justonceokay

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by justonceokay 15d ago
When visiting Seattle for the first time my mom was simultaneously outraged at the lack of plastic bags and the recycling bins everywhere, and also in awe at how clean the city was. Never did the two thoughts cross each other in her head
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by justonceokay 15d ago
When I was in school 15 years ago, BGP was described to me as a sketchy game of telephone. “Oh yeah you want to route to a 129.37.x.x address? I know a guy who knows a guy. Said he’s the owner of the whole 129./ block. In fact, he’s my
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by justonceokay 16d ago
I think you overestimate the number of people that can work from home. For society to function the majority of us have to actually go to a physical place and do something real with our hands and our time.
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by justonceokay 20d ago
So did you take them and have a bad time? Because they definitely work for me and I doubt a placebo could have such a large effect on the 48 hour stomach pains I used to get alongside my frequent panic attacks. I find it funny that people c
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by justonceokay 23d ago
You’re making the mistake of thinking there’s a top down process. That’s not what’s happening. It goes like this: “if I close my public restroom then all of the people asking for a public restroom will have to go across the street and they
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by justonceokay 23d ago
Classic xkcd on this topic https://xkcd.com/882/
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by justonceokay 28d ago
To quote Billy Joel: “you can get what you want or you can just get old”
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by justonceokay 28d ago
There were a lot less meetings cause you would just walk over and talk with someone. Of course that’s still a meeting but it meant that people generally had more free time to connect and often problems would be resolved in five minutes righ
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by justonceokay 28d ago
Absolutely. When I started working at Amazon in 2014 it had a reputation as a company with a very bad work life balance. On the other hand, all communication was done through email and conference call (no cameras). Most people who worked la
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by justonceokay 29d ago
Always be wary of “of course” and “just” as they tend to hide a lot of complexity. It is not obvious to me that society would keep on going without change if it were not for the technology that we are all exposed to and expected to use.
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
Tends to look strange, though spiraling around the edge twice before doing the usual lines will make your life easier, as you mentioned.
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by justonceokay 2mo ago
There’s the cost of supplies used during transport. Also the cost of maintaining potential supplies like blood even if they go unused. EMTs may make $23 but they are also getting benefits and have other overhead, making their real hourly co
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Absolutely. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth, stability, health, acceptance, and knowledge. Don’t listen to the daily news, compare our situation to past generations and different times. If I had a Time Machine I would not use it t
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Where are you that the average person wants to go back to farming?
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Anecdotally I know of an engineer in the Excel team. They would keep around a list of low priority security bugs. When they wanted to do improvements on the system they would attach it to one of the security bugs “nearby“ because the change
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
How do you justify that your intuition about what echolocation is like tracks with what a bat actually feels?
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
One of the seminal papers of the 20th century. And like any truly good philosophy paper the argument is very clear and a real head-scratcher.
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Reddit is fun for a while but there is a strong “lowest common denominator” problem that plagues almost every subreddit.
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
You might be surprised to hear that there are great engineers who are also good at people skills.
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
> I think I have just too strong of a mask for anyone else to truly pierce. And a flair for the dramatic!
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
You don’t have to be poly to bring “relationship anarchy” to your current relationships.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
This is a feature of every instrument. Even with piano you have to start pressing down a key slightly before you want to ring out or you will be behind time.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I programmed for 15 years and I like watching the dumpster fire. This is one of the better managed forums on the internet, so even though I don’t do that job anymore it’s nice to check in.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I am a handyman and have a lot of weird, specific physical skills. Like being able to paint around an electrical outlet, caulking, leveling concrete, juggling, cartwheels, tying cherry stems in my mouth, etc. The life of an embodied worker.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
Those markets create pressure to ensure that real physical goods and useful services are priced accurately. Prediction “markets“ are in my estimation no different than roulette. If you cross your eyes hard enough, you could claim that roule
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I’ve asked the slugs and the worms and starfish and amoebas and nematodes and fish about their experience, I’m just waiting to hear back.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I guess where I am coming from with my cat robot is that I believe behavior begets consciousness. Whatever behavior is happening, that must mean some internal representation of the world is driving it. Robots will never have human emotions
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
Thanks. It’s mostly a distillation of thoughts I have had from reading the various spats through the years between Chalmers and Dennett. I think Dennett is much more convincing to me. My personal take: it’s easy to imagine a robot that has
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I’ll bite the bullet: if a robot has a complicated enough internal representation of the world, it may very well develop a concept of love (or “care”, or “noticing”, or “intention”. Love is such a slippery word…) that we would have to trust

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