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by arpa 4y ago
Colossus, meet Guardian :) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
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by arpa 4y ago
lol i don't think so.
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by arpa 4y ago
nobody cares, email, along the majority of the internet as "computers talking protocols", is dead. The absolute majority of email is handled by gmail or microsoft, accounting for >80% of MX servers in the wild by the data i had
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by arpa 4y ago
... again?
65.
by arpa 4y ago
something something sufficiently advanced markov chains something something GAI
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by arpa 4y ago
this is where one needs to draw a line between morals and ethics. Because while morals are relative, ethics is something inherent to all human beings (ethos = what makes a thing a thing, ethics = what makes humans human). So we don't n
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by arpa 4y ago
Dead internet conspiracy theory is becoming more real every day.
68.
by arpa 4y ago
To be fair to Musk, indeed he is delivering on the "hardcore" twitter promise. Edit: not condoning his practices.
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by arpa 4y ago
Start with a bash script, end having implemented a minimal HTTP 1.0 server on a bash framework is my story.
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by arpa 4y ago
What starts with U and gives them nightmares? That's right.
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by arpa 4y ago
yeah, no, dude. Fuck the mandatory office the same way fuck the meetings that could have been an email.
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by arpa 4y ago
MMS actually work now as everyone has data on the phone. Ten years back, MMS was crap.
73.
by arpa 4y ago
"just change your lifestyle" is the best one ever.
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by arpa 4y ago
Well if you don't like people using low TTLs maybe you should have put validations in the original spec. Oh you didn't write the spec? well sucks to be you then.
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by arpa 4y ago
well to be fair we all have cancer. We are obsessed with growth, and very seldomly do we stop, look and think: this is unsustainable, even if possible.
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by arpa 4y ago
yes, yes, absolutely. Sorry for not being explicit.
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by arpa 4y ago
Well, to be fair, most of the engineering is bullshit.
78.
by arpa 4y ago
Ooh, more mind reading machines in the age of total privacy loss, nice.
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by arpa 4y ago
Mods: missed that the post linked to is actually a repost of an article written in 1996 because almost 30 years later it still rings true to some orgs i've been working with. Can we change the (2021) to (1996) please?
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by arpa 4y ago
it is never the language, it's the implementation. But y'all software "engineers" parrot the same shite since 1989
81.
by arpa 4y ago
NGL, it is pretty cool. What could be the reason for this behavior?
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Classic SE Mistakes (1996)(cs.nmsu.edu)
77 points by arpa 4y ago|46 comments
83.
by arpa 4y ago
i disagree. My webserver is written in bash.
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by arpa 4y ago
genuinely curious, do you have a citation that supports your statement? I would love to read more about this.
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by arpa 4y ago
the "MooMooMo" platform community is still alive, funnily enough.
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by arpa 4y ago
oh you know perfectly well what i meant.
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by arpa 4y ago
back in my day it was prevalence of TV. Before that it was cinema. Before that... and it goes all the way to Plato who lamented the tempores and mores.
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by arpa 4y ago
yes, but no underlying libs, just pure bash... "How hard can that be"...
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by arpa 4y ago
recently i tasked myself into creating a bash TUI library/framework, thinking it would be as easy as taking good old pascal in late 1990s and just drawing on screen using ascii. Boy was I mistaken!
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by arpa 4y ago
You must really love software patents!

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