cjk2

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by cjk2 2y ago
Less than 5 years. Vanity project. Built and maintained by astronaut architects. Entirely unnecessary. Poorly implemented down to the level of wire contracts being inconsistent. Overheads are insane both from engineering and operational POV
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by cjk2 2y ago
No. We have a complete fucking disaster on our hands.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I do. That didn’t do anything.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Oh don't. I spent an hour yesterday trying to get a damn table to stay on the right page.
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by cjk2 2y ago
I’d sleep better knowing the existing bc can’t write to ~/.profile than if it’s written in rust or not.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Oh hell that last one got me. Now how do I do that equals with two bars and a squiggle ... ERK ... THUD.
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by cjk2 2y ago
As a mathematician I'm going to fall on a slide rule and poke my brain through an eye socket. Yeah doesn't work does it.
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by cjk2 2y ago
This wholly depends on where you are in the world.
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by cjk2 2y ago
It can vary hourly :)
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by cjk2 2y ago
Hey if I stayed sober I'd have had three less kids and two less wives.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Yeah my 82 year old mother knows more about files than my kids do.
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by cjk2 2y ago
If you think this is bad, there was a period last year that my documents folder would suddenly rename itself to "Documents" but in a different language. This would religiously change every few days. Other people have reported it a
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by cjk2 2y ago
I think if I chatted with my database it'd have nothing nice to say. It'd just bitch about the deadlocks, keyspace starvation, that other one it has to share everything with and all those people asking stupid questions.
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by cjk2 2y ago
Yeah after posting that I'm actually downloading the trial now :)
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by cjk2 2y ago
+1 for pixelmator Annoyingly there is nothing that gets close to Lightroom at the moment :(
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by cjk2 2y ago
The toilet paper and tylenol guys will be fine.
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by cjk2 2y ago
They used to be far more exciting. It's the anticipation of less excitement that is nail biting :D
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by cjk2 2y ago
Well there's a problem here. There are rules. But no one really has to abide to them. There are no consequences against a sovereign nation other than political allegiance risk or travel risks for convicts.
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by cjk2 2y ago
An exercise with war casualty stats you can do is look at previous wars and look at the variation in estimates in body counts for each side. Then factor that into the news you are reading it. End game is there has never been a credible bo
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by cjk2 2y ago
I think that's just paranoia. The citizens generally are the government. It's not optimal but without the citizens there is no government.
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by cjk2 2y ago
It's a war. It's about doing wrong things until someone capitulates. I mean it'd be nice not to have them but as a species we're stupid animals with stupid ideas so there's no end of it in sight. I don't agree
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by cjk2 2y ago
Unfortunately it was mostly "I was lied to, but I agree with it anyway because of X" where X is some loose justification to absolve themselves of the self-inflicted mess they got themselves into. My father was a fine one. His staf
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by cjk2 2y ago
To be fair propagandists generally don't have to aim high. They only have to shift the undecided and uninformed opinions a little bit. You want to see some of the crap the agencies were pushing out pre-Brexit and it worked, so I wouldn
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by cjk2 2y ago
100% agree (hence my point about quitting) but the problem is it's a difficult position to be in when everything is narrative driven and misreporting and propaganda are rife. You can sit there and do nothing and wait for your enemy to
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by cjk2 2y ago
Well their enemies used social accounts to garner support from US citizens so you've got to start somewhere! It's not like we haven't done this either. I worked for a company in 2005 which was doing this paid for by politicia
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by cjk2 2y ago
I've prevented a lot of losses :)
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by cjk2 2y ago
Stuff like that makes me appreciate Time Machine on my Mac. I have hourly snapshots of everything that changes. I don't even use VCS software when I'm writing code any more unless I have to collaborate with someone else. Also th
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by cjk2 2y ago
To be fair Apple Photos does this. But it does it to your photos not your entire universe.
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by cjk2 2y ago
> That being said, I worked at Microsoft, and it is filled with brilliant, hard working, competitive people of high integrity, so if anyone can figure out how to turn that Aircraft Carrier around and succeed in a world with intellectual
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by cjk2 2y ago
This is my methodology. Set two PMs on each other and go and do some work that generates ROI.

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