kaens

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by kaens 7y ago
> Employment is not a boss->servant relationship It is, for the vast majority of employed people. > it's a relationship where both parties gain something. For the vast majority of employed people, what they gain is the ability
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by kaens 7y ago
> A positive outcome of using gitmoji is the fact that it forces you to think through the content and message of your commits to a larger extent. It really doesn't. My personal experience with people using them is that the content a
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by kaens 7y ago
nothing aside from things that require actual human interaction, so basically nothing.
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by kaens 7y ago
Yeah. I have a similar background to you with this stuff and the first major thing that popped into my head while reading this article was "not enough time has passed since you experienced this"
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by kaens 7y ago
Yes, what I'm arguing is that it's very difficult for it to not become terminal because people die without income. That's the root of the issue, not motivation or purpose or what the individuals value or the intentions behind
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by kaens 7y ago
Pretty hard for companies to not skew very heavily towards being about making money when people require money for food, shelter, and healthcare (at least in the states). Unless the people involved are in a financial state where they are not
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by kaens 7y ago
literally just an html file + any free web host
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by kaens 7y ago
And people who are not capable of having a backup power supply?
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by kaens 7y ago
> that is speaking to something deeper. So what, exactly? the lingering effects of hundreds of years of overt oppression of both the individual and systemic sort. this whole thing is like telling a bunch of contestants in a race that the
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by kaens 7y ago
I know people who do not view themselves as fundamentally tolerant people. Further, I know people who consider intolerance as a core part of human nature, who would be prefixing their arguments with "everybody knows they are fundamenta
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by kaens 7y ago
> Everybody intolerant thinks of themselves as a fundamentally tolerant person, whose hand has regrettably been forced by the unforgivable actions of the enemy tribe. This is 100% not true.
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by kaens 7y ago
> Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society agains
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by kaens 7y ago
> I'm beginning to think the average employee or middle manager has even more perverse incentives to make poor short-term decisions. Quite a lot of that, in my experience, is driven by fear of losing their job in an at-will employme
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by kaens 7y ago
catch 22 by joeseph heller
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by kaens 7y ago
It's about a long string of behavior like the comment he made on the Minsky case over the course of like 15 years. If this was the first time he had done something that he'd be called out for "being inappropriate" for I
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by kaens 7y ago
I am, no lie, quite concerned about the future of linux without someone really willing to be very stern (even cuss up a storm sometimes) about issues like pushing patches that break userspace or just quite bad code in general once linus is
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by kaens 7y ago
Friend, the only reason things seemed simple in the 80s is because the people on the receiving end of the "absolute freedom" stick, regardless of whether or not the people swinging it were aware of their swings, didn't have m
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by kaens 7y ago
It's very easy to paint yourself into a corner if you haven't figured out at least a plan of attack for these topics up-front, especially if you're starting to ramp up actual use of your product.
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by kaens 7y ago
I think more rediscoveries may be references than you suspect, but in the cases that are rediscoveries there is a bit of a knowledge and discoverability issue for PL features for people who aren't PL nerds already. I'd love it if
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by kaens 8y ago
Believe it or not, it was a large (~1M lines) in-house "CMS-generator for different clients" type of thing written in perl, this was right around the time 2nd-gen rails clones were starting to be a thing, a fair bit after perl was
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by kaens 8y ago
correct, the point of doing something like what i'm describing is to have a system for keeping / creating N unique passwords stored only in your head, in a way that provides an acceptable amount of strength, avoids disclosing al
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by kaens 8y ago
for the example above, you could chunk-rotate, change the rot-degree you use as obfuscation or have other variants of your algorithm. there's a point somewhere a bit faster than monthly-expiration where I would consider using a store a
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by kaens 8y ago
> how do you propose remembering unique fully random passwords for dozens to hundreds of services over the course of decades? not fully random , but: make up an algorithm that uses pieces of data that you know you can derive from some s
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by kaens 8y ago
It's refreshing to see people deciding that things can be important enough to warrant taking some sort of action other than washing one's hands of the matter. Recognizing that there are paths available other than "doing what
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by kaens 8y ago
If anything, I'd imagine participating in an intelligence operation that failed terribly would make one more of a trustworthy authority than not, unless no new lessons were learned. I expect authorities in most (actively practiced) sub
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by kaens 8y ago
> Which is ironic because python and perl are extremely similar. Would you mind expanding on this a bit? It's been a while since I did perl, but I remember it being fairly distinct from python, other than being a dynamically-typed &
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by kaens 8y ago
That is not very much money. That's a modest new car or a down payment on a small home in a cheap zip code. Sure, as long as people are making a livable, sustainable wage. I know quite a few people who did not manage to rise signific
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by kaens 8y ago
> With the placement of the Control key on most keyboards, your pinkie is doing a straight downwards motion On every keyboard I have in my apartment, and every keyboard I've used for a long time, moving my left pinky straight down w
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by kaens 8y ago
His argument is that culture is slow to change.
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by kaens 9y ago
Trust here is in the context of assets used in trade, not in literally anything people can have "trust" in. They're stating that "intrinsic value", e.g. gold being usable for things other than trade, is not necessar

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