samcal

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by samcal 3y ago
This is just how labor unions roll in the Nordic countries. McDonalds learned this in Denmark [1]. The sooner Tesla realizes they need to negotiate labor contracts through the unions to operate in Sweden, the more money they can make. [1]:
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by samcal 4y ago
I don't know if you should knock government investment in technological development, seems to have worked pretty well for COVID vaccines, space shuttle for the Moon, and brutally convenient murder machines
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by samcal 4y ago
911 generally does perform their job well. Your issue is with the police and is valid, but there are many other public services an operator will route to you (ambulance, firefighter...)
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by samcal 4y ago
Not sure that protection is a utility, but even then I think the reason Cloudflare gets criticism/critique (not harassment...) comes as a result of the online nature of LGBTQ communities and Cloudflare's location in the closest th
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by samcal 4y ago
Yeah, it's even in the OP: "Users saying that it's a good idea / product after a demo doesn't mean that the product has PMF. Users desperately wanting to use the product and pay for it ie., retention / repetiti
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by samcal 4y ago
You're right that a quote is not necessary, but GP was describing what needs to happen for a quote to become a contract. The quote's existence is the premise.
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by samcal 4y ago
Have you checked out https://www.nushell.sh/ ? It seems like exactly what you're describing. Although I know of people who are happily using it as their main shell, I only really use it when I need to read and manipulat
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by samcal 4y ago
If you finished that paragraph (or even that sentence), you would have found that the author agrees with you! > It takes years of practice to become a terminal guru, but here's the good news: we can take a shortcut. We don't re
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by samcal 4y ago
Wages are certainly included in the conditions of work, some would say they're among the most important!
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by samcal 4y ago
The whole point of a union is to have a way to challenge management effectively if their work conditions are worsened in the name of "efficiency". This comment drastically underestimates the amount of capital spent on suppressing
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by samcal 5y ago
Well, it seems like you can't do those things when you're asleep... I suppose either you find a way to move those responsibilities to when you're awake or you can't use this technique.
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by samcal 5y ago
I actually disagree with 2 parts of your premise 1. I don't think we're actually talking about that much power, in most instances the issues amount to "not behaving professionally in an environment that wants to have a profes
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by samcal 5y ago
As curious as I am about what you think snitching to Paul Graham would accomplish here, the comment is likely downvoted because it undersells the importance and stickiness of defaults for most customers.
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by samcal 5y ago
What features do you gain by architecting tmux/screen that way? It seems like you'd lose a nice feature, the ability to persist sessions' appearance after the client exits
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by samcal 5y ago
I agree (I think), we need either free college or a livable minimum wage or both to solve this problem. Disagree that we need to have any low-paying jobs at all, but I suppose your high school could run a fast food joint for the students, i
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by samcal 5y ago
I think it's true, just meant to be a little less literal. Things like communicating over the internet, taking notes and yes, automation are all useful. However, when they start, the UX is academic and inaccessible to a "normal pe
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by samcal 5y ago
Yeah, I heard this a lot about go. Agree that gofmt is a good call, but it’s not hard to get that one right. I’m seeing more and more of these “included batteries” being deprecated, it’s almost as if standard libraries don’t stay shiny and
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by samcal 5y ago
"Arriving in droves" is much more telling about the external conditions of the job market. I think it's safe to say that it sounds like a good gig before you have a good understanding of what the work is. Then, after working
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by samcal 5y ago
I think it's probably most accurate to say that there are democracies of different sizes. Your country is a more of democracy as more people have equal agency over their government. This obviously has never happened to a complete exten
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by samcal 5y ago
What? It's not that there's just one Zuck, it's that there are fewer Zucks than parents. The strategy would be the same if there were 5 Facebooks competing for market share.
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by samcal 6y ago
We can quibble over words for sure, but you're certainly implying that if nothing is done, these folks will bully people into having a bad sense of humor. Like I said, that seems unlikely. Folks like being seen as funny, and will striv
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by samcal 6y ago
There's a whole lot of ad hominem in this argument. Are you scared that the CoC crowd is going to take all the funny away? That seems unlikely to me.
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by samcal 6y ago
Ah I see, well in that case I can tell you that the author of that article disagrees with you. It's true that I don't share those same worries about cancel culture with you, my point is that this article is particularly weak evide
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by samcal 6y ago
In the context of the article, the author makes it VERY clear that they mean the specific process that they underwent. Is there another take I'm missing?
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by samcal 6y ago
From the article: "I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I should explain exactly what happened. In particular, I
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by samcal 6y ago
I'm not sure this holds up to scrutiny. My limited understanding of epigenetics means that social factors and genetic factors are not so easily separated, we'd need significantly more generations of data to show that.
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by samcal 6y ago
Depends on the medium people will use to do math in the future, there may be a material reason why handwriting is the main method, but I would say its just as likely that it goes the way of other, less structured texts as the tools get bett
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by samcal 6y ago
I'm failing to see the connection between "looking like magic" and "being a conspiracy theory", but I'd argue that the mechanism doesn't really matter. From a certain perspective, your advertising might ta
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by samcal 6y ago
I really like that distinction, relating imperative/FP tradeoffs to the classic space/time tradeoff. I'd also point out that betting on space getting cheaper over time seems like a better bet than betting on time getting chea
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by samcal 6y ago
We learned new words for things. The decade changed. The first few pictures came back blurred, and I felt ashamed For all the cheerful engineers, my father and his tribe. The second time, The optics jibed. We saw to the edge

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