peacebeard

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by peacebeard 4mo ago
Hmm, not quite an apology, but sort of a tacit acknowledgement that what you wrote wasn’t quite what you meant. Good enough for me.
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by peacebeard 4mo ago
I'll re-quote it for you: > Thinking that you're a programmer that doesn't want to constantly build software for your own sake is a delusion - it's like a cook that hopes to turn on the stove only in the restaurant, b
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by peacebeard 4mo ago
"Emacs is a tool, not a religion" yeah that's my point. You framed not investing in it as a delusion. We can all agree on the importance of tooling. I am responding to the tone of the sermon you wrote.
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by peacebeard 4mo ago
To summarize: your claim is that choosing to spend your energy on anything other than your emacs setup is a catastrophic failure in terms of ROI, a delusion, and a sort of dereliction of identity as a programmer. My rebuttal: dude, relax.
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by peacebeard 4mo ago
No fair! I live in a place with lots of tourism and the roads are terrible.
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by peacebeard 4mo ago
I’m not saying violence didnt happen, of course it did! I’m saying the evidence is not that neanderthals were simply eradicated like animals that were hunted to extinction and that multiple factors led to their gradual decline over time.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
This is accurate for post history but evidence doesn't support this for prehistoric hunter gatherer tribes.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Ah yeah looks I wasn't on the mark here. The "outcompete" framing is more accurate for neanderthals but for many pleistocene extinctions "hunted to extinction" did happen in some cases so it was not a good compariso
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Lions, bears, wolves, etc all survived us
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Great question. When people say outcompete it can certainly include violence but we’re talking about populations spread over continents over thousands of years. Factors like technology, fertility, adaptability, etc. are more what people mea
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Common misconception, more likely outcompeted
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Just a heads up, getting a 522 error on your site
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
They weren’t shilling at all, it was a passive statement of fact. In fact, they didn’t mention LLMs at all and a kanban board could be built in a weekend without one so it’s not even clear if your comment is on topic
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
We were talking about covid era trends specifically. Covid peaked around 2020-2022 and it's difficult to determine what other trends during that time period are directly caused by covid, or correlated, or even unrelated. Long term gene
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Money doesn’t buy happiness but it does buy groceries, day care, car insurance, etc.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
COVID is highly correlated with many other things that would increase dangerous behavior. For example, COVID saw an increase in alcohol use, which in turn would result in increases in road rage and traffic fatalities. I think so much was go
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
> Keyloggers, etc. are on all the computers you’re given. I was curious about this claim and I dug up this article from 2024. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/internet-su... It's an em
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Yeah feels like the only way to find a quality product now is to find a good niche reviewer on YouTube and watch 5 hours of content.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Curious if the generic one had YKK zippers and the Jansport did not, since people frequently emphasize their value.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Not sure if you're misreading what I wrote or arguing in bad faith, but either way I'm done here.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Personally, I have multiple messaging apps. I have notifications on for work slack, which is high signal, and I have notifications off for personal discord which is noisy and low priority.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
Making the product worse for everybody because a minority can’t manage their own settings is a terrible strategy.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
This comment doesn't respond to what I actually said. I said that heavy-handed CGI tends to read as CGI. You responded by "informing" me that more nuanced CGI is commonplace. Everybody knows that.
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
For any tool, you want to measure the productivity gains, not the usage of the tool itself. Are these companies really that bad at measuring the work that gets done? You don't care how many times the hammer was used. You care that the
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by peacebeard 5mo ago
In practice digital effects haven’t approached being convincing the way practical effects do. In many cases, especially when used liberally, digital effects still clock as amazing digital effects rather than reality. It can be enjoyable but
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by peacebeard 6mo ago
Today I learned nobody agrees on what the word "probably" means.
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by peacebeard 6mo ago
So in your view, even a useful innovative idea cannot gain traction without being overhyped?
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by peacebeard 6mo ago
My comment makes no such assumption.
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by peacebeard 6mo ago
The code has a stated goal of avoiding leaks, but then the actual implementation becomes broader than that. I see two possible explanations: * The authors made the code very broad to improve its ability to achieve the stated goal * The auth
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by peacebeard 6mo ago
I think this is a false dichotomy. Maybe there is some theoretical developer who cares about their craft only due to platonic idealism, but most developers who care about their craft want their code to be correct, fast, maintainable, usable

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