PolarKraken

@PolarKraken@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite sincerely understanding the parent comment’s POV, yours is the correct degree of detachment for such a crucial, life-altering (I assume) set of financial decisions.

  Expanding cuz I’m apparently chatty tonight - if you trust your realtor, because your realtor can demonstrate doing their job well (both with your current experience and from prior ones with others), and you the seller lack such expertise, get out of the way and let the professional work (I’m on the clueless seller end of the spectrum, to be clear).

  If you do not trust your realtor, identify why and fix that immediately, this is WAY too big for well-founded misgivings. That fix ranges from fixing one’s own internal POV to firing the realtor, entirely situational, but 100% critical before taking further steps. Slowing down is usually better than moving forward badly, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you may not realize it but if you’ve been routinely using it for that long, at this point you pretty likely have well-established workarounds for the annoying bits that barely register for you as workarounds or annoying by now.

  Not too different from the phenomenon where the average subject matter expert over time grows unable to relate to or communicate effectively with people having substantially less expertise. Just cuz so much foundational stuff (lacked by novices) is just implicitly baked in, to the point it becomes invisible - water to the proverbial fish or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your majesty⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, this seems like a big deal. Not necessarily “imminent doom for Twitter” big, but still. Social media platforms live and die on network effects, and none (that I’m aware of) has ever successfully “forced” their own viability without having naturally strong network effects.

  Network effects work in favor of signups and engagement of course, but they work on the downswing too, they can accelerate abandonment and replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He has risen⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, famous pipe-layer