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by fargle 2y ago
well written and interesting. although i really do love the technical deep dives. i am fond of using the cargo-cult analogy, and invariably many people have not heard of it so the story is told and retold. i'm fairly happy that my usua
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by fargle 2y ago
that is all true. but admins need to be aware of the reasons other groups desire to go around them. obviously they needed some patches on their database product. OK, what's the easiest way to get it? option 1: call the IT admin and say
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by fargle 2y ago
yes. most very large corps. that like to keep patent portfolios will encourage engineers to patent (assigned to the co. of course) anything slightly creative or unusual. or sometimes anything at all that sounds slightly technical. the engin
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by fargle 2y ago
they only needed a backdoor root because you're a gatekeeping dick and they wanted to get their job done without having to "deal" with your shit. OMG. they applied unapproved patches! to the product they were responsible fo
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by fargle 2y ago
that's pretty low effort, so not really. but cool. win-win.
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by fargle 2y ago
> Also no matter how complicated and subtle you think your [thing] is, true experts will tell you it's wrong and you instead copy their apparently over-engineered, hard to understand [thing] not unique at all to makefiles, probabl
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by fargle 2y ago
can't upvote this enough. the only (minor) issue i see is the checkout -b shortcut feature is unnecessary and could be confusing if learned before a canonical approach that emphasizes that those are two things - checking something out
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by fargle 2y ago
i've seen that exact image posted semi-regularly on various reddit and facebook groups. (it's one of 500 things i hate about those sites. but for some communities that's where the information lives, that's where marketpl
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by fargle 2y ago
i think you got the wrong eponymous law, pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy (which i see happening all the time, btw.) has nothing to do with this issue.
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by fargle 2y ago
i'll bite. care to expand? is this a riff on copy-pasta or spaghetti code or what?
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by fargle 2y ago
calling this "Makefile" effect is a terrible disservice. one could as easily call it "PHP" effect, "YAML" effect, etc. pick whichever language you'd personally like to denigrate. there is nothing that make
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by fargle 2y ago
when i was much younger, i had bought my first car which was well over 20 years old. a gigantic boat of an early 1970's ford. pretty much the family truckster. it had the four round headlights. outer two are low/high beams and inn
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by fargle 2y ago
i'm a rabbit-holer. follow the chain of interesting links from one article to the next over and over to see where i get to with hardly any backtracking. after about 5-6 links it's pretty random. after about 20 who knows where you&
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by fargle 2y ago
low information article, perhaps one or two sentences that address that "why", a poorly framed milquetoast word salad basically ascribing it to risk posture. it's not risk posture, and it's not muskly engineering genius
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by fargle 2y ago
exactly. if too much money was a problem, there's a trivial solution. so i'm guessing the problem isn't really that bad, eh?
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by fargle 2y ago
"When he couldn’t put his double major in English and history to use" "I’m sick of partying. I did that already." whether or not you are right about the impact of policy choices, you still can't ignore personal resp
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by fargle 2y ago
i think you miss my point. trump is obviously further right than either biden, kamala. whatever the relative left-ness of those choices where, it was obviously so much so too far left for about 2million+ people who, to be gracious, decided
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by fargle 2y ago
> You're asking for a lot of evidence on what's overall the opinions of an entire country we literally just had a referendum on that. moving further left from 2016-2020-2024 lost voters. how pissed off do people have to be to h
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by fargle 2y ago
the center. you know, the existence of which just changed the course of the latest election...
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by fargle 2y ago
> The centrist Dems always blame those further left, not themselves. They did it in 2016 and this year too. well, unless there is an big untapped electorate even further left, that would make a lot of sense actually, wouldn't it?
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by fargle 2y ago
agree mostly, although i'd quibble at saying: "So it is not really that they cannot code". i'd certainly say that being able to open an editor and pound out a functioning 20 line program from scratch is a requisite skill
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by fargle 2y ago
f-18 is built by boeing for the last 30 years
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by fargle 2y ago
no agenda? no outcome? i'm not going!
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by fargle 2y ago
the very last paragraph contains a quote: > At most, he would have been stopped, detained, presumably given a summons of some sort, they would have taken the bike and it would have been over. That was it. Was that worth killing over? i
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by fargle 2y ago
an Enum of Arrays would be an enum where each enumerator was a product of each possible enumerator. there would be N^M enumerators where N is the length of the array and M is the number of enumerators. for example, if the original type was
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by fargle 2y ago
100% certain that Kim Jung Un, and to a large extent Iran, don't understand, care about, respect, or have any interest in "Nash equilibrium" or game theory. nor are they worried about their countrymen, their own survival (the
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by fargle 2y ago
submodules may or may not be annoying to use in a particular use case, but they work perfectly (in that they do what they do, not necessarily what you want/expect) from your comment, it sounds like you might not have the exact mental
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by fargle 2y ago
https://archive.is/EOYoW
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by fargle 2y ago
what i said was "a superset of IP with a different packet format and wider fields" well, yes obviously you need more bits. what you don't need is all the other changes. > I really hope you stop respond in to people with
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by fargle 2y ago
> address space extension in a way that doesn't break backwards compatibility. i didn't say it wouldn't break backward compatibility - you're moving the goal posts. what i said was "a superset of IP with a diffe

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