lovegoblin

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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Yes, but I think this is what they meant by > Making watch logic for that sometimes is too complicated or changes the outcome (race conditions especially).
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> we're going to need much more difficult driving tests. Sounds good to me. Let's require regular re-testing while we're at it.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> The Alcubierre drive “beats” the speed of light The Alcubierre drive is only a thought experiment that requires "exotic matter" (aka fairy dust) to work.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment. Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> > How often do people really plan trips? ... probably once or twice a year if you're lucky. > Many many people use travel planning software as escapism Heh yeah I caught that too. My wife plans many, many trips per year -
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time. Which is still a good outcome , because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything that i
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Oh, huh. Yeah, you're right. Really showed my whole still-on-2.7 ass here haha
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
An old joke: any sufficiently advanced Sinatra app is indistinguishable from Rails.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> I'm genuinely curious to know why you feel the need to point it out. I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/anti-vax circles.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Exactly. Getting vaccinated is not just about you , but everyone you come in contact with - especially those who may be at higher risk than you are. Maybe even people you care about? I'm in my 30s and in good health. I've not bee
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> I wouldn’t be surprised if linguists find a new “internet dialect” of English in the future as well. You might be interested in "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" by Gretchen McCulloch. McCulloch is
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic sugar gets pulled into Ruby core.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> or example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false) Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a truthiness check. The only falsey values in Ruby are
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Yeah, and marc also skipped over the part where the creator actually gets paid.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> But the payment processors are the unspoken guardians of internet commerce, and without VC level backing good luck getting them to touch something like adult content. You're completely correct here. The only other real option in t
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content? That's...what OnlyFans is?
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> It's not expensive It absolutely is, because you still need to get paid, and unfortunately 18-20% fees are completely normal for adult-content payment processing. And OF clearly does a lot more than just payment processing.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"? Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeback or default.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content They want a solution for distributing adult content and getting paid for it. By far, the single biggest hurdle here is payment processing - as evidenced by
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> Watching other people do it is not. Are you equally as dismissive of reading books other people wrote? The heart of TikTok is video creation and remix. That's why memes spread so quickly there.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> That "No no no" song that is on every other video Oh, every generation of internet users has made repetitive memes like this; we just have more bandwidth now.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> Maybe the medium is the message still holds? Was there ever any question? Your whole comment here is a perfect demonstration.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> it's obviously popular stuff on the platform and it just doesn't seem like very positive content for me. This is true of everything. If I look at the front page of YouTube in a private browser window, it's all bullshit t
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
So...don't post? Every platform has (read: is primarily ) lurkers.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> they have guests on that have some sort of contrarian viewpoint ... but it can quickly devolve into having a bunch of crackpots on the show. Joe Rogan has entered the chat.
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
I think the idea here is that people who are designers first are much less likely to make these beginner mistakes - but someone who's primarily a dev and putting together a simple web page or whatever might not realize they're mak
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
> it's gotten to the point where choosing one over the other is barely even a statement about your identity anymore Why on earth would I want it to be?
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by lovegoblin 5y ago
Exactly. Hence > It would be more honest

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