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by a3n 5y ago
I know this is unfair and untrue, and I am ignorant in the history of programming languages, and ignorant in the history of bank infrastructure, but ... My actual first thought was that this was a language designed by someone who didn'
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by a3n 5y ago
I just can't stop reading this ...
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by a3n 5y ago
> [Is two+ months good advice?] For for not uncommon problems probably. You might want to factor in whether your new health insurance has kicked in. For something egregiously heinous (according to some definition), don't feel bad ab
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by a3n 5y ago
The Edward Tufte books from his course. https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses
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by a3n 5y ago
I suppose it depends on the ratio of masters to slaves in your hypothetical 5000 person town. Your context, after all, is a global catastrophe that would require local self-sufficiency. That implies the isolation that would enable human nat
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by a3n 5y ago
Scouting semi trailers containing useful supplies, breaking in to them, and then defending the position until the contents are used or repositioned. Pessimistically speaking.
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by a3n 5y ago
How many people have you known in that position that had little or none of those?
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by a3n 5y ago
It never stops shifting.
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by a3n 5y ago
Trucker. Yes. People have to eat and poop, they need their ... everything. Literally, everything.
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by a3n 5y ago
And I sincerely appreciate your doing some of that thinking here, out loud.
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by a3n 5y ago
My solution to this problem is to: a) not be aware of it which allows me to: b) not worry about it.
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by a3n 5y ago
Or try this from ddg !abbr wtf (I didn't know ddg had that bang code, I just guessed. At this point, guessing ddg bang codes often works.) And of course there's the wtf utility in Linux and bsd. https://linux.die
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by a3n 5y ago
That was essentially Kosky's point. I was taking his class, he was a big peacenik (involved with Give Peace a Dance at the time), and I talked to him about working for defense companies, Boeing being the gorilla in the room in Seattle.
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by a3n 5y ago
In the 80s Ted Kosky, a math instructor at South Seattle Community College, suggested to me that if ethical people refused to work for defense companies, then those companies would only be staffed by unethical people. Come at that thought f
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by a3n 5y ago
Aaand they did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771538
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by a3n 5y ago
That was excellent. Concise, informative and interesting.
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by a3n 5y ago
TIL I'm guessing they won't be missed. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Mercury+vapor+turbine&t=fpas&ia=we...
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by a3n 5y ago
> P.S.: What is the go-to reference for human technology? You should repost that paragraph as its own ask HN. That would be a fascinating set of references. On the desk of a mechanical or chemical engineer I once saw a book containing co
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by a3n 5y ago
I've been a Fastmail customer for many years, using my own domain. I never think about it. So, yes, I recommend Fastmail.
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by a3n 5y ago
"I bite the finger, and it brings me food." ... "I bite it, and it brings me food." ... "I bite food, and it brings me food." ... "I bite food, and ... waaait a minute ."
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by a3n 5y ago
I used the Beautiful Soup python HTML parser to pick apart an employer's javadoc for a product, and wrote out C++ header files, as a first brush at (others) rewriting the java product in C++.
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What's the weirdest/best thing you've done?
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by a3n 5y ago
> Some of Gettr’s copy is stilted and strange, including the boast that it’s a “non-bias” social network that “tried the best to provide best software quality to the users, allow anyone to express their opinion freely. I can't decid
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by a3n 5y ago
If you can't read it, try reader mode.
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by a3n 5y ago
When we were in one of a few early meetings justifying the coming leap off our burning platform (they said that) and on to Agile, I said "This too shall pass," out loud. It got a few nervous giggles from people less subversive (an
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by a3n 5y ago
So they can serve better targeted and reinforcing ads to them?
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by a3n 5y ago
A picture of uniformed North Korean toadies standing around Kim Jong Un comes to mind, all with their notebook and pen at the ready, smiling and hanging on every word.
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by a3n 5y ago
I guess we're all just money on the table, eh?
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by a3n 5y ago
Trucker. Tomorrow I collect a $2500 signing bonus, having changed companies 2 weeks ago.
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by a3n 5y ago
From the comments: > These guys were important once, right? I don't think I'm old enough to remember such a time. I thought they were a law firm for a while because they only seemed to be mentioned in court cases. Ouch.

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