drweevil

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by drweevil 2y ago
Well, our tech moguls aren’t staying out of politics, so you can blame them.
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by drweevil 2y ago
"...as he continues his crusade against government bloat." Sure, if that's what you think he's doing. I say we make him return all the government subsidies that helped him become obscenely rich.
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by drweevil 2y ago
The magic word gambit works great when the opposition party cowers in abject surrender. Note that Omnipotent Trump is operating in the same system that Democrats claimed made them powerless. Going back to a farcical incident early-on in the
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by drweevil 2y ago
>"Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash." What truly contemptible stuff. These people are not fit for pu
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by drweevil 2y ago
sugar buns
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by drweevil 2y ago
So, according to those whose job is to oversee the intelligence agencies, the problem of illegal surveillance of Americans is that it was uncovered by Snowden, not that there was anything illegal going on right under their noses. I'm p
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by drweevil 2y ago
What are the conditions that must hold for "revealed preference" to be a relevant measurement? In an economy dominated by cartels it would not seem to convey much information relevant to preference, given lack of consumer choice.
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by drweevil 2y ago
This is spot-on. In addition to the obvious risks (privacy, security), these devices represent a tremendous opportunity cost. Think of how that life-crushed-into-an-iPad commercial resonated in all the unintended ways.
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by drweevil 2y ago
The politicians didn't build this. The cartel owners did, so they are absolutely blame worthy. But politicians sit back and do nothing about it, due to regulatory capture.
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by drweevil 2y ago
Safer from what? Historically the deadliest threat to Europeans have been the "authorities", accounting for tens of millions of deaths in the 20th century, via wars, repression, persecution of minorities, etc. Not a good track rec
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by drweevil 2y ago
"Durnovo wrote a truly remarkable ~7,600-word memorandum for Tsar Nicholas II and his top 2 or 3 ministers" Had Tsar Nicholas survived he might have been credited with inventing a new term: "Pyotr, where is tl;dr??"
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by drweevil 2y ago
Go goes at least part-way there. https://golangbyexample.com/go-mod-tidy/ https://matthewsetter.com/go-mod-tidy-quick-intro/ You write your module source. You then run go mod tidy . This reads yo
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by drweevil 2y ago
Remember "There is an app for that!"? The "that" part is inevitably political. Who the economy serves is political. You can't "move fast and break things" without causing social strife, and that is, inevit
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by drweevil 2y ago
"Dwight was right and Joe is too. But — and this goes for both of them — what a thing to say right before relinquishing the ability to do anything about it." This begs the question: Why don't they do anything about it, though
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by drweevil 2y ago
Wow. Who was the boss? This is contemptible stuff.
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by drweevil 2y ago
My idea of home cooked software is certainly not "waterfall-y" at all. Rather, it is building from the ground up, aiming at a fairly well defined end goal. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution here. Not everyone is wo
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by drweevil 2y ago
You could do worse than Paul Graham's On Lisp. If Lisp is not your thing, try the Pragmatic Programmer (David Thomas and Andrew Hunt)
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by drweevil 2y ago
The YouTube UI has got to be the pushiest, most bizarre UI I've yet encountered. It appears to be purposely designed to trick you into more "engagement".
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by drweevil 2y ago
>"The federal government has wisely refrained from dictating the design, marketing and sale of mainstream computers and software — key drivers of innovation and economic growth." The tech titans have made it crystal clear that
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by drweevil 2y ago
I absolutely despise this trend. I don't want a "smart" TV, and I don't want a new car. They are objectively awful products. I am not your revenue stream.
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by drweevil 2y ago
So, opposing the importation of cheap labor that exploits the laborer is a "war on talent." Got it. Now, I get where MAGA stands on any immigrants, particularly non-white immigrants. But to frame opposition to the tech world'
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by drweevil 2y ago
Now you mention it, I hate hate hate scroll inertia.
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by drweevil 2y ago
There currently a trend in business of cutting costs by eliminating human based customer service. Executives believe that web portals and AI can be adequate replacements. They are not, which leads us into this greed-caused "digital hel
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by drweevil 2y ago
>"The patient believed that the vaccine caused her breast growth; however, her concerns were not adequately addressed by her primary care physicians, leading to mistrust in the healthcare system. [...] Physicians should consider and
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by drweevil 2y ago
TBF, those are 2 EU languages.
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by drweevil 2y ago
That ship has sailed.
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by drweevil 2y ago
Leave it to Wonkette to miss the point. This is about money. These guys just don't want to pay for the talent they claim they need.
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by drweevil 2y ago
Musk, the richest man alive, is like a super-massive black hole. Kind of hard to move on. Many innocent people will be sucked into the vortex he creates whether they 'move on' or not.
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by drweevil 2y ago
Brøderbund. Now there’s a name I haven’t seen in decades. Thanks for the blast from the past!
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by drweevil 2y ago
Seems like false billing.

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