seabird

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by seabird 3y ago
There's a difference between what the layman has been led to believe by Big Deutschland, and the reality experienced by those who actually have to deal with German designs. A lot of them are interesting and "elegant" on paper
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by seabird 3y ago
Lego is $10/lb and easy to sell because of its durability and quality. It'll very often get passed down multiple times. When you don't make your stuff out of the cheapest bottom-of-the-barrel shit you can get away with, peopl
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by seabird 3y ago
Not every business model you dislike is rent seeking. I really wish people would quit throwing that term around -- it means something and it's very rare that I see it used properly. Cisco's value is in their huge userbase, (at lea
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by seabird 3y ago
If you get the book thrown at you, you will lose without exception. It's real, and inspectors are wise to it, but I guess the subtle acknowledgement that perfection is impossible goes a long way. A lot of "lower risk" inspect
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by seabird 3y ago
Those hazards usually take a long time to kill you. It's a problem for people who do it 40+ hours a week, but a hobbyist is going to struggle to reach the level of exposure needed for it to matter. You'll learn about them and miti
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by seabird 3y ago
I don't see why 3D design software and getting parts fabricated (if you don't have the equipment to do it yourself) is all that inaccessible. It may cost more than getting into computer software, but just about everything is. It m
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by seabird 3y ago
I am incredibly pro-car. I work on them constantly and enjoy it. I drive probably twice as far your average American does in a year. The deluge of heavier vehicles with poor handling designed to fit increasingly fat Americans is heartbreaki
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by seabird 3y ago
Right on red isn't a convenience for drivers. Very often it results in multi-minute waits for an opportunity to make an unprotected left or intersection crossing for tens of blocks downstream from a busy street that people are constant
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by seabird 3y ago
Non-administrative users are given administrative privileges to complete their work all the time, even today. Misuse results in them being disciplined or fired. Heavy-handed privilege controls are very often a drain on the productivity of u
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by seabird 3y ago
Stallman's ideas are often informed by high trust environments and business arrangements where the cost of the software itself is a fraction of the TCO. There's a big disconnect between the environment where Stallman made up his m
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by seabird 3y ago
This is a solved problem. The left lane is the passing lane, the right lane is the cruising lane. If you're not passing, you should be in the right lane. Highway traffic organizes itself if you do this. US highways (and driving in gene
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by seabird 3y ago
I am, but C99 doesn't fix the various sharp corners and gotchas that are littered throughout language. I don't say any of this as a dig at C, but at ~50 years old, it definitely shows its age.
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by seabird 3y ago
If vim and make are spooking somebody, they need to turn tail and run the fuck away from C. I love it to death, but it's a frustrating experience from another era. vim and make are the least of your worries when dealing with it.
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by seabird 3y ago
I hear this often and the idea that some people believe it strikes me as profoundly sad. I don't know if it's even as applicable as people who say this think it is. I don't know anyone who has ate and loved/fucked their
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by seabird 3y ago
You're going to be hard-pressed to convince somebody that they should go with Snap-on, Matco, Mac, Stahlwille, Hazet, KTC, Ko-ken, or any other company that is making superior tools by paying their workers better wages when doing so me
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by seabird 3y ago
Even if you put the locks on, they would never be used. If you need it you need it right now, and it's usually life or death. If somebody is trying to steal it, you shoot them. The last thing you want to be doing in a gunfight is fuc
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by seabird 3y ago
My point of view came from personal experience, but it's encoded in all sorts of safety requirements concerning tires, brakes, suspension, etc. Good handling is also very important for safety. SUVs before stability control are a perfec
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by seabird 3y ago
Good driving skills should be a requirement for driving.
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by seabird 3y ago
If you reversed the vehicles the outcome would be the same. The size differential has to be massive for it to matter. Modern safety requirements are stringent and you wouldn't believe how much a small sedan can take in a crash. The mos
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by seabird 3y ago
Acetaminophen has a poor safety profile and I wish they would take it off the market, and that's a drug where the danger is in taking 10+ fairly large capsules of it instead of 1. The difference between normal 25i-NBOMe usage and fatal
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by seabird 3y ago
My point on liability isn't about your personal tolerance for risk and confidence in your own work on a n=1 scale, it's about whether or not you would be comfortable doing that work for thousands of other people with the understan
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by seabird 3y ago
It is straight up dangerous. 5x a common dose of <1mg can kill you. Nobody that can actually execute on properly dosing it will expose themselves to the liability of doing so. Drugs are cool and interesting, go ahead and do them, but t
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by seabird 3y ago
I don't know what you're getting at here. We're not talking about values. We're talking about why the word "psychedelics" is a worthless term as far as the law is concerned. From a values standpoint, I don&#x27
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by seabird 3y ago
Because that's not how controlled substances are grouped and regulated, and for good reason.
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by seabird 3y ago
It is, but part of being a man (and more importantly, a good person) is understanding that there's a limit to how much you should be looking up to somebody. At some point, the sense of right and wrong you have developed in your life ne
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by seabird 3y ago
Peterson is a perfect example of how being reasonable doesn't work. His ideology/commentary had nowhere near the delusion and woe-is-me gnashing of teeth that Tate's grift revolves around, it is nowhere near as destructive to
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by seabird 3y ago
Tate has a following because anybody more mild or less delusional will just get shouted down by vocal radicals who have no concept of why lost men gravitate toward people like Tate in the first place. Anybody that exists in the space he doe
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by seabird 3y ago
This is a site populated by a group of people that society massively overestimates the intelligence and competence of, and it very often goes to their head. The amount of software developers that actually have any real idea of what rigorous
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by seabird 3y ago
It's sad that they're dead, but all parties had time to brace for this inevitability. I can't imagine any engineer (save a software engineer) seeing this guy's attitude and not seeing this coming from a mile away.
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by seabird 3y ago
I would too, but most people get nervous revving their car past 4k.

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