bakatubas

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by bakatubas 5y ago
Well it’s hard to say at the scope of world powers. Maybe small, local governments there’s less. But let’s be honest here, and consider the atrocities of yesteryear. They span the gamut, and they span democracy through authoritarian regimes
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by bakatubas 5y ago
All forms of government no matter how big or small are fcorrupt. That’s how it works—they/them who bends the will of the masses wins. Either that’s done by manipulating folks into believing the next candidate will “take their pain away
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by bakatubas 5y ago
> In short, what would this be used for? A stepping stone to inventing new species, or augmenting humans with super-human powers… duh!
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Of course each situation can be unique. I wouldn’t recommend staying at any place that overworks employees or unfairly compensates them. I am referring to tech folks arbitrarily switching jobs JUST for a pay increase, every year or two year
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by bakatubas 5y ago
This might be true in tech world but in local economies does not make sense. How can folks “switch jobs” every two years when there may not be equivalent opportunities in many cases? I’d also like to point out that while many tech folks are
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Nowadays everything is layers on top of layers. File systems from regular partitions and RAID to LVM then to ZFS/Btrfs. Virtualization of OS systems to KVM/Qemu to containers. Operating systems function now in general is to provid
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by bakatubas 5y ago
And then pee on the floor and do jumping jacks, run in circles, then read a magazine, then install an upside-down lectern in the living room only to realize... you forgot the television. God save us all!
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Honestly all websites should support a no-script, static version to prevent 90% of the webs BS. We used to be able to view sites with JavaScript disabled and actually things would work. Also, instead of arbitrary cookies why not standardize
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Man—all I can say is most tech companies suck these days in that way. Bought a Samsung “smart” tv and a couple months later got an update—now it’s showing McDonalds ads. Like WTF I paid $500 for a TV but that’s not good enough? The ad indus
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by bakatubas 5y ago
I second that—memories installing gentoo on iBook G4 and getting the wireless to work felt like a nice accomplishment :) Granted, the gentoo docs are really good so that’s where I went mostly.
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by bakatubas 5y ago
The first computers filled up an entire room and look where we are now... This is a proof of concept and surely it will be refined to make more efficient construction processes.
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by bakatubas 5y ago
The web is the way for universal exposure. Regardless of speed it’s the only standardized, universal and widely used interface. WebAssembly will be the ticket there—once it’s developed a bit more. That being said, nothing compares to native
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by bakatubas 5y ago
I can’t argue _for_ any particular tool—just that the concept is a really good concept. I think a lot of it comes down to folks not bothering to invest in making good tools—or developers sticking to their current workflow. That is why I rel
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Absolutely! That is similar to artists doing thumbnail sketches to figure out the composition; then once things are reasonably worked out, the chosen composition can be worked onto the final canvas; then the details follow. That is a nice b
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Honestly, I think complex architectures are best demonstrated as diagrams—and those can be developed in an agile fashion. Stable, well-thought-out architectures can’t be slapped together without nice diagrams. There’s a ton of folks who jus
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by bakatubas 5y ago
I dunno I disagree—the fact is a lot of people just dive into coding and don’t spend much time with design. There’s a ton of value in the idea of diagramming code and then generating sources. UML is a starting point but the journey is far
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by bakatubas 5y ago
All the more reason for folks to spend more time using the debugger; for instance, break points are only one feature. Setting up remote debugging I’ll agree is more difficult than a local application, but each remote machine can automatical
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by bakatubas 5y ago
As a counter-point, I think there’s an argument that folks don’t spend enough time in the debugger. But there’s a lot of value there and in fact one could use a debugger environment to unit test as even native debuggers have scripting envir
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by bakatubas 5y ago
It makes sense for software release versions, but I think this lacks marketing prowess. Consider; “hey man check out my new M1 machine!” Versus: “hey man check out my M1 2021.04” Even with the Core series it’s short and sweet. “10th gen. Co
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by bakatubas 5y ago
I think that is true regarding language popularity—but not their viability for intended purpose. Perl is a great example because although it has its quirks and the ecosystem shows some age, there really isn’t anything like Perl. It is a ver
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by bakatubas 5y ago
I found a vulnerability! ... Just kidding. :)
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Is that because folks are pooping in the rivers? You’d think folks could just catch rainwater. Sounds like an infrastructure issue...
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by bakatubas 5y ago
Or mandate 2FA and password managers.
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by bakatubas 6y ago
Agreed. But still, folks make it sound bad. For instance “danger” in the many context could also be reframed as “powerful”, could it not?
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by bakatubas 6y ago
Unfortunately, as is most always the case of negligence instead of some particular language features: “A commission attributed the primary cause to general poor software design and development practices rather than single-out specific codin
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by bakatubas 6y ago
I don’t get this obsession with “dangerous.” Honestly, what does that even mean? I think a better word is “error-prone.” Danger is more like, “oh my god a crocodile!”
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by bakatubas 6y ago
In addition, it tells folks how much available content. And you can eyeball an action like “go to approximately 80% down the page.”
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by bakatubas 6y ago
Personally I think these should have a legal license associated with them. Like if the author transfers NFT it transfers the creative license as well (so the purchaser actually owns the art). For instance, Nayan Cat beanie babies can now on