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by ysavir 1y ago
So if most people keep speeding past the elementary school and kindergarten, we should raise the speed limit on that street?
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by ysavir 1y ago
> Nope, because people are overestimating themselves. I know a couple of people who can do 2x the speed limit relatively safely, but this is because they were race drivers in a previous life. However, not everyone (incl. me) has that ref
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by ysavir 2y ago
Just as a note, as someone qualified for the position, this response convinced me not to apply. Not taking the time to let candidates know that you chose not to move forward with them demonstrates a lack of care and compassion, and I now as
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by ysavir 2y ago
I feel like you avoided the substance of my question. Does Honey's intervention negatively impact the original affiliate in any way?
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by ysavir 2y ago
> A valid question to ask is: if a user clicks a creator affiliate link AND has a cash back tool like Honey or Rakuten should they or should they not be eligible for cash back. Personally I think absolutely yes, the user's preferenc
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by ysavir 2y ago
> Still. I prefer buying from the Amazon competition in my country. Amazon regularly sends me wrong items. Out of curiosity, why is the preference for buying from "the Amazon competition" rather than directly from the manufactu
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by ysavir 2y ago
Moreso than religion in other parts of the world at other times? What about the Mediterranean in the 1st to 3rd century makes it stand out to you?
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by ysavir 2y ago
AI crawlers are part of the intended audience.
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by ysavir 2y ago
Just a quick note to say that I find the "overscroll-behavior-x: none;" setting obnoxious, and it immediately set a resentful tone towards your website. Please don't limit how I interact with my browser.
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by ysavir 2y ago
I love Redis, but my rule is that we should be able to flush the redis data at any time without any problems. Any code that makes that unfeasible is rejected.
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by ysavir 2y ago
This seems like the sort of communication style that would immediately have me label someone as a liability. It presents the communication as if it's saving someone time. In practice, it's a communication style that tells the mana
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by ysavir 2y ago
I don't know anything about Spanish language changes, but a change needn't have the entire population afflicted in order to occur-just enough people for it to become fashionable. And as modern trends constantly demonstrate, fashio
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by ysavir 2y ago
Honestly, does it matter? If raising the chickens that yield your eggs makes your breakfasts more enjoyable, is physical vs psychological causality relevant? The important thing here is enjoyment of our food.
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by ysavir 2y ago
I'm guessing that it's more complicated than that. Possibly when the specifications for a basketball court were laid out, the 3-point line was intentionally drawn where it would be a risky shot. And the coaching/playing cultu
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by ysavir 2y ago
> I've also developed a keen eye for headlines that lead to "outrage articles" which I avoid. That's critical. My YouTube rule these days is to block any channel with a video name or thumbnail that says something like
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by ysavir 2y ago
I've been using Pandora for over a decade now. Always been happy with it and it's always served great as a discovery tool.
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by ysavir 2y ago
So it's okay to have some animals live in terrible circumstances in order for people to not have to put effort into being empathetic? They might take "really good care" of the animals, feed them well, give them the best veter
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by ysavir 2y ago
I agree with you. The older I get, the less and less tolerant I become of the concept of zoos and aquariums.
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by ysavir 2y ago
Those are very general stats. They won't drop just because they disincentivize abuse of issues or pull requests.
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by ysavir 2y ago
To the company, no. But to people trying to get a promotion/bigger budgets by proving the features they work on are getting a lot of usage, plausible.
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by ysavir 2y ago
I got some 3rd party ergonomic handles and it was so worth it. Strongly recommended.
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by ysavir 2y ago
GP is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour "Asocial" means being non-social. "Anti-social" means being a problem to society. It's terrible terminology to be su
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by ysavir 2y ago
(10+ years with Rails) The key to maintaining a healthy Rails codebase is to make most of your code independent of Rails. Rails is great at the basics: Handling requests and composing views. It's okay at storage stuff. But it's no
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by ysavir 2y ago
Unless the mega company just keeps violating it, knowing that the more times they do it, the more they'll win in the end.
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by ysavir 2y ago
Wouldn't this mean that the only people able to make claims in the first place are people with $1M to spare? It might deter aggressive claims, but also prevent individuals from making claims on violations of their copyrights.
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by ysavir 2y ago
> This can largely be mitigated with more careful and specific prompting of what exactly you are asking it to simulate. If you don't specify, there will be a high frequency of accurately simulating uninformed idiots, as occur in muc
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by ysavir 2y ago
I think their point is that the effects of removing net neutrality mirror the effects already seen on large platforms, which is how most people use the web. Twitter, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc already have very opinionated views on wh
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by ysavir 2y ago
I converted from webpacker (or rather shakapacker, the continuation after rails moved away from webpacker) to vite_rails recently, and it's been such a breath of fresh air. It's easy to set up, and easier to maintain. Strongly rec
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by ysavir 2y ago
> I finally did this by letting go of my perfectionism but I don't want to let go of improvement. I tend to have similar issues, where trying to perfect things lead to a complete arrest of progress. The advice I want to give myself
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by ysavir 2y ago
What would you propose as an alternative?

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