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by dogleash 5y ago
>Navy Seal Copypasta, broken into eight twitter sized parts. Eventually they banned me for this Fucking killjoys. If twitter is moderating for people who can't even figure out not to take that copypasta seriously[1], then they'
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by dogleash 5y ago
I wish someone would go around interviewing reporters like this writer and ask "How long did it take for you to realize that Twitter is not real life? Why do you think you were mislead for so long? How do you plan to avoid similar erro
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> Someone Why not you?
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Preface: I used to work in embedded control systems, now I shovel ads for a living. nah fam, we've got it so much easier. You should kick up your feet and enjoy it, or you'll drive yourself crazy.
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>I don’t know a single engineer that could even know how to begin to develop a system like that It's called "controls engineering", and there are plenty of talented people in the field. But you are correct that people who
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"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understa
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As a person with red-green colorblindness, I doubt it. The previous version was fine as had an impossible to miss shape-based indication (the X across the cell). I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that this was done with colorblin
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>Why is it so impossible for these people/organizations to accept that they made a mistake and own up to it? Its the bar. Of all the organizations to respond like lawyers covering their own asses as hard as possible, you have to ex
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>It’s a trivial name change Tell that to a decade of tooling, training and documentation. I don't necessarily have a problem with the change, but I wish people would quit telling me it's nothing. It's not the end of the wo
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>When moneyed interests compete it becomes the same as their being no moneyed interests No. That's very incorrect. For example: Moneyed Interest #1 wants A & B, Moneyed Interest #2 wants A & Not-B. It's entirely possi
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>Contrarian opinion here; I understand their logic. It looks like a rational trade-off that the engineers have done. This is not a contrarian opinion. This is the default attitude in web, cloud hosted, and mobile app development. >lo
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I'd be all for stigmatization if the ranking wasn't absolutely bonkers. Between advertising and porn, advertising is worse for the collected psyche. It is a constant onslaught that tells everyone to want, and never relents. Porn
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Measured performance vs. actual performance is a big confounder to taking this at face value. How many times have you met a surly person that absolutely nails the un-glamorous but essential tasks that prevent parts of an organization from f
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>you can't get any engineers to agree to maintain a service in Keep the Lights on mode ...and then you go on to explain in business terms that only apply to the handful of companies that have cargo-culted similar dev team designs an
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>You would think that pager service would be significantly cheaper to provide than something like 4/5G... In almost every way, except the forcing function of using an expensive resource (radio spectrum) less efficiently.
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>but their employees are loud Californians who can about justice In my experience, Californians care about justice the same way they care about anything, fashion. Only the injustices that are fashionable to be against ever get any atten
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>TikTok is just a new pig at the trough. This issue isn't a bee stuck in my presonal bonnet, but this is a fraudulent response that convinces nobody that didn't already agree with you. I'll explain why. The people complai
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A complicating factor that I hear from some of the disillusioned journos is that journalism works best when it's blue collar. Seeking status, and the kind of compromises made to maintain status contribute to the fact journalism is in
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>What happened? My theory involves the period where the line between "internet" and "regular" media evaporated. All media now considers the internet a first-class delivery platform. That wasn't compatible with t
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I don't think MetaFilter is a good example. It's insular, but it also turned to the banal opinions of internet gentrification earlier than a lot of places I used to lurk.
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>that a lot of people go around saying "yeah, engineers go around thinking they can just walk into field X and study it without context". That's sorta the point of a degree in the sciences rather than going to a vocational
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iPhone September filled the internet up with people that never had "don't believe a single thing you read there" driven into their skulls. 4chan posting was and is a performance act. The attitude isn't the problem, pre
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I assume they run the gamut from maximally happy, to whatever their threshold for leaving is. Which is why I used a tautological descriptor. You're taking a plausibly-most-likely scenario and using it to cast an assumption about the e
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>200K happy customers You're defining "happy" as "not quite pissed off enough to leave". That's exactly the kind of game which (when compounded) makes fed-up people call things scams.
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Businesses cooking the books and lying to auditors is a tradition as old as time. Enforcement isn't the real crux of the issue, it's that for some reason it's uncouth to come out and say: this regulation is targeting known li
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Yes, it's possible for companies to act in secret to deliberately not comply with the law. There have been highly public cases of that blowing up spectacularly for those companies; cases where it becomes public and nothing really happe
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Whoopsie daisy! I'm sure IAB's err was a total storm-of-the-century, couldn't ever have been expected, failure of their otherwise iron clad commitment to honoring and respecting digital user privacy.
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It's the same failure mode if you s/phone/token/. Except when it's a token lost/stolen we call it good security like we deserve a pat on the back that they're now fucked out of their accounts. Yeah, I hav
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>At the end of the day, these behaviors have been made explicitly enabled by the law. Politicians set the law. If the only thing we can rely on to bound the actions a politician will take is the law, then we no longer have a politician.
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>post-modernism archival theory I guess it makes sense such a thing would exist, but I wasn't expecting to hear that phrase. Who chooses library science while wanting to be a bookburner? Seems like a recipe for absolutely miserable

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