drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
I did not expect that. I expected this to be about promises and sales and contracts. So it actually made me laugh.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> What Graeber fails to recognise is that the view of the state he advances also has something in common with that of neoliberals, who, like him, see state power as the root of all social ills. No, actually. Neoliberals think that privat
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> This is a sad outcome. The Bond franchise is very strong Even back in the Broccoli years, Bond was garbage. The movie bond was a government assassin who we all pretended wasn't. Because sex. Ridiculous! To Americans he also seemed
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Similar to "real work," a "real job" is a definitional problem that attacks people's senses of self.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
No, but if "productivie" becomes one of the variable names eventually used in legacy work . . . full engineer achieved!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think I understand your friend. I have a century+ old house and want a candlestick phone in my foyer for the effect. Asterisk is super fun. I've been looking into what it would take to candlestick (NLP->) <-> Asterisk <-&
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It wasn't just POTS but also the kind of switches you went through for a given call. POTS over the right lines could be amazing.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Transferring from one network to another happened back in the last millennium with landlines, too I'm from Iowa, a state where that made lots of money, globally, for decades.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I would just like to say that "advanced JIRA skills" exist. But if you need them, the business is likely f'ed and you should leave. Rapidly.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There were American supporters, too, officially until war was declared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I understand something similar happened with oligarchs supporting FDR.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of policing. Maintainers seem more like HOA boards than police.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
In the 30s, Communists were the big boogeyman in Germany. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie... Italians called themselves fascist. Germans would not have identified as such. Fascism
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Training.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
And boring tools make holes, not conversation.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
To do: - find someone to collect my garbage and recycling - find someone to fix my utilities when broken - find someone to put out fires - real ones - make sure there are enough people in those roles - find ways to make those things seem &q
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> plainly obvious to middle school students What are those? ELI13.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Today, a tariff is quite literally the same thing as taxing Americans Assuming Americans cannot change their spending habits. I'd rather assume that most Americans are smart enough to make choices to their advantage, though. Why d
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Sounds like you've never been an expert, harassed by neophytes. For them it's eternal September. How would you handle that?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
People generally prefer simple messages. Presenting a richly detailed nuanced argument is a recipe for failure. The biggest problem with that is that simple messages are all lies. Luckily most people would rather embrace a simple but catchy
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The more polite term is "sealioning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Longshoremen (those "essential workers" who were praised but not paid any better) are in a long negotia-battle against automating some of their jobs away at the moment. They're unionized, so it's the "juniors"
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The present is robbing the future. Old story.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> don't know what the proper word is for describing those examples in the narrowest way possible, but I use the term politicization of science. I think I prefer the term "public health policy," which, because it is policy
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Like the Crypto Wars but in reverse? Where can I get the t-shirt?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
It's Jack Welch's rank and yank but this time with LLMs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve I wonder if there are future plans to rank and yank LLMs, too. Or whether LLMs will exhibit "morale p
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Engineering is creative. It's all about applying science to solve problems. And engineers love solving novel problems. Software often seems more like cooking than engineering, where most of the staff of a kitchen is focused more on mas
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Burma Shave
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> is this like "I want to be in a band" of a previous generation? People started blogs for that? I thought that was more the realm of supermarket bulletin boards next to the firewood flyer. Maybe I'm just from a previous
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by drewcoo 2y ago
shouldn't "The Gulf of America" extend from at least Long Island Sound down to somewhere in Argentina? Both contents have catcher's stances toward the east. Toward the Europe.

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