tokyolights2

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by tokyolights2 1y ago
Sounds similar to [Jevon's Paradox]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox ), although here the resource is developer time.
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
Its the curse of engagement. If she read the literature and came to a "boring" opinion it would be much harder to gain a following online. It isn't impossible to gain a following without getting conspiratorial, but it is much
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
I like the sentiment but it sounds very similar to Soverign Citizen nonsense. You can't just plug your ears and say that a law doesn't apply to you because you didn't consent to it.
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
I wonder how much of it is that in today's society it is worse to be disagreeable than it is to be inept.
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
Tangentially related: for those of you using AI tools more than I am, how do LLMs handle things like API updates? I assume the Python2/3 transition was far enough in the past that there aren't too many issues. How about other libr
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
FTA > pumped so much fluid underground in the Permian Basin that it leaked into a prolific oil-producing layer of rock, making it all but impossible to extract crude, according to an April court filing. > The Permian produces almost
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
You are just describing what advertisers actually do in practice. Maybe if everyone had the same access people would realize how invasive it is.
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by tokyolights2 1y ago
Sandia National Labs is one of the few places in the country (on the planet?) doing blue-sky research. My first thought was similar to yours--If it doesn't have storage, what can I realistically even do with it!? But sometimes you just
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
I'm confused, couldn't a Patreon owner take their money and invest it if they want compounding interest?
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
Where do you think that money comes from and what gives it value? Your bank account is full of your governments' money...
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
Maybe my brain has been too rotted by listening to Noam Chomsky in my youth, but government spending and capitalism are two sides of the same coin. Everyone in washington is a capitalist, maybe withstanding 1-2 representatives. Large corps
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
What should the government be spending its money on? So in those countries, social services are making up ~25 percent of government spending. But that includes healthcare and jobs programs, which are services that should directly bolster th
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
Event sourcing is a pattern (antipatern?) that appears useful because it solves an interpersonal problem. It is the kind of thing that middle management salivates over because it appears to decentralize control, which to such a manager soun
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by tokyolights2 2y ago
I have seen this multiple times before. Management chastising good work because some externality of that work shows up on a graph that they have to talk about at some weekly meeting. It doesn't even have to make the graph look bad, jus
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
In unix the names of things are just based on what stuck and what was used. My favorite example of name evolution is the jump from `more` to `less` (because less is more...)
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
My biggest insight about recursion came in my graduate algorithms course. I had a great professor who was talking about dynamic programming. I think that most people can agree that DP is one of the hairier subjects. When I'm griding Le
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
Yeah. I don't have as much of a drive, but I haven't really had any problems with sex. I think it helps that my lovers and I have pretty crazy sex so it is rather easy to get excited :)
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
I spent two years during the pandemic working at a hand-made beeswax candle factory. I spent most of my day either running the wax filtering machine or dipping taper candles. When I received an email saying that my job was going to be work-
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
I can see that. At my medium-sized company the management is taking the position of mostly hiring senior people right now, because we don't have many openings and they feel like they can be picky. I know my company isn't the only
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
Oh I completely agree that they are connected. I just noticed before starting that I would regularly feel the effects of stress in my body and that would put my in a defensive, exhausted, irritated mood. It is hard to have a good time when
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
I completely believe that somatic therapy can be helpful. I have over the last few months been taking an SSRI to help with genralized anxiety. There has been a small effect in my mood/thinking, but for me the largest change that I noti
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
The best part about introducing your friends to each other is that then they can hang out with each other without you having to do anything at all! I definitely have some close friends I expect to see multiple times per week. Others I'
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
As a gay person that will probably not end up having a traditional 'family unit' in my lifetime, I question whether or not the family is enough to stave off lonliness. I see a lot of nuclear families that spend what I think is a t
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
I spend so much of my time intentionally trying to cultivate community. In some respects, it is the over-arching theme of my adult life. I find community is very hard to come by so if I have to be the one to make it, so be it. I pay a prett
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
That is a self-reinforcing cycle. There have been long and successful campaigns by car companies and other self-interested entities in the US to associate public transportation with being poor. Just like how a city street is safer per-capit
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
Exactly this. I take a low level of SSRIs because I am an otherwise highly functioning person who has a tendency to get into severe anxious spirals that can last days on end and induce vomiting. I do all the things that a person should do t
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
When I have had conversations with my philosophically oriented friends, I like to talk about what it be like to be a starfish--to experience the whole world in 5-way symmetry.
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
The way you put it makes it sound almost like bat sonar is some kind of Fourier transform of vision. Like solving a physics problem by transforming the position space into momentum space. Cool stuff :)
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
> and from your own desires As a non-religious gay I probably wasn't invited anyway. But this kind of thinking is what leads conservatives to so much repression and hate. The idea that the wants and needs of your body are something
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by tokyolights2 3y ago
Slightly non-sequitur. The best thing that I ever did for my body wrt/ having a desk job is making sure that wherever I am my monitor is at eye level and at least 2ft away from my face. I always found that at the end of the work day I

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