libraryatnight

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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Americans are doing stuff. I call my reps and their vms are full. I go to their offices and there are lots of other people there. There's been protests at state capitals, Bernie & AOC have been giving speeches and zoom meetings abo
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
It's sad to think as a high school student reading Wired articles about Google's wonder offices, Don't Be Evil,engineers getting time to work on projects and problems they wanted to work on, my geek friends and I really thoug
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Genuine question from someone ignorant about that ignorance: I'm aware of some desire for Quebec independence, I'd never heard of similar for Alberta. Is it extra propaganda value to stoke the independence movement somewhere it&#x
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
So in a reductionist view: greed.
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
I grew up dreaming of being a cartoonist, and while Gary Larson, Berkely Breathed, and Bill Watterson were my holy trinity Dilbert wasn't far off. Always admired Adams and his humor - and like you even more so once I ended up in the co
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Thanks for not banning me - I know it's wrong but shits dark right now and people are getting hurt and sometimes when it feels like people are looking past that deliberately I get lost. You may have noted some gaps in posting, usually
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Do you work in industry? I do and the notion that all or most science will be coming from MBA driven decision making makes me want to throw up. Industry does the wrong thing for a higher return on a regular basis. That's not what I wan
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
There are people in my life alive literally because of government funded research. It's about the science. It's about the scientists themselves and their livelihoods. It's about the people their research helps.
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
It's been sad reading the posts of the various people in the sciences and academics that I follow.
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The plumbers that just fixed my slab leak were getting IT certifications because their knees and lower backs are shot. Labor fucks you up.
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Time and time again we see when the investors want to see a bump, they lay people off. We have execs that openly talk about maximizing head winds by running leaner than necessary so that when the next tail wind comes the gains from the shif
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
"We will appear to meet standards while extracting maximum profit"
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Very clean and responsive - thanks much for sharing!
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Dude, the only thing keeping me on Windows is Ableton. Can one of you super hackers go get a job there and port Ableton to Linux, plase? (it's not great through Wine) I'd go with bitwig but I have a push device and it's super
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
Dude you ain't kidding. Security is all SaaS sales now and chasing corporate buzzwords, it's not security they're selling, it's insurance and the ability to outsource blame when you get popped. Get a new CISO? You'l
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
smells like 'can't say anything anymore' coded whining.
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by libraryatnight 1y ago
The trouble with people who keep trying to show me the potential positives with this administration are that even if they were there, and they often are not, they're an accident if they exist - not an intended result. These guys are ju
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
When I was a teen I worked for a credit card company doing outbound balance transfer sales, it was awful. But the day I put in my two weeks was when my sup pulled a call of mine to review and asked me what I had done wrong. In it, a very ve
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
And it's a very different situation for different income brackets. Celebrity or wealthy person is on drugs and manages to get to rehab - because they have the means to dip in and out of rehab - and they're a heart warming story, i
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I feel like SCRUM and anything like it is an attempt to formula and process-ify a thing that dies when you do exactly that. At my company we waste a ton of time on this stuff but we also have a ton of people with jobs that really only tie i
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
Mushrooms have had a profound positive impact on my life so I'm drawn read anything in the orbit of psychedelics, but I'm even more interested after this interview! I pre-ordered a copy. It was cool to see your mention of Ginsberg
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I think it's pretty clear if we cared much about anything we'd be doing a lot of things. But instead, we have this: We have a conversation like this one, I had it with my sister. We agree on this statement you've made in that
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
It just seems like a stupid move this late in the ad game when people are starting to figure out they hate it a lot. I've never heard more techno-laymen talking about privacy and advertising than now and MS is just hopping on the train
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
Those signs are usually accompanied by a few other slogans that should tip you off that they're a response to certain cultural force in the world that lauds ignorance and hate - they're not trying to say they're intellectuals
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I have the same feeling. I was sad to see Tom be done, but I'd also prefer that to watching his quality decline, and as you say - I have a lot of Tom Scotts that come up in my feed. Tom's excellent, but there's other people,
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I don't know what to say really. By the time I was born the Smothers Brothers were already legendary and their influence was huge. Steve Martin, Super Dave, there's really no point in making list, it'd go on too long and the
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I found this hilarious, thanks for sharing - I didn't realize Merrill Markoe had a substack :)
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I feel like I've been in some dark places with technology and at present am in a pretty good place with it, personally anyway. But, societies move slower than people and there's always the chance the rock bottom that teaches you t
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I remember joining an IRC FTP share channel when I was a kid, and wanting to share some of my files to get ratio to download some music and anime they had, and it was my first time attempting to setup an FTP and I thought i was all good to
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by libraryatnight 3y ago
I generally rely on others to recommend nonfiction. If someone with a perspective or insight I find challenging or compelling mentions a book I haven't read, I at least will take a look. On occasion I'll stumble on an interview wi

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