bigj0n

What does 'work' mean?

If work means to live a happy and meaningful life- absolutely.

If work means to gain the prestige of a man like Conway- probably not. But I can rest assured that I likely wouldnt achieve that with other attitudes either

Kuburnetes is lightweight, extensible and based on open standards, which is the recipe for a long-term solution in this space. It also has first class support in all of the major cloud providers and has an established tooling ecosystem around it.

I use safari every day with content blockers and literally never see ads. I use adguard + Safaris own content blockers.

Part of the reason I enjoy Safari is that I've found its content blocking system to be very coherent

I think that structure, accountability, and community are the big draws towards school. For young people I think that these are extremely important- when I was in school- taking 6 classes meant I spent a roughly 40 hour work week on school stuff. I had a really hard time doing half of those hours when I wasnt in school.

Obviously that's more of a me issue than an issue inherent to self-learning, but many of us have me issues.

If you're not the type of person who would benefit from structure and community- the value proposition clearly doesn't make sense. Even if you would benefit from those things- the value proposition isnt clear at all- its tremendously expensive.

But people do spend an extremely large portion of their lives on them

To offer a different perspective- my favorite way of learning to code has been to find coding puzzles (like codewars.com) and try to tackle those. I ended up learning a lot about control structures, data structures, and logic through there.

Programming is inherently creative and few books that I've read have room for creativity. I find it better to discover information than get it from a curriculum.

Imprisonment percentage is fairly relevant when discussing free nations, but it is absolutely not a measure of freedom by itself. Especially when you consider the monstrous cultural difference between the two countries.

If Huawei does not deviate from the standards set by the CIA, than it is very clearly a terrible idea to do business with them

Outdoors = breeze, birds, scents, wildlife, variety

Our minds arent so easily fooled by a truck lighting setup

I have an xps13 9360 (1 generation ago I believe) and I use it outside regularly. The matte screen helps a lot

Quoting Huawei doesnt make for great evidence here

> significantly more effort

Which often takes time. And limits engagement. The maintainers of pacman have a limited amount of energy they're willing to spend on free support- I'm happy for then to save effort wherever they can.

I wont argue that if you can be kind while sacrificing absolutely nothing else- absolutely be kind.

But anybody who has ever played a competitive sport or even team lifted a couch knows that sometimes barking an order is the best way of doing things- and you just have to have somewhat thick skin.

To live in a world where the perfect message always exists would be great. We dont live in that world.

Theyre not mutually exclusive.

Human communication is impossible to get perfect. You have to strike a balance between a bunch of priorities. I could write an essay on this topic, but nobody would read it. Thus I sacrifice clarity for brevity, and make a comment that can be read in a minute.

If I highly prioritized kindness and told you how much I respected your viewpoint and appreciate your taking the time to engage with me- that would naturally require a number of words. Which means I either make my comment longer- which reduces engagement, or I shorten the meat of the argument- which reduces clarity.

So you can see how these different priorities can come at cost of one another. While I'd like to find the ideal sentence every time I communicate that sacrifices nothing- I just dont have the communication skills to do so.

This is highly contextual. One community I find myself going to on occasion is the archlinux IRC channel. Manners are very much not their highest priority. While they dont go out of their way to be mean, they dont really do it to be kind either.

But the result is a channel that is a very effective means of support when the documentation or wiki doesnt have what you need.

Communication is a game of compromise. Sometimes it makes sense to compromise on clarity or brevity to be nice. But when your goal is to solve difficult, material problems- it can be beneficial to prioritize clarity over all else.

The author mentioned Bezos' grandmother being hurt when he mentioned she smoked away 9 years of her life. Is it really Bezos' manners that hurt her feelings? I would imagine that that realization hits hard and does damage on it's own. I think it would be very hard to get that message hard without it hurting. You can attempt to veil the message and lessen the impact, or distract from it somehow- but now you've impacted the integrity of the message.

You really think this headline is engineered for people to click because they're outraged, not because they agree?

Articles and headlines based around classism are everywhere these days- and they arent marketing towards people who dont buy that classism is a huge problem. There are an extremely large number of americans who eat this shit up as truth.

Amazon was just being tried in court.

This isnt about being caught- the evidence is clear as day and was presented in court.

This is about a failure of our legal system to protect basic rights of a laborer to be paid the agreed upon rate.

> He discussed his privilege as a "rich white man"

I know you're just quoting the article, but it feels sort of slanderous to include this detail without the proper context.

ICE isnt a war criminal. They're a law enforcement agency

I could point to the anti-police rhetoric and victimization of minorities that the left uses as something that the left does that leads to violence (riots or gang violence).

Ultimately, blaming political rhetoric for the attacks of those who are mentally ill or anti-social is either ignorant or straight up dishonest.

This obsession to learn the political affiliations of people who are clearly mentally ill is frankly ridiculous, and giving attention to these folks deranged "manifesto" has much more directly encouraged these events than any political rhetoric.

The reason they write a manifesto before they murder people is because they want to be heard. When you attempt to use them as a political tool, are you really condemning them, or are you actively rewarding them?

What is exploitive about uber/lyft?

Couldn't you add additional certificate authorities to your browser at will?

The CA system is decentralized by nature. If the existing authorities start trying to manipulate your internet by controlling who they verify, which hasn't really happened that I'm aware of, you can always add a new root certificate. Or consumer browsers can offer new CA roots out of box.

I think that you should hear them out and they would be very easy to dismiss very quickly.

The reason we dont agree with White supremacists isnt that we've effectively suppressed their speech. It's that they're wrong and it's simple to see.

Source of the quote?

HTML is the standard form of internet document delivery, that's why it's the bare minimum. It's marginal effort to set up and objectively more accessible than not having a website.

I'm all for reducing complexity, but at this extent your are removing pretty huge pieces of functionality for extremely marginal streamlining.

It's a gimmick

And who repairs flatscreen TVs? A very small percentage of the market

Maybe miniaturization isnt really a great goal?

At some point we are going to have to start trading convenience for environment

Why would China be the top market? America has a far bigger GDP and several times larger GDP per capita

Its relative. Punitive justice isnt perfect, but the track record for for more punitive cities seems to be much better than the cities who arent punitive.

Yeah I'm sure all of them are false, and our voter registration systems with practically zero layers of authentication have proven to be infallible over the years.

That would suck because you're paying the consequences (money and thermal) of that mac form factor but you're still gonna have a big ugly mess on your desk.