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by wussboy 4y ago
Hmm. eMacs v. vim?
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by wussboy 4y ago
It may be useful in that if even step one is a no go, at least you’ll find out early that discussion is useless and you can spend your time in others ways I used to argue religion on Facebook a lot (I know, I know). But I stopped accepting
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Huh? How does that follow? Also, I’m not entirely sure we ever left Stone Age tribalism…
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This is the outcome I see as well, and I think it is a good thing. Every form of communication beyond physical face to face will be completely untrustworthy. It will affect banking. Remote work. Dating. Clubs. Everything.
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Do you know why it is unable to? (Serious question)
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I feel like you’re implying “I am willing to change my mind” is equivalent to “I believe whatever the last thing I heard was”. But surely this is not so.
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Your comment strikes at the core of the matter. Changing your mind is perceived as being spineless, or lacking in some essential moral component. It's unfortunate. Think of the millions who have died needlessly in large and small ways
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I grow bored with trying to convince other people to agree with me and am much more interested in how I can change my own mind to agree with others. True bravery is saying “I will change my mind about something important today.”
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There’s always that one feature you need that’s not supported, and because you can’t just write some code to implement that feature, you’re stuck. I’ve told this story here before, but I spent a day knocking out a couple of hundred lines of
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by wussboy 4y ago
For sure. The easiest person to fool is yourself. But again I think the primary thing science has going for it is that it at least acknowledges that humans have these problems. I’m not aware of any other field of human endeavour that does t
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These are not science problems, these are human problems and the breadth of human endeavor is crippled by them. What is unique about science is that it acknowledges these problems and has mechanisms to address them.
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Yup. “But my abortion is different.”
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Have you read this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_... I found it fascinating and I think would form the base of your "American Competence Party". Sign me up!
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It's not wrong to enjoy your work. This person's experiences are real to them, and they have the right to feel them. If only the most unfortunate person in the world can claim injustice or dissatisfaction, if only their problem ca
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by wussboy 4y ago
FF is my daily driver, but I find I need to occasionally open something in Chrome to make it work. I've taken to using Vivaldi for that purpose.
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It’s almost like one side doesn’t have a monopoly on effective policy. It’s too bad we can’t have laws based on efficacy, regardless of which side of the aisle they come from. “If either the left wing or right wing got control of this count
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by wussboy 4y ago
Maybe officially and unofficially, but the state monopoly on violence (of which the police is a part) absolutely reduces violence and prevents crime. See “Better Angels” for a discussion of why. Or go right back to Leviathan.
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I can't recall a GCP outage in my 2 years using it. I can recall 3 separate AWS outages that affected one of our SaaS platforms.
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I try to imagine how society will deal with this. What if deep fakes are so perfect that anyone can generate real-time footage of anyone else doing anything? As a society we’d need to move out of the virtual and back into the physical. Woul
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Yup. Having people listen to a white noise generator as a "podcast" rather than a "playlist" certainly improves their "Look how well our podcasts are doing!" numbers. Taylor Swift's next album will probabl
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by wussboy 4y ago
I would be interested in some links as well.
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Agreed. Svelte was the first front end framework that ever made sense to me. I was able to do things in it that I never dreamed of doing in React/Vue.
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by wussboy 4y ago
You think you wasted your twenties? When I was your age I was cleaning window blinds and dropping out of college, and I was yet to waste 4 years as a massage therapist. Got my first real job at 32. Now I’m almost fifty and finally enjoying
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by wussboy 4y ago
I think it was because it was widely advertised on Google.com, a luxury Firefox never had.
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It’s not just the effect of Twitter. It’s the whole point of Twitter.
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I don’t need to manage the cloud offering and that management time is expensive. Your befuddlement at this simple economic calculation is, well, befuddling.
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This seems so curious to me. "I was concerned some policy in Firefox looked a little like ad delivery, so I switched to a platform which is 100% ad delivery all the time." But that aside, maybe Vivaldi is what you're looking
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by wussboy 4y ago
The other day I tried to open Quick Assist to help my elderly father find out where his email was. Couldn't access it without signing in to a Microsoft account. That's not the exact situation you're referencing, but speaks to
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Based on the replies you got, it seems pretty clear that the answer to all three of your questions is “no”.
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My new US based employer laughed when he saw what I was making in Canada. “So this will be quite a nice jump for you?” Yes. Yes it was.

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