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by strken 5mo ago
Yeah, I guess there's a big difference between generational tourism of the "our family always used to go there" variety, and the social media hype cycle.
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by strken 5mo ago
Argument A: AI means you don't learn as much, so even though you are more effective, it inhibits your growth and you shouldn't use it. However, on a pragmatic level, it's effective to hire a bajillion people, fire them at wil
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by strken 5mo ago
Software is wood, not drills, and if we somehow invented bacteria that gradually built an ugly but saleable house when fed on water and nutrients and nudged into shape, I bet carpenters (well, framers or whatever they're called in the
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by strken 5mo ago
I would quite like for more of the cafes and restaurants near my home to be other peoples' Disneyland, to some extent, since this would provide a lot of jobs in the area and help the owners.
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by strken 5mo ago
Teachers where I live need, and have, the ability to apply violence to students. This is phrased as "physical restraint" and comes with extensive limitations and paperwork, the most important of which is that it is only allowed wh
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by strken 5mo ago
My experience has been that it wraps all the obvious things, and even some obscure things, in error handling. In this sense it is safer. It also fails to write abstractions unless they're carbon copies of a well established pattern, an
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by strken 5mo ago
Doesn't it come from "sorry [to make you repeat yourself], could you repeat that?"
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by strken 5mo ago
My point is that it's disrespect of the same kind as your boss forgetting your name when you've been working for them for ten years, not as being called a loser.
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by strken 5mo ago
"Unintentional" was perhaps the wrong word. There's a difference between your boss not caring about you (does any boss really care?) and your boss actively disliking you enough to call you a loser when they expect to gain not
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by strken 5mo ago
The problem with AI is that it tells you to say things you don't think, and can't tell you to say things which are original to you. Some things you will only say because they were presented to you by the bot. Others you won'
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by strken 5mo ago
The difference between the "thanks" email and the "loser" email is that the second one is intentionally disrespectful. I'm not convinced a polite but AI-written email hits the same note. At the very least it's
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by strken 5mo ago
Player coaches would be redundant given that most sports already have captains, wouldn't they?
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by strken 5mo ago
If each additional user is a net benefit for them, but they're still struggling to find enough capacity, it would make sense to cut down usage from existing users so they can onboard new ones. They're trying to capture the market!
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by strken 5mo ago
The problem is that the term of art is confusing to technical people. See TFA. Technical people make logical leaps from "avoid security through obscurity [in the specific context of security systems which depend on obscurity and for wh
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by strken 5mo ago
Lucketone likely knows this and was pointing out that "obscurity" is a misleading word to use when talking about systems which all rely on obscurity, in the plain English sense of the word.
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by strken 5mo ago
If you place the climate crisis into the context of every other potential crisis then yeah, the world is weighing up nuclear proliferation against climate change, both of which are potential extinction risks but not all that likely in the s
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by strken 6mo ago
We just got sent a document that amounted to "please set up a CNAME for us", but was multiple pages long and had detailed instructions on how to do various troubleshooting tasks before, during, and after creating the CNAME, mixed
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by strken 6mo ago
Realistically the labels are going to be much closer for staples like long-grain Jasmine rice or olive oil, if they're measured by weight. It's just not that easy to change the nutritional content of a kilogram of a known cultivar
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by strken 6mo ago
If someone wrote about how taking a twenty minute walk in nature made them more productive, I don't think anyone would reply 'I swear every day I see a "new" fad targeted at fixing one's mood and every time they&#x2
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by strken 6mo ago
The problem with the word meditation is that, if this counts as meditation, then I meditate every time I take a long train trip or go for a walk. That might actually be true! But there are people who claim they cry, or experience infinite b
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by strken 6mo ago
One of the clients I've worked with was a female-led sex toy manufacturer. It was a nuisance trying to dodge some of the roadblocks. Stigma and regulatory pressure don't always mean the company is evil.
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by strken 6mo ago
This is terrifying even if you're not vegan. There are moral questions raised by animal products that people should think about. I am worried by people who eat cheese without understanding bobby calves or rennet. Some people have tho
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by strken 6mo ago
Where do I get this cool exciting and meaningful science job paying $200k?
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by strken 6mo ago
I can no longer tell the difference between an article written by an AI and an article written by a human who has spent too long reading AI output. It's not just that AI is becoming a little better; the humans are getting worse, too. T
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by strken 6mo ago
In my area, the wrong kind of anthill contains anything in the genus Myrmecia, and the right kind contains almost anything else.
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by strken 6mo ago
I have never practiced Buddhism and it is still indescribably blissful to sit in a clearing in a forest, provided you aren't sitting on the wrong kind of anthill.
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by strken 6mo ago
If that's a rhetorical question then it's meant to have an effect on the reader, but I can't for the life of me understand what you were trying to say. Losing a phone is almost the same "problem" as losing your wall
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by strken 6mo ago
I'm not sure how that example differs from an ultimatum.
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by strken 6mo ago
I just loaned a friend $1k for rent and I have no idea whether he'll ever pay it back. I agree that it's healthier to think about it as a gift that may or may not make its way back. Not being repaid is possibly a reason not to len
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by strken 6mo ago
I'm not convinced setting clear lines is a net positive. A line means digging your heels in. The act of setting a line makes you resistant to change: you anchor your values as they are today, and it comes at the cost of tomorrow. Domes

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