lukemigneco.bsky.social
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Guessing it might be a zoomer complaint or something? If your childhood gaming systems were the Nintendo DS, PS2 slim and Gamecube, the story of gaming is going from dirt cheap to more expensive (but still relatively cheap).
For Millennials, the only correct sentiment is still cheap.
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My vague theory is that most parents can only hold within them one, large all-controlling concern for their children.
And, it used to be fevers/sickness/disease. For some parents who don't really trust modern medicine it is still this. For the rest, it's fear of other people hurting their kids.
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I think guy with money buying off enough people for impeachment is plausible with the current R slate.
Mechanically, less chance of going well for the guy in question if done loud.
Musk only knows loud.
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I'm glad the Thiel/Musk/Vance versus Trump war is finally occurring and it's never become easier to see who in the center or on the left were part of the Thiel/Musk/Vance faction all along.
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Also Biden was the "centrist" candidate in 2020, in terms of how he ran, won through the primary and worked on both healthcare and gun control to the greatest extent of his ability given the balance of congress.
Something is indeed better than nothing ever.
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Even putting aside the everything else, speaking a tonal language you have not been learning/hearing since birth with the exactness you'd want is just not going to happen for most, when it comes to things that are important.
That said, they can just establish a hegemony in English.
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They also voted for paid sick leave right alongside the state reps that are trying to claw it back/undo their votes.
They will vote for them again next election regardless and so it goes. If there's any action at all, it'll be in the primary and it is still unlikely for these counties in particular
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A lot of this reads to me like substituting in child/children for things that are actually issues for adults--forgetting about an auto-pay, falling face first into a casino--but the adults are too embarrassed to admit it.
And then they expand it into even more overreach beyond those points.
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Anybody reporting on Missouri without acknowledging that is being deeply irresponsible.
It's a Holy War for these people. Best you can do is get them to think that actually the guy they'd usually vote for isn't their Holy Warrior so they leave some blanks. But that is also unlikely.
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Yeah, it's just going to be the reality.
Obama won off of Bush well and truly fucking things up and the vitriol that garnered, but the media they consumed and then their neighbors had not yet unanimously settled on "the D in Democrat stands for Demon and they're all a bunch of babykillers!"
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Sometimes it really is hard to tell which of these the angle is:
1) I can do anything and win
2) I think my voters want me to do this and I will win
3) I want to be hired to do effectively zero work by groups who would like what they're seeing here once I lose
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In-class only is probably the way. Google Doc Edit log is clever, but students cleverer.
If I were a teacher, it'd be ~free craigslist typerwriters for everybody, all writing in class and graded on that curve. Possibly allowing at home late, late into the coursework.
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Yes. You can peep the Dunklin County results for Prop A versus anything with a D behind it as an easy, lay-up example.
They want paid sick leave but also straight ticket voted for the people who are actively trying to undo that vote. A D is for Demon, after all.
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I think there are some issues there, still.
"Wow, this already looks great! You had that level of quality ready that quickly?"
"Oh, no, that's just an AI mock-up we haven't actually started wo--"
"Just have the AI do the whole thing, then. That looks fine!"
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Cash only and on boats capable of moving in water. You've gotta pay out in cash, collect in cash and it's all being done on a boat.
If you're not feeling that level of danger it shouldn't be legal.
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Yes, that's the main issue I always have here.
Being sleep deprived or very hungry, to me, seems to increase both the frequency of bad thoughts and the likelihood of acting upon them.
Even if drugs only did the latter, that's still bad! But I kind of think they also do the former.
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She's from Kennett, Missouri and voted for a Republican so I think voting for a D anything was likely just off the table and will remain so.
But hey, she might not show up to vote next time or at least skip some bubbles and sometimes that's all you need.
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Yeah I mean the guys she's describing are still there and still getting dates just fine, but they no longer call themselves Republicans or possibly even Conservatives.
Those brands were stolen and stolen by terrible people. Now they're Liberals and either Independents or Democrats.
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I always wondered what her high school advisement system had been telling her.
A 2100 SAT score, no extracurriculars, no public service at all and an admission essay of a sort you can only imagine should all have been major "we need to talk" triggers.
Probably a fun interview for somebody.
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Ladder climbers still tend to perform better than new entrants, broadly speaking. The new entrants that win just attract more eyeballs.
Beyond that, a healthy party should be able to hold a variety of offices in states where the primary is not the general. You need local/state knowledge.
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On the one hand, I don't think Bezos is straight-up evil in the ways that Musk obviously is.
But on the other, I think if he tried to cult of amazon government workers it, uh, wouldn't really work and how he'd respond to that might not be too dissimilar in practice to what we're getting now.
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The speculation has been that at mass the market can't quite figure out if the decision is good or bad.
Basically a "well some of them actually did believe that Trump's tariff tactics were a good negotiating posture for growing US Businesses" versus "No that's stupid" both existing in the market.
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Companies with aging IBM mainframe system running critical code.
Most stopped hiring junior devs, senior devs retired and, well, things got really expensive whenever anything went wrong. It takes a lot of billable hours to touch any of those systems comfortably, testing isn't quick, etc.
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Surprised a jewelry store hasn't yet decided to become the local jewelry and dice store.
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Online only it's impossible. You only see what is shown.
Honestly, even for in-person panhandlers you mostly just do not know whether or not they're giving that money to a local boss later. Maybe you have an inkling, months later, but not on first contact.
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The general strategy would be to crack down on refugees yourself while being better on everything that creates them in the first place.
It's not very helpful or good to take in refugees in the sort of environment where the guy who beats you next election will deport them to random countries.
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"If I absolutely hated a certain cause and wanted to absolutely destroy the most well-meaning supporters of it even at great personal cost, would I be doing anything other than what I am doing now?"
Soon she'll be suggesting that everybody files SLAPPs they will definitely lose horribly.
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It does imply some of the anonymous sources were around during the Obama years though, so that's great!
Some of them definitely had not repeatedly made fun of Biden during that time period, in such a way that reflected worse on their own intelligence than his. Nope.
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I think the only statements we have with names attached are still from Hur and Clooney.
Anything else is anonymously sourced from staffers, reported via Jake Tapper. No names.
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Yeah it was transparently obvious that it was just a bunch of people who never liked Biden trying to twist the knife at first chance.
That they're still twisting to this day is just sad, and without any evidence such that they have to constantly point back to "we all saw the debate". Sick stuff.
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It's less clear to me that he could have done anything to win them over. The owners wanted Trump, the boots on the ground already disliked Biden (or also wanted Trump).
That warranted a stronger attack dog stance, in my opinion, than what his campaign ended up taking. They had to choose.
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Yeah! Even if you were to increase the revenue per sale, it would still hold true--they'd just have better arguments to have more projects in the air and thus spend more on devs.
To all "gamers" who object you can only say:
"Don't worry, I'll still convince your mom to buy GTA6 for you, bud"
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Feels more like a "local illegal immigrant votes for Republicans and says naw they'll remove the bad ones, not me" story in the making.
Just think of all the Republicans who pulled a Hunter Biden and lied about drug use on every gun purchase. That's just to get at the Bad People, not them.
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In a certain sense, it was genius and probably the best of courses.
Its class sizes also dwindled semester to semester as they became increasingly unable to get enough engineering students for it to hit the "right ratio". Big hit, golden ticket "I got in!" course for the other schools though.
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The solution? Partner with other schools! Despite the course description, in practice it was a bunch of idea guys doing solely ideas while the engineering students had to do all of the work and also had to sign big, dumb contracts with Apple that hurt them more than the other students.
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During college the engineering school had trouble pitching/funding a smart phone app development course alongside the required equipment purchases (smart phones, macs due to apple policy). Jobs had just presented the iPhone and they knew it would be big/a good idea to create a course around it.
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Also in that (nightmarish) envisioned future, the RSVP's are coming from the respondent's own AI personal secretaries too, right?
Some of them will also be running the equivalent of Dollar General Personal AI Secretary option. Some will be giving incomprehensibly human responses too.
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It's pretty bad at a more general "check this code for [logic] errors".
Can be okay, maybe, as a second source check for input values to use for unit testing. Worse than asking a colleague, though, if you can.
Straight to hell for anybody using it for documentation.
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I've yet to see any of these "use it as a personal life secretary!" booster cases describe anything that's more than maybe an hour of my time here or there, very occasionally.
Can your AI price beat out, in both cost and quality, paying a human from anywhere in the world to do that work overnight?
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Also missing the larger question always:
What's the maximum per month you would be willing to pay for such a service?
For me it's $0 but clearly these boosters find value in it, so what's the exact estimated value?
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I've been negatively polarized by Bezos and Musk to the extent that now I probably do support some limits on wealth accumulation. Didn't care as much when they weren't actively shitting in the well.
Still think a wealth tax is dumb, but am at least more willing to not dismiss proposals outright.
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I think their goal was to try to preemptively sink anybody close to Biden in 2028. They hated Harris/Buttigieg/Walz, etc.
Given nobody has put their name to any of the "his brain is jello" internal discussions the press swears are real, I imagine it's just oops all obama alumni.
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The issue is the AA titles they do put out don't do oldschool numbers.
Just a series of quality misses even on a smaller budget, so they've seen no reason to push for AA quantity. And when they did it led to even more, larger misses.
The restructure's focus on quality hopefully improves this.
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A longer way of saying most KPIs are poorly tuned and most people aren't using ticket systems well at all (as well as you can use some of them, even).
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There's an overestimation of the ability of the average human to jump between varying tickets within a single period of work. Quality is up, number is not.
And then an underestimation of the ability of faster, but lower quality ticket clearance to generate more tickets to clear. Looks good! Is bad.
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Yeah just like how coverage of the economy got rosier when the economy was improving under Biden.
Wait, what's that? It didn't? Huh...
And now that Trump is President we're getting a deluge of positive economic stories the instant anything remotely positive occurs? Weird...
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Also, I doubt gettable voters are asking much of anything about Joe Biden other than "why wasn't he on the ballot in 2024?"
And if your answer to those voters is "his brain was leaking out of his ears and we didn't tell you that" you probably will not get those voters or much of anybody really.
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For me it's both this and also the "CoNvErT tO tAbLe?" in google sheets that are sending me over the edge and away from google.
No, I don't want you to do anything. Do nothing! Ask nothing! I will tell you if I need something! Software should be seen but not heard.
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First one to just say "You're a real piece of shit, you know that?" to whichever clearly esteemed member of the press asks them about it passes my litmus test.
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Yeah hopefully the next candidate re-calibrates more toward fighting and less toward re-capitulation.
If they're going to treat anything less than first-class treatment as a travesty? Beat 'em up and don't hold back.