greenthrow

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by greenthrow 2y ago
People have lost their homes and everything they own to a natural disaster that was not under their control. I don't care where you live in the world, this could happen to you . The lack of empathy and victim blaming in these comments
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by greenthrow 2y ago
That is a red herring. The frequency and intensity of the wildfires has increased. Stop repeating fossil fuel talking points meant to distract from climate change.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
The frequency and intensity of droughts in the area has increased due to climate change. The increased winds is due to climate change. It is obvious. It is not explained by "radical population increase". Stop trying to distract wi
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Stop trying to muddy the waters, we already agree that wildfires do happen. Nobody disputes that. The frequency and intensity of what we are seeing in recent years is what is not normal. That is due to climate change because of the increase
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Yes I remember as a kid in the 80s when wildfires woukd devastate LA every year. Oh wait no it did not happen until recently. Yes wildfires do happen in nature. No this is not normal for this area. Yes it is about climate change. Stop belie
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by greenthrow 2y ago
The losses were already socialized without the controls. Look at how the insurance companies always behave in these situations. They always find a way to stick the public with the bill. Don't listen to the corporate talking points. The
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Did you miss the part where I said the public has been lied to for the past 50 years? I didn't say we shut off all the gas pumps tomorrow. It will obviously take time to transition off. I said we seize their assets and use the proceeds
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by greenthrow 2y ago
An hour in and nobody in these comments is addressing climate change? The risks of drought and the resulting fire or hurricanes and floods is much higher than it has been in recorded history in these areas because of climate change. Should
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Anyone who thinks non-engineers can build quality products with just AI doesn't know anything about being an engineer.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
As I explained in my initial comment, the problem is average parents are not equipped to be good teachers and homeschooled kids are being denied the variety of experiences that kids going to an actual school are getting. That's why I s
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I'm glad that you have a way to help your daughter. But there are many kids with similar issues and homeschooling can't be our solution for all of them. Instead we need to figure out how to accomodate them at schools.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Lots of kids home lives are worse than your school life. But that's not the point I was making. You are letting your personal horrible experience define the whole discussion for you. But that is completely beside the point I was making
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Yes some kids face abusive situations in public schools. But all kids are by definition facing abuse when home schooled imho.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I grew up in the US and I hated every single day of school. I don't have a favorite teacher I remember fondly, I don't have friends from school, etc. I absolutely hated it. But I still am against home schooling. I still got social
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I think you misinterpreted him funding development. Read the linked article. Should clear you up. He was funding (via Automattic) an estimated 4k+ hours of work per week and is cutting that back to 45. Not himself coding but people that wor
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by greenthrow 2y ago
Are you under the impression he himself has been a meaningful contributor in the last decade?
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by greenthrow 2y ago
You're lumping big changes with small changes. If you really won't go back and change one function or one class because someone shared a better idea at the PR stage that's unhealthy and you will improve by letting go of that.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I don't disagree some people have bad, overly nitpicky PR habits and they should be trained out of that. That said, sitting down before hand and planning is useful for the big picture but one of the big benefits of PRs, as I explained
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I addressed that in the comment you are responding to...
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by greenthrow 2y ago
I'm not advocating for constant nitpicking or demanding perfection. But somewhere between that and "PRs are too late for changes" is where most good teams operate.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
What? This is absolutely incorrect. There's be no point in PRs if it's too late to change anything. Part of the point is to reduce the number of synchronous discussions your team has to have about code before writing it. PRs let y
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by greenthrow 2y ago
You're missing a third category which is "here's another way you could do this..." which isn't just about legibility but more tangible tradeoffs. Certainly I agree architectural decisions shouldn't be made in e
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by greenthrow 2y ago
If you are never getting good suggestions on your PRs that's a bad sign. Any team of more than 2 people should have some ideas sometimes for each other. Either this means everybody's too checked out to put in effort on PRs or they
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by greenthrow 2y ago
They never did it. And what little immigration Canada has had (compared to the US) has been beneficial, as it always is.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
The fact that you think this is remotely the same thing is telling.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
The H1B system sucks. Open the borders and just let everyone come here who wants to. We have plenty of room and immigration has resulted in so many great parts of the US due to the intermixing of cultures. If you're worried about crime
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by greenthrow 2y ago
If git was aimed at regular peope I'd agree it's not well designed. It's not. It's a tool for software engineers to do a job. It is not flawless. But it was massive improvement over the code management tools that were in
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by greenthrow 2y ago
This take is cynical to the point of wilfull ignorance. My spouse works in DEI and I guarantee you her and her coworkers are sincere and trying to instill better, less biased hiring practices and to make everyone feel welcome and part o
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by greenthrow 2y ago
If your non-engineers have to deal with git you have an org or process problem. Git is pretty clear and easy to use to a competent software engineer. I'm tired of this meme that Git is hard. It doesn't get enough pushback.
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by greenthrow 2y ago
My dude it's not hubris. Git is pretty damn simple compared to many problems you will have to reason about as a software engineer. If you can't understand file versioning, branching and merging then you aren't going to be abl

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