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by flandish 4y ago
Both, in my opinion. From incipient need (rfc, etc) to use-cases, to design specifications, tolerance acceptances, expectation management, support, and finally sunset/archival. If the code is where the “why” is found, those who are the
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by flandish 4y ago
Agile is a philosophy and methodology, documentation is a component/facet of what eventually gets created by our work, no? I get what you mean now re: “important” though, I appreciate your reply!
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by flandish 4y ago
I slightly disagree on priority. IMHO documentation comes first and that includes design (data structure and algo) decisions as well as managed expectations. We all want to code. But the fact is - if we want to code correctly we need to
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by flandish 4y ago
Background: I am a software eng for pay and oil painter by hobby. Been painting about six years now. My advice? Just “do it.” If that means you nerd about oils and easels and tools.. cool! If that means you start out drawing a box (drawabo
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by flandish 4y ago
“Long term” is not a problem when one makes so much profit in so little time and controls so much market/labor share that they are a tacit monopoly. Bezos’s primary goal is Bezos. Amazon’s is “shareholders”. Meteoric rise in profit i
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by flandish 4y ago
Really common practice for a lot of artists - iirc, people like Vermeer to Michelangelo to some Impressionists did it as well.
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by flandish 4y ago
For sure, however… look at the direction of this logic. For fear of an economic change, one is willing to place more burden on the planet and its humans/occupants. Economic change largely means “less profit for corporations” and “more
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by flandish 4y ago
Reminds me of old shareware games too. A good practice. Glad the model works for you!
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No. But thats cool! I use meatspace oils. Mostly by utrecht or gamblin.
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It really reads like a marketing psyop to convince people to not ditch the cash cows that are social media doom scrolling sites.
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by flandish 4y ago
Oil paint. It’s SO very good for my mental health. But alas - I cannot afford to do it as much as I’d like. Nor have I sold a painting, to help the process. (Though that’s not my goal.)
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by flandish 4y ago
Some financial institutions will let people go for a solid two weeks for things like to prevent kiting or keeping other jobs alive that might be handling the various things in the background.
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by flandish 4y ago
I tend to keep things separate, too. Having little to no socials helps my mental health. If my hobby (oil painting) started to outpace my work (sw eng) - maybe I’d start a site, but thats about it. I have old retired / deleted accts
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by flandish 4y ago
Yeah. I think that’s the inspiration of the character, but the play, in my “new to Shakespeare” mind, is well done.
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by flandish 4y ago
Everyone should read “Timon of Athens” - some say Shakespeare’s worst, but it’s my favorite. Whenever I think about lending, or asking for a loan or help (I am terribly short on money and very sad about it) - I remember this story.
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by flandish 4y ago
“Perfectly fine” and “legal” are different conceptual things. It may be legal, and part of our current system, but I think it is deplorable how easy it is to skirt around paying taxes to support a society.
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by flandish 4y ago
Correct to question it. The reason is simple: Police units cosplay as military units. (going so far as to call themselves “paramilitary.”) Couple that desire to cosplay with a large funnel of tax dollars going to purchase military purpose
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by flandish 4y ago
So interesting that we (as humans in a system) can choose to fly snow in so we can keep making money even though Mother Nature is clearly telling is we’ve taken too much. Is there nothing the pursuit of profit won’t exploit?
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by flandish 4y ago
Which, I can argue, makes the statement much much worse.
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by flandish 4y ago
This is assuming we treat profit as immutable. Which is, I suppose, “rule one” in business, no? And in most cases - hey that’s fine. I disagree but it’s ok. One area where I will always push back is on services that are required for life.
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by flandish 4y ago
Anything from a corporation saying “fearful” (for your wallet) things like “may cost more to produce(costing you more)” or reduce efficiency (costing you more) etc… Is just reworded excuses as to the corporation’s choosing profit. For they
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by flandish 4y ago
I try to change “scenery” in a way that lets my mind wander. As a background, I am a software engineer, firefighter, have had tons of grief (in my emergency role, as well as personal life), moderately manage ADHD, and am prone to “thought s
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by flandish 4y ago
For sure - but any cohort that’s capable of escalation will escalate on a long enough timeline. Police are more and more “mini militaries” (I am sure there are cities with more $ in police than some nations have in military $) I think s
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by flandish 4y ago
Thank you for this reply. It’s scary to see how many are so ready to “defund police” by “funding corporate ability to murder” (my quotes re sentiment) - which is what happened with Pinkertons, etc. If those homeless camps have drug problems
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by flandish 4y ago
These have been around for decades. Additionally, a lot of “braking” with these bigger trucks is “engine braking” like jake brakes, compression release, exhaust release, etc. Can slow a lot by “simply” letting the jake engage. We use them o
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by flandish 4y ago
> instead of novels You maybe. Parable and story has been used in humanity’s entire history because humans listen and grok better that way. Story is just .. human. It touches hearts in a way scientific report won’t.
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by flandish 4y ago
Same here. I tend to use my Mac as a consistently “crisp” way of getting to a shell prompt. I use iterm2, while I’m in love with alacritty, etc … (and rust) - I just haven’t switched. Combined with a pretty consistent decades old dotfile
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by flandish 4y ago
Here is where we should take note of how things were resolved (or are in the process of) and note where “throw more money at it” (fly inefficient routes, farm out fares, etc) would have also helped. Then next earnings release - when they po
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by flandish 4y ago
Funny. Tried logging in last night. Pw was forgotten. Tried forgot pw link.. put in email. No acct with that mail. Odd. Tried signing up… “email already in use..” …umm.
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by flandish 4y ago
Welp, it’s a bit of an odd combination. I started in sw when I was 18. I am 43 now. I started in fire at 25. So been fire almost 20 years now. Mostly truck work. My city is small but still a “city” at abt 15000 people. We are volly but

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