BurritoAlPastor

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by BurritoAlPastor 5mo ago
Only if you’re so rich that your degree doesn’t need to pay for itself.
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by BurritoAlPastor 9mo ago
I think it’s perfectly germane. When a medium is both a means for making a good living _and_ a form of artistic expression, there’s a natural tension that emerges from people who pursue both those paths at once, in addition to the people wh
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by BurritoAlPastor 9mo ago
> What’s the point in generating writing … if it gives next to zero feelings of accomplishment? Getting promoted, getting a better job, generating sales leads, things of that nature. A depressing number of blogs or LinkedIn posts exist o
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by BurritoAlPastor 9mo ago
The language pattern the author refers to is called litotes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes ), but to say that English doesn’t use them is… not quite right.
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by BurritoAlPastor 1y ago
I don’t think BART employees really have any say in where BART stations do and don’t go, or how many trains they get. Try city councils instead, although none of them take BART anyways so they won’t know the difference.
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by BurritoAlPastor 1y ago
I generally find that Waymos are cheaper than Uber/Lyft including tip . I’ve also seen that, although Uber and Lyft peak times seem correlated to each other, they seem uncorrelated to Waymo peak activity. But this might be stabilizi
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by BurritoAlPastor 2y ago
Note that, at least in Thomas Malory’s telling, the arm holding Excalibur out of the lake is not the Lady Of The Lake, who is nearby on the lake. The arm holding Excalibur is neither named nor explained.
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by BurritoAlPastor 3y ago
San Francisco’s “Main Street” is in no way a major artery, however. Market Street served that function. Here’s an 1853 map https://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g3463000.html in which today’s Main Street is only a block lo
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by BurritoAlPastor 3y ago
Ooh, we got a doxastic voluntarist over here!
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
Clement Greenberg wrote that "Hopper simply happens to be a bad painter. But if he were a better painter, he would, most likely, not be so superior an artist".
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
As a careerlong DevOps guy, I’ve heard many times that “if your job title has DevOps in it, your company is doing DevOps wrong” – overwhelmingly from people with “DevOps” in their job title, delivered with a mordant laugh.
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
People are also not really expected to be individually responsible for mitigating flood or fire risk; they buy insurance. People can’t buy insurance for getting locked out of their Google account. We’re currently in a “well it’s your own fa
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
I do live there. I can hear the foghorns from the bridge at night. It’s nice!
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
The fog doesn’t hide the beauty; the fog is the beauty.
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
In my experience, the business use of retaining years-old metrics is overvalued , because changes in the system tend to prevent any kind of long-term apples-to-apples comparison. You’ll have changed your metrics engine, or your collector,
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
We didn’t make software engineer money when we didn’t have “engineer” in our titles. I would be perfectly happy to be a “senior systems administrator” or similar if it didn’t impact my earnings potential.
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
Are you suggesting that it might be just coincidental that companies stopped putting chalk dust in milk at about the same time that doing so became illegal?
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
Fine, you pedant, it’s ironic that a textually sympathetic review of a memoir lionizing the virtues of secondhand brick-and-mortar bookstores, while fretting about their continuing viability as a business model, would link to the book on Am
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
Ironic that this review of a memoir about bookstores starts off by linking to it on Amazon.
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
When did “koan” become a synonym for “aphorism”?
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
I changed jobs at the end of 2020, my new job has better pay and better work-from-home arrangements, and I don’t regret a thing. My hypothesis is that a significant chunk of the people who changed jobs circa 2021 are people who would have c
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by BurritoAlPastor 4y ago
On the contrary, Twitter’s users generally seem to believe that Twitter’s moderation is abysmal , and they have clamored for years for it to be better than it is, on a variety of axes. People largely haven’t moved off Twitter because the p
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
You’re saying “takesies” does not rhyme with “backsies”? As a counterexample, what would be a word that would rhyme with one but not the other?
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
The core point about people systemically underestimating the complexity of any field outside their own is well taken. Joseph Conrad writes: "Men earning their bread in any very specialized occupation will talk shop, not only because it
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
> And the D&D Beyond software is clearly a first attempt at an Apple App Store style walled garden from which to extract rent forever and ever. Second attempt, actually. WOTC had a monthly-subscription webapp offering in the 4th Edit
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
Mid-senior is more like $300-400k.
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
They did; it’s called the iPhone Upgrade Program.
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
I really don't see how you can look at the changelogs for the weekly releases of the AWS provider and think that nobody's working on it. If you want to see what a neglected provider looks like, spend some time with the poor Vaul
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
Developers have more responsibility than ops for knowing their apps, for the simple reason that each developer owns a small number of apps, but ops owns the infrastructure for all the apps.
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by BurritoAlPastor 5y ago
The basic problem with this model is that it guides you to forever procrastinate actually doing good. Sufficiently large fortunes can be sufficiently diversified that you’re basically guaranteed to keep growing your wealth so long as you ke

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