wehrkeoruw

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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
It's not a meme, it's true. Anything that subsists on advertising and user expression is going to end up taking a stand of some kind. If you don't want to take a stand, make something yourself.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
That's my point, it's literally got a rule telling us to not talk about it. We really should talk about it, though.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
There are lots of ways to interact with folks who don't understand something that get your point across without making them feel bad. I'm guessing you didn't employ any of those strategies.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
We're having this conversation as if everyone making SQL queries is one fat finger away from irrevocable data loss. I know very little about SQL but have managed to build literally dozens of systems on top of Postgres without ever cau
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Brute force? Nothing brute force about bringing you your laptop/phone so you can unlock your password store.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
They'd get you access to your password store, I assume.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Or in other words, stop having fun? There is value in relaxing, there is value in letting go of control and following your impulses. Trying to drive out all fun may lead to a more productive life, but at the cost of a pleasurable life.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Are you passionate in the same way the commenter's friend meant, though? Passion means different things to different people, and maybe his friend was expressing his desire to be more passionate, which actually sounds like a trait yo
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
I agree with you, but would go even further and say you're not born interested, the set of experiences you have are what shape your interest. It's both an important and useful idea to consider that people are born blank slates, a
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
The people who dominate the stereotype of "genius" are also those who have debilitating mental disorders, and far too many people can't separate those two things.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
I'm not sure it's a given that natural talent is even part of the equation. A decent number of the behavioral economics who have written popular books (Grit, Peak, to name a few) seem to be converging on the idea that talent isn&
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
People have been right since the begining, and no one wants to talk about it.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Love this mindset; far too many people think of the System 1 part of our brains as things to fear and reduce as much as possible. Training it is vastly superior.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
What's cutsey about them?
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
You can't search by arbitrary Unicode characters?
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Has anyone tried buying these sunsetting projects from Google? I'd definitely pay like $3-$5/mo to have this service, and the implementation is involved enough that it'd be a hassle to duplicate.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Yeah, I realized that after I wrote it, sorry.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
It's gatekeeping, isn't it (in a good way)? Demonstrating you give a shit (rather than saying it) goes a long way. I went to a meetup around where I live that was meant for developers on my area. What ended up happening was half
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
Fair enough, what should I be calling it? Genuine question, not sure.
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by wehrkeoruw 7y ago
I wonder if there are tactics being learned by other governments (or future potential rioters!) here about how to deal with ongoing instability caused by rioting. At this scale, these don't happen often, so is there a "meta"
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by wehrkeoruw 11y ago
How fast can this go? Can I throw it out my car window and go down a street? A highway? What does it do when it's lost the homing signal -- hover? Land?
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by wehrkeoruw 11y ago
And thousands of mathematicians!