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by wredcoll 11mo ago
We have tried that. It's cheaper and more effective to just give people a wad of cash.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
A) attempting to police that is extremely, extremely expensive not to mention absolutely chockful of corruption and abuse B) repeated studies and measurements have shown that attempting to police it just doesn't do anything.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> No, we don't all know that. There's a whole Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture . Denying its existence is just a lazy rhetorical tactic to deflect criticism of
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> eloquent description of a generalization of cancel culture, yet the author still went out of her way to virtue signal to readers who would reflexively dismiss any allusion to cancel culture as made up or partisan Probably because we al
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Is there a good way to use beads without pushing your .beads dir upstream?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
The phrasing is a little awkward but I like the sentiment: gpl software is owned by the public/humanity/the commons/etc in the same way something like the grand canyon should be.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
For the love of god someone improve phone-text input speeds.
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How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plumes of Plasma? (2019)(pbs.org)
61 points by wredcoll 11mo ago|26 comments
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
From my pseudo-ivory tower viewpoint it seems like the concept of 3 strikes has some validity but with totally the wrong response. If someone is convicted three times of stealing in a year, even if it's like 1$, clearly something is no
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I mean, I don't object in principle, I in general consider this to be "doing a good job" that we all strive for, but in this particular case it was a "line of business" app with like 500 users so I genuinely hadn&#x
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I mean, git lends itself to a lot of approaches, the ultimate goal is that the master repo's main branch has a readable and logical set of commit messages usefully describing every change. Personally I try to avoid merge commits these
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
The point of course is that it's not about whether or not guilty people escape. It's about making people's lives better. Improving the world. Increasing the net total happiness. That sort of thing. If you actually apply logic
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I would be weirdly happy to have a role whose entire job was literally just deleting code. It is extremely satisfying.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Also we're a bunch of strangers making very short comments, it's hard to convey the entire nuance of one's opinion on a complex topic.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> Personally I feel that there are no heroes and everyone sucks in this situation, except for the innocent bystanders on both sides who are being caught in the crossfire. Wow, what a daring and brave opinion. I'm in awe that you&#x2
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
But all ai models will generate a spec if you ask them to?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
When these people say "commit" they're referring to the same concept you "merge".
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I had a ceo type person ask me just last week if we were testing on firefox and I kinda did a double take.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Who is going to tell the consumer?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Something people rarely think about in these discussions is that google acquires all of its actual value, its search indexes, by spidering third party sites. Lots of these sites only allow google to scrape them. (This was a thing well befor
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> . Despite my depression, I always avoided antidepressants for some ineffable reason-- a hunch, a nebulous suspicion, I'm not sure what to call it. Yeah, I did that too, then I took some and I was less goddamn depressed aftwards.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Why are you countering his political talking points with your own?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Except that people around the world generally don't want to go to prison, so why do americans have more high speed chases? (assuming they do in fact have more per capita/car...)
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> I’ve had people just lean against my car when it wasn’t completely clean and completely ruin the paint requiring an entire 5 stage detail Assuming this is true, it seems like something has gone badly wrong somewhere in this process. Wh
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
This is such a blatant misrepresentation of the parent post that it feels almost bad faith. The subject was specifically about long term brain chemistry changes. People committing suicide after taking it, while incredibly sad, is completely
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Yeah, it feels like a "vote against him" rather than a "vote for me" position. The republicans tried that for a while before trump and had little success.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I feel like most of my exposure to the term "common sense" has been people trying to justify with rhetoric positions that don't actually stand up to detailed logical discussion. The "expert guidance" thing is an int
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
The thing is, we really don't need people competing at selling carbon credits because it's an industry that literally only exists due to badly written regulations so it's hard to come up with a ton of sympathy.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Sure and if this article actually brought up specific regulations and made a case against them... it probably wouldn't have made the front page and be full of flamewars.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I don't think this is even what they're testing, but come on, it takes very little going wrong for a multiton truck going 80+ to kill someone.

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