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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> but is the US that much better in terms of authoritarianism or surveillance? Who knows? The last guy who touched upon it had to hide in freedom-loving Russia afterwards. The PRC has it easy. They don't have to hide their actions b
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
Partial transcript: "We aspire to the idea that a human being can demonstrate competence and earn respect and leadership and authority based on what you do and how you do it ." Video was posted on Nov 8 2018. I think everyone can
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
You can put them in charge of a country, as long as they are effective. "Hate the game, not the player", might be appropriate here, but even in corporate games players can simply be so ineffective that they should be replaced by s
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
"It [the giant hexagon] rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior." Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
The sun rising in the morning will never make the news, and that's the problem with Debian marketing; an operating system that's so stable and reliable users tend to forget about it, how is that ever going to grab headlines? Altho
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> And her job definitely is needed, regardless of how well it's being done. If I can take a literal potato, stick it in a pot, put that pot in an expensive chair in an expensive well-lit CEO office, have the potato's PA water i
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Microsoft has better alignment with free web than Facebook or Google. That would be precious: Microsoft taking Mozilla browser developers onboard, creating a browser, shipping it by default bundled with their OS, and being able to clai
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
It was tried in the 70s in Chile [1], but it wasn't anything the odd CIA-backed military coup couldn't put a stop to. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> offering competitive pay for executives and managers "competitive" is key here, it means they have to compete . I know people on the work floor like to make jokes about executives golfing and yachting, but there is some trut
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
So this was because of the tabs? "MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – December 15th, 2004 – [..]The ad, coordinated by Spread Firefox, features the names of the thousands of people worldwide who contributed to the Mozilla Foundation’s fundraising
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> is the collective psyche in the US is viscerally against any entity rising to the top that does not have profit as its sole goal. It might be the other way around in this case. Mozilla rose to the top because of the promise of an open
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Buying new clothing because of yearly trends is way to damaging to the environment for what it's worth. I read this as I rock along on my Thinkpad x200 and read it on a forum where people regularly defend the use of electron apps
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
>an insular club of engineers with a high bar of entry and all the teenagers in all the high-schools who otherwise had no affinity with computers whatsoever. /slap But that was 20 years ago, of course. You can't compare the tec
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
Europe's ability to compete in the Technology sector is just dandy. It's the EU's ability to compete in the "tech" sector that might fall behind, and maybe that's a good thing.
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I think we should get used to the idea of just letting stuff like this happen. What's the downside? Because in the end, actual progressive left thinkers could end up in a rice paddy with a tyre iron in the neck. This terminology p
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I am glad that JP have done something sensible here, I doubt that. For over 20 years people have been pinning their hopes on new languages and "paradigms" to make things better. Things haven't progressed a lot with that
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> [it will] make it easier to express complex human problems/domains into code What is "pseudo-intellectual" about that answer? > i'm sooo curious to study all of this and see for myself Good thing SICP is availabl
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
"It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are? ... Google knows."
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Edit: People are getting downvoted left and right. Why is this such a polarizing topic? Likely because there's only so many times someone wants to reply with "Free as in free market, not as in free lunch." And it's
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
I think one of the nicer points to take away here is that prof. Sussman worked around remote teaching problems not by getting bogged down in meetings, but by calling a friendly admin and by himself installing a piece of free software on a c
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I've used Linux actively for 30 years or more "The Linux kernel was conceived and created in 1991"
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> This. You say "this", and then proceed to state the exact fallacy the OP made as a truthful observation. > Sweden's path has been conventional. Yes. Sweden's path has been conventional. Italy's path has been
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
With the corollary advice being: a grey beard will protect you from accepting positions where looks might be more important than skills. No slight against your friends, if they needed the money they did what they had to do. But if one doesn
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
Regrettably, also back in the day and probably around the same time, companies who wanted to hire "outside of the box" asked for Python. Not because they were python shops, but because they figured that people who had an interest
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> there was no one left who could support an Erlang system. If you have $200k "python engineers" on the payroll who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to do some additional Erlang, maybe it's time to reconsider your hir
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
"you’d fire them because that one wrong answer is emblematic of a serious cognitive deficiency that permeates everything they try to do. " Oh, if only, John. But then, who'd write for your blog? (if you feel that's unwar
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I'd like some source material on your claim about freedoms Let's start at the bottom then: >> The other countries you speak about have already lost their rights, or never had them to begin with. >and New Zealand is a
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Or is it literally that cache invalidation is hard? It's literally that cache invalidation is hard. You can also think of "cache invalidation" as a substitute of concurrent programming: keeping multiple related threads o
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I'm not a full-time computer professional. Emacs is used by non-computer professionals as well. If your profession relies on the manipulation of text, emacs is the tool to use. >their investment spent optimizing and maintaining
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Generally, I think my rights end where others’ rights begin So invading someone else 's privacy, without their consent, for your own monetary gain, should be your decision, because it's fairer?

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