it looks like
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by scubbo 4y ago
If you didn't found the company - if you weren't there when it was founded - you're not a cofounder. I don't see how that's controversial.
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by scubbo 4y ago
I thought this was a new meme - "pretend that every company was founded by Elon Musk"! - but it turns out that this is not only not-false, it's _actually_ true, as opposed to the legal nonsense that allows Elon to call himsel

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