wussboy

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by wussboy 11mo ago
That is the cart before the horse. Families, and women specifically, need stability and reasonable guarantees that fewer babies will be more likely to survive before they will stop having 4.
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by wussboy 11mo ago
No True Scotsman it is.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I love it, but that would never work in the wild. Mine does, for some value of “work”.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I'm totally stealing that. Fantastic. And, if you want and if the Fates allow, you may have my favourite, completely unappreciated joke: "A time traveller!" [wait a few seconds] "Knock knock."
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by wussboy 1y ago
"The policeman wore his belt in a way I didn't enjoy, therefore I will take up residence with the drug dealer."
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by wussboy 1y ago
My money is on Facebook. They believe they can survive a court challenge against any competitor because they have almost unlimited resources.
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by wussboy 1y ago
An analogy is not proof. It is not even evidence.
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by wussboy 1y ago
Oof. Like our world needed more of that...
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by wussboy 1y ago
We know that relying heavily on Google Maps makes you less able to navigate without Google Maps. I don't think there's research on this yet, but I would be stunned if the same process isn't at play here.
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by wussboy 1y ago
It does make one wonder why the democrats insist on putting women and racial minorities forward as presidential candidates. Yes, it shouldn’t matter but it apparently really does and was that the hill we wanted to die on? Handing the presid
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by wussboy 1y ago
The government is not trying to solve anything. This is a ploy to generate uncertainty and obedience.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I can’t tell if this is satire or not
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by wussboy 1y ago
I think the slowness is the point. I write in a journal as a way to collect my thought, get new ideas, focus my thinking. I’m always telling myself to slow down, because legibility and intelligence seem to both increase when I do so
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by wussboy 1y ago
Hard disagree. People use rationality to support the beliefs they already have, not to change those beliefs. The internet allows everyone to find something that supports anything. I do it. You do it. I think a fascinating litmus test is ask
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by wussboy 1y ago
That’s why we use Firestore
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by wussboy 1y ago
I think it's important to call out the difference between "what I prefer" and "what is good for me". We understand this fully in many aspects of our lives (from "My body prefers to do heroin" to "I pr
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by wussboy 1y ago
Out of curiosity, when is the last time you changed your mind about something moral? If you can’t remember the time, it’s petty rich to accuse others of being exactly as close minded as you are.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I don’t think you can become a talented enough software developer to benefit from using AI by using AI. Google Maps causes us to lose the ability to navigate without it. I would not be surprised in the slightest if the same is true with AI.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I suspect when it comes to human mastery there is no clear dividing line between scaffolding and core, and that both are important.
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by wussboy 1y ago
I’m not even sure it’s the right question. No one knew what the long term effects of the internet and mobile devices would be, so I’m not surprised people thought it was great. Cocoa leaves seemed pretty amazing at the beginning as well. Bu
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by wussboy 1y ago
I feel like negative opinions are facts.
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by wussboy 1y ago
And if they could find a way to make you pay attention you’d better believe they’d do it in a heartbeat
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by wussboy 1y ago
I’m starting to look at “engagement” as an anti-statistic. Like, if you’re chasing engagement, what other more meaningful thing are you ignoring? Or, the more engagement something has, the less value it has to society.
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by wussboy 1y ago
Full time Firefox user. I run hundreds of tabs for days on end and need to restart it every week or so. Well worth it to not use Chrome. Need to open a site in Chrome about once a month
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by wussboy 1y ago
If history has taught us anything, it's that unless full accounting data is released, there is a reason that full accounting data is not being released, and that reason would almost certainly paint the company in a bad light.
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by wussboy 1y ago
And are LLMs immune to that same SEO garbage race?
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by wussboy 1y ago
Is no one playing steel police?
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by wussboy 1y ago
I have lived in Alberta for the last thirty years, but I see myself as a Canadian. The “us vs them” you embrace makes no sense to me because that’s not where I draw my circles. Alberta is not being robbed by Canada in the same way that me m
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by wussboy 1y ago
Having nothing on your left doesn’t make you leftist. If I drive in the right hand lane and there’s nothing on my left, I am not driving in the left hand lane.
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by wussboy 1y ago
Keep your camera on. Say hello to everyone on your team every morning. Engage in idle chit-chat on Teams.

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