huygens6363 (u/huygens6363)

huygens6363 commented on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022) progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/larsiusprime

scott_w · 2 years ago

"Earning" something is not a useless question. As someone who's had things stolen from me before, a large part of the anger comes from feeling like someone took something that you earned through hard work. It's a big reason we criminalise and punish things the way we do as a society.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

I know the feeling, yet you did not earn shit. You were on the right side of lucky and we tell ourselves stories of justice.

huygens6363 commented on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022) progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/larsiusprime

fgd135 · 2 years ago

Your health isn't a limited, shared resource

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

No, but this matters how? It’s just an example of life being unfair.

huygens6363 commented on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022) progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/larsiusprime

scott_w · 2 years ago

> Please explain how I have earned this?

You didn't answer the question.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

Just saying that’s life. Earning is a useless question.

huygens6363 commented on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022) progressandpoverty.substa... · Posted by u/larsiusprime

kaibee · 2 years ago

I inherited three properties. I pay a property management company to do everything on them, all I get is a regular check in the mail. Please explain how I have earned this?

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

Life is uneven like that. Try to make the best of it.

I am completely healthy while some are born into wheelchairs. I did not earn any of it.

huygens6363 commented on Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/jyunwai

consp · 2 years ago

Most people bullshit at parties, either by embellishing or by exaggeration. It might not always be about their profession but it is a storytelling technique to make their story more interesting. It's a poor indicator I'd argue.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

It’s their willingness to make up shit to appear more interesting that is at the heart of this. Being interesting or rather, being perceived as interesting, is core to their personality and they think that’s normal, but it is not.

I don’t know about “everybody”. It depends on your circle I guess. I know very few of these people and none of my friends are like that. I don’t give a shit about being interesting and nobody I value does either.

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spalt · 2 years ago

I kickstarted this long ago and when I got it a few months ago gave it to my wife as a gift, who is an author. She immediately rejected it because she found the eink transitions where it flashes a dark color briefly very distracting.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

That’s an .. interesting reaction to an unique and thoughtful gift.

huygens6363 commented on Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19 sph.umd.edu/news/study-sh... · Posted by u/robtherobber

caleblloyd · 2 years ago

It always baffled me that the US government had a program to send everyone free COVID tests, but they didn’t have a program to send everyone free N95 masks, so we ended up wearing random materials that were far less effective.

With all of the mandates to wear a mask everywhere I at least would have liked to wear one that worked well. You would have thought if they could produce 6 free tests per household per month, they could produce 6 free N95 masks per household per month.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

There weren’t nearly enough of those to go around. Even medical staff had trouble procuring these.

huygens6363 commented on How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019) twobithistory.org/2019/11... · Posted by u/davikr

purple-leafy · 2 years ago

And it will give you a crap answer 95% of the time. Good luck using chatjippity when you have any level of complexity.

I’m working on a React UI based SQL query builder, where the entire data structure is recursive.

ChatGPT is literally unusable for this

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

> UI based SQL query builder

Well, there’s your problem.

huygens6363 commented on A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k asim.bearblog.dev/how-a-s... · Posted by u/asim-shrestha

_xnmw · 2 years ago

The error didn't show up until multiple entities were created. I can forgive someone for not having unit tests for scaling issues.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

Creating more than one entry is not a “scaling issue”.

huygens6363 commented on A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k asim.bearblog.dev/how-a-s... · Posted by u/asim-shrestha

wavemode · 2 years ago

No, a lack of monitoring cost you $10K. Your app was throwing a database exception and nobody was alerted that this was not only happening, but happening continuously and in large volumes. Such an alert would have made this a 5-minute investigation rather than 5 days.

If you haven't fixed that alerting deficiency, then you haven't really fixed anything.

huygens6363 · 2 years ago

IMO way sooner. Some low hanging fruit tests would catch this before it’d even hit git.

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