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by somesortofsystm 5y ago
A declaration of war means that the government has to answer to the people for its war crimes, per international legal standards. An authorization for war means that war crimes can be committed and war criminals can get away with it, becaus
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by somesortofsystm 5y ago
Nonsense, NATO is literally surrounding its so-called 'enemies' with endless streams of base-building. NATO is not groveling or shivering - it is slowly invading proxy countries and extending the US empire, creep creep ..
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by somesortofsystm 5y ago
"Never tell Australians that their coal industry is killing the world, even if it is." I mean, really?
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by somesortofsystm 5y ago
We can save the Earth by leaving it. We put all our industry up there, and turn Earth into a garden. Totally possible. Feasible, even. We have the technology. Just not the free will.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
On the other hand, there is definitely a situation in Australia with regard to the perceived infallibility of its Imperial forces. Australia is participating in the criminal wars of the US with degrees of impunity (i.e. accountability to th
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I also moved to Europe after a life in the USA, Australia, and Japan .. and have also noticed that Europeans have a much more keen sense of wars - in general - than the Australians or Americans .. and I attribute it to victor bias, mostly.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Then you would be inferring that as a professional, I would be incapable of making an objective assessment of the teams I have been asked to manage, recruit for, rescue, reform, refactor, or disband .. over a period of 30 years. But that&#x
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I concur that Apples culture-grasp is really disconcerting. Although I have made a living in the mobile industry for years and years now, I am personally quite happy at the moment to be middle the move from Android and iOS to PinePhone. No
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Sure, tell that to the HR authorities who are insisting on only hiring one 'type' of developer for the currently exasperated teams, who then have to do things that types way, or else - even when half the team already does 'ty
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
In my opinion, the biggest source of technical debt in our industry is HR. Design-by-HR has led to so many awful, awful projects, endless grind, and disastrous architecture. Technical organizations which dissuade the HR power grab, usually
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I'm loading up my Zynthian boxes with tons of these .. just to have some superlative background piano music to play in between sessions. PianoTeq (shipped onboard Zynthian out of the box) is rendering some Debussy now, and it is really
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
The Linux sound system isn't broken. It is in excellent shape. If you choose your distro wisely [1], you will get amazing sound on Linux. You may even discover that Linux Audio rocks hard, like no other platform. [2] What is not
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
This story is preposterous for the fact that its cause was its own pitch. It almost wrote itself. When we make the problem larger than it actually is, we will end up immanentizing it. Of course a panel of authorities on microaggressio
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Should we be allowing psychologists to gate-keep academia? Isn't this how universities become temples?
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Oh, so sad to hear that its no longer there .. it was a staple in my young engineer life, so many decades ago now, and was definitely a rare gem in the area. I remember one Saturday morning, the herculean effort it took to get past the jun
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I lived in LA for a few decades, and one of the few things that kept me sane as a software engineer living in a land of space cadets and celebrity worshiping airheads was the grand plethora of technical bookshops and electronics supply stor
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Still got that 8D drum-box? ;P I have sort of a thing for the synth used, its also in the Oric-1/Atmos line of machines.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
A true classic that is just as relevant today as ever. Know thy stack! Yes, you still have a .text section!
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
My experience, having worked around the world, including years in the US and Germany, Europe, Asia .. Daily Work-Load is a function of distance from domicile to workplace. Germans generally live closer to their workplace, so its easier to c
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I've been an Apple developer for decades, but the last few years have been exhausting and I'm ready for a break. So I'm switching 100% to Linux development. For now that means contracting work for others, who are integrating
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I have written so much Awk over the years, its not even funny. The one awk script I will never forget, ~30 years ago, was written in 20 minutes when 4 days of C code became untenable. It was a "hmm.. wonder if I can just push the parsi
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
>As its basis, our reconstruction uses contemporary recordings of the Howitzer, Mauser, Stokes, Vickers and Lee Enfield guns What an excellent article on data recovery, I found it refreshing to consider the technique of transcription ..
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
> capture of the web by People have also forgotten how to maintain a filesystem of data and keep it up to date and well organized, themselves, locally. They don't have the patience to have to copy that data to another server to get
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Says it right here: "A phalanx of retired generals and admirals stood behind Mr. Obama on the second day of his presidency, providing martial cover as he signed several executive orders to make good on campaign pledges. Brutal interrog
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I once drove from London to Frome, passing Stone Henge on the way - if I'd known how easily accessible it was from the A303, I would've stopped to pay a visit. It is surprisingly easy to pass.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Gabarnmung is mankinds oldest stone work, and is still in use after 44,000 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung Seriously, if you think Stone Henge is worthy of note, you must surely understand Gabarnmungs&#
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o... From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._... "However during that period, the Obama Adm
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Actually, they did. Obama started counting everyone in the drone sights as enemy combatants. They were bullshit reports before Obama. They became even more bullshit during Obama. And the bullshit is out of control now.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Obama LITERALLY changed the definition of enemy combatant so that he did not have to report such high civilian casualty rates, as part of the CIA's program to use his popularity to sell endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Strangely omits Obama's first 4 years. I wonder why that is.

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