naysunjr

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by naysunjr 1y ago
6-7% of 1+ million software engineers (according to BLS) is a lot of actual people. Stats have ground truth underlying them. 6%-7% is less text than the big numbers popular for brevity. But it’s just mathematical euphemism for a real count.
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by naysunjr 1y ago
Agree. We lean hard into sunk cost fallacy when it comes to job training. “If your name is Farmer you’re a farmer.” mentality but self selected euphemism. “I trained as a software engineer and that’s what I am for 50 years! Dag gubmint tryn
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by naysunjr 1y ago
Am constantly reminding people my gait is off due to post surgery scarring internally creating a tension. Now everyone gonna think I’m autistic. Not that there’s anything wrong with being autistic. It’s the pop science mindset of the aggreg
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by naysunjr 1y ago
IMO those things you mention as being what really prevent us are emergent evidence we are not evolved enough for space travel though. Biologically or socially.
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by naysunjr 1y ago
It will never happen. Zero evidence any organic as complex as a human can move planets. It’s not an emergent event that’s common enough for us to have observed so far it’s too unlikely. Some dried goo in a meteor or some poetic notion of co
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by naysunjr 1y ago
Yeah this. What should irk about search bar is cannot be moved. The static nature of UI these days stinks when back in the day we aimed for more composable user facing apps. Mod games by dumping a model file in a dir; boomed recomposed the
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by naysunjr 1y ago
You ever see that video of the flat Earther who disregarded what his own eyes saw for his memorized semantics? Your ex workers goto work whistling Star Trek TNG theme song? Come on… the shit people believe? Some people just “believe” to mak
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by naysunjr 1y ago
NASA going back to the moon and Musk to Mars is nothing but pipe dreams to sell the story mode types. The US government has pivoted to animal husbandry of the populace through techno police state, and handing sycophants to power their own t