skookumchuck

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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are you certain there has never been any case of even the most insignificant computer error? HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn&#x27
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
As an older dev, I often weep when I see the Pull Requests from the young whippersnappers. They write code faster than I can fix the technical debt.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Taking math and CS courses isn't going to help you with scan to email.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Benjamin Franklin's worst idea.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
When a couple tells me they have trouble coming up with a name, I invariably suggest they name him/her after me.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
For an example of what you're talking about, it's what diplomats do. Where a careless word misinterpreted across different cultures and languages could start a war, diplomats have learned to be, er, "diplomatic".
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
I know a fellow who did that. He had never written a program before, read the manual, and wrote the code. He explained it in terms of the manual never said that system calls were slow.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Economists can't even agree on what caused the Great Depression.
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I doubt people would transition to agriculture if it was harder than living off the land.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
"How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie It's an enduring classic for good reason.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
And yet they still come to the US in great waves, 1.49 million a year, and many more try to get here.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Most people seem to think we are just one more law away from creating Utopia.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
The Khan Academy has a complete set of primary and secondary education (and even college level) videos to provide necessary background. All for free, of course. They're just a click away: https://www.khanacademy.org/
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
If you actually believe that, it will be come a self-fulfilling prophecy for you. And that will be your choice, as the US is full of opportunity. For example, you can get an MIT education for free on youtube, you can open a business on gith
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
"The United States has been the top destination for international migrants since at least 1960, with one-fifth of the world's migrants living there as of 2017." That doesn't make much sense if the US is a hell-hole of ca
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
> Who told you poor people are capable of as good choices as richer people? The first step in making better choices is to realize that one is making choices.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
People choose to acquire skills, or not. It's the whole point of all the education available to Americans, most of it free. Choose it, or not. Heck, you can even get an MIT education for free over the internet. It's up to you.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
The same thing happened to the South American natives, but the immigrants there did not rise. Now they want to move north to the US. There's something different about the US - capitalism.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
I know people who profess to be victims, too. I'll tick off the choices they made that got them where they are. Of course, they get angry with me. Nobody wants to hear the truth. Where I am, the good and the bad, is nearly entirely the
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
So why do penniless immigrants keep coming here? Do they know something poor people in America don't, or are they simply misinformed?
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
The US went from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower a hundred years later. Nearly the entire population that made up the US arrived penniless, and moved up into the middle class and higher. To say that American capitalism somehow &qu
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
> the meritocratic myth I've been around to see people over decades, and how their decisions affect their lives. Meritocracy is not a myth. Where people wind up is very much a consequence of their choices. This isn't the Soviet
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
I drove one way with my dad in the car, another way when he wasn't. Suffice to say I'm lucky to have survived intact into adulthood. I haven't driven a nanny car and don't know what they're like. They should have a
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
455HP in the hands of an inexperienced teenager (who will inevitably believe he is a far better driver than he actually is) is a recipe for disaster. The shop that built my engine told me they wouldn't have done it if I was under 40.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
That's because the steering wheel gears are different in a car made for manual steering than one made for power steering. The manual steering wheel has quite a bit more leverage. I drive a manual steered car. It's no problem at al
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Geez, I learned to drive on a stick, so did a hundred million other people. It's no travesty.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
> pure torture You're just not worthy of a stick. I'd get a crash box if they offered one. Synchromesh is for wussies.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
Not even Ferraris come with sticks anymore. It's sad. Anyhow, a stick is turning into a great car theft prevention device.
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by skookumchuck 8y ago
If you want another, more benign, example, look at American military bases. You've got base housing, base grocery store, base furniture, base movie theater, base bookstore, base clothing store, base restaurants, base barber shop. You a

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