slackfan

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by slackfan 5y ago
Can't let people see the plebs getting rowdy.
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by slackfan 5y ago
And in this case, they're one-sided dumping their frame of mind on me, (which can be downright abusive) and anything I say either way, supportive or non-supportive can be held against me, pending interpretation.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Give shit like this a platform, and then wonder why social interaction is dying out. Sure is easier to just not talk to anybody.
514.
by slackfan 5y ago
If I can work from anywhere in the world, why in all flying hells would I work from a city?
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by slackfan 5y ago
Idle speculation is not an argument. Maybe don't be so aggressive next time?
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by slackfan 5y ago
I had a stable, white collar job approximately midway through college. Some of the best engineers I've worked with in my career don't have a degree. This wasn't that long ago either. The network reasoning for college is vastl
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by slackfan 5y ago
Regarding autocorrect: Maybe not outsourcing your literacy to a machine might have something to do with retaining the capacity to write.
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by slackfan 5y ago
So how much cash do we need to pitch in to keep it down?
519.
by slackfan 5y ago
So how much do we need to pitch in to keep it down?
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by slackfan 5y ago
Considering the pay that they were offering me was already pretty bottom-of-the-barrel for the local area, maybe, maybe not.
521.
by slackfan 5y ago
Ha, I narrowly avoided exactly this situation. Had an offer signed, then got jerked around in the background check process for a few weeks, and then finally got a "sorry, we found a more qualified candidate, so we're rescinding th
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by slackfan 5y ago
Counterpoint: It's not like holding down a shitty job is preventing you from job hunting. Find another gig, give your two weeks, start the new gig on monday, make sure your new insurance plan is up to snuff before you give your notice.
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by slackfan 5y ago
ebook environments generally are awful mostly because of DRM. I am endlessly happy to own an e-ink reader and reading books on that. However, I will also buy books in print because nothing replaces a hard copy.
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by slackfan 5y ago
So why didn't you quit? It's not like the job market has been massively hot or anything for the past three years. I've seen people run into similar (not to the same extreme) issues at various employers over the years, and the
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by slackfan 5y ago
Same place as any other kids do non-parentaly-supervized socializing. Their neighborhood, playgrounds, activity clubs, summer camps, band, etc, etc.
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by slackfan 5y ago
"Email is inherently unsafe, everything will leak, therefore do not use encrypted email". This is about the equivalent of not just throwing out the baby with the bath water, but taking the baby putting it in a rocket and launching
527.
by slackfan 5y ago
I miss the uncensored internet, before it went all 2.0-shaped.
528.
by slackfan 5y ago
Free? I take it you pay no taxes?
529.
by slackfan 5y ago
Yes. My friend's family computers run haiku exclusively.
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by slackfan 5y ago
Hey, just use a browser that supports (x)html 4.1 and you're golden, no laws needed!
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by slackfan 5y ago
This could have happened anywhere in the world, the US is hardly unique.
532.
by slackfan 5y ago
Now make it not-brittle and prone to falling over, without using hosted k8s. ;)
533.
by slackfan 5y ago
Nope, just an argument against the "you must write all of this yourself" line. :)
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by slackfan 5y ago
Kubernetes is fantastic if you're running global-scale cloud platforms, ie, you are literally Google. Over my past five years working with it, there has been not a single customer that had a workload appropriate for kubernetes, and it
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by slackfan 5y ago
"Write it all yourself" - Install software onto your machines Package managers, thousands of them. - Start services SysVinit, and if shell is too complicated for you, you can write totally not-complicated unit files for SystemD. F
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by slackfan 5y ago
Apropos of nothing, the Soviet Union was also a net-exporter of wheat during the Holodomor. There's a lot of ways to be a net exporter.
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by slackfan 5y ago
So I guess we need to burn the forests now?
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by slackfan 5y ago
Let's not beat around the bush, data costs money. Personal data costs money. How much are you willing to pay me for my app usage data? Oh, nothing? Well then, buzz off.
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by slackfan 5y ago
"needs to reach out to the internet to provide some much-needed functionality such as auto-updating or crash reporting" Software needs not do any such thing. Developers may want this thing, but users absolutely do not need it, a
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by slackfan 5y ago
And in my historical context power fists that your ideology used were used by a regime that murdered millions. In the past 100 years.

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