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by flandish 4y ago
There is a philosophical idea that every “thing” needs an “other” to be afraid of so its existence, and actions, is justified. I think we have seen a lot of that in the last 30 years or so, for sure.
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by flandish 4y ago
First: I am a Christian. I can be a leftist and a Christian, (look up Dorothy Day) and my comment made no mention of faith. You brought that up and it says more about your worry or notions than anything else. Second - “fun” because it is.
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by flandish 4y ago
Adding to 2.: Reagan. My mother, born in 1961, adores him for some reason. I was born in 1979. Hell, my father has a room of trinkets to/about him. I’m a leftist. Reminding them he was an evil man and his wife was a wack-a-doo is.. f
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by flandish 4y ago
> people And that’s key - if people can’t have consistency, a system of government never can. Therefore all governments have a nonzero chance of “evil” and should be, at all levels, distrusted and where appropriate, dismantled.
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by flandish 4y ago
I reckon so. It could align nice with a mock fs, I suppose. But if differences in fs or architecture are crucial - the real proof is in the integration.
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by flandish 4y ago
…yes. Because different energy, documentation, and sometimes entire groups of people are on different phases. It’s not always a single 100x-elite-monster-drinking coder cranking out monoliths in a silo. I have a hard enough time with proje
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by flandish 4y ago
Isn’t testing the physical generation of a pdf more aligned with “integration” test not unit testing? Testing the api that makes the pdf is ok, but testing like this post suggests, with bitwise comparison is integration testing, no?
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by flandish 4y ago
I prefer to phase it in two ways: - before implementation, it’s a “milestone project management decided to ignore.” - after implementation, it’s a “project management decision to implement in the next phase.”
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by flandish 4y ago
Or so those who voted pro union can be later fired.
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by flandish 4y ago
Completely agree. In my opinion a solid start is worker-owned co-ops.
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by flandish 4y ago
“Manufacturing Consent” works in ways other than a nation state’s desire for war. People are very much easy to mold. Thanks to the internet it’s even easier.
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by flandish 4y ago
That’s not what I spoke of. I stated “if it’s free.” Don’t mix up direction and order of operations here. MS “giving” is an investment. GPT being free to use (us) is also a form of investment. Look at healthcare. Govs (taxpayers) funded re
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by flandish 4y ago
The “direction” of that efficiency is always toward profit and against the very laboring class that makes the product the owners use for profit. With a collective, co-op, employee owned, or government run industry - one can edict the variou
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by flandish 4y ago
Because of the class difference between working/labor and capital owning classes. One has a hedge against bad decisions based on the backs and labor of the other.
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by flandish 4y ago
I don’t disagree - the usual cohort here is people looking for that extra “capitalist help” with the whole “bootstraps” marketing angle popular these days. And you’re right: doesn’t make it less true. I suppose in the gpt space it may be “i
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by flandish 4y ago
In the 80/90’s “phreaking”/“hacking” days we’d call this “shoulder surfing” when snagging someone’s vm/pbx code, etc.
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by flandish 4y ago
Well yeah. If it’s free, you’re the product. Socialize the research and the risk, privatize the profit and future.
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by flandish 4y ago
Ohh I did read Cryptomomicon too. Forgot that one. I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!
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by flandish 4y ago
Is that a good read? I liked Quicksilver.
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by flandish 4y ago
This is how I take to learning new programming languages. Project Euler. ( https://projecteuler.net/ ) Bite sized “specs” calling for an answer to be solved in your new language. Each getting harder and dealing with importa
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by flandish 4y ago
All employees should be able, and applauded for doing so, to explain how they’ve not only met goals of a time, but been nimble enough to pivot to management whims. Your relationship with employees is through salary, that’s it. Not the c
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by flandish 4y ago
It felt like I as having to explain things to someone who was being thick for the simple purpose of being thick. Corporations have purchased our government and therefore the government is, in my opinion, not in charge. Sure they enact vi
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by flandish 4y ago
Are you saying that a captured government is still in charge? That’s … not how capture works.
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by flandish 4y ago
If you can’t see how big this problem actually is - start by reading “The Jungle” and realizing nothing has changed for the better for us workers, in a very long time. Blessings not from corporate kindness, by the way. The only thing a corp
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by flandish 4y ago
…yes? Because with larger fines comes larger court cases - and larger numbers of support staff. Corporations have lobbied and purchased their way into these freedoms at the cost of our wallets and futures. Don’t play thick. I too wish th
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by flandish 4y ago
An Op-Ed in the nytimes is no different than a blog on geocities. Not. Real. Fact.
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by flandish 4y ago
“They did agile wrong” always, when I hear it, makes me chuckle as if someone said “russia did communism wrong, it wasn’t the real …” Agile is middle / project managers doing cultish makework for themselves, to codependent-ly distract
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by flandish 4y ago
It’s only ever to prep for sales of a new version; this is all marketing. The story is good no matter the characters and those who want the original, cool. Those who want the new version, cool as well. But the articles and “opinions” we ke
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by flandish 4y ago
FYI you do not always inherit debt. It gets paid from your estate, IF they file for it. Source: lost my wife to cancer at 41. She was 41. I was 32. I paid zero of that debt when she died. Just ignored it. It was all in her name. I might
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by flandish 4y ago
Screwed in what way though? Someone posting as you? When it matters (job app?) just use the fact that the acct is not verified to show its not you. Social media should be considered one giant deepfake.

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