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by wredcoll 1mo ago
> We sorta fumbled things after we, to put it bluntly, nuked the Japanese twice What?
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by wredcoll 1mo ago
This might shock you, but most art is made by artists. Artists also tend to spend lots of their time consuming other art. This informs the type of art they create. Here's an anecdote: Pablo Picasso learned to paint realistic scenes, in
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I don't think calibreweb is that old, are you thinking of the calibre webserver?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
If there is any change I could make to the human personality at large it would be the reflexive opinion that anything you don't understand, or even dislike, is automatically morally wrong.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I was with him until he mentioned Ruby on Rails, is he talking about something other than the fairly ugly activerecord pattern?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Software was never that different but everyone is definitely now realizing that, like all the other creative type things humans produce, the trick isn't finding one, it's finding a good one. AI involvement is a possible heuris
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I'm not going to argue about what style is best like whether or not tabs are superior to spaces or if you should cuddle your elses (other than for my own amusement of course), I just want there to be a style, singular, that the whole
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I'm not sure if I disagree with you or not, but this argument isn't very convincing. > Consistent with what? As according to whom? For what purpose? Consistent with.. itself! According to.. the people working on it! For the pur
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Have you tried photoprism? I'm currently running it and trying to decide if it's worth swapping.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> the vacuum of newer alternatives to the XBMC lineage all the more puzzling. What is there to be puzzled about? Doing media transcoding is the easy part, dealing with humans is the hard part so.. programmers aren't rushing out to d
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
This is such a weird comment chain. Of course transcoding media is the easy part, ffmpeg exists. Even if it didn't, it would still be the easy part because you're just building computer algorithms that are like specified and d
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
If you added up the negative effect of every single "ai data center" you'd end up with less than a single coal mine. It's good to think about second order impacts but this is not useful.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> What are the main forces that keep a democratic workplace like the one you described from collapsing due to bad votes and bad rules? The same forces that keep autocratic ones from collapsing due to incompetent owners making bad decisio
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
You did it! You burned the strawman! Gold star!
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I think HOA discussion is rather getting away from the original point. Presumably if you were running a corporation as a democracy you'd just go through the same basic stages as a city-state where you rapidly end up with representative
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Ah yes, "a certain group of people". You wouldn't by any chance normally use a different term for this group? Perhaps a single word?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Personally I judge hiring practices based on cost efficiency and quality of candidates, but I suppose "making people mad" could be an alternative criteria.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
American jobs more or less assume you have a car, given the lack of public transport. You could borrow a car but also borrow a laptop? Dunno, it's not a bad thought to reconsider some assumptions.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
There are, if not millions of HOAs, surely at least one hundred thousand, but you only hear about the ones being silly. It's a bit of a lazy punchline, especially because HOAs are one of the purest forms of democracy, they really only
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Every single job app I filled out in the last two years asked for my linkedin url. I don't know if not having one was disqualifying, but it does worry me.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
Is there meaningfully less plastic waste in the oceans now?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I've seen a ton of half baked ideas try to get implemented, which ones are we missing?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> I guess they think they can hold out long enough to blame it on the other party? Blaming the democrats for republican deficits has worked for the past 40 years, why stop now?
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
"I prefer to code in black and white only" "Everyone who uses syntax highlighting is a child" I mean, maybe he was genuinely trying to make a joke, but I'm well past the point of assuming random strangers are jokin
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I want to downvote this for being one of the stupidest things I've read this week but you're just quoting it so I guess I'll just seethe silently.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> This is missing the point. If you got rid of taxes altogether it would reveal what really is being propped up tax money as opposed to actually being valuable enough to exist on its own. No, that's not how reality works. Things do
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
I was talking about free fillable forms, but when I did some research I learned its not actually owned by the irs. Now I'm confused.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
We have such a long history of really famous examples of big, successful government mega projects: hoover dam, interstate highways, manhattan project, apollo program... even the freaking panama canal was a government project. What happened
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
The electronic filing sites are available to "the public" both as a webform and as an api. They're just buried and never mentioned.
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by wredcoll 2mo ago
> Neither system is perfect. Yes, thats why people arguing that private companies are always better are so annoying. You get that you're actually agreeing with this post right?

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