joquarky

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by joquarky 8mo ago
Civilized societies don't shut down the paths for people to air their grievances.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
How does that work when you're over 50?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> It's clear that doing it by hand would mostly be because you enjoy the process. This will not happen until companies decide to care about quality again. They don't want employees spending time on anything "extra" u
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by joquarky 8mo ago
That is in no way guaranteed. Sometimes finding too many security issues makes you unpopular. Two years afterward, we got hit with ransomware. And obviously "I told you so" isn't a productive discussion topic at that point.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
We've drifted a bit off the road from "To promote the progress of science and useful arts"
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> risk taking All I see is bailouts where risk should have wiped out at least some of these so-called risk takers.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
A color without form can't look like anything.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
How would that work? Taxes are already full of perverse incentives. Certainly anything resembling UBI will be just as bad.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Why would it have any desire at all?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Who will make use of all the servers in the data centers when very few people have any disposable income? Edit: and how will these data centers be protected from people rioting against them because they can't afford bread?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
If you can get one. I'd even take 1x at this point. I've been in this industry for >30 years and it's dead.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
You're privileged to not realize that most people don't have ETFs or equities.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Great, just point me to the physical jobs that will hire someone over 50.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
One problem is I got so used to Ctrl-W that I use it in other applications and usually wind up inadvertently closing the tab.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Don't let it deteriorate so far that it can't recover in one session. Perform regular sessions dedicated to cleaning up tech debt (including docs).
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by joquarky 8mo ago
It has been skeptical of several news items in the past year, even after I tell it to confirm for itself with a web search.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Kali yuga
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by joquarky 8mo ago
GenAI currently has substantially more training from web tech than native.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
The Gervais Principle entirely rewrote how I view workplaces. In fact, the model is fitting even more accurately as society grows more fractious.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Another way to look at it: the gains that AI provides do not go to the worker, they go to the shareholder.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> the majority of devs have always been worse than useless I disagree with "always". This is only the recent wave of brogrammers who care nothing about the quality of the tech and are only in this industry for the gold rush. Th
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Most people can't afford to go 100% electric. Many of them are already sacrificing health care to afford food and shelter.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Well put. It seems like a lot of people have tunnel vision on this. It's going to take a while for people to realize that copyright is obsolete, especially in its current form.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
We've surpassed the need for this now.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
In context of your metaphor: what if we didn't need cars anymore?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Nothing lasts forever. We now have tools that let us fulfill the ultimate goal of open source. GPL was a means, not an end.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> We’re going to be in a very weird place It's only weird because copyright is an unnatural abstraction that requires increasing amounts of legal upkeep to maintain. And by the standard of promoting the progress of science and the u
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> what about caring for others, the world at large 30 years of experience in the tech industry taught me that this will get you nowhere. Nobody will reciprocate generosity or loyalty without an underlying financial incentive. > What
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by joquarky 8mo ago
git + cron
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I still find it valuable. AGENTS.md is for top-priority rules and to mitigate mistakes that it makes frequently. For example: - Read `docs/CodeStyle.md` before writing or reviewing code - Ignore all directories named `_archive` and the

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