prower

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by prower 4y ago
Just letting you know you're not alone, It's gonna bite me and bite me badly, i know it. And still, I'm in the dark playground all the time. I used to have discipline. Don't know what happened.
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by prower 4y ago
From an outside perspective, American system looks more like "right" and "extreme-right", disguised as choice over small-ish policies. Sadly that's an extreme them-or-us system that's being slowly exported pret
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by prower 5y ago
Some online banks (don't know how widespread this is) allow you to create "virtual card" that expire either after 1 purchase or at a specific date (and with a set maximum of budget). I use them for every single purchase I mak
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by prower 5y ago
Programming is hard because you need to have a lot of pre-acquired knowledge before you can even start to delve in the only interesting aspect of it, which is the logic solving. Is like having to learn everything about how a lego brick is b
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by prower 5y ago
Isn't this, like, a very evil thing to do? I know there aren't any laws there yet but why should be expect no morals at all from people with power? Is Elon Musk simply another bad person?
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by prower 5y ago
"You're free to quit" doesn't sound like the most correct groundwork to build an honest society.
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by prower 5y ago
Not to mention the elephant in the room that an over-optimized environment is not suitable for human life.
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by prower 5y ago
I can accept "un-sentimentality" only in the case we're hiring and firing robots.
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by prower 5y ago
I totally agree. But also, critically, an auto-pilot is precisely expected to have "a brain", it's implicit in the name. Maybe we should just agree that auto-pilot, in its common interpretation, is currently just a sci-fi con
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by prower 5y ago
I wonder how many flaps you could possibly check on your Tesla during your commute (i'm being sarcastic). Also, I could imagine that an airplane is, from a totally theoretical and simplicistic point of view, much easier to manage for a
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by prower 5y ago
> In my opinion, this is yet another case of people being lulled into a false sense of security that the car drives itself, when in reality the Tesla's driver should have been attentive and should have reacted. In every similar st
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by prower 5y ago
It's also a matter of perceived consequences. To put it bluntly, most people simply don't have the energy, at the end of the day, to chase "feel good", distant, ethereal causes. Yeah meat consuption leads to pollution, b
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by prower 5y ago
Is there an online interface where i can try this myself?
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by prower 5y ago
May I suggest the PS4 videogame Dreams? Could be the perfect trojan horse to get him into programming. Beware it's a MASSIVE time-sinker.
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by prower 5y ago
It would be fun if this ends up being just a test of how suggestible or easily influenced people are.
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by prower 5y ago
Not the parent, but i can't recall faces (not even my parents) aside from isolated features, like a mustache. I've seen absolutely nothing on this flashing screen despite looking at it for around 5 minutes. I don't think ever
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by prower 5y ago
This industry mostly provides very ephemeral services, so it's almost never a matter of life and death (the entire multi-million email marketing sector could implode overnight and life would go on just fine), but you still charge money
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by prower 5y ago
Yes and no. People realize the guy there is not the whole company, but they also realize they are the only way to get communication going, and losing time only to be greeted with an "ooof" can be annoying. Of course it also depe
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by prower 5y ago
I've learned that good intentions are filtered differently when the other party is already angry. If my customer is having a problem, I can try being friendly after the communication is already ongoing, problem has been aknowledged,
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by prower 5y ago
I wonder if it's safe to say that every religion started as pop culture.
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by prower 5y ago
What's the advantage of having Discord installed instead of using it via browser? It seems so odd to me to install programs that still need an internet connection anyway to work.
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by prower 5y ago
What modifications you would suggest to increase Firefox memory usage? EDIT: "increase" in the sense of "make better". Whoops.
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by prower 5y ago
I've found the add-on Panorama View a life saver: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view... I don't want to save tabs, I just need them to be separated in arbitrary and tempora
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by prower 5y ago
Why don't just require a signature on delivery? If you're not home, retrieve it to the local post/courier office. Or use amazon lockers. Why leave packages in the open when you're not home? How's that not hysterical
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by prower 5y ago
Cameras are everywhere. Cameras linked to the database of a grocery store are not. This is Douglas Adams level bizarro world. Like Amazon Keys (can't remember the exact product name) to receive packages when you're not in, by lett
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by prower 5y ago
Yes, so let's just also install their own security cameras and microphones in our homes for marginal benefits at best. I'll make you an offer: i'll send you one of my microphones and cameras. Let's just assume that I alr
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by prower 5y ago
Convenience at the cost of _literally-everything-else_ is a trend we should maybe start to counter with more determination.
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by prower 5y ago
I'm not sure I will ever understand the need or the advantage of linking my doorbell to an Amazon server. US such a bizarre place.
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by prower 5y ago
> At best they need some CI/CD pipeline maintained by the provider My business requires a what now?
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by prower 5y ago
I'd probably get pretty mad at you for crossing at a red light on a bike. I'm sorry for your incident, but to give a perspective on "the other side": if there is a bike lane, I would fully expect you to stay that lane an

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