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jtrek

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  • A smaller, personally curated music collection is far better than unlimited streaming

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  • I think some people enjoy the thrill of discovery more than the depth of experience. Which is fine. No judgment.

    Personally I'd rather have 10 albums that mean a lot than 100,000 albums I listen to once.

  • ‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers

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  • EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.

  • ‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers

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  • Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”

    This is basically it.

    I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you're going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.

    Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it's like mixing your food up on the plate and that's just wrong!

    They really are like children

  • I did not consent to this

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  • We are the weird ones. But the only thing that changes people mind is in-group pressure. If people trust you, they'll at least humor you. Plant those seeds.

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  • I tried so hard to get things done at work at first. Everything just grinds along through meetings and "research spikes". Things that should take 30 minutes take months.

    So, I guess that's what they want.

    Except they also want us to use AI to go faster. The problem isn't generating code too slowly. It's the numbing void of meetings and "process".

  • Accounting is Happiness

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  • Also I checked this book out of the library today and 10 pages in I'm extremely mad at conservatives.

  • foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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  • People may have heard of these things, but I don't think most people could give an accurate description of what they are.

  • New York lawmakers endorse Governor's plan to reduce car insurance premiums by making it harder for crash victims to seek compensation

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  • why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

    I'm pissed they're repaving the streets near me but they're not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.

  • I did not consent to this

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  • Most people don't know, aren't paying attention, and don't understand. It's our thankless task to try to educate and convince our less savvy friends.

  • Accounting is Happiness

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  • Accounting is Happiness

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  • I'd be happy to let them, if they didn't insist on taking everyone else with them

  • Second commandment idol worship

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  • But he just says if you can make the argument from the Bible then no matter what it must be true.

    What about the part where the devil cites scripture to tempt Jesus? Does he think the devil was correct? Or Jesus? They can't both be.

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  • Americanism? Force them to say they're anti-american? On the other hand, they say they're anti-anti-fascism, so maybe that won't work.

    But I think there is something to the idea of taking progressive ideas and wrapping them in a thin layer of american exceptionalism to get certain kinds of people on board. Don't say "recycle to save the earth". Say "only in AMERICA can we turn trash into COOL SHIT. FUCK YEAH! AMERI-CYCLE YOUR SHIT"

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  • Imagine if wage theft was treated the same as petty theft. Some sweaty fuck looking shifty at an excel document, and then three cops kick open the door. "ON THE GROUND STOP RESISTING HE'S GOT A GUN"

    BANG BANG BANG. BANG.

    Newspapers all like "The manager was no angel..."

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • I'm optimistic that they're more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.

  • Black lung surges in coal country as Trump slow-walks protections

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  • They're just so... unimaginative. There are so many things other than coal and mining people could invest in.

  • What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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  • I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like "I'll use chat GPT to reverse this list" and I was just like my guy we're working in Python that's a one line expression.

  • Out With the JS, In With the HTML

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  • Easier to link directly to the different sizes, probably, done like this, too

  • I keep tripping over “true, false, true”

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  • I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of

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create_user("Bob", True, False)

    it's 

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create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)

    JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it's better than nothing.