toolz

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by toolz 2y ago
There is a type of person I don't bother engaging. The type of person who has no qualms spending a lot of time talking, but is less interested in sharing the facts that inform their worldview. I hope you aren't one of those people
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by toolz 2y ago
> Objective metrics are very hard. I agree, but without them we all fall victims to our own blinding bias. Is there much of a point in making predictions or holding opinions when you don't have objective metrics to draw from? Sure,
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by toolz 2y ago
Do you have a link to anything that shows the data analysis on our voting patterns having less international backing in recent times? I see the data and can plot out a trend myself, but if someone has already done better analysis I'm
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by toolz 2y ago
> We will see signs over the next Presidential term. Maybe, maybe not. People who actually know what the future holds stand to make a lot of money simply with market speculation. As it turns out, very few people are capable of beating t
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by toolz 2y ago
Do you have an objective metric that suggests the US has lost (or is losing) credibility? I don't see any signs of it.
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by toolz 2y ago
being able to do that without significant time constraints isn't that bad imho, but inside of an interview?! That's borderline laughable, for me, as you're only going to be filtering out people based on whether they have any
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by toolz 2y ago
I'm not so sure this "race to the bottom" is a characteristic I want to avoid. The most competitive markets in the world are always in first world countries or in countries quickly turning into a first world country. Take so
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by toolz 2y ago
this honestly sounds like you're describing the most successful software on the market. I can't think of many social media sites slower than facebook or instagram, or chat slower than slack or email clients slower than gmail.
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by toolz 2y ago
Strongly disagree with this sentiment. Our jobs are typically to write software in a way that minimizes risk and best ensures the success of the project. How many software projects have you seen fail because it couldn't run fast enough
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by toolz 2y ago
what am I missing? The article talks about apple failing to send consumer disputes, how is that on GS?
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by toolz 2y ago
To that example though, is NASA really the pinnacle of achievement in their field? Sure, it's not a very competitive field (e.g. compared to something like the restaurant industry) and most of their existence has been about r&d for
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by toolz 2y ago
Poor analogy imo. It's socially acceptable to talk about movies that were aired years ago with or without a warning. It's never socially acceptable to infect someones computer with malware prior to explicit consent. There's
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by toolz 2y ago
I found it insightful and pleasant to see that there are people inside of a an important field being intellectually curious and honest about the direction of their field of study.
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by toolz 2y ago
I personally had zero expectations that a blog post around the subject of spoilers wouldn't talk about spoilers. So, not ironic for me.
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by toolz 2y ago
In practice I agree with your points, but it's also important to consider that the open source model is alive, well and is directly and indirectly at the heart of employing many people. I won't make the argument that society is wi
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by toolz 2y ago
Of course I would, the second example represents some portion of a companies revenue. If that companies revenue is only $50 then that is their only customer and to continue existing they would need to keep that customer or they would have
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by toolz 2y ago
Explain to me how the US government spends twice as much as any other country on healthcare and you claim the corporations are _more_ in charge? There are entire industries in healthcare that would disappear if the government stopped giving
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by toolz 2y ago
the US government spends twice as much as the 2nd place government on healthcare and we rank pretty abysmally on developed nations for quality of healthcare. Can the US government be competent? Sure. Do I trust it to be competent today when
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by toolz 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the metrics we could use to force companies to make things repairable. I certainly don't think it will be beneficial to make companies offer to repair _everything_ and if it's not everything, what cr
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by toolz 2y ago
Yeah, I know you can type that way, but I have a quest3 and after watching the video I would think no one is actually typing that way. It looks to be easily twice as slow and way more annoying than just using your fingers with hand tracking
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by toolz 2y ago
How many people are typing with their eyes to begin with? Aren't they using their hands far more often? Cool attack, but I'm not sure there's much real attack surface here if no one is typing with their gaze while using an a
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by toolz 2y ago
and given that the first rule still holds where he chooses hard numbers, then the expected value of the game is negative (aside from meta-gaming this, which is out of scope for a technical problem)
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by toolz 2y ago
but you don't know. Only he knows that he's going to pick numbers the binary search will fail on and he states as much as his reason that you shouldn't play the game.
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by toolz 2y ago
Title is wrong in implying Balmer is incorrect and the article shows that the title is wrong. If clickbait is misleading, then this is worse than clickbait, no? > Ballmer states that the answer is "No" for two reasons: firstly,
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by toolz 2y ago
> I agree. That's completely not what I said. I still misunderstand you, I think. > Money is how we keep track of [...] output of others How do I reconcile that you agree money doesn't represent the output of others, while u
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by toolz 2y ago
> Money is just a way of keeping track of to what fraction of future output of other people you are entitled to (as agreed upon by human race). I don't agree with this definition of money. The vast majority of money doesn't rep
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by toolz 2y ago
If you have issue with the taxes they pay then you have issue with the tax code, but that still doesn't address any problems or apply any consistent values. How does moving money from one rich person to the richest organization in the
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by toolz 2y ago
I find this mentality is always directed at rich people, but never applied consistently in anyone's life, so I have a hard time taking this opinion seriously. Hopefully, you can convince me otherwise, but I've never heard anyone s
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by toolz 2y ago
They 'could' have a paragraph at the beginning to help potential users understand the purpose of the project. It might seem inconsequential, but maintainers often deal with a lot of angry entitled users and it could be helpful to
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by toolz 2y ago
All traits, psychological or otherwise are heritable. The hard question to answer is how predictive those inherited genetics are relative to other factors.

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