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by whatever_dude 5y ago
This study was conducted in the Southern Hemisphere.
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
While I agree with the sentiment in general, enthusiasm about one's work is not a bad thing. If people didn't get really personal about some of their tools, or unhappy about their current toolset, we'd all still be stuck doin
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
The polygamy stuff is his books has always been a turn off for me. I don't really have anything against it, but it's that he goes to such lengths to explain and defend it, so many times (and always as some sort of "perfect
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Like anything, if you know how to moderate your experience and balance your time and energy, you can derive something positive getting it. Speaking from personal experience, my Twitter experience got much much better once I got diligent abo
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
If one of those sides specializes in ignoring verifiable facts, and is of the "opinion" that entire groups of people shouldn't exist, I'm not sure there's much to be gained by any sort of "dialog".
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
I suppose nowadays it means "not mainstream" as many have pointed out, but historically many of these computer scenes have been called part of an "underground" simply because they're part of something illegal. The d
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Do they? I constantly see DropBox taking days to sync files that are 30kb on size. Or doing dumbfounding things like download all files, then re-upload all files when I set sync to "online only" on a folder if just one of the file
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Eh, tornado chasing "thought leaders" and "influencers" can only get so many people interested in a product before reality comes knocking. After the gimmick is gone, it's just another poor product with little to off
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Tangent: I find GA to be mostly useless nowadays for any website used by a more tech savvy community. When comparing the GA results to server logs and a separate JS logging script, and already discounting for bots, it's clear GA is onl
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
PG went too far off the deep end and is now living a bubble of his own. From his perspective, everyone who doesn't buy into his wisdom is likely a hater. Success becomes its own kind of blindness.
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
This. It's extremely difficult to hire well, because no one knows what that even is. Firing well is somewhat easier because almost everybody knows who must be fired, but taking action is the difficult part.
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Great explanation indeed. I didn't know much about it, and wow, sounds really terrible. I can even see it as an idea that started with good intentions, but the use cases explained (like linking floc ids to user ids in websites you sign
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Modern C++ is "arranging chairs on the Titanic". Don't remember where I read this (twitter?) but it feels so true. Sure you can get a better chair arrangement with enough effort, but it doesn't matter since the boat is s
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
"Now available" is a bit misleading. It's only available on the latest version of Windows Insiders.
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Sell it to Rockstar. Their native C++ JSON parsing seems to be 10x slower than JS/Node.
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
According to some, he's been an out-of-touch, controversial, abusive voice for FSF for a while. The MIT/Epstein stuff is what gets talked about, and might have been what brought this to a more general public attention, but it&#x27
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Counterpoint: they sell ~8 hours of their day. Selling that to the highest bidder ignores that there's different environments that might be better or worse for everyone's general sense of fulfilment. IMO, chasing highest pay only
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
What the US and specially the tech industry call "hustling" is bullshit sprinkled with self-delusion. For every successful history of someone hustling there's a thousand more of someone hustling just as much and not getting a
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
Tangential, but I've had a somewhat similar experience. Iron Maiden's "Flash of the Blade" used to be my favorite song by the band, but somehow it was not one of their biggest hits. I had it recorded on tape and would li
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
> so many people expect to be subjugated Was thinking something along the same lines. I work in an environment where a tiny bit of self initiative does very well for one's work and career, and still some people can't get it ove
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by whatever_dude 5y ago
The first point you're trying to make doesn't seem to hold. You use a subjective opinion on one unit's range as a proxy for all other units. How is the meter (cm, mm, km, etc) trash compared to the foot (inch, yard, mile, etc
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
You should disable apps api on your profile.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
This. I spent 2 years sleeping 4:30hs on weekdays (a combination of college and full time work). But then I would sleep 10h+ hours per night on weekends, was constantly tired, and Mondays were always terrible days as I adjusted back. It was
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I feel the same. If you go back even further, "surfing the web" was a thing. You'd get into a rabbit hole on a topic, visiting a bunch of "personal" home pages in the process, finding a gem or two. That's not a
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Love the scroll effect. Well done!
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I just moved back to RSS (using Feedly). Took a while to get the right set of sources, but the experience is orders of magnitude better. I would even say that had an actual impact on my mental health, as I'm not bombarded with clickbai
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
There are plenty of apps out there that create image and video deepfakes with just a few clicks, with impressive results.
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
I would be a "hell no", because I know people like that are infuriating to work with if you're trying to get shit done. I love programming and discussing programming trivia and etc, but on a team you also need your coworkers
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
Tangential, but am I the only one who thinks that Google News is really bad nowadays? It used to be my main source of news, but I can't stand it anymore. It's clear that it's trying to drive engagement by offering links mor
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by whatever_dude 6y ago
This. It seems to me that every few years there's a new "brilliant" idea by an unlikely "inventor" that promises to solve every pollution problem in the ocean forever. But then it becomes clear that the brilliant id

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