whatevertrevor

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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I highly doubt that describes the average neurotypical experience. Maybe an extreme one. I don't have Autism, and none of those things apply to me.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Not disagreeing with the content of what you said. However, sometimes telling people they sound insulting (unintentionally) has its own value, outside of the logical debate-making about the content of what was said.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of people aren't like that. Corporate/brand loyalty is definitely a thing, and not just for products, for all sorts of extraneous reasons. For example, I know people who will buy whatever game Larian and Remedy
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Yes, and in order to identify them, we need to separate the technology from the social context in which it is deployed. That's exactly what I'm saying, glad we agree.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Imo the distinction is very important in this context because there's a lot of technophobia and cynicism in general discourse, to the point where new developments in technology are often immediately met with extremely pessimistic takes
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Had this in the Beat Saber mod manager recently. The game released 1.40.10 and my mod manager suddenly thought that game went backwards from 1.40.9
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
This can be simplified, conflicting field names at the same level also don't compile: https://go.dev/play/p/D3eFi9_can8 Conflicting functions at nested levels also compile: https://go.dev/play
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Unioning interfaces like this does seem convenient for composition/mixin patterns, I'm not sure if extending it to structs in general seems worth the cost of potential footguns though, especially external libraries and such where
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
It wants you to find Stop, Sign and Bike. Not stop signs and bikes.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I agree very much! A lot of smart people get woo-ed by bad pitches or wrapped up in cults too. It's all about how the message is coded for the target audience. An astute MLM seller uses very different language to sell to a small farmer
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I'm in that phase somewhat right now. 30 months in, I'm still kinda unsure what I'd like to do. I know going back to a big enterprise software firm is bit of a last resort at this point, I just cannot convince myself that wor
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
As someone coming on 30 months of retirement, I'm consciously shifting away from toy projects to projects where I commit to a more polished deliverable. It helps with commitment and pursuing a deeper learning of the activity instead of
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Quit big tech after a decade in the industry about 30 months ago. At the time it was supposed to be a "break" because I was badly disillusioned with the meaningfulness of what I was doing, and in some ways where the industry had s
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Maybe you're making really mild "Indian" food haha. I'm Indian and if we're making anything remotely spicy, we're dumping lots of hot stuff in a tadka or pan frying it, which is not only unpleasant elsewhere (r
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Even with an open mesh door during the summer to let replacement air in, our range hood feels completely inadequate. After any sort of fried cooking the spices and oil can be smelled everywhere on the level of and above the kitchen.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I have no reliable and in-depth data on how many of my ancestors died of skin cancer, or how many hours they exposed themselves to sunlight, and what kind of sunlight, or what clothes they wore over those thousands of years. Using this line
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Yup, I grew up in a hot subtropical climate and the best counter to the summer was to stay indoors, hydrate. If you have to be outdoors, stay in the shade, if you have to be exposed to the sun, cover yourself. All of the benefits you get fr
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
It also goes hand in hand with people undervaluing the act of taking on risk in the first place. Hence overbeaten cliches like "insurance is a scam"/"stock market is just gambling" etc. (Don't get me wrong ther
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I do agree with your conclusion, but I'd add that charisma is also very much learned, like a lot of other traits. Lots of trials at seeing what people respond to and honing in on what works, weeding out what doesn't and if you&#x2
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
> > but that doesn't mean we should just delete everything. > Where did this come from? This has nothing to do with anything. Poor wording on my part, because I was typing on my phone. "Everything" refers to everythi
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I may or may not be younger than you, that is of no relevance other than a vague appeal to defer to your experience about it. I find plenty of valuable things on the current internet that wouldn't exist without commercialization, the p
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I agree copyright goes too far, but that doesn't mean we should just delete everything. Creative content producers still need food to eat. We still need mechanisms to pay them for it, the more direct the better. The value of digital co
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
That's a feature that learns commonly skipped over sections, ads or otherwise.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
I don't think the parent implies that. Advertising has destroyed a lot of value, YouTube or otherwise. But you can either push the equilibrium in a (imo) productive direction by paying your creators (via subscriptions) or continue to a
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Well they want you to pay obviously, they don't want you to disappear. Setting an expectation that things should be free on the internet is what killed the internet. We all want good things until we have to pay up.
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Ah yes the infinitely reproducible digital content fallacy. If you watch a movie at the cinema, they still have the movie, do you expect that to be free too? Products have more than just marginal production costs, especially true for digita
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
It would be really tough. I do think YouTube provides a lot of value by making its videos accessible to everyone. Plenty of closed ecosystem streaming services exist and they continue to be niche things where creators who had no audience be
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Well, if you don't even want to be understood, why say anything to begin with?
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
In addition to what other comments have said below, it's also important to state that the indirect impacts of the alternatives aren't widely studied, so it's practically impossible to compare. How do we figure out how many pe
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by whatevertrevor 1y ago
Without doing or seeing the actual math, my intuition leans on the side of it's probably much more efficient to put people together under certain constraints and fly them in one big container, than lots of unconstrained individual cont

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