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by vundercind 2y ago
We import a lot of material that goes into paper products from Canada. There’s talk of high tariffs on Canada starting, potentially, only a few weeks from now. So. I mean, maybe do.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Bribing foreign officials is illegal in the US . It prevents our country from becoming a haven and hot-spot for activity that harms the rule of law overseas and destabilizes foreign states, because we generally prefer that other countries
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yuuuup. They launder both corporate espionage and collusion as “best practices” (where’d they learn those? Your company! And your competitors!)
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by vundercind 2y ago
That’s great—my experience is years out of date, so my gripes may well be obsolete :-) Thanks for the work on a project that I got good use out of, and happen to personally like more than I do most software.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Ditto for other use cases, like writer and editor. There are a ton of people doing that work whom I don’t think are ever going to figure out how to use LLMs well. Like, 90% of them. And LLMs are nowhere near making the rest so much better t
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by vundercind 2y ago
Ah, different “action”, then? The presence of “reducer” had me assuming the action was also analogous. FWIW I liked Redux enough that I once half-reimplemented it for Brightscript so the UI guys would have something familiar to work with wh
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yeah, to be fair, there exist employees (some of whom are managers) who could not be replaced and their absence would improve productivity. So the bar for “can this replace any employees at all?” is potentially so low that, technically, c
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by vundercind 2y ago
I liked redux, but its vocabulary was the last thing core React should have adopted from it.
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by vundercind 2y ago
No lessons will be learned, but it’ll provide for some sweet, if unpleasant, contract gigs.
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by vundercind 2y ago
Scams and other antisocial use cases are basically the only ones for which the damn things are actually the kind of productivity rocket-fuel people want them to be, so far. We better hope that changes sharply, or these things will be a ne
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by vundercind 2y ago
I mean, yes, that is in practice what I’m seeing so far. A lot of spending, and if they’re lucky productivity doesn’t drop . Best case I’ve seen so far is that it’s a useful tool that gives a small boost, but even for that a lot of folks
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by vundercind 2y ago
I’m watching some of this happening first and second hand, and have seen a lot of evidence of companies spending a ton of money on these, spinning up departments, buying companies, pivoting their entire company’s strategy to AI, et c, and z
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by vundercind 2y ago
It’s eye-opening to watch management ignore incredibly obvious methodological errors that clearly render the entire PowerPoint they’re looking at so suspect that it’s worthless. And it happens just about constantly. They’re either dumber th
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by vundercind 2y ago
Literally pick any half-organized activity. They’ll be posted all over the Web (sorry, you will probably need a Facebook account), your city’s website may have lists of organizations, and there are probably some fliers posted at the library
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by vundercind 2y ago
And I feel like this could all come to no good The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood Beneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them out o
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by vundercind 2y ago
It’d be nice to have at least one actual day off every week instead of a day of catching up on all the must-do personal and family work that you had to defer during the work week and then another day that’s half more of that and half fretti
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by vundercind 2y ago
I do both. If I don’t shower in the morning, my pits and other parts smell in ways that will make my clothes smellier faster even with deodorant. And going to bed with a whole day of sweat and body oils on you makes your bedding gross faste
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by vundercind 2y ago
A important confounder is that immigrants—especially from somewhere across an ocean—are heavily selection-biased.
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by vundercind 2y ago
The Boston Tea Party was because the British made tea cheaper which undercut tea smugglers. If anything, product dumping (which happened to improve the lives of tea consumers, but hurt smugglers) was the motivation, not taxation. In that ca
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by vundercind 2y ago
I sometimes go most of a week without checking any email address. I’ve gone a month without looking at my personal one. It’s basically just for transactional mail, I don’t get things from people there.
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by vundercind 2y ago
> but outside of confidence, grammar and vocabulary Just those, huh?
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by vundercind 2y ago
Right, there are lots of them and they have more resources and options than a CEO's bodyguards, and still aren't (and again, I don't think this is, at least in general if not in every specific case, exactly their fault ) s
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by vundercind 2y ago
Homicides are useful because if you use anything else the "nuh uh, it's impossible that (for example) NYC is safer than lots of other places" contingent will just point out (correctly!) that there are massive problems with
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by vundercind 2y ago
Yeah, the inherent problems of video hosting are real and highly-devolved decentralized hosting (e.g. IPFS) is nowhere near a satisfactory solution in a world where most end user devices sleep much of the time and need to conserve battery
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by vundercind 2y ago
> will typically seek the services of a lawyer when buying land I've seen a state where this is required by law , and I've seen a state where it wasn't. Very few people retained a lawyer when buying or selling land, in th
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by vundercind 2y ago
I will believe this if you show me the stats. You can use homicide rates, since they're hard to fake or badly under-report, and since many of the other stats crime stats also look pretty good for NYC and I expect you'll dismiss th
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by vundercind 2y ago
Not every small town or small/midsize city or suburb is notably dangerous. Some are safe. Some are even safe and arguably also poor—poor-small-town Vermont, to take an example, tends to be more than a tad statistically different from
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by vundercind 2y ago
I think detecting or even being aware of register in writing is an also lot harder for some folks than the same thing is in speech, which can lead to problems similar and related to misreading tone. I'd classify that, and difficulty de
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by vundercind 2y ago
I've come to think that a good chunk of the resistance to written-word-heavy remote work, and to the phenomenon of "let's just hop on a quick call" where the alternative was pretty likely to be a much quicker IM exchan
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by vundercind 2y ago
My ex-home red state has double the murder rate of NYC. Not New York State, the city. DOUBLE. The stats where I actually lived were even worse (and I lived in one of the better counties in my area). Nonetheless, always the tedious ritual

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