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by strken 1y ago
I agree with you that the road deaths caused by repeat offenders outweigh their personal safety, but if a b-double decides to side-swipe you when you're next to its cabin then you're going to need to accelerate past the speed limi
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by strken 2y ago
In terms of where carbs fit in, you're eating 200g of protein a day, which at a guess is 2x to 4x your lean body mass in kg. I'm not saying that it's wrong, it's probably very effective, but the average diet probably swa
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by strken 2y ago
In the context of an article about the birth of the Red Cross, what exactly does accepting the bad side of life mean? Are we to end the ICRC? Accept the Geneva Convention but make no new conventions about behaviour in war? Should we accept
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by strken 2y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but I think you may have misread the original post, which pointed out that Chrome was better than Firefox for years. You agree that Chrome had a huge performance advantage in 2008 and that this advantag
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by strken 2y ago
I think you might be misreading "don't be afraid to get your hands dirty" as "go poking at stuff for trivial reasons without following any proper process" instead of "don't offload parts of your job to oth
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by strken 2y ago
No, I'm not going to disagree with your empty statement; there's nothing there to even take a stance on. The problem with your original position is that there are real differences between A) getting deported for saying there are t
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by strken 2y ago
This is just asinine. Consider the same argument flipped around: "If you get deported for saying something stupid, you may want to consider the notion that you do not deserve to live in the US. They’re called consequences, and if you d
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by strken 2y ago
I don't understand. From what I can tell, the blog post makes the exact point that workers are being squeezed to death in a way that raises nominal productivity while lowering quality. Can you elaborate a bit more on your exact disagre
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by strken 2y ago
I really hate that framing. "Tech is made up of people who don't do housework" is an insulting and largely incorrect framing, and my vast experience of cleaning my shower has taught me that it's almost completely unlike
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by strken 2y ago
Focusing on the flaws is vital context for helping ordinary people understand the world. Any given study with a surprising result is likely wrong. Yeah, some of them are going to be right, but you're going to get many false positives a
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by strken 2y ago
The best people I know do good in both local and global ways. It's not necessary to choose one or the other. I don't disagree with your examples, but I notice that they say nothing about donating money to World Vision or putting s
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by strken 2y ago
Fatalist might be a better word choice than nihilist. Nihilism is about whether meaning exists, but a lack of inherent meaning doesn't imply a lack of action. If you choose to just let something happen to you because you believe it&#x2
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by strken 2y ago
I did a TAFE course back in 2007 (a CCNA) and I was impressed with the first year, but swapped teachers in the second year and was absolutely appalled by the low quality. I would imagine there's still enormous variability in 2025. It s
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by strken 2y ago
That's absolutely insane. I've argued with a CEO about on-call burdens being too heavy before, and that was with a roster of three people who were only available 7am to 7pm. What kind of slave driver expects literal 24/7&#x2F
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by strken 2y ago
Yeah, I was similarly confused. My experience has been that on-call is a roster of who will keep their laptop with them on the weekend. Incidents involve little to no customer comms, because if anything more than a sentence once an hour is
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by strken 2y ago
Apart from anything else, a fire tower is a better metaphor for on-call than a guard tower, too.
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by strken 2y ago
If you give me a specific quote from the book I'll be able to understand what you mean a bit better. I know there's a quote floating around which gives the figure of $2000/km^2 for conventional weapons, $800 for sarin etc., $
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by strken 2y ago
Why would e.g. sarin be useful for indiscriminate damage when A) you could drop a conventional or thermobaric bomb instead, and B) you can circumvent sarin by wearing a $200 suit from AliExpress? I'm not seeing how it's meant to f
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by strken 2y ago
I question the usefulness of that way of thinking. 10x isn't an unchanging skill level, it's comparative performance over a period of time, and that extremely high level of performance likely has many contributing factors. Saying
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by strken 2y ago
Yes, they were, for reasons that have turned out to be half-right and half-wrong. At least by some people. Ctrl-c ctrl-v programming was widely derided, but people were also worried about a general inability to RTFM. I had the good fortune
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by strken 2y ago
Most of social media and most of real life have absolutely insane takes on health-related stuff. Ask someone at random about, say, keto, and you're pretty much guaranteed to get an opinion without any data behind it. I think that part
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by strken 2y ago
The social safety net relies on both altruism and self-interest. We trust that getting people into housing will improve their lives, but we are also looking to improve their interactions with us. I don't care whether the guy who smells
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by strken 2y ago
I am likewise baffled by this. The entire "Mount Stupid" theory of Dunning-Kruger is wrong, and the blog shows that same wrong graph for me. Maybe the author is running some kind of A/B test between the actual Dunning-Kruger
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by strken 2y ago
It is obvious to me that there are two types of thinking: there's planning, which only goes so far, and there's ongoing introspection into the work you're doing, which is what most people really need. I'm trying to write
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by strken 2y ago
If you can't make a half-day of time once a quarter to fix a bug or make a minor UI change, then I would argue that you are wilfully avoiding doing it, and that some introspection as to why you are avoiding it would be helpful. Is yo
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by strken 2y ago
If a manager communicated with and listened to their team, but their team had written a web service with gaping security holes or disastrous data integrity practices because all their senior engineers were incompetent and/or were hired
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by strken 2y ago
How much does this cost you on an ongoing basis, if you don't mind me asking?
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by strken 2y ago
Probably depends what the pitch was. "Monitor assembly lines using AI so you can tell when a machine breaks" is radically different from "constantly snitch on all your factory workers".
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by strken 2y ago
Have you considered the risk of ending up in an hour long conversation about buttplug.io and VRChat modding?
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by strken 2y ago
Writing on the internet sometimes feels like being a blob of uranium in a reactor where control rods are slowly being inserted at the same time as the reaction chamber is being expanded. There is factually more fissile material out there, b

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