jdbernard

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by jdbernard 2y ago
I assume OP didn't mean that a single overarching ideology was driving all if these changes, but rather that each of them individually is ideologically driven (and therefore immune to questioning). They all seem to be directly counter
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Anecdotally I have had the opposite experience. My smaller bike with a v-twin engine and loud aftermarket exhausts is apparently much less noticeable than my larger sport-touring bike with quiet stock exhausts.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
That's why he is regretting the use of the MIT license. He wonders, now, if having chosen a less permissive license would have given him grounds to shut them down, because they would be in violation.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I don't think so. I think the core of Djikstra's thought is that mastery of your native tongue coincides with strong communication skill and ability to logically organize and present thoughts. You can articulate your thoughts and
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Personally, I think we should consider making legal IP protection opt-in. In other words, with a product like this you should provide a way to remove the protection to the Library of Congress, for example. If you fail to provide this, then
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by jdbernard 3y ago
IANAL, but in my opinion this isn't actually a freedom of speech issue, it's a corporate personhood issue. Tesla the company should not have constitutional freedom of speech protections for it's marketing communications.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
FYI, on the front page, https://nim-lang.org , in large type you have this: > Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
As other commenters have noted, this is a stretched across the front and back. It makes me think this illusion was not intended and is more an artifact of having a mirrored image so that the back is a reflection of the front. I don't s
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by jdbernard 3y ago
The way I read this passage, Jesus was speaking to the impossibility of the rich being saved. I don't see it as "if they became poorer they could diminish themselves to the point where it was possible," but rather "in th
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I believe that a key position of the early church's teaching is that an inward change of the heart is not genuine if it does not manifest in outward concrete action. That's how you reconcile, for example, Paul's statements on
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by jdbernard 3y ago
It matters because I think that this coercive aspect does has moral implications. It is a core moral position for me to be as minimally coercive as possible in all actions. Or put differently, I believe all people are equal in value and sho
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by jdbernard 3y ago
What I mean by positive action is, you are requiring me to actively do something. I agree that we all have preferences, and often we cannot satisfy everyone's preferences, particularly when they are at odds as you have pointed out. Fai
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by jdbernard 3y ago
> They are trying to get people to work with them who don't want to work with them. This is exactly the same thing as RTO does to WFH people. This is not at all the same. There is a clear difference, again, between the RTO position
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by jdbernard 3y ago
I'm sorry, but you are the one making the "standard mistake," logically. It's the incel argument. You're trying to say this is a two-way street, that the dynamics are the same in both directions. That's obvious
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by jdbernard 3y ago
There are lots of reasons why offices tend towards bad rather than good. If I sat and thought about it I could probably list a dozen systematic biases towards crappy office spaces. Here are just a few off the top of my head: - Open-plan off
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Why should the taxpayers bear this cost instead of the business who is choosing to terminate the person, especially in situations like those discussed where it has nothing to do with the performance of the individual?
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by jdbernard 3y ago
As a counter-point, I've almost never had a job interview depend on leetcode-type problems in my ~20 years.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Even at the archive link the styling hides most of the text. Firefox Reader mode make it visible.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
There is nuance because the behavior around physical spaces is well established by law and social norm. This is absolutely not true for the internet, as evidenced by this very debate. If you will indulge the hypothetical, and we step back f
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Here he is alluding to dark matter. So the light universe is our observable universe, the dark universe is the hypothetical universe made up of dark matter that we know has to exist, but so far have no means of observing or interacting with
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by jdbernard 3y ago
My wife's exposure to the daily habits of public schools in our area as part of her internships towards a degree in childhood education are a huge part of why we chose to homeschool. My experiences going through the public school syste
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by jdbernard 3y ago
SVN may have been more widely used, but it was on the way out by the time GitHub was launched. It was the incumbent, at least in communities at the forefront of change. GitHub and integration with Microsoft tools certainly accelerated it&#x
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Healthy depends very much on the relationship, as a sibling post pointed out. I'm not a fan of the "if you have nothing to hide" argument in the general case, but in this case of my wife we have nothing private between us. In
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by jdbernard 3y ago
Coming soon to a third world near you! Except the power imbalance is even greater, so it's likely to be even more restrictive.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
As much as we like to decry middle management in tech, this is the purpose, in my opinion, of good middle management. They should be the API between a self-organizing team and the broader organization. They're a glue layer that helps p
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by jdbernard 3y ago
The analogy doesn't hold. Not all copyrighted works are or will be culturally significant, but all have the potential to be culturally significant. We have no way of knowing ahead of time. It's regulating haystacks as if any indiv
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by jdbernard 3y ago
You know the situation better than any of us here so trust your own judgement. However, it's more than just preventing photos. It's about respecting boundaries. At some point your parents need to respect your authority in your chi
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by jdbernard 3y ago
The other other alternative is for Reddit to meaningfully engage with the issues that the mods have raised around API pricing.
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by jdbernard 3y ago
The comment I was originally responding to implied that communism was a solution to the dangers of state surveillance and potential retaliation against a whistleblower like Snowden. Specifically, that this wouldn't even be a concern un
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by jdbernard 3y ago
There is no real-world example of a communist country under that definition. It is purely hypothetical and never been successfully applied. We can speculate about literally anything. What's realistic?

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