specialist

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by specialist 5d ago
Great perspective to share, thanks. > They didn't understand horizontal scaling What of Jini, JavaSpaces / Linda, JXTA, "grid computing"? Were they too early? Dismissed as (Bill Joy's) hobby projects? At the ti
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by specialist 7d ago
> weirdly specific brainless creatures Legislative product management, by committee.
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by specialist 13d ago
Agreed. In teams, only the history of what is committed to shared repo is important.
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by specialist 13d ago
Me too. It'd be nice if shoutouts included time spans, thusly: "In my travels, I always had my copies of Norton [1981-1989] books and utilities." I respect any artist (creator) that manages to get paid, so I don't begrud
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by specialist 19d ago
My brother has to remember to blink. (Thyroid or something, he's cagey about sharing diag. I suspect Grave's Disease.) His unflinching stare into the eyes of interogation, while telling obvious lies, got us out of lots of trouble.
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by specialist 19d ago
Yes but: Apple has no incentive to open up. Absent that, it'd take some kind of sustained right-to-repair, EU morality, many sternly worded letters pressure campaign. Plus, once they did (officially), they're kinda committed to ke
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by specialist 19d ago
My family continues to use my old 2009 MacBook Pro. YMMV
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by specialist 22d ago
Regulations is a scary word for rules .
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by specialist 23d ago
Because Trump support is an identity, not a belief system. I'm currently immersed in MAGA world (eldercare, siblings). Their daily media diet is 1984's Two Minutes of Hate all day long on repeat. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by specialist 23d ago
IIRC, Fox News accounts for +5 R nationally. Plus the +5 R advantage due to misapportion... It's a wonder that Democrats ever attain a majority. And why most criticisms of Democrats (campaigns, messaging, policy, whatever) aren't
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by specialist 23d ago
Change (chaos) is the biggest threat to election integrity. It creates "jump ball" situations where anything can happen. Last minute rule changes: redistricting, ballot redesign / reissue, gear swaps, polling locations, etc.
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by specialist 24d ago
Live long enough and all these apocalypses start to smell the same.
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by specialist 1mo ago
> ...don't work in the global world. Exactly. The tarriffs are but a part of the attack on the previous status quo. The current Admin is hostile to neoliberalism, globalism, the maritime order, sole superpower, international comi
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by specialist 1mo ago
Yup. We wouldn't even be having this conversation had capital shared the surplus (profits) with labor. There'd be no oxygen for Sanders, AOC, DSA style proposals (the very modest, proven, and just slightly left-of-center Nordic Mo
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by specialist 1mo ago
For a very brief window of time, USA did a little bit more good than bad. Those of us wanting to believe USA was more better than not have struggled to recalibate our beliefs.
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by specialist 1mo ago
Yup. Repeated radical cashectomies, until wealth inequity is decidedly pro-democracy. Alas, from the little I've read about both reform (new legislation) and revolution (new constitution), the wealthy elite squirm thru, never truly los
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by specialist 1mo ago
True.
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by specialist 1mo ago
Biggest myth is left vs right, when it's upper vs lower.
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by specialist 1mo ago
Preach. AKA shibboleths Further, the rhetoric creates a permission structure which allows (enables?) people to be their worst selves.
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by specialist 1mo ago
Which in turn largely forms identity.
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by specialist 1mo ago
Probably the same reason as everyone else (voting for Trump). Why Farmers Voted for Trump https://youtube.com/watch?v=badGHJLDpP8 Followup https://youtube.com/watch?v=rZQxCvbLG6U
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by specialist 2mo ago
whoops https://forterra.org/our-work/programs/green-city-partnershi...
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by specialist 2mo ago
I would love that. We've asked. Something something budgets, liability, approvals, blah blah blah. Like everywhere else (in this habitat zone), we have acres of just blackberry. They even choke out the scotts broom and butterfly bushes
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by specialist 2mo ago
Absolutely. And those failures sour support for further efforts. Vicious cycle. Reforesting (rewilding) is farming and gardening. Proactive ecological management. Per "You broke it, you bought it." We are recreating forests. In my
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by specialist 2mo ago
It's mesmerizing. Akin to dance. I love it.
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by specialist 2mo ago
TLDR?
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by specialist 2mo ago
I'm very interested in "seed bombs". We have to plant something like one trillion trees just to keep up with losses from forest fires. Imagine the economics, supply chain, science, innovation, etc required to plant one trilli
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by specialist 2mo ago
I volunteer at greencitypartnership.org, leading a crew restoring a large park. I've been wondering how we might build a community of urban forest hackers. To share tips and info, how to deal with vandals, help each other make yard sig
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by specialist 2mo ago
Well spotted. Thanks for share. Much better than my draft glib response: founders of FIRE punch down and suck up.
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by specialist 2mo ago
I can't wait to hear your take. Please. Continue.

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