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811.
by wrs 2y ago
Unless the election already has an obvious winner so your vote doesn’t matter, that’s just silly. Write an editorial if you’re unhappy with the choice, but don’t throw away your vote and just roll the dice as if you’re indifferent to the tw
812.
by wrs 2y ago
The word “fairly” is doing a lot of work there. There has been a lot of success on one side to tilt things with redistricting and voter suppression since the 80s.
813.
by wrs 2y ago
Well, then you have to fall back on whether one of them is at least better at it than the other, and it’s hard to believe that would be a difficult decision at the moment.
814.
by wrs 2y ago
The trouble with this argument is that if what they want is to keep the coal mines running, no one can give them that. If it’s a disqualifying event to tell them that fact and offer to help, then it seems like we’re on a dead-end road. Th
815.
by wrs 2y ago
I think we did that experiment in November, and it doesn’t support your assertion that people suddenly turn into rational performance evaluators after the election (or in this case an entire first term). In any case, this time around the li
816.
by wrs 2y ago
All humans do that. The question is, do you want elect someone who seems to be better at perceiving reality according to evidence than yourself, or worse?
817.
by wrs 2y ago
Yes, the question is what end are they devoting their sociopathic skills toward? And isn’t it the most “patronizing” thing of all to believe that people are too stupid to see that when they vote?
818.
by wrs 2y ago
I may be old fashioned, but it actually does matter who is right. Because reality is a thing. Being a leader means understanding the reality of a situation, developing a strategy, and understanding where people are so you can get them on bo
819.
by wrs 2y ago
Fantastic writeup — thank you for taking the time to do this!
820.
by wrs 2y ago
Not to detract from the good points made here, but it does confuse me to see "panic!()’s are hiding even in the most innocuous places like unwrap() and expect() calls". They're not innocuous at all -- they should stand out ju
821.
by wrs 2y ago
You are not wrong. Check the archives before the 2000s and it’s a very different magazine. A while back, the editorial direction changed. It used to be aimed at scientists who might be in a different field from the article, or amateurs&#x2F
822.
by wrs 2y ago
It really is bad. I mean, the navigation design is bad to start with (just back, no forward? Genres are under Search?), and it’s buggy. It hangs randomly and sometimes it just doesn’t make sound (you had one job!).
823.
by wrs 2y ago
If they offer an AI feature, it will probably rely on a third party model API, so they will need a license to forward your inputs to that third party for the purpose of implementing that feature. The selling your data thing is disturbing bu
824.
by wrs 2y ago
Well, I do consider myself sane, and it’s what I want. :) But usually it’s a missing higher-level abstraction, where AWS could have given you the Millenium Falcon kit, but instead it just dumps a bunch of LEGO pieces on your desk and tells
825.
by wrs 2y ago
This “nonexclusive worldwide license for the purpose of doing what you asked us to do” thing has bitten so many companies over the years, I can’t believe anyone would obliviously put it in there at this point. I understand your IP attorney
826.
by wrs 2y ago
This sort of hallucination happens to me frequently with AWS infrastructure questions. Which is depressing because I can't do anything but agree, "yeah, that API is exactly what any sane person would want, but AWS didn't do t
827.
by wrs 2y ago
They don’t seem to realize that.
828.
by wrs 2y ago
Half of American voters voted for this, which is far less than half of Americans. I’m almost as disappointed in the people who didn’t vote as I am in the people who voted for this.
829.
by wrs 2y ago
Same here! For me it’s sync, PDF viewing, Mermaid and Excalidraw plugins, and (yes I’m a 35-year Emacs user but…) editing in preview mode.
830.
by wrs 2y ago
Once you pick one of the many “extended Markdowns” (one downside of MD is that there’s no agreement on what it actually is), they’re essentially equivalent. But they’re not easily interchangeable , so what you’re really choosing is not the
831.
by wrs 2y ago
This is absolutely idiotic behavior on the part of the government. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an announcement within the week that the manufacturers are having their own meeting. They aren’t going to destroy years of goodwill a
832.
by wrs 2y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Claude/ChatGPT/etc. can just… do that. With the prompt you just gave. The output could be in Markdown, which is easily turned into a PDF. You would have to break up the input PDF into pages to
833.
by wrs 2y ago
Things would not happen the same way without money. I’m saying there’s no reason they could not happen (again, ignoring operations on money itself). The function of money is simply to help humans collectively decide what happens, of a
834.
by wrs 2y ago
The physical processes of making plows and delivering milk do not involve money in any way. The only role money plays here is to influence the farmer to decide to give you milk.
835.
by wrs 2y ago
I haven’t bothered to look at the actual filing, but none of the causes of action mentioned in the article were about warranty, merchantability, or fitness for purpose.
836.
by wrs 2y ago
Money isn’t “necessary” or even “real” in a physical sense. Absolutely everything that happened today (*) could have happened exactly the same way if money didn’t exist. The only thing money does is affect what people decide to do . It’s t
837.
by wrs 2y ago
I meant one-way in the sense of "one-way decision". If you don't succeed, it's very hard to go back.
838.
by wrs 2y ago
As a reminder, the question was “why does a craft store need double-digit growth?” And the answer is “it doesn’t, until the owners make a big enough bet that it’s unrecoverable if they fail”.
839.
by wrs 2y ago
I guess the lesson here is that a leveraged growth strategy is a one way journey.
840.
by wrs 2y ago
That doesn’t help a UK-based forum. But otherwise, the law doesn’t limit itself to the UK, so there is concern about what happens if you don’t comply with it and ever intend to visit the UK.

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