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by fargle 5y ago
I see two issues with this. First, there may be other reasons for a reproducible build than simply "trust". This paper only focuses on that one use case. For example, the ability to exactly reproduce a bug much later and then patc
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by fargle 5y ago
"it takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to achieve mastery of complex skills" - Malcolm Gladwell That's 5 years of full time. I estimate that it often takes 6-12 months for a new hire just to even become positive in term
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by fargle 5y ago
the war was mostly over, but Germany didn't surrender until May 8th. Last bombs fell mid-April. I don't think it was at all sadistic. Both of these cases show the impossibility of humanity decency when confronted with such extre
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by fargle 5y ago
You read this and, unless you have no trace of humanity left, will be left sympathetic to the civilians and children of Japan. But you must remember that another group of Japanese were busy raping, and bayoneting babies, and killing and tor
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by fargle 5y ago
Every decade or so I remove the obsolete technologies from contact information, for example UUCP, and add anything new such as email. Every couple cycles there may be a address change or promotion, and maybe a couple new technological profi
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by fargle 5y ago
Do you think that people that have given their DNA for a rape-kit or some other reason would think twice about later committing a property crime, knowing that info was put into a database that could be used against them indefinitely? The po
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by fargle 5y ago
HEY LOOKIT, THIS HERE'S A SUMMARY: angry man yelling at clouds gets downvoted. You mean a topic sentence or an introduction? You mean Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) format? Or do you mean that millennial minds are simply too advanced to b
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by fargle 5y ago
sigh... I thought things like "customer engagement expert", "associate", or "experience consultant", etc. were bad enough.
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by fargle 5y ago
As potentially upsetting this all may be, Isn't the truth, the truth? I mean, did she do the property crime or not? If she did why do we have a problem with the way we got to the truth? In this world, or the world of the last 10,000 ye
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by fargle 5y ago
Our home is mostly-shoeless not because we thought about it or some cultural thing. We don't really care or even think about it. It's just because we live in nature, not a parking lot, and so our boots are naturally covered in at
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by fargle 5y ago
wait, what?
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by fargle 5y ago
> the gov or court was never a part of ATC union negotiation the gov was the other party > explicitly legal, defined, upheld in courts no it wasn't - not be a long shot. this was why it was declared illegal. ATC controllers are
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by fargle 5y ago
I think the thing that you misunderstand is that this was in no way a "private conflict". This was a public safety job in the employ of the FAA - a federal government job. In this role, unions are allowed but strikes are NOT and t
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by fargle 5y ago
good lord... NO, just no. Software engineering and computer science is HARD. It's one of the most difficult fields there is. Now all the points about being a good field for various reasons, that's quite true. It can and should be
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by fargle 5y ago
the solution to author's condundrum is twofold: "soldiers who are resistant to a military order fall into one of four categories recently described by Eric Hundman: grudging obedience, refinement, exiting service, and defiance.&qu
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by fargle 5y ago
alternate take: PATCO union overplays hand, then disobeys multiple court orders and ends up decertified by the NLRB as a union. And striking members banned-for-life! My opinion is their initial ask and even strike was pretty reasonable, but
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by fargle 5y ago
yes
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by fargle 5y ago
"More people have analyzed it than I have, but..." I parsed this more as" " Other people have analyzed it more than I have, but ..." or just "people have analyzed it more than I have, but ..." I think
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by fargle 5y ago
analogies are like shortcuts: a good one gets everyone there quicker, everybody is happy, and you might even been thought clever. But a bad one gets you nowhere, or back where you started if you are lucky, tired and grouchy for the waste of
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by fargle 5y ago
oh, there is a far easier, albeit lower tech, way...
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by fargle 5y ago
while machines and apps are also typically soul-less, only lawyers will ever be able to take this to the level of art they do.
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by fargle 5y ago
This story has been going around for a couple weeks. It's illustrative of some of the misunderstandings both the public and those of us in tech have. Free and Open Source software - of course you are allowed to break it, the insert mal
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by fargle 5y ago
> maybe they have family issues, maybe they're having physical or mental health problems then they should quit! stealing time, value, money from the company and its fellow employees isn't right. It's shitty behavior and
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by fargle 5y ago
The point is not necessarily to win - the point is to cause the other guy to expend resources. Plus the crap-shoot of a jury trial. I'm guessing that nobody is going to take this case on contingency, but 100% that there's a clever
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by fargle 5y ago
Find a new lawyer: a) you still can and should file suit for the $50. And ask for a Jury trial. Sure it will cost you $10K+, but it will cost that other "owner" at least that much or more to defend. It will NOT be pleasant for t
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by fargle 5y ago
while true that, unlike dogs, you cannot directly take the prize away with out retribution: these folks clearly do not own a squirt bottle. i would only have to pick it up from 50 feet away and all you'd see is a bunch of exclamation p
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by fargle 5y ago
> Seems like they added network and called it "UNIQUE" Yep, that was exactly my read on it. Problem #2 is google then. But one step at a time.
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by fargle 5y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en * why is this even a patent? Gah!... Stupidness we've had volume knobs that affected multiple speakers since approximately two seconds after the first radio th
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by fargle 5y ago
I have been poor enough to need to borrow money for food. I have been well off enough to have many years salary in the bank. Happiness is almost 100% independent of money. It's an almost Buddhist concept, but you cannot be happy compar
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by fargle 5y ago
> You have to have an awfully good reason to add 100k lines of code to a project yes. and this is very, very good reason. As another poster said, you at 0.35% lines to make it compile almost twice as fast? And you're not happy about

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