wallfacer

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by wallfacer 10mo ago
One core assertion seems less true every day: > The intelligence (knowing what a "risk" actually means) still requires human governance. Less and less. Why do you trust a human who’s considered 5000 assessments to better unders
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by wallfacer 3y ago
Why can’t they make a custom menu of my most used buttons? That would be real user customization, not a reel of my top listened songs. Or better still, let me make my own Player layout. Today, I find the UI downgrade buries Offline, Playbac
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by wallfacer 3y ago
It is not substantiated that all desires arise from an associated, achievable need. I need food so I desire food and I eat to satisfy it. I desire to have perfect love and relationships, but can’t seem to achieve it. But if I cannot find a
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by wallfacer 3y ago
The entire argument follows from a single incredible, unsubstantiated assumption, that “creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.”
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by wallfacer 3y ago
If the top ten takeaways are ok using incredibly vaporous, non-sensical phrasing why would I dig any deeper? “the number of AI incidents and controversies has increased 26 times since 2012” Ok but how many “incidents,” also detectably fake
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by wallfacer 4y ago
If any Spotify devs are here, please let me explore and add songs, artists and albums to my library without “hearting” it. I often just want to follow up later by “adding to my library,” and it feels weird to “LOVE” it before ever hearing i
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by wallfacer 4y ago
Qualitative data can be valuable data, even in this quantitative age.
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by wallfacer 4y ago
Tough choice between Soap and hot takes on HN :P However, near-instant access to the entirety of humanities’ collective information vs a dishwasher? I’m fine washing dishes by hand. Mapping a novel virus genome and formulating an RNA-based
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by wallfacer 4y ago
Yes, these are also not exclusive and many jobs evolve, of course. If you think up something people want and build it, you might then spend time improving it. Or you might let others do that while you go back and build something new again.
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by wallfacer 4y ago
For professional development, I highly suggest a Kolbe A index assessment to better identify your natural energies for “doing things” (working style) and learn to harness those rather than force them to comply with external notions of “how
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by wallfacer 5y ago
When I owned a Saab I loved it. The folks over at Taliaferro made it easy to own and between them and another local mechanic, I never had repair issues. AFAIK, they are still doing high-performance tuning with custom-parts manufacturing.
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by wallfacer 6y ago
You still get media queries. You get 1 class apply to many nodes relationship. You only write the css once more (or never again if you use tailwind or tachyons) and reuse it many times. More thoughtful reply to similar question from Adam Mo
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by wallfacer 6y ago
I’m a person who finds out what I’m thinking as I speak. Iterating towards an idea with confidence in each turn. Even if you end up in the vicinity of where you started, problem not actually solved, you demonstrate how you move through pro
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by wallfacer 6y ago
“There's some amount of discomfort I'd be willing to sustain if I felt it they were beneficial, but I also find they're rarely worth the bother.” Also sums up my feeling of reading this author. I only read the first two parag
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by wallfacer 6y ago
My mom suggested I buy NES Monopoly when I was about 10. I protested at first, but I quickly fell in love and played endlessly. Monopoly is not a well-designed game to play with people but, surprisingly, amazing and interesting to play agai