JohnFen

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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I think at this point, everyone is well aware that you can't take anything Trump says as "joking". Particularly when they claim it is. "It was just a joke" is a standard refuge of scoundrels.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
The machines are neither a race nor conscious. They're machines.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> How about we let the consumers decide what they want to listen to. Nobody is impeding that.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
In my experience, it depends. In most of the places I've worked, tech debt and broken tooling has not been a substantial problem. In some, they have. I think how that shakes out has more to do with management than anything else. > I
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Yes, that's certainly true. I guess what I was alluding to is that I think ethics should inform all decision-making, including business. A bad idea isn't necessarily unethical, although the execution of it (or even a good idea) ca
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I don't think that I've ever had an actual negative initial reaction (ignoring them thinking I'm wrong -- I don't think that's negative, that's an opportunity for growth and learning, maybe by me). I am, howeve
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> Has it backfired? You weren't asking me, but I'll chime in anyhow. If by "backfire" you mean have I suffered any adverse consequences, then no. Interestingly, in several cases, I've had other engineers talk to
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
If you're not being ethical in your business transactions and decisions, you're bad at business. And life.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> If I see something heading toward failure, I let people know they may want to consider a different approach. This is what I do as well, in writing. Then I drop it. Professionalism demands that I say something. That's part of what
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> And although they have nukes they would fight conventionally unless one party is about to lose. In every war, eventually, one side will be about to lose.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
According to the stats my company produces, about 3% of the software developers here have used these tools more than twice. It's about the same percentage in amongst my developer friends not at my company, but that's a much smalle
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> I think the internet peaked in about 2008. Yeah, that seems about right. I would have said the peak was earlier, but until the web started really declining in earnest, the quality was roughly constant so we're talking relatively m
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> You presumably don't run an overall trade deficit. True. But by that logic, neither does the US.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I just wish that every application that uses tabs also has a way to collapse or hide the part of the window the tabs appear on. If you don't use tabs, then that dead area is just annoying. And a special curse for applications that put
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> you can chose to not align with them because they went and got grumpy again But we didn't just "get grumpy again". We've been actively telling and showing our allies that we're their enemy. That they have anoth
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
That's unrelated to the point that I was making. My point is that they were engaging in record deportations without causing a great deal of upset, and that indicates that it's not the enforcement of the law that people are objecti
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> But we have lowered our overall trade deficit, and that is probably good news. That's neither good nor bad news. A trade deficit is not a real deficit and is not inherently problematic. I have a trade deficit with nearly every bus
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
The vast majority of the web now is manipulative, sterile, corporate, surveillance-ridden and aimed at making money. The web that has passed was more about people.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> Nobody is going to war over this I disagree. I think that the US could very easily trigger a war here (I suspect that's the intention), and not a war that would be contained to Greenland. It's not just about Greenland or Denm
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> you are not really going to be under a hostile nation at all The US is being overtly hostile, though. We're even threatening nations who should be allies with military invasion. Who would look at that behavior and think "yeah
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> It seems that critics oppose the law itself I think that the fact that both Biden and Obama were finding and deporting illegal immigrants in record numbers and there wasn't this kind of outcry indicates that it's not the law
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> (often without the owner knowing) How can you tell this? Why do you call this the "accidental blockade"? Surely, at least some percentage of those sites are doing it intentionally.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
No. If you're militarily threatening someone, you are their enemy. Even if you used to be an ally.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
If the alternative is to be under the thumb of a hostile nation, yes. It would suck, but what other thing could realistically be done?
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> they would rather have a NATO with the US and without Denmark than the other way around. I'm not so sure about that. The US has successfully alienated pretty much everybody that used to think well of us. We now represent a threat
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
It's good for ensuring I don't buy the car.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Oh, and don't forget the tax concessions that mean everyone has to help pay for them.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
In my opinion, you should be doing that anyway as a matter of self-protection. But, regardless of that, they're not only going to keep doing this kind of thing, they're going to get increasingly intense about it. That crowd has no
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Well, that would be a landscaping/architectural misdesign that can be corrected without adversely affecting the graveyard. And should be. If you're going to the graveyard to honor your dead, you shouldn't have to look at the
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I think this is a truly terrible idea. First, headstones in graveyards are the opposite of offensive. They're memorials. That they're physical and long-lasting are important parts of that. It would also require loved ones to have

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