outsidetheparty

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by outsidetheparty 2y ago
This is a good thing you made, and you should feel good about it
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by outsidetheparty 2y ago
My guesses were so consistently wrong that I at first thought the site was making up frog/toad names based on the opposite of my answer. Then I guessed "toad" for what turned out to be "a false toad (Telmatobufo bullocki
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Perhaps this is different for logged in users, but I’m seeing a page containing a single tweet and no way to find the rest.
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I thought it was a great example of unintended effects in a large complex system... and the CDC asking Blizzard "if they could use data from what they perceived as a planned disease simulation to inform their disease modeling research&
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The cut in pay is likely to drive you back to software pretty quickly, but: the debugging and problem-solving involved in electrical work on old houses bears a striking resemblance to working with legacy software systems. (New installation
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Ha! Sorry. This was decades ago, anyway. Right after the sort-of-botched IPO he drove off in his shiny new Ferrari never to be seen again (like, seriously, that exit is the last mention I can find of him online. He made out much better th
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I should have spotted it but didn't: They took me out skiing one day between interviews (they were courting me pretty hard, and good snow was a selling point for the region) and I met the CEO for the first time on the slopes. He wore
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Definitely! The original post and discussion was an eye-opener for me; before that I never understood why some people would say "yes" to a request but then act put upon anyway, or would act vaguely like they wanted something but n
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The original MetaFilter comment lays the idea out in a much more balanced way than this article does, imo. The discussion of the idea here looks to be well on its way to mirroring that on MetaFilter (Ask vs Guess became a major part of th
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I'm just enjoying the image of wealthy mind-hackers filling their workspaces with a helium-oxygen atmosphere. Sure, they might be able to think nine percent faster, but will anyone take them seriously with their squeaky voices?
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The "denatured" part means it contains additives that make it poisonous and foul-tasting.
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Yep, I was looking in YouTube settings instead. I wouldn't have thought to leave YouTube to change a setting that affects YouTube, but it's a reasonable-in-hindsight design decision to collect all the privacy stuff for various go
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
You're absolutely right, thank you. I was so hung up on "preferences" or "settings" being the place to look that I missed the link that was literally named the thing I was looking for!
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I'll admit I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of dark patterns involved in turning these settings off: https://myactivity.google.com/u/1/activitycontrols Disabling a setting asks if you also want to delet
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
OK! Those are good and reasonable answers, I appreciate the response!
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I appreciate the intent here, but these are the immediate issues that leap to mind: * "Do work, but get paid only if we use it" feels potentially exploitative. You do mention a "base pay" rate but I wonder how it compar
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Went to the demo, instinctively used `cmd-w` to close one of the "desktop" windows, and was quickly reminded of one of the limitations of building an application like this inside a browser. Note to developer: you may want to add
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The one where I struggled the longest was trying to put together the right webpack configuration to generate multiple static files based on input in markdown format. It kept switching which plugins it wanted me to use, or mixed up function
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
When I've tried using it I've generally found that it leads me in circles between incompatible versions of a framework or tool -- it'll give me syntax that's correct for one version, but wants to use it to call a functio
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The few times I've tried using ChatGPT or another LLM as a coding assist, the "confidently wrong answer that looks correct" was the entirety of my experience. (Mostly the failure mode was mixing up incompatible instructions
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Personally I go back and forth on whether the hostile, aggressive gatekeeping is part of why stack overflow is failing, or is part of what kept it functioning as long as it did. Probably both. Both is good. But this one terribly accurate l
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
For sure. And their overall shiftiness whenever anyone calls attention to their plans ("oh, that FAQ's out of date," "oh that's a future feature," "oh that's not what we planned, even though it's
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
The parts that could most safely be described as "scam", to my point of view, are * lying to users about protecting their privacy, while gathering and reselling more information than was possible with existing 3rd party trackers *
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
> I feel the original intent, to be able to contribute directly back to page authors, was a noble one. It may not have played out as intended, but it wasn't a scam. The original intent was absolutely a scam. They wanted to hide th
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
"HTML First" versus "HTML Only" aside, I hadn't heard of this one before, and it looks promising. I've been looking for simpler frameworks that do less, because I'm tired of coming back to projects I'
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Oh, bosh. Don’t be absurd. Elon demonstrably isn’t “favoring free speech over censorship.” He’s just choosing different speech to favor and to censor. Oddly enough, he tends to favor hate groups and dictators: “Twitter’s compliance with go
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Because he keeps having these late-night binges of bizarre, brand-destroying decision making. Twitter is underperforming as a result of his previous rounds of bizarre, brand- and product-destroying decision making. Twitter wasn't dyi
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
Count me as one more person who did not realize this until after playing the full game and then coming back here to read the comments. One more arrow in the quiver of "users don't read"
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
It did seem extremely petty, yeah -- on both sides tbh. As an outside observer who just wanted to be able to build a feed and have it work, it was really disheartening to watch.
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by outsidetheparty 3y ago
I always favored `self = this`, personally

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