pickingdinner

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by pickingdinner 2y ago
I did get to the point where I could tailor a comment for upvotes and guard them from downvotes, at least to some degree... But that's not free speech or free thinking. And all that effort to an audience that is also under the same con
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by pickingdinner 2y ago
I have had previous accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=unabst So now my parent comment is +5 and the comment you responded to is 0. Of course, though shall not mention downvotes is one of the cardinal rules of
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by pickingdinner 2y ago
Downvoted without a counter argument. Which just proves my point. There is nothing more unintellectual than a plain downvote. I even had some guardrails in that comment too. But I am sure the downvote was warranted to the person who did it.
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by pickingdinner 2y ago
These platforms are not designed for intellectual discourse, even when they're advertised to be, and even when they try to be. You can't just be right. You also need to be careful. Some would say mindful, but that's not it. Y
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Writing is thinking. To differentiate between liberal arts and engineering is complete bogus.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Superficial simplicity here could be thought of as worse outcomes with fewer abstractions. Succeeding at fewer does not guarantee better outcomes. Which brings us to the main source of disagreement. Define worse. A confident developer or de
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
And iOS is all that plus the ambiguity of the existence, location, and look of the button/action itself.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
You need to optimize the product for the best scenarios, and guide everyone towards those scenarios. What happened to OKCupid is typical. Founders envision the best scenarios for their users, and build a business around that product. User s
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Ya, F google. But that's what corporations do. I wouldn't expect otherwise. But that's also why the PR department could get on this and make it right, and profitable (which is always the only motivation). The Honda "rand
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Or maybe those overconfident with negative attitudes resort to intermediate scientific knowledge? And aren't there humble optimists with intermediate sci knowledge? Maybe there just aren't enough humble optimists?
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
> engage in speech against their will X or musk's will? If X has a "say" on a "speech platform" that's a major power imbalance. Not that X's speech is this or that, but that it shouldn't exist on i
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
As an aside, anyone know what makes pages like these not wheel-scroll? Page shows 2 scrollbars.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Anyone have a good recipe for proper color coding and autocompletion for mixed language files? js, html, css, php. I love spacemacs but couldn't get it to work right until I bailed for vscode which had everything working out of the box
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Eliminate trust. The thing must be functional and operational by its own volition. No clouds, no hosts, no servers controlled by 3rd parties that control anything. You do this by: 1) encryption. Make all data useless. 2) standardization. Io
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
You can make clear ice. Has nothing to do with the water, and everything to do with how you freeze the water. Just google "clear ice".
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
huh?
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Ya, there we go. Can people who turned out fine yell a little louder so we can drown the alarmists.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
It's tough to argue against better communication and kinder words, but having to care about someone's feelings (ego) when just trying to solve a problem is a problem in itself, and if you're a competent engineer, then it&#x27
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Before even download, can we at least acknowledge that Youtube is the greatest copyright infringement platform on the planet? Whatever the "excuse" of the uploaders and the host of those uploads (youtube), the sheer number of copy
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Nah, LK99 is still more interesting. There are always 3 sides. The 2 sides, plus the side making observations about the sides. Social media / internet environment just makes it so for everything. Over it.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
False category. Like saying an apple is a vegetable. Categorically false. Here, the category of "no one" is incorrect. Correct category may be, as per the comment, "those taking an ideological stance."
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
> This is not universally accepted, Try saying that to your boss who does in fact outrank you. > I'm demonizing you for what you said Do you make it a habit? You ever consider misinterpretation or do you just blame the other pers
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
I love how only 1 is about design and 2, 3, 4 are all technical. > Its personality will prompt the appropriate emotional response(s) from our audience For this to be just a bullet point, you need to understand the personality of fonts, t
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
I guess I should take personal offense by this? You and jauntywundrkind are confusing the context of superior. The context is rank and power. As a manager and boss, you are of superior rank and power. The point being, stop dancing around th
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Yes, superior rank and superior skill are completely separate. There is zero need to confuse the two. In a meritocracy, you may expect the superior rank to be given to those with superior skill, but the skill isn't what gives them the
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
Ya, when the manager is comfortable dictating and the staff is comfortable being dictated (use whatever term you like), you have a far simpler and efficient work environment. If you can relax and just trust your boss, then you can also trus
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
You are superior. Dancing around language does not make you less superior. Just be the boss, be honest, and be kind. Becoming friends or more than friends is cool, but if the manager can't remain professional, no one can. If you have a
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
There will always be an interface for any tool, mind reading tech or otherwise. And anything that does something against the user's will is a bad tool with a bad interface.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
You're not contradicting what you're disagreeing with.
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by pickingdinner 3y ago
> solely Not solely. > "efficiency" in terms of what helps a person to accomplish a task in the best way possible Correct. THEN optimize the metrics. I didn't realize there was a myth that some users prefer slower. Th

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