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by quacked 4y ago
I once counted twenty different methods of indicating that something was clickable on a single screen in a Jira build my company was using. They ranged from a button with depth to literally nothing but blank white.
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by quacked 4y ago
I deeply hate the style of design that's become popular over the past few years. "No borders, flat text and flat buttons, multiple fonts and font sizes on the screen at all times, heavily simplistic and hidden menus". I use s
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by quacked 4y ago
Oh--I see what you're getting at. Yeah, I understand and agree. I'll have to say my point with that caveat in the future. I'm glad you liked my joke!
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by quacked 4y ago
I've never met an organization staffed with rational actors that had more than like 8 people in it, so you're not wrong. I think what I'm getting is that ultimately every edict that flows downward into the layers of managemen
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by quacked 4y ago
A lot of programmers don't realize that there's a difference between <building an application> and <ensuring that the actors that make up the global economy generate predictable returns on investments in order to grow sto
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by quacked 4y ago
If you reference my comment in this same GP thread I completely agree with you. If you want to take control of a local society, you need a cast of hitmen willing to do what you want. Conversely, if you try to take control of a local society
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by quacked 4y ago
> They exist to "protect and serve" those in power While this is technically correct, this phrase sets up a simplistic model of society where there's the Powerful on top, the Police right under them serving them, and the O
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by quacked 4y ago
I think you're wrong, many programmers already prefer ChatGPT over StackOverflow.
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by quacked 4y ago
Right, "horses not zebras" means "if it has four hooves and a mane check if it's a horse first", not "your patient definitely doesn't have a rare condition". I know so many with chronic conditions tha
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by quacked 4y ago
An attitude recalibration may be helpful in this case. Software engineering is merely your "profession", and you perform it in exchange for other people providing you with clean water, cheap goods, security, etc. (Whether that&#x2
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by quacked 4y ago
I don't really know how to put this into words, but the relationship that the Athenian rich had with the art of civilization and the "glory" of the Athenian city-state is nothing like the relationship that the modern U.S. ric
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by quacked 4y ago
Anyone that is serious about engineering societal problems out of existence should take up prison reform as one of their highest priorities. People who compulsively break the social contract need to be separated from people who don't,
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by quacked 4y ago
Many people who believe themselves to be anti-capitalist are in fact blinded by the capitalist myth that money can take the place of historically reliable pro-social behavior. "A good, prosperous life" is the result of many people
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by quacked 4y ago
As the saying goes, "Girls don't like guys that make them laugh, guys that they like make them laugh"
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by quacked 4y ago
They're all over the place. Have you ever read essays by British, Japanese, Indian, Singaporean people describing their and their friends' mental state throughout schooling over the past several centuries? School is also becoming
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by quacked 4y ago
I also describe it as torture. The conditions many children and young adults experience at school at the hands of their peers would be cause for firing in a corporate environment and even legal action in the adult world.
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by quacked 4y ago
A lot of people talk about bullying, which is definitely a possible factor, but I don't think adults remember what it was like to be in school. Unless you don't care about it and ignore your future plans, school invades every part
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by quacked 4y ago
If you were teleported back to the year 0 and went to what is now the US and encountered a large ethnically homogeneous tribe, what exactly would that smoke signal to you? (Editing: as far as "ascribing what you think", the only t
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by quacked 4y ago
This is the model of university I like to proselytize. It's similar to "The University" in The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, but I was thinking about this concept before I read the book. The true quality of a college
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by quacked 4y ago
Not among voters, no. The majority of US right wing voters would happily shut down <pro-Communist, anti-Christian, etc.> sources using the government. The "I don't like what you say but will defend to the death..." prin
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by quacked 4y ago
I will attempt to explain, and I describe myself as "right wing" although it may be more accurate to call myself "romantic conservative": It is typically useful to ask yourself the following questions about any version o
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by quacked 4y ago
No. I believe any culture or society where suicide is considered a legitimate solution to anything except for terminal, unsolvable medical conditions is diseased and if the state participates in it I would consider such a government illegit
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by quacked 4y ago
Utter insanity
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by quacked 4y ago
Poster here--I consider myself "far-right" already, I just have a habit of not softening language when it's describing my own in-group. There are far-right thinkers and far-right propagandists, and I tend to listen to the fir
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by quacked 4y ago
This is one of those things that seems so made-up I don't even have emotions about it. This article claims similar things that various far-right propagandists claim about the Canadian healthcare system--if you're depressed, the go
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by quacked 4y ago
The reason Bitcoin got so large so quickly is the same reason that "Crypto" got large so quickly. The majority of people who "invest" in Bitcoin aren't trying to figure out a way to trade goods and services in a way
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by quacked 4y ago
You don't. In cases like OP you can choose to make a gamble. If you don't have a family to support there's no real reason to not take big unlikely payoff risks in order to try and make crazy outcomes happen. The only caveat w
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by quacked 4y ago
"A well-armed and informed populace governing itself" is a pipe dream by indigenous uncontacted people and certain very intelligent dissenters. The majority of "civilized" people in the world are very happy to live in an
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by quacked 4y ago
The middle step is "it's not a big deal/it doesn't affect you"
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by quacked 4y ago
If you don't have a spouse I would take a run at it. I would definitely get a really good lawyer, though.

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