uptownJimmy

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by uptownJimmy 27d ago
This is the general consensus, last I checked. PKD was a meth addict, and it absolutely played a major part in his "visions".
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by uptownJimmy 6mo ago
It's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.
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by uptownJimmy 8mo ago
All scams are inherently destructive. Everything else is co-morbidity.
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by uptownJimmy 1y ago
Surely GitHub can (and should) find someone less unhinged to run the company.
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by uptownJimmy 1y ago
Maaaaan, this is so cool. I'm geekin'.
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity. There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
Whatever you decide, don't assume that it would be hard to find devs. There are a lot of us who prefer to work for real businesses offering real products/services, and avoid working in the startup world with all its concomitant p
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
That is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
Google's market share was suffering because they have been using their dominance to force everyone to participate in the "game the search engine" scam that Google was selling, which exists only to cheat the Google search engi
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".
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by uptownJimmy 2y ago
"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post." Good enough to what? Give me a headache when I try to read any of the articles
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Maybe you would deign to elaborate? It's not a fun and informative discussion unless you are willing to offer something more specific than "you are wrong". Gift us with specifics.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the biggest problem with social media is the staggering number of people spreading disinformation and lies. So that's something you can stop doing to help fix the thing you hate so much, right there! It's a wi
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I miss newsgroups. They were good enough. We didn't need to dress them up. Our incessant chasing of the latest shiny thing, it's all so silly. We keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater in our endless, desperate forward moti
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I have only read Lem's "Solaris", and I have also watched the Soderbergh movie. But I don't think I've ever read/seen a more profound meditation on the human experience PLUS the possibilities of an encounter wi
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Dick thought everything was artificial, eventually.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Steven Soderbergh's The Limey covers a lot of ground, but I think it expresses as powerful a sense of melancholy as any modern film. Highly recommended.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Agreed. It's handy to have a list of banks I can trust to not do anything stupid with the money.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Though not as technologically impressive, there are quite a few rather "simple" little hydroelectric dams tucked back in the Allegheny Mountains of the eastern USA. They are a marvel to see, worth seeking out if you are driving an
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Dudes tease/poke at each other relentlessly, in my experience. It's a fundamental part of many/most male friendship.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
That's a great idea, yes.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Defending sociopaths while sounding like a sociopath is no way to go through life.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I think I used the wrong term, sorry! Solo dad + software dev = brain slowly melting away.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
It takes a significant chunk of time for any approvals or change requests to show up in the desktop UI, if ever, without just manual refreshing. This is not a niche observation, fwiw. It's a common complaint.
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
Makes sense to me, yep. Thanks for the info. I have buddy who works there, I am going to grill him at our dev meetup this week!
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I guess my implied question should be stated more explicitly: is GitHub's front end code entirely separate fro the Rails code? That's not how Rails apps usually work, I thought. Admittedly, it's been a long time since I looke
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by uptownJimmy 3y ago
I like GitHub, fwiw. I am not someone who requires everything to be perfect, and I've learned to be tolerant of our human reality, where imperfection is the norm. But GitHub is not a great Web app. It is frequently/constantly out
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by uptownJimmy 4y ago
"They are making bad choices." This sort of reductionist, simplistic "reasoning" is going to be the death of us all. Trying to find a moral failing in every human weakness, every human ignorance, every human desperation?

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