kuramitropolis

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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Dell laptops come with a ton of pre-installed Bloatware >Shows the add/remove dialog from M$Windows There's your problem
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
People who care about you, care about you. The rest is trapping(s). I thought our individualistic culture was based on the shared understanding that, the more value you provide to others' lives, the more your nonconformities are accept
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I look up to you.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Do you think of Western culture as a blind primate hierarchy? Honestly? I used to think of it as an edifice of enlightened human thought... HAHAHAHAHA. >Is not that very perspective part of the problem? Don't think so. I'm
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Exactly. Malice is a legal, quasi-religious concept. A tiger can also quite actively exploit weaknesses and imbalances for the harm of its prey, yet we don't judge the animal as malicious - because we don't attribute concsiousness
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;) This keeps getting repeated. But honestly these days I can't tell the god damn difference. What is malice, other than incompetent people struggling to survive like anyone else,
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Modern HR selects primarily for desperation and compliance. Management is essentially an activity of self-preservation. Qualities like duty, loyalty, initiative and industriousness are deemed weaknesses. This is true for the white colla
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Far-fetched though to imply that Apple is solely responsible for defining the spending patterns of billions of people. How is it far-fetched? Smartphones, app stores, subscription services, gig economy, all fundamentally Apple's fa
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Does/will Zig support the Actually Portable Executable format? https://justine.lol/ape.html
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>If you've built it on windows, the container image will be the same on linux. If using Windows, issues with CRLF, case sensitivity, and file permissions, might occur as early as the build phase.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Classic temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Or is that billionaire now
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Yeah I hate when websites do this, too. Because the site's based on Tumblr I guess.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Then you create a network of smartphone-free spaces.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Speech can get people to maim and kill, too. Sometimes with surprising efficiency. And when a technology is outlawed, the power that it bestows upon humanity concentrates in the outlaws. For sure, information and communication technology ar
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
And some people perceive the "conveniences" that the tech sector has foisted upon us as little more than socially mandated self-flagellation.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
You don't have to have anything to do at all with car-centric suburbs to lead a life that doesn't suck ;)
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Nah, just to prove that you can't.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Capitalism is a company that is attempting to solve X problem or do Y thing etc So basically any organized human activity is now "capitalism"? >Forms of efficiency are "how fast can they solve that problem" From w
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
What's "capitalism" in this context, and what's its actual connection to software development practices? What are "forms of efficiency" and "forms of value", and how does complexity "unlock"
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
>Theres no large conspiracy Yes, there is a network of small to medium sized ones. > things that were near impossible to build in the past. Were they necessary in the past?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Shouldn't a mature and complete analysis result in a conclusion, i.e. an opinionated stand backed up by correct reasoning?
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Kubernetes mostly.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Spookiest acqui-hire ever.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Covered by using my battery-drained iPhone (which I only have because I was being paid money to have it) as a beer opener. It's not a very good beer opener but gets the point across really well. Socioeconomic pressure works both ways.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
And good riddance!
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
They're just kids. Thrown into a hellscape of their parents' creation :) Do you think they're supposed to just somehow intuit out of thin air that there's such a thing as "literature" and that one is supposed t
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
You went to a school that actually taught you how to think? Consider yourself privileged, my friend. The Prussian system of education, which is at the root of contemporary compulsory schooling, was designed to produce machine operators and
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
Thank you for acknowledging this!
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
No. You can also dissent. You can also resist. And if newer is worse (for you), it's your obligation to do so.
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by kuramitropolis 4y ago
I would argue that "the whims of the public" is the most significant political issue there is. You're basically saying this selects for people who have good theory of mind at scale; I fail to see how having more of those is

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