wutbrodo

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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> it seems irrelevant to predict the results of hypothetical ones. It's probably not difficult to understand, by analogy to things that you might be passionate about. I have zero interest in professional sports, but it's clear
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Sure, I agree there's an incentive force pushing scores up. I was responding to a comment asking what possible countervailing force could push scores towards accuracy. The answer is pretty obvious, as the yelp reductio ad absurdum show
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yea, but the IG complaints are more of a moral panic than anything else, and don't come from any of the actual users. Though you're right that that feeds into the overall brand.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I find it completely plausible that some people would prefer limited PTO. My comment specifies the maximalist criticisms, which can't imagine unlimited PTO as anything but a scam. Ive seen this a million and one times since I started w
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I don't understand your comment or how it's remotely relevant to the thread. Is this just a non sequitur Luddite rant about the very existence of new tech?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I strongly disagree. It's very visible when someone is trying to write (eg) Python in C++ or vice versa, in a way that can substantially harm readability.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This is more of a product problem than a technological one. I don't think the issue is lack of imagination, but hostility from consumers. There are a million and one cases where a pdocut could be 10x better with 10% more effort from m
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yup, this is my experience too. The maximalist complaints about unlimited PTO being a scam seem to be a mix of: a) sour grapes b) people being unwilling to admit that they prefer paternalism instead of being capable of making their own dec
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
FWIW, people confidently disclaiming that this is always and necessarily how unlimited PTO works are wrong (which should be obvious....). I worked at a company that was extremely intense and deadline-driven and unlimited PTO was pretty gre
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Whatsapp is overwhelmingly popular, no? I'd guess much more so than Oculus. And anecdotally, IG users seem to feel very positively about it in a way that isn't true for fb or Twitter users. Most of the handwringing about IG that I
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The foundation of the site's usefulness is that the ratings have some signal. The value of job listings to a Glassdoor user is that they're from companies that Glassdoor rates as positive: an undifferentiated mass of ratings would
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I wouldn't describe myself as actively adapting my tastes: I just ate better and eventually noticed my preferences shifting. I assume it's some combination of my brain getting more sensitive to the stimulus (of eg sugar), my gut c
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> That's a weird judgement to throw in the midst. Sorry, I wasn't implying anything by this. Just absent-minded phrasing. > people have to accept that their preferences aren't always and possibly not ever going to align
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> you're making the decision to NOT have cheesecake when you only kind of feel like it. Chiming in as someone whom the GP comment resonates with: the point here is that you literally come to enjoy it less. The natural amount that yo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
He said that he eats fewer _stereotypically_ high-reward foods because he eats other high-reward foods. How do you interpret that as equivalent to "continually decreasing comfort"? The pt is that the reward function isn't sta
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I've only ever heard the claim made in reference to other large cities, not suburban, rural, or exurban parts of the country. Its trivially true that dense urban environments are going to have different baseline patterns of crime It al
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> New York is one of the best, but still shitty by EU standards. If we're talking about concrete things like throughput, the MTA is one of only a few systems with round-the-clock operation, and I don't think anywhere else match
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> which puts them at the same level as their global peers who went through the same thing. What are you talking about? The headline says learning loss is a _global_ disaster. Who are the "global peers" of a population that con
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Derp you are correct, sorry. Hopefully my comment is still useful for anyone who didn't know they needed smartmontools
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Just FYI for anyone for whom this didn't work by default: I needed to use the --all flag with smartctl (and install smartmontools if you don't have it).
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
And in the example the parent comment gave: RUDY Guiliani was a US Attorney and the Associate Attorney General (third highest position in the DoJ).
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Oh, wow, didn't expect it to be that straightforward haha
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I agree, desalinization is another counterargument to the carrying capacity argument. An effectively inexhaustible source of water means that the tradeoff is primarily against economic activity, which sharply cuts against doomerist claims o
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Wow, that's wild. I'm aware that speech norms are very different in Europe vs the US. Without making any normative claims about which one is better, it's just very alien to me.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I have my qualms about Wayland, but this dashboard is quite obviously not directed at you? I don't see any suggestion that everyone should switch over now that there are a small handful of compatible apps per category. But for someone
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
What is your blocker?I'm curious because I recently switched to swaywm to fix some screen tearing, and I'm still figuring out how ready it is for primetime. It mostly works fine, but I'm getting occasional bugs with critical
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This was my first thought when reading OP's post. A big chunk of VPN usage is almost by definition for "nefarious" purposes. But the pt is that trusting government to reliably and morally define "nefarious" for you
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Or, if I want to watch Russian State controlled news, why does my government get to block it? Woah, is this a real example? Where do you live?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
My favorite stat from a previous drought was that the water used for _exported almonds alone_ is equivalent to the water used for Los Angeles and San Francisco. It's ludicrous to me that people use the drought to claim that CA is in th
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This is a very naive view of how the food economy works. It's not some Edenic paradise where everyone maintains a homestead. It's an Asian country in 2022. There are plenty of people in the countryside; though it's questionab

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