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541.
by thfuran 1y ago
What about when you're renaming a widely used type in a large codebase or any of the many other things that it makes no sense to attempt to break up into small changes? I completely understand a preference for well-structured smaller c
542.
by thfuran 1y ago
I don’t see the issue with those people not getting what they want.
543.
by thfuran 1y ago
I’d expect that a lower proportion of those who wrote it would have cheated, but certainly not that more would write it.
544.
by thfuran 1y ago
So history is going to be impossible to understand because every change is a total re-write of all affected files? I suppose that doesn't matter if you never actually try to investigate yourself and instead just tell your computer to f
545.
by thfuran 1y ago
The VPN client I use for work will pop up and steal focus every few minutes if it's running but not logged in.
546.
by thfuran 1y ago
Neither do perfectly efficient, perfectly rational markets.
547.
by thfuran 1y ago
Well, it becomes a lot less fine if you call it "full self driving", because it very much is not that.
548.
by thfuran 1y ago
So wrongful death liability should be infinite, or maybe just equal to the money supply (pick one, I guess)?
549.
by thfuran 1y ago
That really doesn't sound like loss aversion.
550.
by thfuran 1y ago
>You're never going to make executing the wrong corporation as thoroughly wicked as the numerous occasions on which we've executed the wrong human What if we garnished 100% of the future wages of all the employees in perpetuity
551.
by thfuran 1y ago
Corporate fines are a genius invention of corporate execs' personal lawyers to distract from the fact that all corporate malfeasance is conducted by actual people who could be held accountable.
552.
by thfuran 1y ago
Same goes for the regular 7.25 federal minimum.
553.
by thfuran 1y ago
It's $2.13 for tipped employees.
554.
by thfuran 1y ago
And I couldn’t fit any unreasonable effectiveness in my reply, so I had to be contrarian.
555.
by thfuran 1y ago
I don't think Maslow would agree.
556.
by thfuran 1y ago
The web might be fast compared to in 2005 but only if you don't normalize for average CPU performance and bandwidth. Websites that are mostly text often still manage to take remarkable amounts of time to finish rendering and stop movin
557.
by thfuran 1y ago
Overcomplicating interfaces is bad for usability even if someone might feel accomplished for sorting through the mess.
558.
by thfuran 1y ago
I'd dump cut the mic and wire it to some input before actually trying to check for the sound. But it's probably inconvenient to get to and monitoring overall power draw would be easy.
559.
by thfuran 1y ago
Because publications is the number that academics have to make go up.
560.
by thfuran 1y ago
I don’t really see how you got there from what they actually said.
561.
by thfuran 1y ago
They literally aren't diamond. They contain no carbon. Because they're zirconia, not diamond. They're marketed as an alternative to diamond.
562.
by thfuran 1y ago
Though it can look pretty neat of you polish it up and acid stain it.
563.
by thfuran 1y ago
Cubic zirconia isn't synthetic diamond at all.
564.
by thfuran 1y ago
Not a serious one if all the wrench actually gets you is access to the room that contains the box that no known tool can open, which is a closer analogy to what happened.
565.
by thfuran 1y ago
Not even 20s. Childhood mortality by five was once near 50%
566.
by thfuran 1y ago
When you say "license renewal", you're referring to a driver's license? Not everyone has one of those.
567.
by thfuran 1y ago
But a $5 wrench isn't a critical security vulnerability just because someone somewhere might one day find the right person to apply it to to extract important credentials.
568.
by thfuran 1y ago
No, the difference between value and perceived value was pretty much their point.
569.
by thfuran 1y ago
>If you want to build it because an existing solution gets something wrong and you can do better, go ahead But please at least file the bug first.
570.
by thfuran 1y ago
Then what was your claim?

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