tvanantwerp

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by tvanantwerp 2y ago
Not sure if its a sufficient explanation, but I like what I've heard from Cal Newport about this. More and more self-service IT systems were able to replace a lot of jobs. But the result is that now you are responsible for doing thin
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by tvanantwerp 3y ago
It's been disappointing to see Khan's FTC focus so much on big tech—and frequently fail to make their case—when so many other anti-competitive behavior in other sectors has gone unchecked. The consolidation of medical firms and ho
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by tvanantwerp 3y ago
Putting all your community resources on Discord is the surest way to repel me from joining your community.
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by tvanantwerp 3y ago
Bills should only have numbers, never names. Cattle, not pets.
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by tvanantwerp 3y ago
This was my first thought too. Shows how Google has trained us to expect the worst from them...
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
Learning, memory, and attention are finite biological resources on the individual level. As long as there's a fresh crop of college grads each year, companies can afford to burn out a few older people.
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
I've had this same experience. Every time I go to my local specialty beer shops, it's nothing but 4-packs that _start_ at $16. I've never even heard of most of them, and a large portion are just the really over-done trendy IP
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
For months now, emails with subjects like "MCAfeeconfirmati0n--#21845315" and "confirmation#4073301981" have been hitting my inbox. These are such obvious spam emails that I'm unsure how the spam filters aren't
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
How many CEO's are CEO'ing for more than one company? If they can do it, why not the plebs?
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
That's the real danger of AI: not that is wants to kill us all, but that it kills us all simply by accident.
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
Book bans just feel silly and antiquated in the age of the Internet. If kids want to read something, they can get it on their phones—that and probably much worse than anything that would ever end up in any school library.
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
Something I once heard that I think is kinda true: When something goes wrong on the computer, there are two types of reactions: I am wrong, or the computer is wrong. The "I am wrong" person is discouraged and never gets very good
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
It's interesting that AA is so hostile to psychedelic therapies when their founder believed they could be very useful. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alc...
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
The disappointment of old games for me is usually the controls. Newer games have polished controls so well that movement almost feels like a direct extension of thought. But when I go back and play my old favorites from decades ago, movemen
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
I've been getting this feedback since grade school, and I'm still getting it now in my 30's. It's an extroverts' world and I just live in it...
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
I was at a place for many years where the CEO was quite bad. He had few skills, both technical and interpersonal. So many people in the organization had strategies for dealing with him, distracting him away from important work. I was always
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
Simple case of distributed costs and concentrated benefits. Imagine a corrupt bureaucrat who demands a small bribe from every person who needs them to perform a service. It's a pain, but the bribe is small and it's just this one b
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
I would assume that the USWDS are built with section 508 compliance in mind, and I'm not sure Bootstrap, et al., care about that. https://www.section508.gov/
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
While I really enjoyed Stardew Valley, I had to stop playing it. I wasn't getting a chill country farmer escaping the busy city vibe. I was trying to maximize my actions for every minute of play to get the most rewards in the shortest
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by tvanantwerp 4y ago
In my experience, companies value call center staff so little that turnover is extremely high. That means that you're unlikely to speak to someone with enough experience to solve your problems correctly. I can't count how many tim
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I can't say what the author's intent was, but I see two ways to parse this: one I disagree with, one I agree with. The disagreeable interpretation is that the only way to learn is from a pristine book. This is so obviously stupid
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
Any theory of economics that only works if you can depend on an elected body to take quick and reasonable steps—like raising taxes—is one doomed to failure, and ought not be tried.
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I worked for a 80+ year old non-profit. Their tech was definitely a shit show before I turned it around. I won't be surprised if it ends up degrades into a shit show again in a decade or so.
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I gave up on containers in Firefox a while ago. They didn't really support subdomains, which made using some services (e.g., AWS) extremely painful. Any site with a different subdomain for the login page, the auth flow, the dashboard,
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I experimented with modafinil for a week once. Early on, it seemed great—I was productive and had a good mood. By the end of the week, I really didn't feel any different from baseline, and it was exacerbating my bad habit of clenching
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
If a 501(c)(3) non-profit receives a donation for a specific project, by law they cannot direct the funds toward anything else unless the donor releases the funds for another purpose. This is more of a thing with large donations than, say,
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I used to do gradient interpolations all the time in dataviz using D3, and using HSL/HCL/LAB always created better gradients. I wish we had color mode options in CSS gradients, but this is a good workaround for now.
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I once heard it called "toddlers' bauhaus" and I'm sticking with that.
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I've used Lottie animations in the past for custom animations of UI elements. Was pretty straightforward and the results looked good. Lots of people are complaining about how heavy it can be, but small UI animations and the lightweight
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by tvanantwerp 5y ago
I'm always surprised that more people don't do this. It will be a hot sunny day, and I'll see people standing at an intersection waiting to cross. They'll be out in the sun, when mere feet away are shady spots they could

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