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Yeah it's sort of weird that people are so used to using their computer to interact with other computers across the internet that the whole thing has become invisible to them: They…

> Why would it want to? Because well behaved applications play nice with their host system. I have a strong suspicion that you’re thinking about application configuration, not envi…

> Yes, the problem .env files try to solve is having "environment variables" be injectable from a file so that different applications can have different environment variables by de…

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-mary... tl;dr After 20 years of legal battles abandoned factory containing tanks of rotting fish in St Mary’s NL is getting …

You repeating vague claims over and over is not clarifying your point at all.

It sounds like you’re proposing that individuals should have to pay court costs, in full so that the “taxpayer” doesn’t have to pay the bill

- “Purchasing”: The attorneys that are taking these cases for $0 in the hopes that they’ll get n% of $SETTLEMENT - “paid for by tax payers who fund the court systems”. The alternat…

This is an essay that discusses the following works: - “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson - “Big Decisions: Opting, Converting, Drifting…

I strongly suspect that they used oil, not grease, so they could flush the dirt out of the gears, and that this would have been done very frequently.

There’s a credit agreement that will spell out those details: > To turn cattle into trusted financial guarantees or collateral without requiring inspectors to visit the property, C…

It would find it clearer if: - “up” and “down” was explained. If I bet “down” I’m betting my stock will underperform the monkey index? And if I am correct, I will make money (short…

That’s “Sysadmin work teaches you the value of stacks” from May 20, 2013. AI hallucinated a post named “The Stack” from August 19, 2013.

Why did you leave out the “strong opinion” part?

No because “strong opinions” mark you as “aggressively conventional”: Nobody can tell if your opinions are “weakly held”, and most people won’t try and find out. Instead you need t…

The housing market is highly dependent on the job market so no, it’s not “being fussy”, it’s “I need to live here so I can have a job and income”. Unless you’re suggesting that peo…

No, but I will bet you that QQQ will not loose 1.2% of its value due only to SpaceX going to $0.

> There is a massive downside to premature inclusion of a stock that is initially overvalued Define “massive”. SpaceX is only 1.2% of QQQ.

> … internet fame / personal branding. Also known as “social proof”/“social credibility”, and it’s a common mistake to assume it has no value whatsoever.

These don’t already exist? https://cricketmedia.com/childrens-magazines https://rangerrick.org/

> If people find vim, emacs, or whatever genuinely good and productive, I’m not going to criticize them for using it. People are most comfortable with what they know. But for the p…

The article discuses that specific subset of users who are into puzzle solving, so we should ground this discussion around that point and not fall into the “tool x is good/bad” poi…

> … discretionary friction ; designers or product folks adding features or complexity. This is far more precise. The article talks about this from the users side, how there is a cl…

> What baffles me is that so many people treat that friction—the effort of working around a tool’s limitations—as the “fun” part, and then advertise it as evidence that the tool is…