shimman

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by shimman 5mo ago
No, that is you are reading into what abundance is. Abundance is mostly neoliberal economic ideas repackaged for the current iteration of consultants where workers are entirely excluded from the processes, unions are the enemy, and regulati
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by shimman 5mo ago
This is true, this book was also written when the idea of high school education was extremely new (let alone public high school education). With what you're saying it was likely a book for advance students and even though it uses terms
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by shimman 5mo ago
I have a book that says it's intended as a science book focusing on biology for around elementary aged students, it's from the 1890s and the material is something I'd expect high schoolers to start learning not 4th graders!
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by shimman 5mo ago
What aspects of pedagogy did you find most relevant? It does seem sad that in our industry, one where practical learning is necessary, that learning how to learn isn't really taught well. Often the worse ways to learn are those that se
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by shimman 5mo ago
IDK, I've been purposely limiting the scope of work I can provide by only working with js, html, css. It's extremely limiting but when it comes to basically making one-off splash pages it's nice to not worry about tooling and
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yeah, look at how Google treated employees that protested against Palestinian genocide. Immediately fired and violently removed.
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by shimman 5mo ago
This is why we need to start advocating more public investment into open source technology. Imagine how much better the state of our industry would be if we gave 100,000 open source developers a $100,000 grant. This modest $10,000,000,000 f
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by shimman 5mo ago
I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying that people purposely choosing to work at Meta are evil individuals that deserve public scorn and mocking.
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by shimman 5mo ago
How can you say the smart people haven't already left? The only people comfortable working at Meta are comfortable with a company that enabled then profited off a genocide, has mass teenage girl misery machines, invested in companies w
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by shimman 5mo ago
Do you think it's healthy for your soul to reduce humans down to numbers? Would you like to be reduced to a number too?
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by shimman 5mo ago
You realize as a worker you're allowed to demand better working conditions right?
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by shimman 5mo ago
My strategy of just buying the best quality parts within my budget when I need a new build has never failed me yet. Is pretty insane that I bought 4x 32gig dd4 ram for $400 in 2024; literally the same part I paid $200 now goes for over $900
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by shimman 5mo ago
You mean it worked well for cheaters right? The more I learn about these "honor codes" the more I realize how sheltered these American elites have become.
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by shimman 5mo ago
We should fund it. Go read the types of comments I make in my profile. I always advocate for explicitly taxing big tech to publicly fund open source development. Also it's why we need to pass things like medicare for all and universal
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by shimman 5mo ago
Oh easy, you can't compete with a trillion dollar corporation that can subsidize loss leaders. We know there is a substantial market in this space if Zed is able to raised $30mil, but only letting VC or big tech dictate the direction o
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, what would be better is creating a VAT against big tech and VC investments so that the public can decide what technology is worth developing. If the VAT amounted to $10,000,000,000 of tax revenue annually (something that is quite easy t
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by shimman 5mo ago
Why are we acting like VS Code is nothing but a way to stop independent developers from selling their tools? Things like VS Code literally destroy the cottage industry and likely has held back our industry by several decades. MSFT needs to
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by shimman 5mo ago
Is that suppose to make this better? IME the most valuable tests are those that test specific regressions. It's the scaffolding we build for ourselves to enable feature development. Remove that scaffolding and you get accidents. Pray t
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by shimman 5mo ago
Probably less expensive than paying for an imperial war machine if I had to guess.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Libraries come and go, but understanding the web means mostly html, js (in the form of web APIs), and css. I've also been using react professionally since 2015 and I've yet to see a nextjs application in the wild. It seems to most
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by shimman 5mo ago
Oh yeah I forgot the user is able to stop the force of will from trillion dollar corporations.
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by shimman 5mo ago
The billionaire class don't want universal childcare, they don't want medicare for all, they don't want a public jobs program, they don't want a welfare state, and they sure as fuck don't want to be told no. I'
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by shimman 5mo ago
No, it's much better for an elite class of superhumans to hoard all the wealth. After all they guided us to our current utopia, the least humanity can do is give them the vast majority of wealth.
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by shimman 5mo ago
You need to give these people actual examples because rarely can they see the line between two dots. A great example of cooking the books is to do circular investments, adopt a bunch of users that are likely to churn, or to take your single
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by shimman 5mo ago
Yeah, until they release their S1 all numbers are highly suspect.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Why is this a bad thing? The New Deal literally created a society that allowed the country to flourish for a solid 50 years before neoliberal economics took hold.
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by shimman 5mo ago
Uhh, the entire contract is a form of corporate welfare. So yes, the DoW giving money to these companies is a handout. Just because it benefits them doesn't mean it's not a handout, especially when said money could be used elsewhe
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by shimman 5mo ago
The entire purpose of people like Ezra Klein, Derek Thomas, and the elite journalist + consultant establishment is to simply preserve the neoliberal order and make sure any questions regarding it are confined in a box they defined where the
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by shimman 5mo ago
Except in this care we actually understand and know how these models work. They aren't some unknown construct of the universe. They are human made with particular goals in mind. There is no mysticism behind the curtains, just computer
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by shimman 5mo ago
You need to go to therapy and speak to a professional about this. Choosing to not have social connections is a deeply anti-human behavior, we were evolved to be social creatures after all. Maybe you are truly asocial, but you come across as

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