s_kilk

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by s_kilk 9y ago
I find the manic defense of corporate interests over the interests of the public more sickening.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Classic argument from authority. Big, successful entities can do dumb shit too.
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Palmer Luckey's virtual border wall: From disruption to dystopia(engadget.com)
3 points by s_kilk 9y ago|0 comments
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The thing you're talking about is not Leftism, it's Identitarianism. Remember, the left-right dichotomy is about how the means of production should be owned and controlled. While the Left does also stand for such progressive cause
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I suspect we may be close to it. There is a palpable anger, all throughout the UK right now, directed against the ruling class. We've all known instinctively that the ruling class don't care about us, but now it's real and pa
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Indeed. The truth is that MongoDB is well suited to a fairly narrow set of use-cases, but ends up being used for all sorts of stuff in practice. Hence the weird contortions which the author observes in the book they're reading.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> What prompts this kind of mentality? Maladjusted chuds being maladjusted.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> where any playful transgression between genders is rendered impossible. As it damn well should be. To be clear: if you're making unwanted 'transgressions' against women in your workplace then you are in the wrong. Women
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by s_kilk 9y ago
And a counter question: why do techies pretend they have no stake in the civil society they live in?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Because it highlights the sometimes disturbing intersection between technology and the real world
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by s_kilk 9y ago
So, if I'm following this correctly, you'd need to start a new connection with the end-users credentials? Which would be slow and rule out connection pooling and other such niceties?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I guess a simple anecdote about math dweebs holding up the line would be less publishable without all the window-dressing.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Or there could be legitimate discontent with how horribly things are going.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
This is some Phrenology-grade bullshit
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Very much so. I was born and raised in Athenry, and still have family there, so I know the town well, and frankly it's a town in dire need of investment and rejuvenation. The Apple data-center has practically unanimous support amongst
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One man in a tiny Irish town could derail Apple’s plans for Europe(news.vice.com)
4 points by s_kilk 9y ago|2 comments
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> The notion that tools exist in some sort of vacuum away from users baffles me This x1000 Software is developed and used in a social context. We can't disavow responsibility for the effects our Software cause.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Like everyone else, I sell my labour to capital in exchange for a living.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> SO MANY BRACKETS. }) }) }) }) }) }) },
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Perhaps people have been rewatching S07E22 of The Simpsons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Abe_Simpson_and_His_Gru...
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Same, I started at the pre-school math lessons and worked forward from there. Progress is sporadic, due to having a newborn in the house, but patching all the holes in my math knowledge feels good.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Yep, all installations and upgrades are transactional, and can be undone or rolled-back transactionally
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Fedora/RHEL also has transactional package operations via their package-manager, `dnf`. One of the reasons I'd prefer not to go back to apt-based distros.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
In addition to the price issues pointed out in a sibling comment, you can't pause mid-heart-attack to shop around for the best deal. It's time to admit that not all problems are amenable to market solutions.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Basically their material circumstances have lead to a particular outcome.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Disgusting /s
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Because the new UI is trash.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
But they maximised shareholder value! /s
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> but don't often get the deep, wholistic understanding *holistic
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It depends on the application semantics, for example if I scheduled a Breakfast for 08:00 in Las Vegas, but then moved the event to Chicago, I wouldn't want the time to be auto-converted to 06:00, (or whatever is appropriate given DST)

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