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OrderlyTiamat

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    Comment #49229868

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned the obvious parallels to Nietzsche's idea of the "superman", a person who will not bow to incentives but make their own value structure. To me th…

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    Comment #48451821

    relatedly, foraminifera are single cellular organisms that can grow up to 20 cm! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea

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    Comment #47800039

    Not necessarily. I rent my house, and the housing corporation who I rent from are not rent seekers, they provide a service to me which I'm happy with, and which they invest in. The…

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    Comment #47695297

    That's hackertyper in that screenshot, god that takes me back.

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    Comment #47366783

    > The most creative people are those who measure both high intelligence and low neuroticism You did claim this. > self identify as autistic. (...) then software employment is full …

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    Comment #47365641

    This feels like it's conflating a couple of different things. Firstly, in the Big five model, which you seem to be referencing, openness and neuroticism are separate factors- Low n…

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    Comment #47100709

    > (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal machine?) You're presumably joking? If not, could you elaborate?

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    Comment #47022994

    If it's a mesh network your peers are tech savvy enough for a mesh vpn like wireguard, which also doesn't get ai-ddos'ed.

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    Comment #46955783

    > You think you know it, but only after you've spent some time iterating in the space of solutions, you'll see the path forward. I'd turn it around- this is the reason asking quest…

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    Comment #46844758

    This looks cool! But I guess it doesn't work with GitHub itself? Github's cli tool `gh` is great for interacting with github in the terminal, e.g. opening PRs, checking workflows, …

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    Comment #46646361

    You can't ask people about their personal experience and then deny them the right to answer.

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    Comment #46605101

    TFA has a clear example.

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    Comment #46603276

    Do you have any basis for that which I could refer to in discussion?

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    Comment #46593504

    This is already taken into account: Shagie's table is based on [1], which is per kilogram-kilometer [1] https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/freight-transportation

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    Comment #46593339

    The distance the boat has to cover is 11800 kilometers, and the truck covers only 54 kilometers. Taking that average of 12 times more usage from the table of sibling comment means …

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    Comment #46490638

    Useful pointers, which match my experience well when trying this out. The one big question that springs to my mind is: when you've done all these steps, how much time did you reall…

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    Comment #46464446

    To my mind, the interjector is just playing a nitpick game: refocus the question (" I coudn't see it's back") to another ("did you circle the squirrel"), and then acting as though …

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    Comment #46419235

    This was a great read. I think the twin concepts of rising expectations and rising requirements go a long way to explaining the complaints expressed by that popular 140k post. I al…

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    Comment #46242593

    > The former is the boring, linear prediction. Surely you meant the latter? The boring option follows previous experience. No technology has ever not reached a plateau, except for …

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    Comment #46112207

    My first part time dev job as a student featured me walking in on our CEO who showed me he was recompiling his kernel to enable some features. I'm quite sure he was just doing that…

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    Comment #46080418

    It's at 1.16, that's fairly typical I believe, a bit low even?

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    Comment #45952093

    Why did you repeat this comment all over this post?

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    Comment #45952083

    Great points, especially on state management. I actually can't imagine for the life of me why I'm defending OOP implementation hierarchies here- I guess I got so used to them at wo…