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Nation's Programmers Admit They're Just Good at Googling Things(babylonbee.com)
10 points by eplanit 6y ago|8 comments
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by eplanit 6y ago
Same as the "now you should wear 2 masks" bullshit, right? Tell them to wear 2 because that means they'll at least wear 1, right? These "white lies" are why I'm done with it.
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by eplanit 6y ago
So we can add scientific American to the pile of things that used to do journalism.
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by eplanit 6y ago
It's true. When I worked at IBM long ago, the guys (Systems Engineers) who worked with the mainframes (on the "raised floor") told me that they wore only clip-on ties, so that if it did get caught it would just detach.
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by eplanit 6y ago
The drivers are necessary only until driverless vans are here (relatively soon). Drivers, being near the head of the line of people to be displaced, have little bargaining power.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Because it's Amazon it feeds the "Amazon mistreats its workers" narrative.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Google, Facebook, and Twitter see themselves as nation-states now, it's becoming clear. It's time to knock these guys down a few notches. China doesn't have fickle, smug, spoiled, naive zealots working on their offensive and
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by eplanit 6y ago
Abnormal psychology, including serial or mass killers, is fascinating. One can learn some things about how people work by studying these outliers.
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by eplanit 6y ago
The Zodiac puzzle was not involved in the shooting this week. It's ok to solve the puzzle.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Californiafication is far, far worse than any kind of gentrification. I feel sorry for my beloved home state of Texas.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Yes, it's absurd. I can say nasty things about you because of my Identity, which also shields me from anything you say in response/defense.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Not dystopian sounding at all: Please do not name this individual, at all. Doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins. Please do not ask further questions about this, as doing so may result in your account bei
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by eplanit 6y ago
Or "swamp gas", per MIB.
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Free Software Awards Winners Announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, Alyssa Rosenzweig(fsf.org)
2 points by eplanit 6y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 6y ago
The web interface to Amazon Prime videos is basically unusable because of the many hover behaviors they've added.
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SpaceX Starlink Beta Users Report High-Speed Internet of 400Mbps(tesmanian.com)
3 points by eplanit 6y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 6y ago
There should be a Catfishing award created and given to this guy. His motives were really very innocent, which adds to the beauty of the ruse.
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by eplanit 6y ago
But, this argument rationales mob rule over reason. The name change is defensible to avoid "various forms of backlash from various people". "Some of them will complain" -- a majority? Then yes, it makes sense to listen
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by eplanit 6y ago
I appreciate learning your perspective. Frankly, though, the argument you make for accepting and embracing such things to me reinforces the notion that the BLM movement feels like forced cultural revolution. Though you are not coming acro
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by eplanit 6y ago
What is equity for all? Everyone getting the exact same outcome? Equality of opportunity makes sense, though.
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California 1935, Wilshire Blvd in color [60fps, Remastered](youtube.com)
1 points by eplanit 6y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 6y ago
Google search over the past 5+ years: result quality getting worse overall; relevant results pushed further and further below ads/sponsored (now on page 2); privacy issues wider and deeper. I recall being amazed at the seeming clairvoy
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by eplanit 6y ago
That's what I say about most all commercial or "mainstream" sites.
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by eplanit 6y ago
I really like a.slow.cab
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by eplanit 6y ago
When I'm very busy or focused, and then a friend calls, I don't want to sound short and perturbed, and I don't want to answer just to plead "I'm too busy right now". This is what voicemail is for, and so long
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by eplanit 6y ago
Near the end of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" the Alec Lemus character says this exactly. It's a theme Le Carre makes clear.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Thank you for noting this, as I have found NPR to now be unbearable. I listened to it for over 30 years, and for the longest time it was one of my main sources. Now, like you say, they're like self-parody -- but not funny. Clearly, t
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by eplanit 6y ago
Which is censorship. The thesis of the article asserts it is ineffective, and counter-productive to the parent comment's point.
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by eplanit 6y ago
It's the same everywhere, I guess. I lived in Sausalito for 14 years, and can attest that that is exactly what a "tourist town" is/becomes, by design.
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by eplanit 6y ago
Very interesting. The parallels with FB (et al.) and tobacco company history is remarkable.

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