LapsangGuzzler

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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Yeah, tbh I’m more interested in that parent looked around and didn’t see any signal in their normal internet hangout spots or found it weird that they hadn’t heard of SBF and immediately came to the conclusion that it’s a government conspi
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
So US intelligence propped up a kid on the spectrum to take money from huge venture capital firms while playing video games during the pitch meetings and running this billion-dollar company on quickbooks, in such a successful way as to remo
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Echo chambers are very, very real and it’s easy to get caught up when everyone around you is drinking the kool-aid. I moved to a new city a couple years ago and met up with some other devs as a way to make new friends. There were 4 or 5 of
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
That’s the impression I got looking at the dev behind this site. They clearly have development experience, they’re just mad and trying to make as much noise about it as they can.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Oh I’m not saying that paid services are perfect by any means. But relying on a free service in prod is unquestionably more risky than using an established service in a paid context.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I think that relying on a free service in a production environment that could cause an outage is a really, really bad idea because you have no SLA or relationship with the vendor. In that sense, you are very much getting what you paid for.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
“Free” is never, ever free and it blows my mind that people still don’t get this. Like, it’s understandable that you get a little burned the first time it happens, but then you’ve learned that this is how it all works. “Free” in a SAAS cont
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
True. I think there’s an argument to be made that a market which seeks AI-generated content of specific people isn’t exactly looking for basic entertainment. If traditional adult content isn’t stimulating enough that you need to seek fake v
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
That’s not how addiction tends to work, unfortunately.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’d buy a maxed out MacBook Pro, get the reimbursement approved, then return it for a refund.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Ehhh maybe. I’m very much in favor of a 30-hour workweek situation, but hesitant about the 1-hour-per-day idea. I sometimes provide feedback as a senior engineer that gets corrected because there was context that I wasn’t given. It’s nobody
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This just is not true. The amount of admin work per deal has perhaps come down, but agents work with much higher volume because deals fall through so fast now. We looked at almost 2 dozen houses compared to my parents that looked at 2 house
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Yeah, but a crucial part of getting those listings from him involved talking through the ways in which the house might have problems that weren’t disclosed, etc. Home listings are ads and it’s great to have someone who knows how to call BS
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I disagree with this. My agent basically had to always be on-call to send me listings that we could go see and offer to place calls at odd hours so we get everything scheduled since houses move so fast now. My agent basically picked up all
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
This is what frustrates me so much about the deepening surveillance state: it just doesn’t work the way that its architects believe it will. It makes sense that a high-tech barrier is relatively sparsely manned on a given day if the idea is
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
True, but you always have opportunity to refinance once rates come back down.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’ve been seeing Crystal pop up more and more lately, I want to dive back into that again.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> I'll just keep renting, I guess, since it makes no difference. There’s no way that the tax burden offsets the equity you would build by owning property vs renting. 95% of my mortgage payment goes toward paying down principal on th
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Voters ultimately have to pay those taxes and politicians want to get reelected, so there’s a definite check there.
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
The Strong Towns YouTube channel makes many similar points. Suburban construction in the US is terribly inefficient and wasteful in the long run by maximizing the convenience auto accessibility at the expense of everything else. If infrastr
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Folks were sharing what they thought worth sharing, mostly to gain more attention. This is what influencer culture does. There’s very little value actually shared on LI nowadays, most valuable content for me comes from tech-specific gr
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union. And how do you propose we align around such things? It seems like you’d need to organi
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Technology suffers from the same dogmatic, performative rhetoric that we see in modern politics. By hyping or rejecting the tech du jour, we are ostensibly participating in a political discussion around how we think or want the future to pl
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1667582737228627971
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
6-7 years is a pretty reasonable amount to get out of a consumer electronic device. Hardware still makes large gains over that period of time and Apple doesn’t brick those old devices , you can still run them for years on out-of-service OS
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Sure, if it's so valuable to have a training type role we'll keep it on those grounds There’s no guarantee of this happening whatsoever. We’ve already seen private companies gut internal training programs in favor of increase
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
There’s nothing wrong with calling out a company for putting out shoddy work during a contentious labor strike. Disney can play with this stuff all they want, but society is going to start asking these big questions in louder and more force
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Nobody aspires to peak as a junior software engineer even though they mostly just do small, easily automated tasks. Is that a valid reason to completely gut a set opportunities that provide a foot in the door to something bigger?
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
It’s an inevitable outcome of a culture so focused on age. I watch twitch streamers in their 20’s talking about how they’re old already. Narcissism isn’t just a social phenomenon spread online, I think it actively contributes to many public
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by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
> Things are rarely binary. Things are remarkably binary in capitalism. Try pitching a VC on a startup concept that’s about more than money and see how far it gets you. Or hit up just a few of hundreds of thousands laid off in the indust

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