s_kilk

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by s_kilk 8y ago
Why should it be stopped?
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Chesterton's fence has always bothered me a little because it presumes there will be a sensible explanation for the fence, and that the reason will reveal itself to us if we have the patience and guile to see it. Knowing what I know ab
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It's a cage. In the picture. Use your eyes.
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> Youtube would load but only run videos and suggestions form a carefully curated set of publishers that respect the age. I suspect they're deep, deep down in a pit of denial because to admit that this is a problem would be an exist
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> Youtube would load but only run videos and suggestions form a carefully curated set of publishers that respect the age. Isn't Youtubes whole schtick that they don't want to do any curation, but instead want to just turn the a
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> What I don't get is... forget the "illegal" part, how is that not dumb? It's a kind of bourgeoisie management ideology. The bosses insist that you, your time, and all of your attention belongs to them (we only want
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> Unfortunately, jealously is wired deep into our lizard brains Not actually the case, given what we know of the incredible variety of sexual/reproductive practices in pre-modern societies. Its unfortunate that we make the mistake o
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> AFAK, it still lacks support for parallelism / multicore programming. Yeah this is a deal-breaker. And it's kinda weird that the article is pitching Crystal as a replacement for Go, Elixir, and Rust with that kind of limitati
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In British English this would mean "playing a joke", essentially. If I tried to convince you that London is actually located on Mars, or that Brexit is a good idea, I'd be taking the piss.
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> So what is it with software developers and laptops? The portability? Yes, the portability, that bit is non-negotiable. Plus, when I'm seated at a desk I can always plug in a good mechanical keyboard and external monitor.
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It's the same logic behind the medias fawning admiration of Boring Co's putting a roofers torch in a nerf-gun housing. Which is to say, none, there is no logic, it's pure unalloyed hype and worship.
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> We're above the carrying capacity of Earth for humans, and though we've done a lot of tricks to expand capacity, we're currently putting a large swath of the biosphere in danger. Given the vast differences in climate im
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> closeted
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Why is "abuse" in scare quotes?
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I've been reading into Activity Pub over the last week, and I don't think this would really be the case, (but I'm happy to be wrong). For example, if a Gitlab instance posts a Pull Request object over to a Mastodon instance,
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> lacking the understanding and ability to grasp complex and nuanced issues he would have to have to handle a pan-epidemic. I mean, the guy can't even read.
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This presumes that the people with ethical sensibilities have any power to change the structure of the MIC from the inside. On the contrary, I'd say a fundamentally rotten institution can't be reformed by a few good apples joining
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I feel like you're fishing for attention by pussyfooting around some assertion about gender. If that's the case then just come out with it, and bring along some evidence to back yourself up, and remember that belligerence is not a
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by s_kilk 8y ago
I love how all the reactionaries come out to glom on to these sorts of findings.
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> The title is an homage to Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Another instance of techies being led astray by flimsy, reactionary pseudo-science.
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Jokes on us, there's no way out.
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Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control'(independent.co.uk)
49 points by s_kilk 8y ago|16 comments
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To tackle testing fraud?
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> shouldn't there be something better? Mercurial? > why does git get a free pass with "this is how we've always done it"? I'd argue that the git monoculture is a much more recent phenomenon than we remember, a
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by s_kilk 8y ago
(Off Topic) interesting that we're seeing two radically different philosophies of software development in this thread, in stark contrast.
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Ireland, actually. I'd be curious to see the stats, but suffice to say enough families were losing children that there were major changes to farm safety regulation.
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> If they comply, great! If not, they learn actions have consequences. Or they die, which kinda sucks. Look, I'm generally in favour of kids wandering about the place like I did when I was a kid, but even back then we had a tragical
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I eagerly await the day all this blockchain stuff is considered legacy enterprise cruft.
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I'm currently picking my way through Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus". It's slow going, but I think this one's given me the most material to reflect on out of any book I've read so far.
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(Nice to see the Lisp Defence Force out in strength.)

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