4eor0's comments

Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.

Police sure seem pleased thumping skulls.

Anything we can do to make it easier for them.

I don’t like “let” because of my math dept in school was all “= is pronounced is” for some reason (long time ago)

“let n is 10”

Tear some hair out every time, as I can’t get my brain to stop

Oh I dunno, seems like it’s an honest platform versus the euphemism and platitudes industrialists use.

Yes, let’s have your anecdotal experience be the basis for curbing speech.

I’ve lost dozens of friends and family to alcoholism and drunk driving.

I can’t really get behind the cherry picking; society is being damaged in other real ways to a much greater extent than heroin, yet we find the ennui to overlook them; freedom of choice, speech, too expensive to bother, political authority...

Portugal has the model we should adopt and let this be as solved a problem it can be.

Most advocates for decriminalization I’ve encountered have a platform of using taxes for counseling and addiction services.

The middle ground you seek is already defined clearly. Are you sure your perspective here is as informed as it could be?

All this suggests to me is Epic has a limited path to growth without courts deciding they indeed are entitled to more profit without producing anything net new.

This feels like an arbitrary perspective.

Text has all the same properties as an image.

It’s a composite of elements of varying height, width, and meaning to the whole.

Some sentences can be longer, or shorter. One element can be overloaded with meaning more than another.

I’m not really sure if there’s a point here at all.

Another billionaire talking about others having entitlement issues.

Insert line about smelling their own.

This blog post is yet another confirmation for me that similar to how we can have infinitely big small numbers, we can have infinitely verbose rambles around small ideas.

Is it hard to take pollen allergies from dozens of different plants seriously?

How about dust and smoke? How can someone be allergic to both! The temerity.

It’s less about chemistry of the materials, more about the sensitivity of the squishy, arbitrary human body.

Point and click or keyboard UX for this stuff is awful no matter how you slice it.

At most I want a prompt for my unlock password when the password manager sees I’m on a site or in an app it has a password for.

We still externalize way too much orthogonal effort on users.

One of the reasons I like 1pwd is their cli tool. I can put such a call to it in a script, authenticate and stop giving a crap about 1pwd

As someone from the Midwest, it has no shortage of landlocked FOMO/YOLO types.

SV is just this generations Gold Rush and Hollywood Star chasing excuse for moving to California.

Yes I get how it works in the base case.

What we disagree on is the level of complexity.

It’s cli commands and text editing regardless of which method is used.

There is no iron clad hierarchy for organizing computers files on top of the OS, only personal experience. What may seem more complex for you is still just cli commands and text for me.

I do not see config as having weight, heft. Data, sure. Config is arbitrary.

It’s software? It’s all of triggering an ordered copy-paste process (downloading and installing is just a less random copy-paste).

I dunno about you but I don’t download Ubuntu’s package repo. I have to run an install command and then customize nginx. What’s the real logistical difference to the user if they run this command or that command? Or set config values in this file or that?

Why are you using Linux at home? Unix is for servers!

Nginx “replaced” Apache. Did we expect nothing would replace it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness

Open source developers across the world would like to have a chat.

Forcing people into the office isn’t about producing useful output.

It’s about embedding an expectation, and routine.

Kegerators, snack bars, they’re not about motivation. But embedding buy in.

“Hindsight is 20/20.”

Of all the failures in the system that could have prevented lives, this seems like the least egregious.

What people need to realize is politically inclined or no, restricting political involvement to an election every 2-4 years, letting it optimize for fiscal efficiency, not resiliency and reliability, has killed a whole lot more people than extra caution over dosage.

None of the general public control drug companies. They could control the government.

I’m all in on being a big corp sycophant because the general public are clearly incompetent political agents by enabling a bigger mess than necessary in the first place.

Teach science, trust the students

SCOTUS ruled last December Federal law allows suing government agents who violate Constitutional rights.

https://ij.org/press-release/u-s-supreme-court-rules-unanimo...

Cities should start suing on behalf of their citizens.

But meanings vary depending on region, education, political background.

Science, direct experience, is about as concrete as it gets.

They’ve always had an agenda; sway opinion and leverage that power.

I wonder if they’re less trustworthy or you’re more aware of their untrustworthiness?