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intensely_human ,

Making money by facilitating deals and delivery. Sounds to me like everybody wins.

intensely_human ,

So basically, any time a company lets people go that’s stealing, and you want there to be a court thing that judges whether any particular loss was due to mismanagement or “genuine misfortune”?

That seems like a pretty extreme response to high delivery fees don’t you think?

intensely_human ,

Every picture of Putin and Kim together just looks like an adult tricking a kid.

intensely_human ,

They need access to a better place. I suppose they just get financially stuck in S Korea? Or do the move on to other countries too, more willing to give them a chance?

intensely_human ,

Unpitched percussion instruments do have a pitch. Basically like everything else other than a sine wave generator, their sound is complex.

If you look at the fourier transform view of the signal, you’ll see a peak. Generally speaking that peak is the tone the thing makes.

This is why one recommended step in something like Ableton Live is to put a shaping filter on the drums, and then tweak the peak of that filter up and down until the drums either match or complement the tones of the notes.

intensely_human ,

If you don’t already play with Ableton Live I highly recommend it. It’s got tons of signal-altering filters that you can chain together into pipelines and it’s great for developing an intuitive understanding of the connections between signal, waveform, sound, and perception.

intensely_human ,

So humid you can barely see the hill two miles away

intensely_human ,

I don’t. Sometimes I do an airport dropoff and then I head toward the waiting lot. But as I’m approaching the lot I just go to long term
parking instead, buy a ticket, and live in Thailand for a few weeks.

intensely_human ,

It’s true. Everybody has been to Thailand.

intensely_human ,

I don't give a shit if a hundred libraries burn to save the lives of even ten children.

There is no mechanism by which burning a library saves children’s lives

intensely_human ,

throwing shit on the Mona Lisa. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

Stonehenge. Are you more aware?

No. I already knew about climate change.

The audience is everyone who doesn't give a shit about the protests but instead pearl clutches over the covers of books getting some paint on them

I am opposed to spray painting library books. But that does not mean that spray painting library books is a way to recruit my help.

In fact, there is no reason to think it would recruit my help.

intensely_human ,

Yes I would say that about BLM. Justifying this stupid shit with that stupid shit doesn’t sway me. And no, now that I’m pissed off about this library vandalism, that does not in any way make me likely to support Gaza.

How do you not get that there is no mechanism of incentive here?

intensely_human ,

but always break down as bad actors and grifters work their way in to cause trouble

This is the reason for having a slow, steady,
methodical, skeptical approach to social change.

If your thing gets hijacked every time, eventually you gotta take responsibility for being so easily hijacked.

intensely_human ,

I can’t believe you would rather let people die than let your house get spray painted. Monster.

intensely_human ,

Yup, racism. Right out in the open. Upvoted, even.

What do you think the Great Filter is?

The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...

intensely_human ,

The galaxy is a bowl of M&Ms. One
of every hundred M&Ms is poisoned and will
immediately kill you. It’s only a 1% chance you’ll die. Well maybe pike 5% if you eat a handful.

Most of the civilizations might even be moral enough not to destroy us, but all it takes is one.

intensely_human ,

Guns? Bombs? Surely you can kill a civilization. Not sure why magic would be required.

intensely_human ,

Hey hey! Banana man!

intensely_human ,

Yeah the metal interferes with the taste.

I like Zimas and Smirnoff Ice but those always come in glass. I bet they’d be weird in a can.

intensely_human ,

It used to be called Sunny Delight, and it was in a commercial someone Gen-Xified the script by having a kid exclaim “Sweet! Sunny D!” after rummaging through the other drinks.

God only knows what this stuff is. Probably some Soviet Union time travel scam from Dimension X.

intensely_human ,

I’m the oldest millennial and the kid was older than me in the commercial

intensely_human ,

This is why you make your own work better, improve the team’s work, and position yourself as a candidate for team lead by insisting that meeting timeboxes are enforced.

Even if it breaks productivity by cutting things off the first few times, it will train everyone to get to the point, which will make everything better after the first few breakages.

intensely_human ,

Here comes the juice!

intensely_human ,

No the worst meeting is when the entire team — CEO, CTO, sales, engineering — spend all of Friday (every Friday) divvying up the tabs in a big excel spreadsheet, going and re-going through workflow checklists.

I knew they had no automated tests when I joined. I was promised, when I joined, that I’d be allowed to spend at least 25% of my time building an automated test suite for our app.

But we never had time to allow me to do that. So instead of spending 25% of my time developing an automated suite, which would steadily reduce the following until it was zero, we spent 20% of the entire company’s time doing human rspec tests.

One time the CTO asked me “Why wasn’t this caught in testing?” and I said “Because we don’t do any testing”

intensely_human ,

Also, I agreed to only take 2/3 of my salary until a funding round came in. The promise was as soon as that hit, I’d go to 100% of our agreed salary.

Funding was eventually secured (thanks in no small part to me) and they tried to say “we’ll see” on the salary increase, so I just quit.

intensely_human ,

I read a comment once about this: https://lemmy.world/comment/10801312

intensely_human ,

and I think there are 5 or 6 heads of John the Baptist floating around right now

This man is hallucinating, so take whatever else he’s saying with a grain of salt.

intensely_human ,

Well, not all of those combinations are playable

intensely_human ,

Just use javascript and don’t try to add {} to [].

intensely_human ,

It can’t fail in javascript ways that require specific sequences of code to be written, if those sequences of code aren’t in the range of output of the Typescript compiler.

intensely_human ,

Only if I can vote for sandwiches not falling apart when I eat them

intensely_human ,

Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

Why not? Why not value the work based on what others are willing to pay for it?

intensely_human ,

No, but they might be able to produce 300x the value.

intensely_human ,

Why don’t you ask a conservative or a republican?

intensely_human ,

So your philosophy has the effect of cutting communication between you and about 50% of your countrymen? Doesn’t that make you feel like you’re being used?

intensely_human ,

I know that guy

intensely_human ,

The traffic light simply would not turn green
So the people stopped to wait
As the traffic rolled and the wind blew cold
And the hour grew dark and late

Zoom-varoom, trucks, trailers,
Bikes and limousines,
Clatterin’ by — me oh my!
Won’t that light turn green?

But the days turned weeks, and the weeks turned months
And there on the corner they stood,
Twiddlin’ their thumbs till the changin’ comes
The way good people should.

And if you walk by that corner now,
You may think it’s rather strange
To see them there as they hopefully gaze
With the very same smile on their very same face
As they patiently stand in the very same place
And wait for the light to change.

intensely_human ,

— Shel Silverstein

intensely_human ,

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intensely_human ,

I don’t. I have to prioritize them.

Which I avoid doing.

So basically, I do none of them.

intensely_human ,

This boat that we just built is just fine --
And don't try to tell us it's not.
The sides and the back are divine --
It's the bottom I guess we forgot. . . .

-- Shel Silverstein

intensely_human ,

Fuji apples when I make apple cobbler.

For just sitting there eating peanut butter on an apple, a honeycrisp. I used to go for Galas because they were cheap, but lately I decided $1 more per pound of apples is better than occasionally eating a dozen donuts when I want something sweet. Overall, just better to spend more money on healthier food than to absolutely optimize my grocery budget then binge on junk food when the optimization freaks me out.

intensely_human ,

What color pineapple were you eating before?

intensely_human ,

I mean, decades of using one?

I said where. What part of the world do you live in? I’ve lived mostly in the USA, and most of the public bathrooms I’ve used have been at restaurants, museums, bars, and gyms.

In those places, it’s rare to see a man leave the bathroom without washing his hands.

So where did you see that?

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