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NotTameAntelope

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NotTameAntelope··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
Brilliant work, and the researcher involved seems quite humble, despite her impressive discovery.

Where in the world is Carmen Sandi’s ego?

NotTameAntelope··on Don't Pickle Your Data
Instantiate a new object of the class with the JSON as arguments, is one way.

I’ve built a bunch of these systems, keeping your data separate solves a lot of future problems.

NotTameAntelope··on Why aren't smart people happier?
So inaction can't ever be selfish?
NotTameAntelope··on The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger
"It is possible to commit no mistakes [driving] and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
NotTameAntelope··on “Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”
Because people understand that their perspective might be incomplete or wrong, and/or the consequences of failure are reversible.

People also understand that "correctness" is often subjective and not boolean in nature, so insisting their opinion is in all ways the most correct would be silly.

NotTameAntelope··on FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
Yeah, well the obvious answer is that $200 < $600, so the line must be somewhere between $200 and $600.
NotTameAntelope··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
What is your opinion on whether or not Russia is justified in its invasion of Ukraine?
NotTameAntelope··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
What is your opinion on whether or not Russia is justified in its invasion of Ukraine?

Because nobody here is talking about lifting the sanctions to please Russia, Russia would have to stop invading Ukraine, which is explicitly not "Appeasement"[0] considering they're the aggressor and the ones creating the conflict.

The only way you could see Russia as not the aggressor here is if you think Russia is justified in its invasion of Ukraine...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

NotTameAntelope··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
What? No, Ukraine and the Western world would be the ones participating in appeasement, not Russia.

In your mind, how justified is Russia in this conflict?

NotTameAntelope··on Why aren't smart people happier?
What you're feeling is selfishness, not sociopathy, for what it's worth! I don't think a sociopath would wonder what you're wondering here, but I'm no expert.
NotTameAntelope··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
> and that requires a willingness from "us" to make peace with Russia

This is false. It requires a willingness from Russia to stop invading Ukraine. What you're writing here is appeasement, and it it's a very bad idea both generally and specifically with regards to global economic stability.

NotTameAntelope··on Why aren't smart people happier?
You have the life experience to know what will and won't affect you, and you've found an equilibrium of control and impact that apparently makes you happy.

That's very you specific, not really related to your age, other than that it took you until your 30s to find that equilibrium.

There's nothing at all written down anywhere that ensures such an equilibrium for everyone, however. Especially for folks who represent a minority in their society, life is a lot more threatening and a lot less controllable for them, typically.

For some, that equilibrium may never come, and while that doesn't invalidate your experience, it certainly doesn't support the idea that "you'll calm down when you're older".

NotTameAntelope··on Why aren't smart people happier?
Eh no, "speaking up" has varying outcomes in varying environments, this is not a universal constant.

I've chosen the job I have now specifically because I wanted to be able to do something about things I see that could be going wrong. Anyone can do this, but especially smart people.

NotTameAntelope··on U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5%
Small semantic issue, but “make peace with Russia” implies they’re not the aggressors.

Russia can end this tomorrow, by withdrawing from Ukraine.

You probably didn’t mean to imply anything, but it’s a sensitive topic, semantics matter.

NotTameAntelope··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
Did you think”no spam ever” was the pitch? Then you misunderstood.
NotTameAntelope··on Write a note to your spouse every day
Eh, it doesn’t feel like work for me. I really enjoy my partner, she enjoys me, and I don’t think we have to do very much “work” to maintain that.

If I started writing literal daily notes to my wife, she’d be very concerned something was wrong. Then she’d ask why I’m wasting my time writing a note when I could have done… literally annoying else more productive lol

NotTameAntelope··on Axios Sells for $525M
You actually joined HN less than a month before I did, FWIW.

You should know better!

NotTameAntelope··on Show HN: Build for any cloud with the same code
I don’t like or dislike Terraform, you’re just not making any sense.
NotTameAntelope··on Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall
Honestly yeah I think it’s a form of satire[0], which IMO takes nothing away from the joke.

Satire is fun! And I think the folks taking the math seriously are probably in on the joke.

[0] or whatever brand of comedy “imagine a cow approximates to an oblong sphere” is. “This is strictly satire” is not a hill I must die on.

NotTameAntelope··on Show HN: Build for any cloud with the same code
Yes shame on you for not realizing a 0.x versioned technology would make breaking changes on minor version updates.

Given:

1) Terraform uses Semantic Versioning [0]

2) Semantic Versioning specifically states that 0.x APIs are not stable [1]

Therefore:

Your complaint that a 0.x versioned tool wasn't stable is not valid.

Conjecture:

Your complaint exists as an excuse to remain ignorant of a new tool or technology simply because it is new. This makes you a luddite. [2]

[0] https://www.terraform.io/plugin/sdkv2/best-practices/version...

[1] https://semver.org/#spec-item-4

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+luddite

NotTameAntelope··on Show HN: Build for any cloud with the same code
You even admit you haven't used TF in a long time, and when you did use TF it hadn't been 1.0 yet, which means you should fully expect breaking changes to take place.

In no way is your complaint valid for a technology that hadn't even been released yet, and you should know that.

And a "luddite" is just "a person opposed to new technology or ways of working." How many servers you do or don't manage is totally irrelevant to that. Terraform is new, you dislike it because it's new (my guess), therefore you are a luddite.

Did you think I was claiming you belonged to the group of 19th century English mill workers who destroyed factory machinery to protest those machines taking your job?

NotTameAntelope··on Axios Sells for $525M
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.[0]

Approximately 2007 (the year HN was created).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

NotTameAntelope··on Show HN: Build for any cloud with the same code
This just sounds like you don't like TF, and no matter how well executed this tool would be, you'd always criticize it for using TF.

I wouldn't really call that feedback, just a luddite-esque bias on your part.

I'm pattern matching your "feedback" as "New thing scary, don't use!"

NotTameAntelope··on Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
You don't get to have "your own way" of working entirely, as you work with others. Even if you don't get value out of daily standups because you don't know how to make use of them, others won't let their inability to understand the process stop them. This is not a "different ways of working" thing in the same way as "I don't use a keyboard" isn't a "different way of working".

This is 100% a "you" problem if you can't figure out how to get value out of a daily standup, and whoever is leading your agile effort should be helping you.

Honestly I'm tired of people like you getting a pass, which you've clearly become accustomed to, but this one is so basic, so easy to do correctly, and so easy to extract value out of, you must actively be fighting the system in order to struggle at this point.

You literally go through a list of in-progress items, and people say, in a sentence or two, how they've moved that work forward and any issues they've encountered. Other people listen, and chime in if they can help, and stay quiet if they can't. It's dirt simple, and isn't replaced with async anything, as a) it's very quick and costs extremely little and b) there's no other way to know if what you're working on is relevant to other folks or not.

NotTameAntelope··on No More “Insight Porn”
The "only I can truly help you" pattern is a very common one for selling hokum, so yeah I would agree this is probably a way to peel readers from other self-help gurus.
NotTameAntelope··on Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
This presupposes standups were for you (the manager) in the first place, but they were/are not.

They're for the developers to keep in sync. For tiny teams (1-2 developers) that's trivial and doesn't need a shared conversation. For 3+ people to try and keep in sync, it's easier if they all get together.

Sure, they can stay in sync other ways, but it's more likely that you lose productivity to people de-doing work, having trouble integrating, and losing out on developer experience when someone takes on a new problem.

The real red flag here is that your team doesn't want to talk to one another on a daily cadence. Sounds like a team that isn't really a team, to me, just a bunch of individual developers being managed by the same person.

Teams >>> individuals, every time.

NotTameAntelope··on Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
Sorry but that’s not trust, that’s distrust. If you trusted your team members, you’d see the clear efficiency in having a single, shared place to check what people can do for one another to make doing the work easier.

You don’t want to communicate on a daily cadence because the communication costs you more than you get out of it. That’s a problem. You should be demanding a daily standup, not running from it.

NotTameAntelope··on Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix them
Walk the board! If you go person-by-person you’re feeding into the worst parts of standups. Go story by story. If someone isn’t doing anything story related, they’re there to help others if something comes up (and need to be listening) but otherwise would just waste time talking about what they're doing.

Be listening to what other people say! See if you can remove or prevent a problem they mention.

Say things that matter to others! Give people a shot at clearing your path/making your life easier.

If you don’t want a daily standup it’s because you don’t trust your team to be able to help you (or you don’t want to help your team), and that’s a highly solvable problem.

NotTameAntelope··on Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
The disclaimer absolutely protects the company from reporting a wildly “inaccurate” subjective number, which is apparently a concept you simply do not understand.
NotTameAntelope··on Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
Eh, just sounds like you have a good routine going, based on the study results you could probably skip the microdosing and achieve the same performance.
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