EFreethought

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by EFreethought 1y ago
> To them, everyone in tech is just a pawn in their money moving finance games. Don't they think everyone is a pawn in their money moving games?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
If you wish to create an OS from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
They might think they are serious, but they are not. Illinois would have to agree to it, and Illinois will not.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
What software can be used to make Critical path/flow diagrams?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
In their minds it is a signal of high status.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
OT, but thanks for linking to old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. The new interface is an abomination.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> Everyone is talking about it. And they are talking about it very strongly.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
What a lot of these More Bad Advice pinheads are too stupid to understand is: If you do not need those pesky tech people to make an app for your clients, then your clients do not need you either.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> put a lot of MBAs in top leadership positions to make their financial schemes work. Has it ever worked?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
What does GSI refer to? Googling did not lead to any obvious results.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
There are still a LOT of places running old versions of Java, like JDK 8. Java is great if you stick to a recent version and update on a regular basis. But a lot of companies hate their own developers.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
The idea that people in an ostensibly communist country are forced to watch ads is ironic.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Some of the American old money came from European old money.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Is OpenAI making any money? I have read that they are burning money faster than they make it. I think you are correct: We will see a big price spike in a few years.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
There was a brief period after 9/11 when planes were grounded that people realized JIT might not be such a great idea. Why does society need to learn the same lessons over and over?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Why do you think you need to "escape" from Emacs? Edit: If you are affiliated with the Positron that made the Elisp Repo Kit, then keep making more Elisp packages. I made a package for myself a while back, and erk was the easiest
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Maybe you do today. Will that always be the case? People running Windows do not have as much control over their systems as they should. What does enshittification look like for AI? Why should I trust any of these AI vendors?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> It can, in fact, control your entire computer. Honestly, that sounds like malware.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
I think sysadmins should install nano on servers for people to make quick edits. All the commands are along the bottom, so there is no learning curve.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Would you be willing to share this tool?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you only deduct part of their salary in the first year, what happens if you have a software developer for several years? And then what happens after five years if they are still around?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> You can also make this argument to varying degrees about your internet connection, cloud provider, OS vendor, etc. True, but I think wanting to avoid yet another dependency is a good thing.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
Customers value quality when quality is available. If someone in the supply chain before you cares more about something being cheap, then that is all you get.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> "using Excel for quick decision making" Could you expand on that?
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by EFreethought 1y ago
I wonder how much of the state of affairs is due to the "enshitification" of law enforcement. I think a lot of towns/cities require officers to give out a minimum number of citations/tickets per month. If you are told to
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by EFreethought 1y ago
> when it comes to the deficit that everyone cares about. The GOP only cares about it when the POTUS is a Democrat.
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by EFreethought 1y ago
I would say the huge environmental cost is a third problem.
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by EFreethought 2y ago
There are a lot of companies out there (HP, Intel, Boeing, GM, Xerox) where if you dive into the history, at some point somebody says something to the effect of: "This used to be a great engineering firm until the finance guys took ove
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by EFreethought 2y ago
Interesting bit of trivia: The husband later appeared in a couple of episodes of "Star Trek", both the original and DS9: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Charlie_Brill
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by EFreethought 2y ago
To paraphrase a line in the Bible: Are the bots here for the benefit of man, or is man here for the benefit of the bots?

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