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by _jal 5y ago
Well, yes. As an engineer, you are a very expensive resource, probably working in a department that's considered a cost center. "Rightsizing" those is great for the bonus.
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by _jal 5y ago
And those institutions where everyone knows you go to register and hardware devices everyone trusts don't exist, so you're back to > doesn't seem to solve meaningful, mainstream problems yet
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by _jal 5y ago
I just don't subscribe. It isn't even about incentives or trying to punish or whatever. Paying for the privilege of interacting with some shitty thing I don't like to be entertained.... doesn't seem entertaining to me.
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by _jal 5y ago
I also had a very old account, and sold things infrequently. Went to sell something last year, and they immediately wanted a pile of personal information and bank access that I'm simply not going to give them or anyone like them. And t
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by _jal 5y ago
> Given that the number of victims is an estimate I'm very used to engineers' quibbles, very focused views ending up being very narrow views, clever/stupid explanations of why various laws can't be enforced, and so on
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by _jal 5y ago
Read some history of how that came to be. You might still disagree when you're done, but I suspect you'll at least be able to answer your own question.
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, this. They started off with the arrogance of a liar who thought they were immune from consequences. Now they're looking more like the kid who is actually in trouble only now realizing nobody trusts them to identify the sky color,
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by _jal 5y ago
...Which explains why there was no great art made before 1998, right?
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by _jal 5y ago
One of the first things I do when evaluating something for work is look at the documentation. If it is video, I move on to the next contender. That's simply a hard no.
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by _jal 5y ago
The bitcoin brainworms do bad things to people. I suggest you update your patter some, though. A good coin scam needs to sound a lot less dated.
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by _jal 5y ago
No, I don't fence off metaphors for exclusivity. Good ones get reused. And claiming Lorde was only talking about race is simply incorrect.
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, this is the root problem. If you want to break from mandatory upgrades (this includes "cloud" stuff, where you have even less control over software), you need vendors that aren't forced to invent reasons to build them b
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by _jal 5y ago
You should see the other guy.
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by _jal 5y ago
I've had a similar experience. It is kinda satisfying to tell those folks thanks, but you simply don't have time for their call. Valley VCs shop for very particular people, and behaviorally, are perfectly fine ignoring good ideas
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by _jal 5y ago
To anyone else who still wants to own their own music, I highly recommend looking at Jriver Media Center. Not free, and it is a bit of a strange application at first. But I find it extremely capable and flexible, and because it is just a pl
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by _jal 5y ago
This is interesting, and I've seen a bit of this sort of behavior, too. Some people seem to confuse expertise for a claim of infallibility, and when some expert get something wrong, the reaction is to conclude that expert advice is wor
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by _jal 5y ago
It is both kind of hilarious and kind of terrifying to see this sort of anti-academic, anti-expert nonsense is bleeding in to %$&#ing software development. All your written-in-production, battle-hardened code with no effete book-larnin&
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by _jal 5y ago
For instance, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/nsdi11/tech/full_papers...
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by _jal 5y ago
That's what pliers are for.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I find the increasing usage of the word surveillance completely silly and ideological. That's nice. I find downplaying the reality of surveillance to acclimate people to even more of it very dangerous and ideological.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry. > it seems that most of them have never worked on an user-facing product If you have worked on user-facing products, then I thin
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by _jal 5y ago
Take the "Do your own research" slogan for what it is - an attack on expertise. It is an attempt to lower the status, and presumably power, of "the elites" (credentialed experts), mostly perpetrated by the real (monied)
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by _jal 5y ago
It looks like a columnist attempting to bootstrap the argument that legacy systems foster lack of oversight, or something like that. And failing.
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by _jal 5y ago
Where do you see the word 'easily' in Apple's statement? If the complaint is that attribution is sometimes sketchy, so? Sometimes it isn't.
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by _jal 5y ago
> I’m surprised you don’t think it’s important for power to be accountable. You're just making shit up now with no relation to what I'm writing. I don't waste my time on bad faith.
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by _jal 5y ago
Criming USian overlords typically don't have to suffer the indignity of a conviction.
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by _jal 5y ago
> but the error rate might be too high for it to scale much That just means you need a redundant array of parrots operating in parallel, with a regulator to detect different answers to the same problem and retry.
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by _jal 5y ago
> strikes are very much a first resort I'm going to guess you don't know any union members. Strikes are very hard on the strikers. You're suddenly taking no income but still putting in a shift on the picket line. Not only
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by _jal 5y ago
I've gotten these texts twice, so far. There was another one that came in between them that felt the same (language that I think of as "conversational robotese"), but appeared to be VPN phishing.
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by _jal 5y ago
If I know your maximum price before the auction, I can do whatever is in my power to be able to exceed that price, if I choose. Especially in auctions with multiple known bidders, collusion opportunities can arise to allow bidders to contro

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