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It is worth noting that Musk has long positioned himself as a “free speech absolutist,” a self-appointed champion of open expression.

Musk is like a fractal of stupid. Like every piece of him has some new stupid.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    This comes up at my job a lot. We end up not doing things because the staff whine about it. No where else have I worked have I seen such whining. It's your fucking job. You can use whatever you want on your home computer. Now stop SSH'ing into production and fucking use source control.

    It's really a problem of poor management , here.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Some of the other status codes would be concerning, too. 403 Forbidden - invites you down path of dark sorcery to get authorized. 302 Found - is he back somehow??

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    At launch, it was pretty bad. The story was awful. Bad writing. (Whoever wrote 'How tastes your fear?' needs to go back to school). Misogyny.

    The gameplay was really bad at launch. The auction house borked it up. The game is essentially a lot of gear checks, and at launch you would slam into that wall pretty frequently. The same tactics would wipe or be a snooze based entirely on the numbers on your gear. Getting good gear was really hard, unless you used the auction house. It was deeply unsatisfying. Also most of the random boss powers were really annoying to play against.

    Even after the expansion and updates, it tends to turn into disco laser rollercoaster. Personally, I'm not a fan of that. I preferred the original's more sedate, gloomy, mood. Holding down right click to shoot lasers and drop meteors for billions of damage is amusing for a little while, but it's so tactically shallow it doesn't hold my attention for that long.

    I played it a lot anyway, because the first two games were favorites in my youth. I didn't even get 4. Fuck microsoft.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago

    I don't know. I think some things are important. Someone who loves live music and goes to see something a few nights a week would probably be happier with someone else who, all other things equal, had a similar interest. If you're looking to pair people up in ways that won't work long term, because you're a company of ghouls looking to make money, then matching the music lover with the music disliker is better for your business. With enough data points, you can probably make some confident predictions.

    Hinge also isn't making you pick from dichotomies. You enter free text for most of it, and pick as many from a list as you like for others.

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    I'm a simple man. I do a lot of rice and beans with random spices for dinner, and oatmeal with peanut butter and sometimes fruit for lunch.

    Sometimes I get fake-burgers, which are tasty and super easy in the air fryer, but aren't nearly as cheap.

    There's lots of other stuff out there. What do you like that's the best intersection of fast, easy, cheap?

     

    As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

    I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

    The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

    I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

    (I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

     

    This is the bad place.

    It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

    Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

    I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

    I hate this.

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