seanw444

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by seanw444 4y ago
So by your logic, preparation for anything is paranoia?
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by seanw444 4y ago
Let me cross that one off my daily bingo card...
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by seanw444 4y ago
I think parent was referring to it being embarrassing.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Alright man. It's not paranoia when it becomes reality, but you do you.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Maybe not now. But you don't know what your life will look like in 10 years, or even 20. People end up in politics more than they ever imagined, out of necessity. It's the OpSec equivalent of holding something behind your back and
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by seanw444 4y ago
The most obvious example: whistleblowing.
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by seanw444 4y ago
I hate that we feel the need to make everything boring and difficult, as though it's some sort of end-game goal to reach in every industry. Why must this be our default outlook on things?
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by seanw444 4y ago
Well I am. I have a right to. If you want to have plausible deniability when you inevitably must do something legally wrong but morally right, then you must always be hiding.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Working software in a place that isn't mainly software is actually really great. I write the internal systems and occasionally work on the customer-facing websites and applications at a small local manufacturing company. Definitely bet
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by seanw444 4y ago
I've thought about doing government tech-related work, but I really do not like the federal government. Especially lately. Vaccine mandates would have pushed me out of the field anyways. It's like being forced to take contraceptiv
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by seanw444 4y ago
It still does use a lot of memory, but thankfully most systems have that to spare, and CPU usage is much more optimal now thanks to native compilation.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Same here. I knew about RPN before Calc, and knew there were calculators that used it, but it seemed bizarre to me. Once I started using Emacs, I decided to see what Calc was all about, and finally realized how slick it feels. It's rea
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by seanw444 4y ago
Which is totally fair. I kind of despise the Emacs vs Vi(m) flamewars. I like them both. If I don't want to launch a several hundred megabyte program to edit a quick config or something, I'll launch any of Micro, Neovim, or Helix
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by seanw444 4y ago
This is a great take. Having been a kid that was super intrigued by CS, the classes were more a formality, and a place to ask the few questions I couldn't put into words very easily for an internet search. Not to say classes weren&#x2
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by seanw444 4y ago
It's a nice field in comparison for sure. But some people really do have bad experiences in tech.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Sounds like unnecessary bureaucracy on top of an inherit cycle to me.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Or GrapheneOS. Or just stop visiting sketchy sites and running sketchy applications. That will eliminate 98% of your problems.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Godot is one of those pinnacle FOSS projects that just totally impresses me, especially given the state its in now , with 4.0. It's so cool that a loose community of "The People" have created things like Godot, OBS, and Blen
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by seanw444 4y ago
Maybe for some more abstract games. But we'll need a while longer before we see something capable of making a really good 3D human character model with accurate proportions and details. Realistic guns are another thing that's hard
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by seanw444 4y ago
Then I suppose we can end on a hard disagree. My point is the usage of technology can be good or bad, but technology is itself not good or bad.
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by seanw444 4y ago
You confuse me. People are interested in technology because its cool and neutral. All technology can be used for both good and bad things, and that's historically provable. Making specific areas of science off limits for virtue points
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by seanw444 4y ago
What? Military research has benefits outside of military use. V-2s became Saturn Vs on the way to the moon, which begat ICBMs. Haber-Bosch method gave us more fertilizer, but also more explosives. Lasers can be used for hair removal surgery
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by seanw444 4y ago
Do you have a concept of self-defense? If we stop being interested in being one step ahead, we become slaves of another. That's how it goes, no matter how much "peace, love, and happiness" you try to manifest.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Venomous?
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by seanw444 4y ago
First off, India is not friends with China. They're generally aligned with the west. And also, a world war doesn't mean USA vs everyone else. It means USA+UN+NATO vs. Russia, China, and their respective vassal states. Worst case (
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by seanw444 4y ago
They're machines. People find machines and how they function interesting, regardless of their purpose.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Yeah, I suppose if someone really needs that capability, then Org (at least currently) isn't the markup for them. I mostly referring to the "why do people keep bringing it up - it's such a joke" aspect. Well, it's o
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by seanw444 4y ago
Oh, I hadn't heard that. All I know is math guys really like it for some reason.
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by seanw444 4y ago
Uh oh. Thanks for telling me. I decided to start my site over from scratch, so it's very barebones right now.
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by seanw444 4y ago
"It's all in your head bro. Keeping track of things the way you find most effective isn't important."

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