wonderzombie

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by wonderzombie 13y ago
This is in part why I inserted the "invited back" clause. :)
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
I don't think you're intending to flaunt the fact that these are realistic goals for you but not for others. But it is very easy to read this as such. Some of that turns on what you mean by "financial independence" — if
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Call them syspages (modified from suggestion from upthread).
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Why should anyone's head explode? A stand-up comic who isn't funny pisses off the audience, it's incredibly painful to watch, and the comic doesn't get invited back.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
"fsck" is also distinctly non-gendered and it is not dated. It's actually kind of clever because it's not in the least an obvious name for a filesystem check, of all things. "Bro" is painfully obvious, gendered
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Nobody ought to ask you to do something you're uncomfortable with, and nobody ought to expect you to be the social enforcer or whatever. I empathize 100%. But if a woman's body language seems particularly bad, or you know your f
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Hey, I'm with you on the last part. I'm addressing the fact that merrit's comment has no merit, and it's safe to pigeonhole it as worthless. The debate in this thread is whether or not it's helpful, and I weighed in
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Start off with polite inquiry. If it's a false positive, apologize truthfully! If it's a true positive, you can still rebuke the aggressor politely. "Wow, that's really not cool, man. Don't you owe her an apology?
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
No, you will ask politely. It's 100% socially acceptable to ask about how people are connected or know each other. If people get weird about it, apologize. "Sorry, I was just worried for a second that you were, like, groping her!&
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
How about you ask? Start by being polite. "Oh, I haven't been introduced. So how are you two connected?" You'll to have to step out of your comfort zone for this even if it is immediately obvious. And if it's norm
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Sorry, but this is part of a pattern. You may feel OK with treating this as an isolated incident, but it's not. It deserves to be lumped into a category of common responses to stuff like this: victim blaming and derailing. It does appr
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
What makes you think that "get your hands off me" would be enough for a statistically significant subset of people who are convinced that this isn't a problem, let alone their problem? On what planet do you live where people
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
That's the sort of story that'll spread like wildfire. You must be using a different Internet from me. On my Internet, it looks something like this: "Oh, you did speak up? You should have spoken up louder. You (should|shoul
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
There's that possibly-apocryphal quote about socialism in the US never having taken hold because Americans all believe themselves to be temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
As someone who's about to become a parent (on the order of weeks now), this drives me up a fucking wall. My instinct is generally towards politeness[0] so it goes against my nature to get up in people's faces. But I'm wonderi
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Wait, do you actually think DPRK is actually communist? It reads far more like an autocracy to me. On the other hand, look at the rest of the industrialized world. Almost every industrialized nation has socialized medicine, social insuran
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
I appreciate the perspective of a person who identifies as Marxist. I'm not a Marxist but I've been struggling to articulate why I believe this sort of protesting is counterproductive. For one thing, their complaints are not actio
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
And by that do you mean to suggest Feedly doesn't offer a paid version? https://feedly.com/index.html#pro
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Man, am I just insanely lucky? I've never had such trouble with x.0 releases, during the upgrade or after. FWIW, I've used at least 2 Macs concurrently since '09, and one since '06.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Yes, for my part, I would really hope for autocomplete. Even if it comes down to enumerating all the MBOOT_ whatsit in a syntax file for my specific language, I would probably be willing to go that route. Alternatively, Sublime Text support
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
This is the problem with assuming humans are all rational, utility I maximizing machines. When a game like Skyrim comes out, I don't care that it'll be $45 instead of $60 in some months. My friends are playing it, the Internet is
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
All right, you convinced me to get in on this. This is hilarious.
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Regarding distraction, may I posit that the author has the causality reversed? What if many people are seeking dopamine, et al, because they're already unhappy? There was a piece on procrastination which suggested that some procrasti
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
I'm 100% sympathetic -- $100K is a lot of money -- but you really do need to factor in cost of living. I am not trying to evoke sympathy for folks who make $100K. It's just reality that $100K means something drastically different
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
You wouldn't characterize education as a commonly discussed component of upward mobility? It seems to me that an education is exactly how you'd expect your children to do well, as opposed to the "effort" and "hard w
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
You're more or less making up a "language" every time you write an API. Among other things, the extent to which you notice this depends on the degree to which one API interoperates well with another one, and the degree to whi
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Well, that's the trick. (Serial procrastinator here. Hello!) You can't think of a large project as a large project. Otherwise you'll never get it done. It's impossible by definition, because a larger project is a compo
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
Why would this be intrinsic to a free service? "As of $date, our pricing tier no longer allows for $X GB of data. You have until $otherdate to upgrade before we delete the difference." "We're shutting down so here's
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
That's a weird claim for people to make. $100K for an individual is pretty high compared to the rest of the country! Other commenters are suggesting that it is actually the upper bound for middle class. I wonder if people are actually
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by wonderzombie 13y ago
> What disturbs me is that so many of us use this as a substitute for facts and objective analysis. I think there's something to this. At a guess, people use a heuristic because facts and objective analysis are hard. I don't

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