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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I don't know man. Half the developers I know are now using a Microsoft tool to write code (more among web developers). Nearly everyone is using a Microsoft site to host their code, or relies on code hosted there. WSL and the new termin
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> I think I've been pretty clear in my desire to not engage in bullshit arguments > What's a "non sequeter", by the way? Lol. Yeah, very clear.
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It may seem that way to you now, but they were just expressing the pop culture of the time. The Moog dancers were not that different from the dance numbers of the musicals in the 50s, just updated to what was then modern sensibilities and d
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Perhaps so. However, I'm happy to let my point stand as a thing to consider when weighing those judgements. Refusing to engage in thought experiments, in my experience, is more often the product of a closed mind than a busy one.
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Don't ask me, you're the one who posed the concern that they may trying to stealthily introduce a repugnant idea. I was asking why you would need to be concerned. I assumed you were suggesting it was a reason not to engage in coun
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
> an attempt to sneak in a plank of an argument to support some repugnant conclusion Why should that be a concern? Are you afraid you'll be forced to accept their conclusion?
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
You are assuming that you are always aware of when you might be wrong. In other words, your judgement on when a counterfactual deserves to be entertained is itself fallible, and is most likely to be wrong when you have emotional commitments
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
A year ago I might have been inclined to argue, but my wife's PC died horribly and I "loaned" her my Ubuntu desktop. A year later she's still using it and hos told me not to bother replacing it. Replaced her printer at o
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Well, either way, the fact that he's getting what he wants for a lot less than Waymo has to pay doesn't mean he can't or won't pay more if he has to. And if there are engineers who idolize him so much, why do you think h
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> Is anyone here really naïve enough to believe that this whole saga has been about “free speech”? I am, although I disagree with the characterization "naive". Twenty years ago Musk's attitude was widely held, particularly
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
He can get away with paying below market rates to Tesla engineers for the same reason video game companies can do it: people think it would be cool to work there. It doesn't seem plausible to me that if Musk can't get people to wo
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I agree that there will likely be a serious outage, probably several, but there's too much money on the table for twitter to just go away. The product, although poorly monetized, is immensely successful and widely loved. If Musk and al
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
The risk is large, but so are the opportunities. I don't do "hardcore" anymore but younger me would be tempted by the challenge of it. Plus, I imagine there would be giant buckets of money to go along with it. A short tenure
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Is it my imagination or is it actually breaking down right now? I'm not seeing any new tweets! edit: no, still going, but maybe the notifications are slow. As an SRE, I somehow feel obliged to watch it break.
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
In addition to what other posters said, there are opportunity and maintenance costs. Building features for use-cases other than mine puts me in the position of wondering whether my use-case is part of the long term vision for the product. I
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Disagree on #3. Social & collaborative features are the bane of my existence. No I don't want to share all my scraps of information, no I don't want to let my friends know what I'm listening to, no, I don't want to p
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Yeah, maybe to young people that means "doing the impossible" but to me it means "tricking people into thinking you're doing something impossible" or "scam" for short.
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Recently their development pace really picked up. Unfortunately that was due to them replatforming as an electron app. Development speed improved, but the app itself felt sluggish and I had really started to hate it.
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My interpretation of OP's comment was that they were saying something pretty similar to what you are saying. That is to say, knowing where to use it and how and when to avoid it is an acknowledgment of that ambiguity. Maybe you mean th
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Yeah, that's what breaks it for me. I try to follow people for technical content, but so many people periodically inject their political opinions that keeping it purely technical is difficult. That'd be ok, except that people who
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
What do you think justice means in a "woke" context? My understanding that justice is equity, not equality, in the current jargon.
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Ensuring your charitable donations are actually doing the good you think it is, is difficult enough that there are organizations specifically created to rate them and verify what they say. When a charitable organization does a poor job of i
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
We don't know who they people he brought over are. It's doubtful that they are people who've never done anything but write code for Tesla. Were I in Elon's shoes, I could easily imagine digging up some employees with pri
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You win, nobody feels like a bigshot for having the latest phone, they buy them because they need all the new features.
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It's more like a potlatch thing (an America Indian status ceremony where people destroy or give away things to prove how wealthy they are) Spending money on perishable items is a power move in the status game.
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You're right, not much status in just owning an iPhone. You need to own the latest iPhone, preferably the "pro" model to gain status. However, you can lose status by having cheap or old gear. When I was a kid if you wore off-
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Status seeking is a fundamental motivation for people and catering to it has always been a source of wealth. In the past it was gold, silver, gems, ivory, beaver pelts, or purple dye. Now at least it's a device that performs a function
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
I like to get new phones every year or two. I enjoy it because I like gadgets, new phones always seem a bit more futuristic and beautiful than my old phone, and I like feeling I have a top of the line phone. On the other hand I drive my car
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by seti0Cha 4y ago
Yeah, I guess I do agree with you then. My apologies for misreading your point.
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It's more a factor of dislocated moral feelings. If you decide humans aren't special, then you can go one of two ways with the moral feelings you had towards humanity: you can broaden them to a larger category that you still think

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