Yodel0914

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by Yodel0914 6mo ago
I’m 20min by public transport and still much prefer my 3 days at home than my 2 in the office. I think the thing people miss about RTO is that management are more likely to be extroverted. They’re the kind of people who thrive on being surr
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by Yodel0914 6mo ago
Being able to join an instance with its own culture, while still being able to connect outside that culture, is the only reason I use any social media at all. I understand it can be confusing for people coming from Twitter or Facebook or wh
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by Yodel0914 7mo ago
Joplin is quite good; I still keep it around for longer form writing. For everyday note taking I switched to logseq about a year ago. They're in a weird phase technically (in tye midst of a huge rewrite id the persistence layer) but it
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by Yodel0914 7mo ago
Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc. For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an easy way to share passwords, so my wife and I had duplicates of
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by Yodel0914 7mo ago
That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.
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by Yodel0914 7mo ago
We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers. The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap I have set up (self hosted Vaultwarden included…).
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
I agree. I’m using copilot more and more as it gets better and better, but it is getting better at the fun stuff and leaves me to do the less fun stuff. I’m in a role where I need to review code across multiple teams, and as their output is
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
As somewhat of an AI-agnostic, I disagree. Writing tests is one of the things I find most useful about copilot. Of course you need to review them first correctness, but (especially for unit tests) it’s pretty good and getting it right firs
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Out of interest, what sort of products/systems are you building?
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Thanks for putting in the effort with that comment. I understand what you’re saying, but it seems like a local optima problem to me: enshrining race differences in corporate policy and law may be optimal right here, right now, but it’s anti
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
> A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day. Modern Rolex (and Omega et al) are more like +/-2s.
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Maybe this is a generational thing, but that first sentence is nonsensical to me. DEI wants to enshrine race differences, so mocking DEI is… racist?
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Of course naturally “trim” people don’t count calories - they don’t have to. Just like I don’t have to monitor my blood glucose level, but my Type 1 diabetic friend does. You can’t apply to habits of one physiologic group to a different gro
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
There’s a whole field of research on this (look up Floyd Toole) - while any one individual can have skewed taste, on aggregate people prefer speakers that are as close to neutral as possible.
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Often for me it’s not about not liking the book, but not wanting to read it right now. This is particularly true with philosophy, but also true of fiction (I’m currently reading and loving Infinite Jest, but I’m not always in the mood for i
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
The point about not setting a goal rings true for me. A few years ago I set a book-a-week goal and it definitely had a large influence on the books I chose to read. I tend to read a lot of books simultaneously, but much I’m not convinced is
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
I use Manet as a music player an tailscale to have access to my home server. Before I tailscale set up, I’d just download what I wanted to my phone before leaving home.
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
Bandcamp, and when what I want isn’t there, qobuz usually has it. A couple of times I’ve had to buy the CD off eBay and rip it.
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
That probably depends on how you listen to music. I still have a qobuz family subscription but barely use it. Mostly I listen to new albums on Bandcamp, and if I like them enough, I buy them. I bought ~20 albums last year, which I guess wou
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
That’s fine, but with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.
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by Yodel0914 8mo ago
I use Manet on iOS
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
Not the GP but I don’t think they were talking about “building something to make some guy richer” - they was were talking about building a life and relationships that positively impact the people they care about.
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
When you say transactions, what are you thinking of? I was thinking of your usual VAT/GST - in that case any sort of progressive tax would be hell for small businesses (or large ones) to implement. If you’re talking about banks taxing
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
I in principle agree, but it’s very hard to implement a progressive tax system if the basis is consumption (or “financial transactions”)
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
This is something outraged rich people tell themselves to feel better about their outrage.
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
I’m not deeply into Jung, but he has a concept around phases of life that rings true to me. It’s a good and proper (and somewhat inevitable) to move though these phases as you age; there’s not a lot of point as a 20yo trying to implement th
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
Scott’s Meditations on Moloch, where I’m fairly sure the concept originated, is one of his best (from back in 2014): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
That logic only works if you take a “1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters” approach to thinking about creativity. If you want to argue that art is created by pure randomness that’s fine, but I don’t think we’re going to come to an agreement.
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
There was nothing grifter-ish about this article that I could detect - what are you seeing that I’m missing?
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by Yodel0914 9mo ago
I partially agree, but it depends on your objective function. If you’re optimising for the enjoyment of the experience of reading, you don’t need to know if the content is “worth it”; just read it slowly and if you’re not enjoying it, stop.

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