stantaylor

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by stantaylor 1mo ago
I do long distance solo road cycling. The riding takes just enough of my cognitive capacity that the rest of my mind wanders lightly, usually not thinking about anything of substance. It feels like meditation to me.
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by stantaylor 3mo ago
Even if this guy were not anti-AI, as the primary maintainer of OS projects, it sounds like he's dealing with a genuine problem. > My initial task when a new unexpected PR arrives is to determine if there is a person behind it or no
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by stantaylor 4mo ago
> They’re always in far-off places That's yet another thinly disguised case of punching down: the author wants you to know that they are not the type of person who lives close to a Costco, typically in the suburbs. This author'
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by stantaylor 4mo ago
I would agree. The implicit (or actually pretty explicit in a couple of sentences) class disdain is so tiring.
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by stantaylor 8mo ago
My son-in-law is from Brazil, came to the US for grad school, has an Ph.D. in ML and a good job in the US. He got his green card via marriage a couple of years ago and was planning on probably getting citizenship in the next year or two. He
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by stantaylor 8mo ago
My wife, age 60, has battled her weight her whole life, and my son-in-law is currently taking one of the GLP-1 drugs. When I listen to them discuss all this, the one thing that stands out to me is "The drug quiets the voices in my head
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by stantaylor 10mo ago
I agree that that "likely" is not a good look, but this was written by a lawyer to fulfill a legal obligation as part of this settlement, so I'm not surprised.
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by stantaylor 1y ago
I used to work for a financial services company that had a strong and well-managed security culture. The company got acquired, and afterwards, we kept getting emails from third parties for various things, all supposedly initiated by execs&#
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by stantaylor 1y ago
Very true. This truck appeals to me very much. My wife and I have a 2010 Accord and a 2014 CR-V. We could afford newer and/or fancier cars, but we just don't care about those things. We're thinking of buying a newer car at so
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by stantaylor 1y ago
My 30-year-old daughter is still driving the Toyota version, the Matrix, also 2008, that we bought in about 2013. She loves the thing. If she didn't have it, I'm sure I would still be driving it. I find it hilarious that it's
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by stantaylor 2y ago
Unfortunately, people like you and me are the minority.
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by stantaylor 2y ago
> It seems to me that the whole "trad wife" thing is rage-bait that the press took hold of and blew out of proportion I don't disagree with you, but there were a couple of crucial steps before that: first, extreme views&#x
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by stantaylor 2y ago
You basically made the comment that I was considering. The problem isn't whether some people want to live in specific types of relationships. The problem is how social media amplifies extremism, as you note. It makes a small minority o
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by stantaylor 2y ago
I'm with you. I go out of my way to avoid advertising whenever possible, I'm critical of marketing and advertising, and I pride myself on my rationality, thinking that I'm relatively immune to advertising. But yeah, people
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by stantaylor 2y ago
This is about as close as you'll ever get to a CEO actually admitting that doing layoffs for the sake of the short-term (lol as if that even needs to be stated) stock price actually had a negative business impact. I once worked for a p
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by stantaylor 2y ago
There is unintentional poor design and then there are intentional dark patterns. That sounds like the latter.
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by stantaylor 3y ago
I think a lot of people buy into the fallacy that there is a single best candidate, and you must find that candidate. I choose to approach hiring assuming that there are many good enough candidates. Furthermore, hiring is the process of fin
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by stantaylor 3y ago
Why drones? was my first thought as well. I think your answer is as good as any. Mike Lindell is an idiot.
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by stantaylor 3y ago
That was my thought, too. The real problem here is that the CEOs making these unreasonable ultimatums think that the fate of the galaxy is at stake when in fact, the company will just make a little less money or something.
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by stantaylor 3y ago
It's a human nature problem, and here's a pretty trivial example in a different realm: I am a commissioner on the Parks and Rec commission for my suburb (the citizen oversight commission appointed by the city council). I often hea
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by stantaylor 4y ago
> Meanwhile, most people don't sleep well, dont drink enough water, overindulge in alcohol, don't get enough excercise, and don't get much sunlight. A couple I know in their mid-60s were both diagnosed with type 2 diabete
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by stantaylor 4y ago
> I hate these annoying articles about coffee which imply you need to be a rich snob to enjoy it Well, it is a WSJ article. I used to be a regular reader of NYT, and this very much reminds me of NYT "lifestyle" reporting. Wealt
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by stantaylor 4y ago
As someone whose kids are both (ages 27 and 23) finally out of the house in the last couple of years--but no grandkids yet--I totally get this. I've very much gotten used to having my own time FINALLY, being on my schedule, etc. My son
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by stantaylor 4y ago
I run PiHole on my home network, but it's not my default DNS server (for technical and other reasons); I have to configure custom DNS. I'm disappointed that I can't do that with my Roku devices.
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by stantaylor 4y ago
According to the article, Rotterdamers don't want a new bridge. This bridge has historical and sentimental value to them.
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by stantaylor 5y ago
> we had simply grown too much for anyone but the tenured folks to remember The institutional memory part fascinates me. Currently, some people lament the lack of proverbial BSing around the water cooler. In a few years, nobody will even
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by stantaylor 5y ago
The point of that anecdote wasn't the actual work of that programmer, but that he ranks himself much more competent than others who know his work do. That last part is the point of Dunning-Kruger.
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by stantaylor 6y ago
When I clicked on the "Spy Kids" link, that page made requests to DoubleClick and a Youtube tracker. So, now I'm tracked by the CIA and by ad networks that know I visited the CIA site. Yay capitalism.
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by stantaylor 6y ago
I'm with you. The only audible notifications that I get are phone, text and a couple of other messaging apps that I barely use (I'm talking one message per month per app). I get visual notifications for my personal email. Contrary
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by stantaylor 7y ago
> I’ve never understood how branches can be profitable. My theory after this week is that some unknown force is sabotaging successful self-serve systems. If the Wells Fargo clusterfuck of several years ago is any indication, that "u

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