Jenk

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by Jenk 5y ago
> So if your toaster started talking you would treat it like a person? Strawman. > unthinking compliance with senseless Neither unthinking nor senseless. > ugly, disrespectful of thought and actually immoral Absolute hogwash. What
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by Jenk 5y ago
Yes we're all aware of that given I explained right from the start that the entire purpose of being polite to machines is to be polite always, such that one is less likely to be impolite when it actually matters. So whether or not mach
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by Jenk 5y ago
My door doesn't speak so is incomparable to Alexa. I do treat it, and every other door I meet, with respect though. You sure aren't shy of expending the effort to rationalize your decision to be be a baseline dick, reserving polit
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by Jenk 5y ago
I'm not teaching them to treat machines like people, I'm teaching them to be polite at every opportunity to be polite. Jesus wept at how contrived you are making this.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Which is orthoganol to the point, anyway.
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by Jenk 5y ago
> You don't teach politeness, or manners, or anything else, as a series of actions to repeat unthinkingly. Yes you do. Everyone and everything is deserving of respect at all times, especially the ones/things you disagree with,
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by Jenk 5y ago
... except for the benefit already explained and, seemingly, with zero detriment because you and the other "I don't want to say please" brigadiers haven't come up with anything.
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by Jenk 5y ago
> How's that obvious? > Just teach them to say please to Alexa et Al. Much easier and generally better to be polite when you don't need to be, than to be impolite when you're supposed to be, by mistake .
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by Jenk 5y ago
Ja just ignore the obvious point of mistakenly being impolite to a person, eh?
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by Jenk 5y ago
I've started using the vscode neovim plugin. It runs a headless neovim in the background so you get literally everything that both editors provide in one. It's not 100% flawless but it is damn good. I used to flip between the two
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by Jenk 5y ago
Ah, noted and agreed.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Does it? You sure? "Be polite all of the time" has certainly been a lot easier to teach my own kids than "only be polite some of the time, because being polite all of the time is a bad thing" It goes right up there with
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by Jenk 5y ago
In the face of the alternative being "it's ok to be a dick sometimes, kids".. no. Say please. You've not presented any kind of argument. "This is a terrible idea" .. why?
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by Jenk 5y ago
> it’s objectively a bad feature. It's subjective, and no it isn't bad. Your argument is "I don't want to" and that is as far from objective as one can get. -- There is at least some logic presented for using Ale
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by Jenk 5y ago
All of which you have to teach your kids anyway, and practicing with Alexa means you won't offend people as much whilst getting more practice. Win win.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Saying please to a device is no effort and always saying please is a better habit to learn than the alternative of forgetting to say please when speaking to a person. Imagine being upset that someone suggests you say please to Alexa.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Just teach them to say please to Alexa et Al. Much easier and generally better to be polite when you don't need to be, than to be impolite when you're supposed to be, by mistake.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Nearly 2ml per second? (My faith in my own maths is weak ..)
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by Jenk 5y ago
Multiple business days for clearance. This was before BACS and SWIFT, so now I am assuming we don't have the same paper trail. A transaction would show up on the system as pending pretty promptly, so you could do your accounting etc -
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by Jenk 5y ago
That's fair - my intention was to say that non-engineers aren't any worse than engineers. I've seen the same puzzled look and demands from development teams that are requesting changes from other development teams. Open sourc
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by Jenk 5y ago
Circa 2003 I learned first hand that payments from bank accounts (i.e. bank transfers, standing orders, and debit card transactions) were backed by a paper cheque from your bank to the recipients bank - at least within the UK. The big(ger)
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by Jenk 5y ago
We don't even need to pretend it is an outside-of-technical-people problem. Developers (and just people in general) are just as guilty at mis-estimating their own capacity for work. By this I mean we forget we have other things - we do
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by Jenk 5y ago
> feel free to submit them not only will you get a founding badge but if you're the first person to create it you'll be known as the source of them in the future. That sounds wrong. As in "I could upload quotes from Gang O
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by Jenk 5y ago
Conversely I've read many articles from organisations that have switched to an open book salary policy leading to an increase in employee happiness.
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by Jenk 5y ago
PCI DSS compliance is shit at this. Enforced 90 day cycles, mixed casing, alpha, numeric, and "special" characters. The only halfway sane policies they enforce are must not match username, and mustn't be a dictionary word (si
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by Jenk 5y ago
For the manual approach, git provides a shell script to generate the env var __git_ps1 for this very purpose.[1] [1]: https://git-scm.com/book/id/v2/Appendix-A%3A-Git-in-Other-En...
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by Jenk 5y ago
Double tap and drag. As in tap-and-release, then tap-and-hold.
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by Jenk 5y ago
Their Wiki page[0] is quite damning: Tether is a controversial[1] cryptocurrency with tokens issued by Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex.[2][3] Tether Limited formerly falsely[4] claimed that each t
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by Jenk 5y ago
It's a comparison, but I wouldn't say a better one. You can't just rent a fraction of a property without sharing it with someone else, so the comparison is "What does it cost to get a place of your own in 1968 vs today?&
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by Jenk 5y ago
Best of luck! I didn't do a gap year either. I left education at 16 and immediately went into FTE and have been there ever since (for longer than I dare count) and now that I am all wrapped up in a mortgage and kids I'm not sure I

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