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by sepositus 2y ago
That's fine. I'm not trying to convince you to change your stance, simply bringing a perspective of Nix being used in production in a company of 500+ engineers. It's not an exhaustive example, but I've always used it as
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by sepositus 2y ago
> I run NixOS on every computer I'm allowed to install it and I really don't think it's hard to use, just different. I work at a place that uses Nix for almost everything. Despite that, most developers do not like it (and
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by sepositus 2y ago
My (much) older kid still does ridiculous things that defy reason (and usually end up with something broken). I don't think it's fair to say that every action they take has some deeper meaning behind it. "Why were you throwin
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by sepositus 2y ago
> “Power creep” doesn’t necessitate or justify the behavior of this administration. Well, neither one of those words showed up in my comment. I said that, based on the growth of this technology, power abuse was inevitable. Not justified,
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by sepositus 2y ago
> Both sides are not the same here. Name me a democrat president who has done equal or worse what the trump admin has done. I think you might have missed the point. The way I read the comment, and perhaps I'm wrong, is that this sor
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by sepositus 2y ago
Sounds interesting, I'll add it to my list. Appreciate the response.
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by sepositus 2y ago
> This shows that the limits of the first amendment are speech when its convenient. Links, webpages, and more are speech, but also completely censored in the US media. I'm a bit confused by this. Are you saying that publishing the t
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by sepositus 2y ago
> they vastly underperform us govt agencies Interesting. I'll have to dig into the data more, then. I wouldn't be surprised if they beat out NGO's dollar-for-dollar (it's expected for the government to have far more f
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by sepositus 2y ago
The premise sounds interesting, but it seems a bit reductionist if it boils down to that, no? Is the book looking at it through the lens of government actions or private charities? I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests charities
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> it is true leadership and collaboration This is a great outlook, but I think it's slightly short-sighted if you don't consider that there are several ways to achieve the same outcome outside of USAID. I think the US can lead
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by sepositus 2y ago
This was an enlightening article (as I wasn't too familiar with the history of TB), but I'm struggling to grasp the overall point. If USAID is all that's standing between us and TB taking over the world, that's a _seriou
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Looks neat, but I hate the "limited free" thing. What's the actual price? If I make this product a part of my team's workflow, what's the future sticker shock?
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Sure, but I'm not pointing out the longevity of the batteries, but rather the maintenance cost if/when they fault. I understand it will get better over time as technology improves, but it's been a large impediment to me (and
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by sepositus 2y ago
Does the total cost of ownership include battery maintenance? My Toyota 4Runner has 180k miles, still runs great, and is worth several thousands of dollars in Bluebook value. My biggest fear with EVs is that I've never heard a single p
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by sepositus 2y ago
> The idea that everyone is either full lazy or not lazy is a bit reductionist. Fair point. My intention isn't to be absolute, though. Even in a relative sense, I can't imagine a scenario where some level of laziness didn'
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by sepositus 2y ago
Yeah, which I consider a form of intellectual laziness. Another reason to doubt that these professionals "were not being lazy."
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> Participants weren’t lazy. They were experienced professionals. But when the tool responded quickly, confidently, and clearly they stopped doing the hard part. This seems contradictory to me. I suspect most experienced professionals st
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My children were interested in playing with it, but this was my fear. Is there actually pornography streaming on it?
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by sepositus 2y ago
I barely even remember the last one that I watched let alone enjoyed. I guess it was Arcane which is a total fluke.
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> I think much of what you say comes from the right-wing disinformation machine Here we are again. It seems to be the default mode for anything that doesn't match the mainstream narrative. Perhaps you've never heard of it becau
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> Everything that exists deserves to perish. Well, we can start with this problematic statement. Taken to its literal conclusion, it's not surprising to think it could end up with mass graves. Granted, it originated from Mephistophe
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by sepositus 2y ago
I mean, this is exactly the kind of thinking that got us here. We just attribute everything to disinformation and throw our hands up as if none of this was avoidable. I'm convinced that people on the right were called Nazi's long
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by sepositus 2y ago
A lot of people don't like being told to what say/think/do. It turns out if you bully those people enough they elect a dictator. It wasn't and still isn't a surprise to me.
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I'm still scratching my head at how some people are surprised by this overreaction. It seems a lot of people think the current fawning over authoritarianism came out of a vacuum. All of the sudden a majority of America came out of stas
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There seems to be an increasingly large subgroup of people who would never have the nerve to commit murder but are participating in the radicalization of people that _are_ capable of doing such things. They are mostly OK with it now because
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I came to this realization long before I embraced religion. It seems pretty fundamental to the way we do science.
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> Why not make them right from the beginning? I don't intend to come off as obtuse here, but this was my original point. Our current understanding suggests this is a design flaw and is "wrong." However, there are plenty of
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This seems to propose that IT systems deal with the sheer amount of variability a living organism has to contend with on a daily basis. I don't think it's a fair comparison. At Google (as an SRE), a large portion of my work was tr
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by sepositus 2y ago
For context, I've been a leader in various (American) Evangelical churches over the last decade. The fundamental thing that I think many people need to understand is that many of these "changes" are merely an outward reflecti
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I'm sure being mercilessly mocked is a contributing factor to these statistics.

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