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by dogleash 10mo ago
I am amused by the defeatism in your response that expecting anyone to actually try anymore is a lost cause.
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by dogleash 10mo ago
>The question is why we failed to recognize the warnings when they were delivered. Numerator = 4 Denominator = Number of successful pieces of fiction exploring ideas about the future from circa 2000. I should stop reading here and save m
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by dogleash 10mo ago
Whether I care depends on the accommodation they're seeking. When I was in school, the department that dealt with accessibility could chop the spine off a book, scan it and give you a high quality ebook. I also knew someone who was fl
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by dogleash 11mo ago
I don't believe armchair diagnostics is a productive way to inspire change in others. Even if you happened to be correct, which I won't opine on, it's using pop-psych to make people malleable rather than empower them to grow
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by dogleash 11mo ago
> A cluster of launches reinforces the idea that Google is growing and leading in a bunch of areas. What in the Gemini 3 powered astroturf bot is this? They probably just had an internal mandate to ship by end of year. > if it's
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by dogleash 11mo ago
Remember when it used to be a conspiracy theory to say that the elites and politicians were all part of one big Eyes Wide Shut cult? And now all their only remaining defense is "our masks don't even look like that."
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by dogleash 11mo ago
I hate that quote. Whenever I see it brought up, it makes me wonder what people think it's supposed to represent. The hypothetical person asks for faster horses because they know they'll be dismissed if they ask for something the
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by dogleash 11mo ago
>THAT ALL SAID - there's an important distinction between a given piece of software that's open source versus a "true project" This cuts the first half of your post down to meaninglessness. It seems like you're j
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by dogleash 11mo ago
>should I be worried? If you read Hackers and Painters without realizing you're getting conned, yes. Very much so.
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by dogleash 11mo ago
>you just bought yourself an extra hour to figure out how to fix the problem before you have to start issuing refunds/credits No. Not if you're not defrauding your customers, you didn't.
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by dogleash 11mo ago
>Couldn’t it also work by guaranteeing each state X seats and then the rest Y seats are set according to census data on population? Yes. If you call the "X" club the Senate and the "Y" club the House of Representativ
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by dogleash 11mo ago
Asking for the right one-size-fits-all system skips doing the systems thinking up front. A failure mode with a lot of community management systems is that they're adopted because they have a general vibe of keeping the bad people o
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by dogleash 11mo ago
I love the optimism that senior leadership is just in the dark and wouldn't agree with a high percentage of the bad dynamics. With the benefit of hindsight the causal link to attrition is highlighted. In the moment, how many concerns
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by dogleash 11mo ago
> I’m certainly happier not having to hand wash dishes or clothes The prospect of loosing access to those things can seem bleak, but to someone who never knew the luxury of a clothes washing machine it's just another chore. Why wou
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by dogleash 11mo ago
You've lost the plot and are just trauma dumping.
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by dogleash 11mo ago
People can still avoid participation by muting chat, so the better strategy is to start yelling all your conversations across the open office. That'll really get everyone engaged.
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by dogleash 11mo ago
We been knowing that. Dunno why people assume that FOSS developers are just dummies lacking insight but otherwise champing at the bit to provide the same refinement and same customer service experience as the "open source" project
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by dogleash 11mo ago
What can you possible mean? We've assessed plenty of deviants here. Like that one blogger that had the temerity to talk about our industry and use swearing at the same time. He even had opinions so insufficiently hedged that they di
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by dogleash 1y ago
There's definitely generational loss about the capabilities of git. In the beginning, git was a new version control option for people to explore, now git is the thing you learn to collaborate on github/lab/ea. I remember the
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by dogleash 1y ago
>we could use fallible AI to call attention to possible concerns that a human could then analyze and make an appropriate judgment call on That "we could" is doing some very heavy lifting. But even if we pretend it's remot
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by dogleash 1y ago
> I don't think those problems are insurmountable. As soon as you try to be more clever than electronic counting of paper ballots, yes they are. You can either audit the count by replaying the input event stream, or you can't.
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by dogleash 1y ago
> Microsoft didn't need to add that requirement. Yes, they did. It was written by the specter of the US Department Of Justice.
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by dogleash 1y ago
Mods sometimes merge posts. Whether any particular merger makes sense can be a bit of a toss-up.
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by dogleash 1y ago
The pentagon and jornos embedded there were always playing the access journalism game all along. Nothing new is happening, this was just the secdef being so thick he asked them to put the punches they'll pull in writing. It should be
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by dogleash 1y ago
> When the majority of your email has a warning banner it stops to be any sort of warning. All they've done is teach me to spot the phishing tests, because our email is configured to let the test bypass the banner.
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by dogleash 1y ago
>this actively filters for people that are radioactively toxic True. There's a reason "discord mod" is an epithet.
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by dogleash 1y ago
"Empathy" is one of those words that's used as a proxy for a lot of related ideas, but splitting those hairs can be interpreted by some as disagreement with those ideas themselves. I've witnessed people extol the virtues
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by dogleash 1y ago
All those problems with email sound like a treat compared to screenshots of chats I'm not in.
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by dogleash 1y ago
It's goalpost shifting. If the concern is parasocail relationships to content creators formed with pornography as the hook, then pornographic content where the actors aren't cultivating or interacting with a social media follower
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by dogleash 1y ago
Parasocial relationships are a different topic than pornography. Are you saying that the intersection is uniquely bad? In either case limits to content made in an effort to minimize parasocial relationships cut across very different lines

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