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Re: Nobody cares

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Post by peterder »

ojbyrne wrote: post #256
astroalex wrote: post #16

> Have been to the DMV? It sucked? There is a human being whose job it is to be in charge of the DMV. They do not care that it sucks. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've actually never had a bad experience at the DMV here in Seattle. The staff have been efficient, fast, and friendly every time.

I find the piling on of the DMV to really be a cheap shot. In a sense it made the entire rant seem like another example of someone not caring.

Patton Oswalt has a bit on this and its too true. The problem with the DMV isn't the DMV or its employees... its the general public who can't be bothered to read basic instructions.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

tqi wrote: post #425

Its ironic, because this dude doesn't seem to care enough to even the slightest bit of research to understand why any of these problems he highlights are the way they are, and lazily attributes everything to OTHER people not caring. LEDs last longer, are more energy efficient, and also reduce light pollution because they are more directional[1]. Took me 30 seconds to google. There are enormous design standards for de…

> Don’t take anything here too seriously.

I’m not trying to sound snarky at all but I really do think you should reread the first paragraph of the article.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by dzamo_norton »

pbronez wrote: post #778
wpm wrote: post #772

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a huge difference between “impeding” and “causing you to fucking crash”. Like, what an insane take.

Solution then is to add slowing features uphill from the cut over.

"We'll fix our hardware bugs in software" :)

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by strogonoff »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #957
unknownsky wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you Swedish? Just wondering because I've never seen the gender neutral pronoun "hen" in English.

"hen" is my go-to gender neutral 3rd person singular pronoun. I realize that English speakers use "you" for both singular and plural, having retired "thee" and "thou", but the resulting ambiguity has led to the creation of a new word, "y'all", or sometimes prepending it with "all of" for clarity. Using "they/them" in the singular will just lead us down the same path. Why not short circuit it and just add the pronoun…

Right now I am reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer for the first time and guess what, back in 1984 there are uses of “they” in a situation where gender of a hypothetical singular third person is irrelevant. It is not confusing in the slightest, compared to a completely new artificially created word.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by watwut »

wpm wrote: post #772
marcosdumay wrote: post #766

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Things are shitty for reasons but not for good reasons. I dunno. At the first problem, impeding cyclists that want to merge into a walkway zooming at 20mph without paying enough attention to even see their lane is ending is a quite good reason. Maybe he should be asking for some "cyclist-calming" measure instead, so they will slow down before not being able to make into the walkway.

There’s a huge difference between “impeding” and “causing you to fucking crash”. Like, what an insane take.

The curvet is not causing crash. Bikes have ability to slow down or even stop.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by p2detar »

jeffhuys wrote: post #526
arretevad wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon only cares about enriching himself.

I think he mostly cares about getting humanity off this planet, he's been saying that for a long, long time. Starting a space company to enrich yourself sounds like a very weird thing to do if you only care about money.

Getting off this planet is easy without absurd missions like going to Mars. We could build space habitats or moon bases. Going to live on Mars is not an option for us at this time. We lack the biological resilience to do so. I won't even mention that it must be a planetary effort to even have some chance of success.

edit: typos

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by koakuma-chan »

p2detar wrote: post #966
jeffhuys wrote: post #526

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he mostly cares about getting humanity off this planet, he's been saying that for a long, long time. Starting a space company to enrich yourself sounds like a very weird thing to do if you only care about money.

Getting off this planet is easy without absurd missions like going to Mars. We could build space habitats or moon bases. Going to live on Mars is not an option for us at this time. We lack the biological resilience to do so. I won't even mention that it must be a planetary effort to even have some chance of success. edit: typos

Elon is already on it. They will annex Canada first, and then the rest will follow. When that is done, a planetary effort will be established.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by akudha »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #535
DharmaPolice wrote: post #77

As someone who works for a local government bureaucracy - not caring is a coping mechanism because if you let every sub-optimal thing bother you then you'd just burn out. Very few jobs are structured in a way that those directly involved can determine how things are done so there is no real value in caring about how long a process takes. Where people have some agency you might be surprised how much people do care eve…

This is the answer. It's not just government bureaucracy, large corporations are intentionally built to diffuse responsibility in order to allow the corporation to do things any single person would find abhorrent. This means that if you see something you want to fix, you most likely can't, because nobody is really fully responsible for that thing or can directly do anything about it. So you just hit your head against…

Sure, I get your point. But there are lots of tiny things that we can do to make our lives a teeny, tiny bit better - these things are fully in our control.

Example - someone makes a large spreadsheet, but without locking the header row or adding filters. It would take 10 seconds to do, but people in my org don’t, even after I requested them, showed them how.

I understand fixing massive problems like money in politics etc are super hard. But it doesn’t cost anything to not play music in elevators without headphones (yes, it happens, I am not lying) or write a sensible bug report with useful details instead of “this ain’t working” etc. If we can’t even do small things well, how can we even begin to take on massive problems like wealth inequality, poverty, judicial reforms etc?

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by ksec »

Hacker: Last night a confidential source disclosed to me that British arms are being sold to Italian red terrorist groups.

[…]

Hacker: You don't see to be very worried by this information.

Sir Humphrey: Well, these things happen all the time. It’s not our problem.

Hacker: As does robbery with violence, doesn't that worry you?

Sir Humphrey: No, Minister. Home Office problem.

Hacker: Humphrey, we are letting terrorists get hold of murderous weapons.

Sir Humphrey: We are not.

Hacker: Who is?

Sir Humphrey: Who knows? Department of Trade, Minister of Defense, Foreign Office,...

Hacker: We, Humphrey, the British Government. Innocent lives are being set at risk by British arms in the hands of terrorists.

Sir Humphrey: Only Italian lives, not British lives.

Hacker: British tourists abroad.

Sir Humphrey: Tourists? Foreign Office problem!

[......]

Hacker: I don't believe this! We're talking about good and evil.

Sir Humphrey: Ah, Church of England problem.

[....]

Sir Humphrey: Government isn't about morality.

Hacker: Really? What is it about then?

Sir Humphrey: Stability. Keeping thing going. Preventing anarchy. Stopping society falling to bits. Still being here tomorrow.

Hacker: What for?

Sir Humphrey: I beg your pardon?

Hacker: What is the ultimate purpose of government if it isn't for doing good?

Sir Humphrey: Government isn't about good and evil. It's about order or chaos.

Re: Nobody cares

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Post by fishstock25 »

stdbrouw wrote: post #935
stevedekorte wrote: post #883

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But street lights don't have to use harsh 3000 kelvin LEDs, there are warm light LEDs (2400-2700 kelvin). For example, these lights are widely available for home, yet most people just buy the 3000K LED bulbs because (IME) it doesn't occur to them that there is a strong aesthetic (and health) difference between these colors. i.e. They don't care.

It's probably getting better but the amber-colored LEDs used to be rather inefficient. I've also heard that white lighting can slightly improve reaction times of those in traffic and leads to slightly clearer captures for security cameras. I personally think these benefits do not outweigh how extremely ugly and unwelcoming they are, but "city officials just don't care" is not what led to the adoption of white LED str…

A lot of wildlife, like birds, bats, insects etc. are really confused by white light. There are some nordic countries which are experimenting with red street lights in outer districts which are showing great promise. (Don't have a reference atm but should be googleable)
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