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by mmjaa 7y ago
Ubuntu Studio just works.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
My Linux DAW regularly trumps that.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I like to make my own dictionaries for texts I'm studying. I sort all the words, uniq them, and create a word list containing every word in the text I'm studying. Then, I pipe each word entry through sdcv, with my favourite dicti
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by mmjaa 7y ago
He's only "gaining the publicity" you're giving him, by ignoring the subject of the case: Apple programmed their computers to catch a citizen, so they could turn that citizen over to the police - but they screwed up and
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by mmjaa 7y ago
It is only possible to perpetuate America's criminal wars through state secrecy. If the American people knew the truth about these military incursions, they would be utterly outraged. It is secrets that keep the one true power - the
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by mmjaa 7y ago
To (misquote) Deep Thought: "Whats the point of being a computer brain the size of a planet if all they ever ask you is 'What's Gods Phone Number?' ..."
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by mmjaa 7y ago
>Secrecy has always been a part of state diplomacy. And this is why the world is perpetually at war. Those who have the power to stop the war-mongers (The People) don't have any idea what is really going on - thus diplomacy has b
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by mmjaa 7y ago
It is not a noisy, open office. Its a circle of desks where people can easily see what each other are working on and collaborate with each other without having to leave ones own desk...
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by mmjaa 7y ago
I'm telling you my experience - an open environment that encourages shoulder-surfing and interaction with ones workspace environment has, in my experience, been more productive and a happier place to work than one where everyone hides
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Competent people don't let mental health issues get in the way of getting stuff done and sharing ones work with ones colleagues...
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Whats missed here is that individuals have the choice to get up and look at each others screens, and people also have the right to communicate whether or not its appropriate for them to be shoulder-surfing. These are choices at the individ
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by mmjaa 7y ago
>he was delaying and timing leaks and selectively leaking things to help get Trump elected. Isn't it also possible, that he was selectively leaking things to ensure that someone he knew to be a war criminal would not gain power in t
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Do you honestly think that Americas military secrets prevent its manipulation and exploitation by foreign powers? If anything, the fact of Americas military-industrial-pharmacuetical complex covering up crimes against humanity (torture prog
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Apply some more of that sane and rational thinking to this question: what real evidence do any of us have that Assange attempted to 'break into someones house'? Is conjecture enough to be able to establish a moral position in thi
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by mmjaa 7y ago
But then again .. maybe truly competent developers don't get such anxiety in the first place, and if they do need to 'figure something out' in an open, shoulder-surfing environment, can reliably depend on their colleagues to
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by mmjaa 7y ago
The guys who worked this way, stayed in the company and were very successful for years. Those who complained about it and left weren't really doing a great job in the first place. And, there really is nothing wrong with this policy of
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Yes, managers sit in the circle too. Its not hierarchical, and thats the point - there is nobody in the group with the special privilege of withholding our screens, therefore we all feel comfortable with whatever is on each others screens.
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Anecdote: I've found that developers tend to be more productive - as in producing higher quality code, in shorter periods of time - when the environment they're working in encourages shoulder-surfing - that is, we set up the physi
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by mmjaa 7y ago
If people had the right to choose whether they want to publish their income, this is one thing. Its a good thing to recognise those who choose this option. For the fact of attitudes persisting, it is a matter of values. Values across the l
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Has nobody any real understanding of the nature and depth of organised crime? No, I do not want to have the IRS do all the work of promoting the juiciest targets to the top of the mafia's hit lists. This idea is nonsense. Want to sol
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by mmjaa 7y ago
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Not, in a court of public opinion. Keep this in mind, as we go down the bumpy road that is going to be Assange's trial...
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by mmjaa 7y ago
This isn't about Assange. This is about ensuring that the leaks continue. The leaks will continue, with or without Assange. The line in the sand has been drawn: the entrenched criminals in the military-industrial-pharmaceutical comple
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by mmjaa 8y ago
None of this is new. LA is full of stories like this, going back decades - beyond the lunatic fringe of modern 'social media influencers', every 6 months LA gets a new wave of kids coming into the city to become the next big thin
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Goodness, those Apricot machines are absolutely delightful. I wish there were manufacturers with the balls to try such things again ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
.. and here, another reason to distrust the Lords of Pharmaceuticals: the cloaking of danger by way of re-branding. Why, exactly, is this necessary again?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>it can be very hard for someone who is cognitively compromised to make an objectively good choice Accepting ones own personal responsibility is a requirement for a healthy mental condition; leaving the responsibility for ones mental hea
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I wrote a lot of code for Yamaha MSX systems back in the day. It was truly a delight to be able to see ones programs running on different machines with .. mostly .. ease. For me, the thing that made MSX fail was over-standardisation - it w
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by mmjaa 8y ago
There are many, many alternatives to a life of addiction. My only point is, don't just blindly accept pharmaceutical dependence without at least considering the alternatives. Pharmaceutical addiction is no benign thing - addiction and
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The alternative: question what you are being told about why you don't feel good, and don't just go along with the pack - its not always headed in the right direction. Case in point: The West's mental health addiction problem.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Consumerism: the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers I think there are very definitely market forces at work, keeping people in the mindset that pharmaceuticals are the only 'real' effective solution to their ill

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