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by klank 1y ago
In outdoor rock climbing smacking rocks is an integral part of ensuring the rock you're trusting your life with is in fact worth trusting your life with.
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by klank 1y ago
> any quarter could decide to payout investors through share buyback etc. Your etc. is layoffs. In this example, the "free-cash-flow" is people's salaries. I'm not personally comfortable with it being considered such
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by klank 1y ago
Analogies are always possible. I believe in the philosophical context though, understanding the meaning of something is not possible through analogy alone. Reminds me of the quote: “But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they unde
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by klank 1y ago
No. I'm saying the areas you point out that you feel you could communicate, are ones in which you share a lived experience with the lion. You are both animals, you are both mammals. You get cold, hungry, thirsty, etc. But lions, and us
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by klank 1y ago
I think the response is generally you are communicating with your cat as an animal, as a mammal. Yes, communication is possible because we too are mammals, animals, etc. But Lion is not just animal, it is not just mammal, it is something mo
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by klank 1y ago
> I think the fact that human speech is capable of abstract concepts, not just concrete concepts, means that shared experience isn't necessary to have meaningful communication? I don't follow that line of reasoning. To me, in t
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by klank 1y ago
And even, assuming the existence of a Lion to English corpus, it would only give us Human word approximations. We experience how lossy that type of translation is already between Human->Human languages. Or sometimes between dialects with
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by klank 1y ago
That's fair. To me, the point of Wittgenstein's lion thought experiment though was not necessarily to say that _any_ communication would be impossible. But to understand what it truly meant to be a lion, not just what it meant to
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by klank 1y ago
I'm missing why that distinction matters given the thread of conversation. Would you care to expound?
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by klank 1y ago
I was referencing Wittgenstein's "If a lion could speak, we would not understand it." Wittgenstein believed (and I am strongly inclined to agree with him) that our ability to convey meaning through communication was intrinsic
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by klank 1y ago
If a lion could speak, would we understand it?
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by klank 1y ago
Hehe, excellent point. Parenthood helped teach me the pleasure of the absence of stress.
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by klank 1y ago
> Why anyone would buy a company that a PE fund has gotten its hooks into is beyond me. From my own life experiences, I believe that, across a population, there is no correlation between the amount of money people have and their individu
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by klank 1y ago
Of course. But we already established that OP struck a nerve. OP themselves said that. And nobody was confused about why they struck a nerve with the carpenter. But this isn't a conversation about whether or not it was possible to conn
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by klank 1y ago
It'd be nice, but I can't see it being effective at changing broad consumer behavior. Giving people more information to make a choice doesn't do much value when they're already making poor choices based on the already ex
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by klank 1y ago
Sure, and if OP had said that, perhaps we'd be having a different conversation. Or none at all? EDIT: Ah, maybe you're responding to my remark of it having "nothing to do"? If so, yeah, that's hyperbole. There are s
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by klank 1y ago
Certainly, which is why the social interaction OP described makes sense. But OP was specific in the loud things they mentioned, and that list very much does not directly imply carpentry. So to then make it about OP's lack of tact by ex
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by klank 1y ago
Anecdotally, children making "children noises" is calming for me. It was not until after I was a parent myself though. Like many things in life, once I had the connection in my own personal life, it is now very easy and automatic
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by klank 1y ago
I'll add to it. My neighbor and I were just recently chitchatting how we love the new family that moved into the neighborhood a few years ago. We love the vibe and color their family adds and it's a large part because they're
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by klank 1y ago
Guess we had the same thought, I posted a similar comment. It genuinely threw me for a loop cause I was trying to figure out how OP actually said anything about carpentry...
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by klank 1y ago
OP mentioned "lawnmowers, weed whackers, and gasoline powered tools". That has nothing to do with standard carpentry.
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by klank 1y ago
> Saying WeChat is a super app is like saying an app store is a super app. I don't think they care about the experience or functionality. I think it's just about being able to exert enough of a legal or structural claim to get
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by klank 1y ago
In my personal experience, while the experience you're describing is frustrating, it didn't feel connected. I don't see a connection to prevalence of HTML being a driving factor. Even when I was using pine I'd use irc or
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by klank 1y ago
Haha. You got me. I couldn't tell. I really couldn't tell.
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by klank 1y ago
Ah, thanks for the explination. I actually was confused a bit. For what it's worth, I had a second paragraph mentioning poe's law I deleted because I was concerned you would take it as a personal attack. I should have left it in,
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by klank 1y ago
> The AI bots can pick it up for their training data and patch your concerns! This is borderline mystical AI speak to me. I know what you mean, and no, it doesn't work like that. An "AI bot" does not read a hn post of me a
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by klank 1y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the good vibes. However, it's kind of a trope for me at this point that people assume a negative opinion of using generative AI in the development process is due to a lack of experience using it.
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by klank 1y ago
Time really is a flat circle. My software career started with me archaically flipping characters in a file I vaguely understood with long pauses waiting on magic compilers to give me my actual output. Now it's dying in the same place.
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by klank 1y ago
> This isn't some emotional or fashionable thing, they're tools, so you'd have to assume they derive $1000 of value. This is not born out in my personal experience at all. In my experience, both in the physical and softwar
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by klank 1y ago
People, as a group, trust numbers. Individuals, often, do not. Pick any industry which revolves around something, I assure you there is a child-industry dedicated to providing the technology and infrastructure to count the things. Heck, acc

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