wildmanx

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by wildmanx 5y ago
> corporations do not care about your well-being and will suck all they can out of you, often leading to burnout or outright suicide. This statement is too over-generalized and hostile to be made in good faith for a meaningful debate. Fi
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by wildmanx 5y ago
"Unhuman"? Bombing maternity wards in Ukraine is "unhuman". Putting African refugees on too small boats to cross the Mediterranean with too little fuel and no water is "unhuman". Exploitation of construction wo
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Wow. This blog post is unbelievably condescending and arrogant. Everything is beneath them, they already know it all. I agree that many things mentioned about this particular onboarding process are not great. But do you really talk down eve
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Then how do you explain the original article that we are discussing here? He's just imagining the problems that he is addressing in there? Just look around this thread, you can find the described attitude even here.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
While that's true, it's sad that the default expectation seems to be "you provide support for me and keep maintaining this thing, and once you can't anymore, you'll find somebody else who does, so that I can keep be
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> I will preface this by saying I have immense respect for anyone who open-sources their work. I think the web as we know it today would not exist without such kind and hard-working individuals. That itself is part of the problem. I do a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It's your right to as a user choose projects based on that criterion. It sounds reasonable to me. But it's not your right to demand anything from a project, including demanding that they do basic maintenance or disclose whether th
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Sure, you can blindly trust your dependencies. And most people do. But don't expect them to help you for free if you have a problem. They might. But likely they won't. Try sending an email to Linus Torvalds if something with the L
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> I totally get where they are coming from but it does make it sound like unsupported software. All software is "unsupported software" unless explicitly stated otherwise. Just because some software has its software published un
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by wildmanx 5y ago
No there is not something. That's a misconception. The author is under no obligation at all. Of course a request is no problem. But then if that request is ignored, then that's no problem either. Who knows why there is no response
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by wildmanx 5y ago
So much this. I'm glad he put this out there. I'll start linking to it too. There seems to be a common misconception about open source. When I release software as open source, it does not mean I work for you for free, need to prov
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by wildmanx 5y ago
For certain P, optimizations are possible. For example, with P=1/3, the general method discards TT (P=1/9) and HH (P=4/9) and repeats, while keeping HT and TH (P=2/9 each). One could optimize this by only discarding TT w
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by wildmanx 5y ago
That's right. That's a problem for management to solve though, not for the guy in the center who could have succeeded all over the place where everybody else keeps failing all the time. If that's really the case. It could a
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by wildmanx 5y ago
If everybody around is relatively incompetent, then the superstar at the center can't fix that. The overall result that the org produces is based on everybody and eventually "regresses to the mean" of what everybody contribut
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The point was to make the die roll unbiased, not to convert it into a unbiased coin toss.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Unless you are a co-founder or otherwise heavily invested.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The people most common to enter this state are people who don't trust their co-workers to do the right thing and instead get involved so heavily that in the end they are pulling all the strings. You may call them "control freaks&q
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Just for completeness since I didn't find a comment yet mentioning it: Time to turn exam halls into Faraday cages.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Given how bad people are with money, the number of people who can't pay their taxes would skyrocket if withholding is replaced with the scheme you are proposing. Let's say somebody makes 100,000 USD a year and pays 40,000 USD in t
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> There is also a contingent of people who like to use the the tax code as a mechanism of policy apart from efficient collection of revenue. There is nothing inherently wrong with that. Whether you do or do not agree is a different quest
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by wildmanx 5y ago
If you compare that dad story to the SaaS story that this article is about, it's pretty clear whose strategy is more successful.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Most of the time, the brain does this better than any machine. That's why we don't have self-driving cars yet.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> It's funny that, with the importance of tax to government revenue, why do governments not make a habit of funding/creating really high quality tax software for businesses/individuals to use? Because there is a strong lob
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Culture is a threat? How many people have been killed by opera, symphonies and art galleries, compared to tanks, bombs, rifles? If the people like a certain forms of culture more than others, well, then that's there preference and thei
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> The whole country premise is based on war. Oh please. I'm all on board with criticizing the war, criticizing the human rights abuses, criticizing the megalomaniac Putin. But once you go into this kind of criticism, you start the s
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by wildmanx 5y ago
On the other hand, the incentives on Youtube are the other way around. No matter how complex an issue, "these 5 tricks will make you lose weight" or "avoid these 3 foods and you'll be as ripped as me" are what gets
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Which "facts" does the article call "myths"? The word "myth" exists twice in it, one of which is in the heading. That's just part of phrasing everything in catchy popular science terms. Apparently, if you
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by wildmanx 5y ago
This article is not a scientific paper. It's describing some effects that are observed in a lab. The world is not so binary as you make it out to be. The article is not forming a "new truth". Of course elite athletes are eati
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> So let's look at safer, more normal behavior. Call it -300 calories per day: either cutting diet by a medium order of fries each day (and keeping exercise fixed) or doing 40 minutes of moderate exercise (and keeping diet fixed). T
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by wildmanx 5y ago
It's a popular science article. What did you expect? If you want all the details, read the actual published studies. For the general public, scientists need to simplify things.

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