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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Right, I didn't mean to single out Python, but rather to single out Bash. My comment applies to Ruby and Perl as well.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It breaks badly designed text protocols - some can argue that it's a good idea - "crash early, crash loud" etc This is decisively not a case of "fail loudly", which I agree is generally a good idea. The very fi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Honestly, I've yet to hear a good reason not to just use Python for scripting that's any more complex than a series of commands. I resisted this for years, but one day realized I was only doing it because it felt intuitively right
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
While Snopes could take on the mantle of hyperliteralism, this would be a pretty paralyzing extension of scope. Would they need to fact-check articles that referenced a PD's "homicide divisions", clarifying that their charter
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, that's another example of squeezing a complicated situation into a soundbite that can be easily understood by those who are terrified by the complexity of the real world.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Fact checking has been laughable from the beginning This is the fundamental, core challenge of epistemology. Most people are staggeringly unintelligent. They suffer from such a deficit of basic critical thinking skills that they need t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
FWIW, I've generally gotten quite good support from Uber in the past. I can't think of an interaction that didn't go very smoothly, on either Uber or UberEats. This makes sense, as the feedback loop from how you feel about t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Amazon, Uber, Apple, Google and so on will basically just immediately close your account when you dispute any transaction. No more access to apps or books or movies associated with that account. Interesting, this makes total sense
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I have never had to do this, but I always figure that I can just cancel the transaction as fraud via my credit card. Possession is 9/10 of the law and all that. Is there some limitation to this approach that I'm not aware of?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's precisely the opposite of the point being made in the parent comment's link. Do you have any rebuttal to the evidence that source contains?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I think they still do a good job at today cause the mission is still similar, but the mechanics of getting people to read things which aren't articles is difficult. I think Axios fits what you're describing much better. Vox
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's very comforting for you to believe
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow this. The initial comment was "to do your job well, you should do X". The response was "I hate this type of comment. I don't care about doing my job well". That seems like a pretty bizarre
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This is a textbook Gish gallop, so I'll avoid the trap of responding point-by-point and address all the irrelevance and inaccuracy of your comment simultaneously. The premise I responded to was that UBI was the only way to free up OSS
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Only if you're incapable of making basic inferences and uncomfortable with thinking about distributions and error bars instead of forcing everything into artificial certainty. If, like many people, you need things shoved into an imagin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't think I currently do, but that's sort of my point: people don't want to do this, for reasons ranging from the income left on the table to the type of work not being fulfilling. Note that both of these are handled by
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm not sure if we have misaligned expectations of how much income a reasonable UBI is likely to provide, or of how much income you can make contracting. The range of incomes I've seen from UBI proposals range from 10-20k/yr,
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Sure, I'm not suggesting that it's as easy or as comprehensive as UBI, of which I'm a strong and longtime supporter. I'm saying that the existence of this weaker alternative is illuminating: there's a non-trivial su
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This still doesn't make UBI relevant to this discussion. It's already fairly trivial for a talented SWE to make UBI-level income working 10 hours a week by picking up software contracts here and there. Eng already have access to t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> This is what I hope to see happen more and more: Open Source maintainers graduating to sophisticated counterparties who send invoices for "support and sponsorship" on letterhead, and big companies developing procedures to ass
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There's always going to be people who don't care about/ take pride in/find meaning in their work. That's a totally legitimate way to approach it, but it's sort of an orthogonal discussion to the one we're
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I have been thinking this for the last decade of reading this perspective on HN, but it's worth saying: if this is true, it's at best a dramatically bimodal situation. The incredibly-slack labor market this describes wasn't r
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> That sounds problematic for general public Alice and clever trickster Bob scenarios, which I suspect would be a common use case. The general public isn't involved in constructing the proofs, just as they don't manually engage
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Each pile has three solutions in it, and you're asking how we know that all three solutions align to the same number, as required by Sudoku. > Starting with each row, Bob randomly chooses one card in each cell, from the top, the mid
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Another free product is the online dictionary! You may want to look up the word "tend", and the lack of universality it implies.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The comment's advice isn't especially intuitive, and as such it's not at all blameworthy to have failed to follow it; I'd likely have done the same thing the victims did. On top of that, they didn't say what the vic
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Where do you see blame in this comment? I see advice so others can learn from this unfortunate incident. Hell, she doesn't even use the phrase "should have". I really wish the masses had never heard the term "victim blam
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, high-quality free products tend to try to find ways to fund themselves that involve appeals to their users. It's beyond ludicrous to find this a "sad state of affairs".
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, that is pretty low. I stabilized at a couple dozen. I run out of tweets on days when I'm being particularly idle, but that doesn't seem like a bad thing. I also do get a trickle of new accounts. I recognize a name after appre
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't think this is solvable, or indeed even a problem to be solved. Our definition of "better" probably overlaps quite a bit, but it decidedly does not with many, many people. There are a lot of people who really enjoy &

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