jameskilton

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by jameskilton 6mo ago
We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt. We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injured in the same blast that killed Khamenei), but it'
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by jameskilton 6mo ago
Are you expecting "mentally sound behavior" or "strategic coherence" from today's administration?
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by jameskilton 6mo ago
Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
Folks are getting dangerously attached to [political parties/candidates/news sources/social networks] that always tell them they're right. It's really nothing new. It takes significant mental energy (a finite resour
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
Something that a lot of tech people, especially in Silicon Valley, seem to want to forget, is that at every level you still have people making decisions. AI is suggesting but someone, somewhere, still has to make the decision to act on that
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
But ... but her emails!
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
That's the trick, it's always been about control. No-one in such positions actually cares about the children.
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
> only 6% of US defense contractors have fully transparent supply chains The Industrial-Military complex and the constant fight against Right-to-Repair is finally biting us in the ass. It remains to be seen if we will learn anything from
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg is no longer the kingmaker that he was during Facebook's peak, and he is desperately trying to create the next platform to be the one in power once again. It would be sad if it wasn't so unbelievably destructive to
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
This is a tale as old as humanity itself. Power-hungry people will always push lies to foster their version of events. This always causes pain and destruction.
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by jameskilton 7mo ago
In all seriousness, if I ever had access to a time machine, I would want to see what the world looks like now in the timeline that Al Gore became president. I fully suspect that September 11 is one of those events that, in Doctor Who parlan
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
"The Pentagon" has been the nomenclature for DoD / DoW for decades. Everyone knows what it means.
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or sto
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
Stripe has been doing annual tender offers. Their stance on not being public yet is that they don't need to be, as an IPO is mainly a way to raise money. As an ex-Stripe, I understand the sentiment, and the tender offers are a nice mid
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
Blizzard recently set up a World of Warcraft promotion with Pinterest where you could share your housing builds from in-game. Many people were insta-banned from Pinterest for "spam" after just posting one or two pictures. https:&
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
And you'd be happily working at IBM building "resource management" software and hardware for the Nazis because "what they do with this software is not your responsibility". It ain't so black-and-white, and peop
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
Thanks, you're probably right, this is what I was looking for but I guess my search-fu failed.
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
API documentation / types / signature is just one of the four types of documentation[1] that every service and library should ship. The other three are for telling people the things that code cannot tell you. The OP is arguing t
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by jameskilton 8mo ago
This is such an objectively bad take I don't even know how to respond.
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
No, they wouldn't, because they didn't care when this happened during Trump's first term, Trump said this would happen during his 2nd term, AND THEY STILL VOTED FOR HIM. This is what America voted for.
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
No, the Constitution is fine. We are failing to enforce the Constitution like we did in the past, and that is why America is falling apart.
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
The article misses the other reason that Walmart has invested in multiple attempts at electronic payments: not paying merchant fees to Visa and Mastercard. That's why their system requires you hooking up to your bank account directly.
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
I would have never guessed that Idiocracy was an optimistic look at our future...
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
This is the only statement that matters. We knew exactly who Trump is and exactly what he would do if voted in again. The "opposition" did nothing during Trump's first term, and now they are completely powerless do do
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
Trust is hard to earn, and easy to lose. Turns out the easiest way to destroy the greatest nation in the world is to fail to hold the rich and powerful to account. No-one should trust us anymore, and if Europe doesn't step up and do so
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by jameskilton 9mo ago
My daughter will not get a phone at all until she's at least 16 and probably finally actually needs one. As for the Switch and Nintendo Online, I didn't find it confusing or difficult at all to set up a child's account, make
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by jameskilton 10mo ago
Probably best to link to the repo itself, this is not meant to be used yet. https://github.com/rue-language/rue
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by jameskilton 10mo ago
This is the dumbest timeline.
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by jameskilton 10mo ago
But, but this is what they vote for. "Government is bad, we can do it ourselves!"
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by jameskilton 10mo ago
You've already thought about this more than anyone in the administration has. This is about keeping the non-whites out of America.

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