taeric

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by taeric 10mo ago
This feels too reductive to me. In particular, it makes a hard distinction between the thinking and the language. I fully accept that they are distinct, but how distinct? It is hard not to think that some thinking styles influence how so
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by taeric 10mo ago
This is silly and ignores how things are "deprecated" in every other practice on earth. Do we still install knob and tube electricity? Absolutely not. Is there still some out there that somebody is supporting some? Of course.
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by taeric 10mo ago
I don't know that I see why/how this is a problem? You would do the same with any other thing in your life? More, in many things, we have actively decided not to do something anymore, and also highly suggest people not mess with
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by taeric 10mo ago
There has long been a trend that "software engineers" and "computer scientists" both have been rather uninterested in learning the strategies that gaming developers use. Really, the different factions in software develop
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by taeric 10mo ago
Ish. If the car costs 10x, then they will stick to not having one. See Tokyo. Again, I lived for over a decade with a tech job and no car. In Atlanta. It is easily doable. Especially for younger people that don't have a family. W
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by taeric 10mo ago
It is workable for far more people than will make it work. Particularly in tech jobs. The underlying issue remains that it is seen as a poor person option. As soon as people can afford a car, they get one. Back when I didn't have a c
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by taeric 10mo ago
It isn't necessarily a problem one way or the other, I should add. The observation, though, is that people are far far more forceful and opinionated on the situation the further from the area that they are.
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by taeric 10mo ago
People have a habit of arguing online that this would replace people's commutes. Which, to be fair, people online have a habit of just arguing past each other.
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by taeric 10mo ago
I mean, yes. But I hate to point out that even in Tokyo, having a car is faster than not. Just a lot more expensive.
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by taeric 10mo ago
I've lived in Atlanta and Seattle. Both have perfectly workable transit. Even if Atlanta does seem to have gotten a bit worse over the years.
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by taeric 10mo ago
Largely fair. Ish. If you are dreaming of Tokyo level public transit, though, you are dreaming of far fewer cars for the people that live there.
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by taeric 10mo ago
Don't get me wrong. I used transit for the majority of my career. Biked for as much of it. Love the ideas. The VAST majority of people I would see have conversations about this seem to want others to take transit so that traffic is
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by taeric 10mo ago
My assertion is most people arguing online about this do not live near the impacted areas. Happy to be proven wrong on this. I just have a lot of sour taste to the whole thing with how many people constantly harp on public transit, but th
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by taeric 10mo ago
Feels like this is the curse of modern US politics. I'm convinced the majority of people that "want high speed rail in CA" don't live in CA. Further away they live, the stronger they will argue for why we should have i
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by taeric 10mo ago
First, kudos on this. Really cool to play with. Reminds me of a great video not long ago that went over the main ideas behind weaving and knitting. Feels like you almost certainly have to take some of those ideas in mind when doing a simu
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by taeric 10mo ago
It really is amazing how far compression has come in the last decades. Would love to see a chart showing the progress as I think quite a bit of it was very recent. At least, I know that the videos I make on a gopro can't be viewed wi
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by taeric 10mo ago
To rephrase what I think you are saying, I'm more likely to notice these trucks because they will be specifically branded by the vendors? That makes sense. I assumed it was that and that they are there basically every day. Always not
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by taeric 10mo ago
Right, I just meant that you have a high chance of seeing the bread and drinks/chips getting delivered. They turn over pretty much daily. I would imagine it is the condiments and other very long shelf stable things that you may not s
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by taeric 10mo ago
Glad someone made this point. I'm curious how long people think most items in a grocery store last? Just consider the trucks you see stocking them on a daily basis. Typically it is bread and other high flow consumables, no?
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by taeric 10mo ago
Apologies on not replying earlier! Will be giving this an amusing try to see if it can help shape my beard. And glad you like that I realize I'm usually wrong! :D
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by taeric 10mo ago
The comic at the end made me chuckle more than it probably should have. :D
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by taeric 10mo ago
I mean, I just have to point out how that isn't even close to the pricing models that are in use. That is, if you "rent/buy" through the places that offer it, you don't pay more the more that you watch it. Similar
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by taeric 10mo ago
I meant that somewhat tongue in cheek, though I am curious what you think the lesson was? And I thought it was fairly established that Tyler was a fascist.
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by taeric 10mo ago
Licensing being a giant mess for media is not exactly news? Netflix reportedly got some really good deals early on, but of the kind that nobody was willing to do again. They didn't have the luxury of first sale to protect their market
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by taeric 10mo ago
And to be further clear, I don't mean that as a way to assert you are wrong. I legit don't know if Netflix is better or worse than the norm in this area.
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by taeric 10mo ago
I mean, I'm not going to try and defend them from never having made bad calls. But, I'm not clear that they are any worse at this than other media companies? To wit, finding a show that was canceled the month it was released prob
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by taeric 10mo ago
The catch here is that most people did not have high quality hand made furniture. Most people had low quality hand made things. Pretty much forever. And is why they aren't here for you to see them.
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by taeric 10mo ago
Totally fair. The rights around a lot of media is a giant mess. Is why songs used on some movies are not the same as the ones that were used in theaters. And is just baffling for people from the outside to consider.
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by taeric 10mo ago
I would wager that the general change in availability of wood is by far the biggest driver in difference for the markets you are describing? Particularly, furniture benefits greatly from hard wood. At least, the furniture that is old that
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by taeric 10mo ago
This particular one could be ok for them? A major cost for Netflix in the modern era is licensing contracts that never adjusted to the streaming world. As such, consumers may actually get access to some backlog of WB stuff that is otherwi

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