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by fatbird 6y ago
The problem is that it's not just learning Perl, it's learning Perl and the monolithic app (or forest of microservices) at the same time; and if that one smart dev doesn't want to keep doing it, you keep repeating that learni
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by fatbird 6y ago
Alarmism over cancel culture is weird because cancel culture, which has always existed in one form or another, from one side or another, is what creates something to transgress against. The great, transgressive works of yesterday are so ju
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by fatbird 6y ago
While simultaneously telling them that the abuse is justified because it produces superior beings such as themselves.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Why should I care about your input on the quality of the solution? Do you have a personal or professional stake in it?
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by fatbird 6y ago
Good.
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You're prioritizing inclusivity of beliefs over inclusivity of speakers.
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by fatbird 6y ago
I'm not naming them because I'm not addressing any specific ideas, I'm saying something about the mechanism of amplification and why there's a moral case for cancelling some people. It works in all directions. It'
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by fatbird 6y ago
Kunin opposes blacklisting that resulted from others voting with their feet . He heaps scorn on the editors of the magazine, who have, I think, the best defense of their actions, namely that it was him or them, and they chose them so th
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by fatbird 6y ago
The others aren't burning them down, the others are making clear that they have conditions on participating, and if they're met, they're happy to do so. Triaging your project to get it done by excluding the one person who ma
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by fatbird 6y ago
By including Kunin, they lost enough other contributors that their project was threatened. As a voluntary effort by grad students, they don't have the time or money to make a spirited defense of Kunin. He's had to take up his mar
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by fatbird 6y ago
There's a saying that "possession is 9/10ths of the law", which means that, in property disputes, courts tend to uphold the status quo. Taking something away from someone by a ruling is seen as much harder to justify th
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by fatbird 6y ago
Having had those things done to them, "the woke movement" isn't fooled by the argument "if you don't do these things to us, we won't do them to you."
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by fatbird 6y ago
One of the reasons RROO survives is that it's a practical means to manage conflict within meetings, and, in theory, resolve issues with process. "Brainstorming", as he describes it, is a co-operative activity (I think so are
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by fatbird 6y ago
I understand the idea that a diverse selection of exclusive communities leads to isolationism and echo-chambers. I just don't know how to judge if it's true or not. As others observe, those exclusive communities were the precurso
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is an interesting point: that a commitment to practical free speech for everyone, everywhere, will tend towards consolidation of platforms and natural monopolies. Cancellation, deplatforming, etc. might actually drive platform diversi
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by fatbird 6y ago
He also took up watercolour and did a lot of studies and plein air painting that shows an incredible spontaneity and energy that's very different than his oils, while still retaining his basically perfect draughtsmanship.
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by fatbird 6y ago
No entity with as much funding as Parler had is a beginner. If the actual principals are beginners, they have the wherewithal to hire seasoned experts and listen to them . Either they didn't hire them, or they didn't listen to t
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by fatbird 6y ago
This seems like a ripe topic for an academic/open source wiki approach to 3D modeling and representation. Imagine if some group, or academic consortium, got funding to build an MMO world and to make available to academics the tools to
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by fatbird 6y ago
A lot of successful artists are very conscious of perservation and archival concerns. It's not just that basic professional level art materials are very deliberately marketed as archival quality: it's a fashion these days to pain
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by fatbird 6y ago
And let's not forget that 1/3rd of the way through, when you're demonstrating an impressive amount of progress with a working prototype, some decision maker will say "you know, we could really make this a two-for-one if
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by fatbird 6y ago
Rennaissance paintings of the Virgin Mary, for which ultramarine blue was the traditional expensive pigment, are as vivid today as when they were painted five centuries ago. Mineral pigments like ultramarine (i.e., finely ground lapis lazu
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is a large part of the truth. Crank out a booking website? Give me a couple weeks. Deal with your byzantine organization, your incoherent standards, your security department coming out of the woodwork with list of requirements, your
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by fatbird 6y ago
Based on the facebook video, it's not as strongly tinting as either ultramarine or cobalt blue, and it's close enough to cobalt blue in hue that I don't see what the point is unless it's less expensive than what is tra
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by fatbird 6y ago
But they're not being backed into a corner. They're factually wrong about almost everything that motivated the riots on Jan. 6th. They're self-insulating in a media bubble designed to cater to them. When engaged in dialogu
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by fatbird 6y ago
Say it is a barrier to innovation. Is that a problem? Is the innovation that would occur, absent moderation, so valuable that we should allow the facilitation of anti-democratic coups in order to preserve it? As engineers, we should under
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by fatbird 6y ago
When you make it harder, or at least less convenient, for that someone, somewhere, to plot something, you're taking concrete steps to improve public safety and deter crime. Just because plots will occur is not a reason to avoid making
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by fatbird 6y ago
Freedom of speech basically always has two sides to it. If you would prevent Twitter from suspending Trump's account, then you're forcing Twitter to be a platform for the president; you're literally requiring it to broadcast
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by fatbird 6y ago
It's called The Benghazi Line: if they've collectively caused more deaths (5) than occurred during the Benghazi Incident (4), then they're a legit threat requiring action to disrupt and deplatform. With less snark: it's
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by fatbird 6y ago
Has there ever been a study done of the costs of retraining an X programmer as a Y programmer? Talent availability is a huge factor for any development project; but if the software program clearly showed that Ada was superior, one wonders
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by fatbird 6y ago
Per search, if you preface the site operator with - (e.g., -site:pinterest.com), it'll exclude that site. It doesn't help much because pinterest results pollute from multiple top level country domains.

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