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by thefaux 1y ago
I don't know how to do that is a great answer that I wish people would give more often. > Most corporate leaders are expecting and even demanding that their employees use AI tools to get their work done. Imagine for a second that I
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by thefaux 1y ago
Widespread gambling is one of the most visible symptoms of a corrupted society. A society that chooses to make gambling frictionless is a society that has given up on pursuing higher virtue. There are no significant positive externalities a
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by thefaux 1y ago
Famously, Billy Bean said "his (stuff) doesn't work in the playoffs." This is because top end talent still generally wins championships. The regular season is a slog and you can do very well by always beating the teams you sh
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by thefaux 1y ago
I listened to a podcast interview with one of the cofounders of zed. One of the revealing things is that he went on and on about how important latency was and how they had to do their own rendering because of the problems they ran into with
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by thefaux 1y ago
Or perhaps people mature, take stock in what actually matters to them rather than what is being forced onto them by the economy. If being left behind means I have real relationships with real humans in the real world, I'm good with tha
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by thefaux 1y ago
If I walk across the desert and find a house on an oasis and the owner offers me water on the condition that I first put a chain on my ankle that is tethered to the property, do I really have the option to say no?
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by thefaux 1y ago
I see coyotes hunting gophers all the time in the big city I live in. I have never seen one rooting around in a garbage can.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, they changed the default colorscheme in neovim at some point in the last year or so. I have an extremely minimal config and don't even use syntax highlighting or tab completions but I could not get it to render the way it used to
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yes and these numbers are kind of meaningless approximations beyond the order of magnitude anyway.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Wow, you seem to have taken my comment personally. Dismissing psychoanalysis in one sentence is a lazy power move that elevates the author by putting down others, much like your comment. I picked that example in part because I find it inter
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by thefaux 2y ago
Hacker news is the only online space I participate in regularly. But I also wonder if my life might be better if I cut it out too.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but to appease the new administration?
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by thefaux 2y ago
> Their imaginations were definitely encourage by exponentialism, but in fact all they knew was that when the went from smallish to largish networks following the architectural diagram above, the performance got much better. So the inher
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by thefaux 2y ago
Why would Jevon's paradox not apply to human labor? I am not sure what I expect for software developers besides that the nature if the work will change but it is still too early to say exactly how. We certainly cannot extrapolate linea
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by thefaux 2y ago
Most of the articles I've read about formal methods feel like lead gen for consultants. That's fine but feels obnoxious when they implicitly act as though they have reached formal methods induced enlightenment that you can too if
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by thefaux 2y ago
At this point in time in most US employment sectors, I believe employers have the upper hand over employees and are squeezing them. Under a different set of laws and courts, the balance could shift the other way. But we have seen a massive
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by thefaux 2y ago
There is a certain style of libertarian writing, and I include the author as well as the mercatus center posse as often using this syle, that I find quite off putting. It often feels like the primary purpose of most of their writing is to s
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by thefaux 2y ago
If you haven't read it, you might like Emily Witt's recent book Health & Safety. She writes about her experiences raving in Brooklyn (and Berlin) from roughly 2015 to present day and many of the changes that have occurred (as
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by thefaux 2y ago
Weird proprietary languages _can_ also be much better for a particular task than anything else and can thus be smart business. Someone who will dismiss something they don't know on the grounds that is weird and proprietary is not someo
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by thefaux 2y ago
I hear you and this is such a lazy argument against IRV. Do they really lack the imagination to understand why this is a feature, not a bug in IRV? IRV, though imperfect, is so clearly superior to one candidate voting if the goal is a respo
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by thefaux 2y ago
He sat in the White House watching the violence unfold on fox news for hours egging the protestors on on twitter while leaving Mike Pence to be hung while he very likely could have stopped the violence with a few tweets. Instead, he waited
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't think it does unless you assume that San Francisco roadways are on aggregate dramatically safer or more dangerous than other places.
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by thefaux 2y ago
It bums me out that we live in the world of Hogwarts rather than the world of Earthsea. Even though they are accessible to children, the depth of these books is so far beyond most contemporary culture while also beautifully stirring the ima
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by thefaux 2y ago
This is troubling to me from a free speech perspective. I am no fan of porn -- and I definitely don't think children should have easy access to it -- but what worries me is the expansion of the definition of porn to suit political purp
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by thefaux 2y ago
Love how you describe your kid as not a nerd and then mention he bikes and goes to circus school :)
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by thefaux 2y ago
You really don't think that reactionary conservatism is not a factor too? Clearly the left has problems with excessive purity demands (just like the right) but I can't accept institutional failure as solely the fault of one side.
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by thefaux 2y ago
There are many things in life that have immense personal value and zero value to nearly everyone else. This creates a lot of misunderstanding and incentive misalignment.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't know about that. I feel like the cat is out of the bag with cannabis and that it actually has the net effect of making the population more docile and accepting of the status quo which is good for power (individual experiences m
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by thefaux 2y ago
Right, and rural people are in touch with everyone don't live in a bubble either...
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't think that this level of isolation is good for most people though obviously I will not speak for you. I am a part of several in person communities that cannot be replaced by fast internet.

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