what_is_orcas

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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
I think a better way to think about this might not be that this chatbot isn't dangerous, but the fact that this was developed under capitalism, an an organization that's ultimate goal is profitability, means that the incentives of
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
It is ok for one to not be social if one doesn't want to be social.
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
Found this because I was curious (and this was the first non-paywall link that I knew the domain from, sorry if there are other, more reputable sources): https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
I think about this a lot. Of course, on paper it's a terrible idea to pay off a mortgage early (assuming a reasonably low interest rate). On the other hand, my mortgage is my only really significant monthly expense and not having that
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
Yes and no. They're "interesting lines of research" except when they're in your field, then they're foundations or anchor points for your work, past, present, and future. I'm not going to disagree that a lot ge
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
bing?
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
Holy cow. That was awesome. Thank you for sharing. Makes one think what the internet could be like in an alternate reality or something.
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
I'd like to hear more about the bizarre interview, if you're willing to elaborate.
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by what_is_orcas 4y ago
> You can even just run multiple copies of the monolith with feature flags to enable/disable different parts of the code. I can't tell if this is facetious. I hope it is.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
This is a true loss.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Yeah, I think this speaks to a much broader problem with how we attribute value in our society. Monetary value has no bearing on actual value. For example, a smartphone is only $1000 because some people were paid $0 to produce it. Did those
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> some idealistic vision of how the world ought to be Yeah, I think it's a tragedy that we have constructed a society where everyone doesn't have basic needs met. I think it's a bigger tragedy that the alternative to the c
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> A raise below inflation is a pay cut. A couple years ago my previous company cut the standard yearly raise from 3% to 2%. When inflation went crazy during the pandemic I started casually dropping the quoted line into every conversation
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I'll add to that: I love redux and most of the complaints or concerns that I've heard about using redux (from a few teams) have been misunderstandings of how to integrate redux into an existing application or an application de
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Yes it is. Why should the minimum wage not provide a sufficiently secure life for the worker? I say this all the time: if you can't afford to pay your workers a living wage you can't afford to be in business .
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I think I use it like you do. From my perspective, it's just much clearer when I haven't seen the code in a while and need to immediately understand what's going on. Also, I'd be interested in profiling the two different
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> Did I work 20-30 minutes, or have I been working for a day or two? I would say a day or two, and the 20-30 minutes was the time needed to produce the deliverable of that work. I would say that I do this too. There's a lot of stuf
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> he had retired, and had nothing to do. Or: having a public-facing job is something to do that also served as a social outlet for him (especially if it's related to his hobbies) that was free (how many social activities (the kind w
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Ok, I want to say "well how does sitting in a basement with 10 other people making data go from server a to database fit into that" but I feel like the common answer boils down to "ETL is just an abstraction of that work. It
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
That's cute, but it doesn't make sense. Most (I avoid saying all, because I'm not that smart) animals, when not surviving (finding food, consuming food, finding sex, having sex) are super idle. It's energetically exp
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
That's interesting, but what does it have to do with what I commented above? That comment got a few downvotes, and I don't really understand the connection between what I said and this article, but that usually means I'm no
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Leftist ideas don't get very far in US politics because our "left" party is pretty centrist. Every time something "socialist" gets passed (like the ACA), it's super watered-down by folks from both parties and o
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
James Carville said, on PBS News Hour, that defunding the police was a losing strategy, which effectively told the voters where the establishment (even the left-leaning establishment) stands. US politics are conservative. The "left&quo
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
This is something I've been thinking about a lot: how to make homes less of an "investment". When I bought my house my realtor seemed unable to accept that I don't plan on ever selling. I bought this house because I like
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
I totally missed that! You're right, I was just more focused on the logic.
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
This is so frustrating. I live in a relatively low-income neighborhood in a west-coast city and I hear on social media all the time about how the local government doesn't prioritize us because of our relatively low average household in
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> And BTW, the person making that argument before the Supreme Court yesterday was a woman, and one of the justices who is going to vote to eviscerate Roe is a woman, so this is not just the patriarchy at work. That conclusion doesn'
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
> Give a crappy code review and spend that time taking a recruiters call. What does this mean? Like, open a PR with bad code?
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
What's the correct way to pluralize Safeway?
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by what_is_orcas 5y ago
Being a contractor for an agency is the worst of both worlds: no choice on what to work on that you'd get as a freelance contractor and no career growth wherever you're placed. I did it for a year and it was miserable. It was grea

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