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ArbitraryValue

@ ArbitraryValue @sh.itjust.works

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  • thank, supes 🙏

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  • For years, my dog had one ear that would stand up and another that would flop down. He looked like he was wearing a beret.

    Then he got an ear infection in the floppy ear and after that was cured, the ear wasn't floppy anymore. He was still cute, but less cute...

  • What big budget movie had absolutely no buisness getting made?

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  • The Hobbit trilogy. It's hard to understand how Peter Jackson could mess up movie after movie after movie like that.

  • VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups

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  • I assumed that the VC is talking about small startups, the sort that have a dozen employees and just one project.

  • MY magical arts are of a less WHOLESOME kind, you illiterate PEASANT!

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  • Temporarily having the body of a woman would let me learn the answers to some interesting prurient questions, but if I had my choice of temporary body then I would definitely pick to be a bird and experience what flying feels like.

    (I don't identify as much with my body as some other people apparently do. It's the only flesh I have ever been incarnated in so it has a lot of sentimental value but it fundamentally isn't me. It's a thing that I have.)

  • My mom recently rescued four kittens. They are DISGUSTINGLY cute.

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  • And here I am stuck babysitting an inferior human baby.

  • VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups

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  • they can just hire more people

    In software development, it's not that easy. Having multiple people working on the same code adds a lot of overhead. Also, finding another excellent programmer is slow and expensive. (The "fast, cheap, good: pick two" rule applies.)

    Plus, do you want two software developers with a good work/life balance and fulfilling ways to spend their free time, or do you want one software developer with mental issues that, among other things, leave him with nothing to do except work and no source of meaning in life except getting work done? The first option is more dependable, since the guy in the second option is crazy. However, if you're building a startup then you need to take risks and the second option is the one more likely to create something amazing. (IMO, of course.)

  • Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn

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  • How is this the fault of engineers? If you give me a project with constraints that I can only satisfy if I design a bridge with a ninety degree turn, I'll tell you so. But if you insist that you want it like that anyway, I'll design it (because you pay me) and I won't consider myself responsible for the mess you'll be in if you build it.

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  • The funny thing is that I empathize with the robot here - there's no point in doing something like drawing a picture yourself if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper. Despite that, I insist on driving a car with a manual transmission. Let robots have art, but they'll never take mechanical linkages from me! Using a lever to control which gears engage with which other gears is what it means to be human.

  • Paterson calls on leaders to come together to defeat Mamdani in NYC mayoral election

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  • Yes, that's what I'm saying. There's no way that anyone except Mamdani will win unless something really bizarre happens. He's not going to lose to forced-to-resign-in-disgrace Cuomo or should-have-been-forced-to-resign-in-disgrace Adams, and he's certainly not going to lose to Silwa. People who are afraid that the Democratic establishment will succeed in sabotaging him don't need to worry. In fact, I'm surprised that Paterson is apparently willing to embarrass himself by trying something so clearly futile.

  • Paterson calls on leaders to come together to defeat Mamdani in NYC mayoral election

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  • I think I'd rather have the Republican but there's no chance that a Democrat won't be elected.

  • Damn she had AI write it

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  • using the em

    That's how you can know that you're just a simulation.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with Gen Z

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  • Approval rating collapsing after the election? Is that the modern version of the "closing the barn door after the horse got out" saying?

  • Renewable energy done wrong

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  • Wow, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given what I already knew about the history and present-day reality of humanity's interactions with animals, but I'm still surprised.

    It's notable that on the island your links describe, the entire penguin "industry" and several shipwrecks' worth of dead sailors were the product of one moderately-successful entrepreneur's ambitions, that he received widespread condemnation at the time, and that this condemnation was not enough to stop him.

  • Renewable energy done wrong

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  • Is that true? It's in the middle of an unrelated section of the article and has no citation.

  • Trump pleads ignorance after using antisemitic slur

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  • I doubt that Trump has ever read Shakespeare.

  • Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump

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  • I think it's important to note that America's permissive immigration policy during the 18th and 19th centuries was accompanied by the lack of a government-provided "safety net" for those immigrants.

  • Trump’s big bill achieved what conservatives have been trying to do for decades

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  • No, the Republican fantasy is doing that and having the benefit cuts pay for the tax cuts. This is the Republican reality where the tax cuts still require borrowing an enormous amount of money.

    Edit: Society is always making a trade-off between helping the poor and using that money for other purposes and if, with the support of working class Americans, a candidate is elected who decides that society will help the poor less, then that's a reasonable outcome in a democracy even if it isn't one that I personally support. However, running the debt up like this is an extremely reckless and selfish decision to buy lower taxes in the present day at the expense of America's future. It's so short-sighted that I think it isn't a reasonable choice for any ideology except perhaps nihilistic disregard for anything beyond the next election cycle...

  • New book details how Obama slammed Biden’s re-election bid: ‘Your campaign is a mess’

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  • Obama: Your campaign is a mess!

    Biden: Who are you? Where am I?

  • Verily, I shake mine head

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  • Medieval

    Potatoes

    My suspension of disbelief is ruined completely.