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by fatbird 4y ago
For those who didn't catch the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
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by fatbird 4y ago
Counterpoint: the flight of smart people to less regulated, entrepeneurial segments of the economy has drained intelligence and conscientiousness out of the more staid sectors of society, leaving them to the petty, the vicious, the stupid.
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by fatbird 4y ago
I want to lock MOC and Mencius Moldbug in a room together with access to only one blog.
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by fatbird 4y ago
This captures a lot of what makes me tired of Stephenson now. Elon Musk is his Gandalf.
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by fatbird 4y ago
Just to be clear: Elizabeth is (to us) Queen of Canada, and other (lesser) possessions where she also holds titles :) Since the patriation of our constitution in 1982, the PM’s office has been the central power officially, deriving the offi
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by fatbird 4y ago
At my workplace, one of our common sayings is “when you’re doing badly, users complain about bugs; when you’re doing well, they’re complaining about missing features.” From 1998 to 2004 I worked as the IT manager at a plastics manufacturer
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by fatbird 4y ago
The simplest solution is some quarter inch plywood (art stores have these as panels in various sizes like 9x12" or 6x8") and some clamps. For overall pressure, add some heavy books on top. For sawing, if the overall assembly of
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by fatbird 4y ago
It's called "sawn-in cords", as in using a saw to make a channel to hold the cords. It was a very common technique in the 18th and 19th centuries in fine binding that allowed for faster sewing of the text block; the cords wo
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by fatbird 4y ago
Proper double fan gluing means shuffling the papers together to get a nice edge, standing them on edge so the spine is upward and somehow clamping or bracing it (ideally, it's between two boards in a laying press, but there's a lo
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by fatbird 4y ago
As someone who just completed my third and fourth courses in fine leather binding, I can say with authority that this is a very quick and sensible method of making a durable binding for this level of value. As Falcolas noted, this is partw
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by fatbird 4y ago
In Canada (well, Vancouver), big box deliveries are handled by scheduling a day and being given a four hour window on that day when the delivery might be made. The actual time is frequently within that window, but often enough not that the
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by fatbird 4y ago
“Always Active Security”
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by fatbird 4y ago
I am 100% behind Amazon employees unionizing, and I wish unionization was far more widespread. I wasn’t trying to impugn unions using the legitimate process to achieve legitimate ends.
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by fatbird 4y ago
If ALU gets over 50% of employees to sign the card, they can bypass a vote and declare themselves the union and petition for recognition of such to the NLRB (which will grant it unless Amazon can demonstrate malfeasance somehow). It’s a co
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by fatbird 4y ago
Considering what Thiago accomplished by forking Neovim, you can’t describe him as an inexperienced developer. By all accounts the cleanup alone was was a huge and very successful effort—-from 300k LOC to 170,000, huge jump in test covereag
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by fatbird 4y ago
DoorDash. Uber Eats in Vancouver is hot garbage, and my wife and i have switched from Skip to DD because Skip’s quality has plumetted. DD has really captured reliable service in Vancouver.
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by fatbird 4y ago
The problem, as perceived by the neovim creators, was that vim wasn't moving at all. It wouldn't have taken a bit longer; after their experience, they felt like async just wasn't on Bram's radar, and the maintenance mod
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by fatbird 4y ago
async and embedded terminal were the original features neovim was created to realize; later, lua as the first class plugin language came in. Underlying it all, though, was that vim has a bus factor of 1: Bram. Bram is the sole chokepoint t
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by fatbird 4y ago
indicates a willingness and potentially eagerness to medicate, as opposed to attempting to correct issues. Ie just give the drugs, don’t try to figure out why they’re depressed. This is speculating on the motivations of a wide class of pe
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by fatbird 4y ago
Kids aren't allowed to play real world slot machines either, are they?
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by fatbird 4y ago
Seconding this. I work as a contractor at a Fortune 100, and have been there long enough, and am now highly enough ranked, that I see most of the decision pipeline from the C suite down to the intern I'm helping. The a-rationality of
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by fatbird 4y ago
I agree in general, but this: the public wants constant innovation Seems less true to me than "VCs, entrepeneurs, middle management and MBAs want constant innovation", which is to say "capitalists want constant innovation&q
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by fatbird 4y ago
Or a linux VM in Azure that's required by company policy to have Microsoft Defender running on it. Disk exhaustion, file handle exhaustion, memory exhaustion, you name it, mdatp has use it to hang your single purpose VM.
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by fatbird 4y ago
A common sentiment when viewing something like this is "wow, they were far more sophisticated then we imagined," but it's taken me a while to think instead "we're not much more sophisticated than them. The Clickspri
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by fatbird 4y ago
Politics is about winning and crushing your enemies and their aspirations in favor of your own desires. This is a childish sort of cynicism that's really about nursing your feeling of grievance with promises of justified retribution
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by fatbird 4y ago
The scifi convention scene used to feature Marian Zimmer Bradley cruising for teenage boys, as a procurer for her husband Walter Breen, a convicted pedophile and member of NAMBLA. I'm not sure we want to pine for the return of those d
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by fatbird 4y ago
The various "racefail" episodes over the last decade in science fiction, for one. They were definitely as acrimonious and sprawling as the knitting blowup, but after several of them, they've settled down, no one's been
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by fatbird 4y ago
Agreed, but these are communities of interest, without governance of any kind. There's no one to police bad behaviour, to refocus on constructive efforts, to maintain an agenda or to call timeouts when it gets overheated. Given that,
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by fatbird 4y ago
I frequently see articles like this discussing these community explosions as self-evidently harmful patterns of behaviour. I've never seen an article like this as a discussion of a certain amount of necessary pain, confusion, and diff
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by fatbird 4y ago
The test wasn't to determine your performance as an engineer, it was to see if you demonstrated bad behaviour working in a group under pressure. You could be a great engineer and I'd still pass you up if, in this test, you were r

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