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  • I saw her give a talk once. Someone asked her about the environment or climate change, and she said something like "There's like 100 people responsible for most of the problem, and we know where they live."

    The crowd loved this answer. The guy moderating the event made nervous noises.

  • What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?

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  • One of the first times I took the path train (it's a light rail in NJ/NYC. Basically another subway line). I sit down, and an older guy in a suit sits down next to me. He's got like a box in a plastic bag in his lap. No big deal.

    This was in like 2002. He didn't have a cell phone or earphones. Just sitting quietly, waiting for the train to leave.

    He started to giggle. Little chuckles. And then escalated to full laughs. It rises and rises until he's like cackling. And then he calms down, reverses all the way through giggles and back to silence. Never said a word.

    I don't know what was in the box. I didn't ask. I assume he just got away with a killer heist.

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  • I've been pushing to add some basic checks on PR, and people are reluctant. There's one repo that I'm code owner on so I spent the like 15 minutes to apply a code formatter and add a GitHub action to check. But on the main repo people are dragging their heels. I'm like just pick ruff or black and do it. It's going to take like 10 minutes. I'm not asking for us to go crazy and add automated tests right now, but can we at least get something to verify the python code is syntactically correct?

    The other day something went through code review until I looked at it and saw there was an extra (, and that shit wouldn't even run. I'm like please please add an automated check. I'll do it. Please.

    I think a lot of people just aren't familiar with how other places do software. This is the same place that was ssh'ing into prod and making changes right on the machine until like this month.

  • What Did Y'all Buy on Black Friday?

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  • A drink and food at a local spot. Wasn't a black Friday sale or anything, but we stopped in.

    Didn't chase any sales or buy anything of note. Don't need much.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Mint is fine. I went with pop!_os because at the time mint didn't play well with my hardware.

    Make sure you test things from the install live disk before you commit. Internet access, displays, audio should all work.

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  • I'm kind of bummed no one at my job really does code reviews seriously. I don't really get any feedback, so it's hard to improve.

    That's also probably why the older code is an idiosyncratic mess of mutations and "oh yeah you need this config file that's not in source control " and "oh sorry I guess I hard coded that file path, huh?"

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • Saint Luigi preserve us.

  • How much do you care about music?

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  • I care about music. I look for new stuff I enjoy. I listen to albums. I think about the lyrics. I see bands live when they tour. Sometimes I make mixes with a theme.

    I used to ask people sometimes if they made mixes, and if so where they fell on the spectrum of "these are some songs I like" and "each songs inclusion and ordering has been carefully considered".

    I don't just hit shuffle or let an algorithm wander through music. Songs are like spells and different tunes evoke different feelings.

    I don't relate to people when they say they like "all kinds of music" or "I listen to a dozen new songs every day". That's just not enough time spent with those new songs to form any sort of bond, for me.

    I only have a couple friends who have what I call an interoperable relationship with music. It's not that we like the same music, but that the music we each like, we like in a mutually comprehensible way. Like I can say to my friend, "oh this song could go right next to that song because xyz ", and they'll be like "oh that's good. abc fits in with them, too".

    My other friends, talking about music, at most I get a "cool song, bro".

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  • I also didn't get it. Thank you folks for explaining it!

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • Conservatism, probably. It's cruel and often self destructive.

    That humans (all of us) are such emotional creatures and that we do often can't rise above it. You tell someone a fact they don't like and the brain just shuts that down.

    These feel related somehow

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    I dunno

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    I Work For an Evil [Tech] Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

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  • I'm sure there are companies that are at least more good than bad. Teachers pay teachers. Meetup. Bandcamp before they sold. That's all I have off the top of my head. But even so capitalism invites cruelty, and the best intentions can easily wither under the pressure to make more money.

    I work for a very large company involved in medicine. They make machines to do like blood work. That's fine. People need that. But they treat many of their workers like trash. I don't get paid for holidays and get the legal minimum sick leave per year. Their mission isn't especially evil , but their behavior sucks.

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    What do you think shapes someone’s views on monogamy and non-monogamy?

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  • I'm still good friends with two of the people I dated non monogamously. They're good people. Not all the matches were strictly better- there are a lot of theater kids and burning-man types, and that's almost never my type. A lot of lawyers too, surprisingly, but I think some kinds of lawyers are super hot so that worked out.

    100% agree that people aren't taught how to be clear about their needs, and the common problems of guesswork and assumptions. Non-monogamy practically requires you actually talk about what you're aiming for.

    Monogamy also often imports some unhealthy behaviors, like just assuming you have full access to your partner all the time. With non monogamy you typically have to be more intentional about plans and time together, and I think that makes for a better relationship.

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  • I got some people really angry at me when I suggested writing some math expression with parenthesis so it would be clearer. I think someone told me that order of operations is like a natural law and not a convention, and thus everyone should know it or be able to figure it out.

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    What do you think shapes someone’s views on monogamy and non-monogamy?

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  • I was in a monogamous relationship and had feelings for someone else. I didn't want to cheat, but it felt wrong I couldn't do anything with this other person that I felt chemistry with. I knew I wouldn't be upset if my partner had other people so long as she also spent time with me. After that relationship ended (for other reasons) I decided not to put myself in the same situation.

    Ironically, pursuing non monogamy means there are far fewer people to date. I was getting a viable match like once a month or so, maybe less. When I switched back to monogamy as an option, it was like 1d4-1 a week.

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    What do you think shapes someone’s views on monogamy and non-monogamy?

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    • swinging: just sex
    • open relationship: sex and limited emotional investment
    • polyfidelity- multiple whole relationships, but the system is closed to new members
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    I Work For an Evil [Tech] Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

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  • I think a good step would be if people could admit the companies they work for are making the world worse. I've met some people who work for Google who do some backflips about how no the company is good and definitely they're good people and it's not the $300k salary talking.

  • Would you pay for online services like search and email if they offered a better experience than Google?

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  • Linux is free, for a trivial counter example.

  • Why does it feel like there is currently less new games, songs, YouTube videos, valuable articles and creations in general?

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  • I don't think there's less stuff. I think there's more slop and trash, so the percent of good stuff is lower.