njharman

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by njharman 5y ago
Yep. That is why society is (has to) move into post-employment era. It's no longer required or even beneficial for everyone to be employed and/or employed to the extreme degree they are now (~50% of waking hours).
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by njharman 5y ago
yeah, but my single purpose is "make code better". If in fixing bug I can refactor and/or fix/expand/add comments and/or document things to make similar future bug impossible or less likely I'm doing that
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by njharman 5y ago
I use CC for everything. Shop tons online, multiple sites . Store my CC on browser and share that across desktop, laptop, ipad and phones. In last 10 years I've had one incident were CC company did not automatically deny fraud. Two pur
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by njharman 5y ago
Airgaped? Really? Everytime a build happens someone physically moves a Thu drive or some other media too from the build server? Airgap means not networked, even internally. Not just "blocked" from internet.
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by njharman 5y ago
More than one person is responsible for the illegal culture. More than one person should go. And they should be fired before having opportunity to resign.
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by njharman 5y ago
If you like "small time" devs / roguelike programming the Roguelike Celebration conference YTs is excellent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKv_QzXft4mD6TXmQBZtzIA
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by njharman 5y ago
I thought it was developed by the two brothers? I've seen talks and interviews by both brothers on DF. like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRsScwdPcE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtKmL
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by njharman 5y ago
As a 50 yr old childless bachelor I can attest that relationships and offspring are the biggest time, energy and financial sinks. Not saying it anit worth it, just that you will expend %50-150 of your resources depending on how responsible
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by njharman 5y ago
Why the fuck is "zh" not transliterated into "j" if it suppose to be a Jay sound?
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by njharman 5y ago
I would bet, in autocratic, tyrannical countries which have history of disinforming and controlling info access if their citizens; those citizens are much more resistant to disinformation. They are cynical and question what they are told.
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by njharman 5y ago
My problem is bad memory. I don't remember much of the books I read. Even recently. So, I become very discouraged and see reading as waste of time as very little will stick and this I'll "grow" very little from time inve
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by njharman 5y ago
The variables are way, way too carried to make any broad claims. I've fixed production bugs in literal minutes. Because the service was web API, that reported error as soon as that endpoint was hit. Sentry gave all the info I needed to
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by njharman 5y ago
Externalities. One of the biggest profit centers esp for regulated monopolies (which have barriers to entry and often regulated profit) is to make someone else pay for your expenses and or cost cutting. Whether that's the world via po
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by njharman 5y ago
Dude, yes please.
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by njharman 5y ago
I met IT worker with security clearance that worked someplace that you needed security clearance. They were unable to discuss salary (or any personal financial matter) because of that security. The reasoning being it potentially opened the
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by njharman 5y ago
> but were not being socially punished. That you think social punishment is a thing that should happen, means you and I have irreconcilable world views / moral values.
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by njharman 5y ago
My vim config includes bunch of customization for bunch of plugins written in vimscript. Will that just work?
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by njharman 5y ago
15 years is no time at all.
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by njharman 5y ago
> So far this looks like pure hype. So far, the last 5 years? > better positioned for the future Yes, they are a battery company. Positioned to capitalize on the end of the Fossil Fuel age.
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by njharman 5y ago
TSLA is a battery company. Autos are just the means to and end. Their market cap represents how well they are positioned to capitalize on the end of Fossil Fuel Age.
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by njharman 5y ago
yeah, just go sit in the back of the bus, don't be uppity, it should be enough we gave you rights, don't throw that back in our face by exercising those rights.
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by njharman 5y ago
No, of course not. They just read the tweets about the article. You never read actual sources! That runs risk of accidently seeing something that contradicts your preconceptions of the facts. Then you'll be stuck having to rationalize
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by njharman 5y ago
This is exactly why cancel culture is so toxic (and to lessor extent all "political correctness"). It is oppression, repression and censorship. It is mob rule, happy only when they get a lynching, no matter the guilt or innocence.
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by njharman 5y ago
IP is not a person identifier. They should not be allowed as evidence in criminal cases.
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by njharman 5y ago
I'd say OP meant puritanism as it evolved in USA after those puritans were driven out of Europe to new world. Most of W Europe doesn't seem aligned with 1600 views today. Significant parts of US culture is aligned with 17-1800 us
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by njharman 5y ago
Almost everywhere in USA is safe. Even more so W. Europe. Need civilwar or live in place rules by warlords to be dangerous. The chance of you suffering crime (unless u look for it like join gang) is vanishingly small. Media just constantly
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by njharman 5y ago
It's useful for governments to have access (via supeana of course) to history of their citizens location. In case they start getting uppity. Just makes it easier to intimidate, suppress, and oppress.
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by njharman 5y ago
I thought they were known for the 100yr mortgage. And multigenerational living/thinking. That's all I've heard about.
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by njharman 5y ago
Neat, electronic art.
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by njharman 5y ago
How is "the government" not part of the economy? Do you imagine all their employees spend their salary in some secret separate economy? Do you imagine all the toilet paper, pens, plumbing repairs and jet fighters they buy are f

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