the_cat_kittles

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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
i dont know how to engage with a comment like this. but i have a feeling that its an example of garbage in garbage out. i recommend you take any one of those specific assertions, maybe starting with "a few farmers can feed the country&
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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
when people (like you) use "productivity" and "value" and "stakeholder" i generally write them off because they are uselessly vague abstractions. its so irritating to simplify things in this way, there's b
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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
supporting democratic candidates while working for companies that exacerbate the problems they supposed want to fix makes it hard for me to call someone a democrat unambiguously
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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
good or bad depending on who you are rooting for
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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
id go one step further and say "fuck the concept of productivity" its such a simplistic way of categorizing what we do and dont do
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by the_cat_kittles 3y ago
moby dick is the story of a guy on a boat who tries to hunt a whale
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
type 1 thinking is just outsourcing the actual problem to other people
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
i dont work in the tech industry, so try again. either way your argument is pedantic as i think most people understand defense contractors to be mostly manufacturing and tech related to it. if you want the definition to include people who u
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
compared to a random sample i think they are more common in that industry. just anecdotal experience but hey
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
a lot of people in the defense industry are q anon types that are very eager for a war. reliably some of the dumbest people
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
you liked a jordan peterson video, i think youtube assuming you want shit forced down your throat is not entirely crazy
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
its almost like... and i know this is crazy... they are just money vampires?!
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
another classic in the "software dev suprised other people are good at their jobs"
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
when did it become common to have an encoder on the steering wheel in a car, and for what purpose?
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
totally agree. i feel the same way about blender and ardour, and i wonder if the ui layer is the biggest difference between open source and paid software of this type. ths reason being the ui is the first thing you notice so it probably inf
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
its janky as shit, but somehow strangely effective. you just have to overcome several months of frustration. i think its worth it because its open source and scriptable, you can always modify it to do exactly what you need
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
i think the trick for busking is to be LOUD, look entertaining and play uptempo tunes
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
this is a really good comment, and i agree with it. but i do think there is a seperate point that the experiment reinforces, which is that the perception of musical skill is highly contingent on non musical things for most people. as a musi
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
maybe more value will ultimately be placed on in person interaction
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
i think the point about adding minigames vs refining the ones you have is very good. ive noticed that with music performance, sometimes its a little counterintuitive though- often a minigame can itself be refined into a few mini-minigames,
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
this is kind of like the old idea of a tow-path. those work by floating the cargo on the river and pulling it with horses next to the river. I really like the idea of pulling cargo floating in air with trains, since trains already exist, an
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
the party of shitty managers who only feel good when their employees are forced to bow to their pointless wishes in person
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
fixing stuff will teach you everything! i didnt even mean to learn so much about so many topics, but knowing that i could fix it just kinda made it happen. and its mostly fun, when its not incredibly rage inducing lol
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
i neither trust nor have sympathy for anyone in the situation. i guess its because any inter-business negotiation / transaction should be assumed to be hostile since its generally close to a zero sum game, or partially one. you are try
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
there are some emerging metal 3d printing techniques that might overcome that, like rapidia
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
the ball gear might be a good candidate for metal 3d printing
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
another simple reason- linux stays fucking put. mac constantly bothering you to update, fuck completely off!
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
words of wisdom, no idea who is downvoting this
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
putting it below 1 reveals one thing swing does- it orients your ear to the beat. as i think lots of musical devices do, it enhances perception. it sounds "backwards" when you have it less than 1
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by the_cat_kittles 4y ago
when they stand to gain / justify bloated budgets, they are probably lying. when they have nothing to gain, and contradict the worlds least reliable source, they are probably not lying.

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