Mark Ledwich

this is fine I'm sure, but I wish it was just more reliable right now

The Irish is why we can't we have nice things

been forced to use azure devops makes me really appreciate how good and simple vercel is for deployment

Who called it "Effective Altruism" and not "Crazy Rich Bayesians"?

This year's Eurovision is looking pretty good. my top 6 1. Sweden 2. France 3. Denmark 4. Czechia 5. Israel 6. Australia 🇦🇺 has a chance, but if we win we still don't get to host 😞

@DainFitzgerald cool. I should give it a watch

@mark_ledwich Watched "The Tourist" series recently. Just the first season. Excellent! Outback noir? I looked up the town names (Burnt Ridge, Murray Waters) and they didn't seem that much in the center of the country/continent. #AustraliaforUSbasedmediadorks

♥️ Brisbane ♥️

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them. When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier. But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room. The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal. But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business. When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that. So don't steal. The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit? I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.

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@fictillius nature is healing

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not so good for the last 3 things I have tried . But good enough to get a result

yep. This is really friggin good. app.quiver.ai

@theo - when I leave it open and come back the next day, it's mostly an empty shell and I have to refresh to make it work - stop spamming me about refresh for updates unless it's important. You should opt in your changes to warrant such a nag

Gonna code for like an hour before bed. What are the biggest issues in T3 Code I should fix right now?

Saw this construction today: "by far one of the best." Infuriating

is allowing people to practice philosophy morally permissible?

@IonaItalia 💯

Accurate.

@fictillius shai halud

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One big pet peeve of mine is people who hold incredibly radical views held by under 5% of the population, but still have the gall to be mad at anyone who doesn't agree with them. Like honey this is going to take you forever.

Brisbane, Sydney, Perth looking back at when they got car brained and ripped up their tram networks