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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Push past this thought. Take the final step you know awaits your reaction. It’s not parody. There are, honest-to-God, people like this aplenty in our world. Behold, we, as they, are borne back: ”Gatsby believed in the green light, the orga
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I am really, really eager and excited to see the result when these DOGE-istas cook up whatever insanely “rational” schemes they imagine will make government not completely “dysfunctional” roll them out to the people they actually need to im
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
More directly, from the WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Saw name, was expecting something to do with wreaking AI upon the Pali Canon ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Canon ).
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Jesus. The gobbledygook spewed here is remarkable for how in-self-aware it is. Matched, perhaps, only by Mozilla’s total lack of understanding themselves and who their core support is likely to come from. On the other hand, I’m getting my p
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
And they also think the industry is full of people who can’t code. Despite the industry relying on a technique that purports to weed those people out. One might conclude, then, that maybe the technique isn’t as effective after all.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I was a lawyer. I passed the bar exam (first try, no less). I practiced. The bar exam does none of what you claimed for it. Now, I offered it here as an analogy, but I am not a software developer. It just sounded akin to what I do know from
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Might make for better software, though…
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
You: “Coding interviews are the absolute best way to filter job candidates for a software development job.” TFA: Coding interviews are a standard way of hiring. Also you: “Too many people in the software development industry don’t know what
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Where’s n-gate.com when you need them, eh? :)
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
It’s like the bar exam for lawyers. It bears absolutely no relationship whatsoever to the actual job and the work you will be doing. It’s a pointless ritual. And the point of the above story is that the person performed the ritual and then
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
There were a bunch of suggestions on the bluesky thread that they should donate samples of them to researchers so that they could figure out what was actually in the fucking things.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
The Onion is truly a national treasure.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical wast
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
This is also not quite accurate. The edit is happening, but the problem is the same word appears three times in the same sentence, and the program can’t distinguish them. Specifically, there are three copies of the gene, the active one and
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Hey, thanks for your comment. It was a surprising and interesting perspective to hear.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Fair enough: so little time, so much to read. I was just wondering if you had found it to be tough sledding, if you had read it.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
By the way, I’d make a similar criticism of, for example, later Heidegger. At some point he collapses into a kind of solipsistic logorrhea. Sein and Zeit and his lectures from the 1920s, though, had real philosophical meat on the bone (th
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
I feel like that’s a fairly dense, technical point of entry for his work, since he’s explicitly trying to set up an alternative theoretical framework for his brand of sociological/anthropological philosophy. Did you read Lab Life ?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes, Derrida is fine if you’re just in it for wordplay. But it has always struck me that that’s about all there is to it. I don’t take him/deconstructionism seriously though beyond that. It was a cul-de-sac that was finally escaped. I
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Honestly, the only thing I really remember from reading Deleuze was giving up on trying to get what “the Fold” was.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yup, I agree. Shaping is commenting there about Latour being memorably aphoristic.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Latour’s not so hard to grok, certainly much easier than the Deleuzes and Derridas of the world. Approach his work as more or less philosophical anthropology rather than, like, pure philosophy. Indeed, humans a situated in overlapping space
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
> I wouldn't blame the pilot for ejecting…. Either would the Marine Corps, I guess. Well, blame the pilot, but recommend no punitive action, so kinda-sorta pilot error the F-35 is a great airplane guys! :)
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Maybe Chomsky was on to something… Colorless green functions async/await furiously.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
What values are those, exactly?
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Fair! I had just read the transcripts from yesterday’s oral arguments and was feeling annoyed at a longstanding complaint I have about SCOTUS (pre-dating the Roberts Court as well). Mea culpa.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
What do you think litigators do? Their whole job is figuring out how to elicit, marshal, introduce and connect the facts that will prove their case. That’s just what being a trial lawyer is . The facts are not just out there and whoever ha
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
Yes.
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by dmvdoug 2y ago
For all the people commenting on the discrepancy between this ruling and the one in Apple’s case: now perhaps you see the value of good lawyers. Apple was able to convince the judge in their case to fairly narrowly define the market segment

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