alright_scowl

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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there's an even larger number of people who constantly fe
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Except, you're proving mine. In a thread full of people gushing on Mac speakers, me saying it's an okay but overpriced machine is considered "hating for the sake of hating"
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I wouldn't describe the speakers on the M1 I use as amazing. It's more or less as bad as the speakers of previous laptops I used. I mean, it is a speaker. Good enough for simple sound feedback on most applications. Music on it so
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Except they don't? I hate the speaker sound on the Mac I use for work. Unless "so good" in the title means "not as awful as other shitty laptop speakers", but even that is a poor statement, when the text in the link
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Made me spit my coffee. Have my upvote, you glorious bastard.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Agreed. And I say that when my role is "building software systems" People with different roles in an organization will have different perspectives and goals. Ultimately the software system being built will have to be a compromise
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> People are so skeptic and negative about humans nowadays. Any positivity I might sometimes happen to feel about humanity quickly proves to be misguided as soon I read what other humans have to say on the internet. Just go to Twitter, R
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> Europe has nothing. The company that develops Stable Diffusion is German. I find it as impressive as ChatGPT.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to create digital cameras, a good 10 years ahead of the comp
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> We survived nukes because they were heavily controlled and their spread contained Much to the opposite. We survived nukes because many countries have them. If only one country had them, I presume it would be a lot more trigger happy, k
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
That's exactly how I've been using it. Absolutely amazing stuff. Saves me hours of combing stuff through the internet while coding, so I can focus in the actual problems I need to work on.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> But in some cases there just might me a connection between concepts we haven't seen before that have merit to generate a truly new idea. But it's important to notice that a language model cannot reason to synthesize new infor
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> If you do the math that doesn't always work out. I disagree. But it depends on how less the remote companies pay. Are we talking about 80% of the salary of a RTO company? 60%? 30%? The close it gets, the better the math works out
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Smaller salary to be able to live in much cheaper cities where your general quality of life will also be massively improved? Sounds like a win-win to me. Especially considering that the decrease in cost of living probably far surpasses de d
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
This is the right answer. I think the startup scene is mostly a huge grift. Companies that don't make any sense being propped up by VC money until they find and exit (typically an IPO) and are left to crash and burn. I avoid working fo
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I think the basic assumption is "you need help, and we are willing to help you". I guess it all comes down to what "life coaching" means in this context. If we are talking about some sort of social assistants that will u
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> It helps that in the Netherlands, poverty is typically unnecessary. There is (almost) guaranteed livable income for everyone independent of employment, due to our strong social security system. I lived in multiple countries, including
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> There are not that many parties to vote for and people vote for the party they dislike least This is democracy at its finest.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
How exactly is it just "barely" democratic?
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> There are many concerns about giving a centralized authority more power > Also, since the EU is a vassal of Pax Americana So the problem is giving a centralized authority (EU) more power. At the same time the EU is a vassal of the U
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Are you implying I gave up freedoms to state/bureaucracy? Which freedoms did I give up, exactly?
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Funny, do they? I don't participate in threads about the US and its policies, so I wouldn't be able to tell.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Forgive me for not taking their opinion about an economic block that they don't seem to understand and that their country doesn't belong to very seriously.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
I think the benefits far outweigh the downsides. To be frank, I think a big chunk of its problems is that it is not integrated enough. Then again, my perspective is from someone not originally from Europe, that chose to migrate here and dec
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
You're right, they will never grow out of it.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
> If you want to be a game developer, are you really going to be happy writing business crud apps with the majority of your working energy You may not be happy doing that, but you will also not be sad, especially if your financial situat
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
Where I live (also in the EU), I noticed a slowdown in recruiting starting on mid-December. While I usually receive at least 2 messages from recruiters per week, I received only 2 messages in almost 2 months. However, last week things seem
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
The odd part is that these bad takes seem to typically come from people that don't even live the EU, and don't understand how it works. They just don't like that it exists.
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by alright_scowl 4y ago
But that has been a part of the game ever since the first entries. "Nuclear Gandhi" being the prime example.

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