drewcoo

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by drewcoo 1y ago
> less dangerous than a sharp kitchen knife Which is less dangerous than a dull kitchen knife. https://yakushiknives.com/blogs/yakushi-blog-all-thing-knive...
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by drewcoo 1y ago
It's not a party unless someone talks about Lisp. Or maybe Rust. Oh, I think I see some nameless person I know over there. Well-met Lisper, but goodbye!
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Why do people feel compelled to even consider it to be a battle? Because September isn't just for users.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I have seen monstrosities claiming to be rest that use HTTP but actually have a separate set of action verbs, nestled inside of HTTP's. In a server holding a "deck of cards," there might be a "HTTP GET <blah-de-blah&g
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by drewcoo 1y ago
That seems like the present progressive to me. <present tense be verb> <gerund> I am eating his breakfast. She is out walking the dog. https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/present_progressive... To argu
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> I think open source software is the best protection against abuses because workers can take the means of production elsewhere if a company becomes dysfunctional or greedy. OSS? You mean copyleft? Who does that? Who would use that?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> It's why there's now suddenly an influx of ADHD and Autism diagnosis I claim the DSM-5 is why. We changed diagnostic criteria then we diagnosed. People who used to be "normal" were suddenly "undiagnosed until l
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by drewcoo 1y ago
>> but can reliably take a task off their hands Tasks can reliably take off farmers' hands. Every year our state fair has dioramas to demonstrate the risks of mangling, amputation, and death. I don't really want to see hallu
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Consider watching the mother of all demos. The GUI paradigm we use today was intended to be for children. The intention was to have much more complex and composable UI for tech workers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-z
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Where is the line between team and cult? Typically employers pay you and cults don't.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I just saw a gen-Z kid choose to play Ms. PacMan instead of Zaxxon. This is heresy on the level of playing Buck Hunter instead of Tempest or even Galaxian. Some games we all know but some are legend.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Elixir's (or, more accurately, Erlang's) That would make it Beam's. Credit where due , , ,
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by drewcoo 1y ago
anything hard Async is!
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by drewcoo 1y ago
LLMs can help you fake writing. What can help you actually write? [spoiler: not LLMs] The thing is that most college-educated adults don't really write to one another. Nor do they really read. We're now at the point of expecting c
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Who says commies these days in all seriousness? Conservatives. And commies.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> 100 years ago the US wasn't that different than India today in terms of exploitation of poor laborers. 100 years ago there was a period of prosperity in the US following WWI. 100 years ago there was much stronger unionization for
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by drewcoo 1y ago
So the question is "why is life unfair?" Or is it "why do bad beginnings with lots of drudgery not lead to yacht ownership?"
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> people have more on their bank account That's a measure of liquid wealth inequality, not income inequality.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Grammatical use came first by far.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
Don't stop believin'.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
The reason is Posse Comitatus. It's in place because enough people were fed up with federal troops being used to impose "law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
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by drewcoo 1y ago
More good does not mean less evil. Or vice versa.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Essay-writing is not a critical skill If not that then what? Prompt engineering?
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> we need less "ditch diggers." Fewer.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
>> Back then, using audio tapes to hold data was revolutionary, in terms of storage space and price. > Those aren't ordinary cassettes Years earlier, my Color Computer (from that other leather company, Tandy) was reading and w
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by drewcoo 1y ago
MIB Pie. https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Pie
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by drewcoo 1y ago
> Violence was one of the main ways actors resolved conflicts in this period Violence or threat of violence are still powerful tools. > because we know how much time they spent marching around their areas putting down revolts and figh
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by drewcoo 1y ago
This. It was a retconning of history by "enlightenment" scholars.
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by drewcoo 1y ago
I would object to regarding history as a narrative rather than a coherent body of evidence. Stories tend to misrepresent, manipulate, and outright lie. They encourage us to "fill in the gaps" with our own biases. In fact, "ju
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by drewcoo 1y ago
As an autistic person, I read this and shook my head (meaning "no way," not stimming!) and wonder at the ways allistic people think they handle things better by having specific rules about how to fake emotions with one another.

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