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by undoware 4y ago
dude, I've been reading posts like this since the nineties (on Slashdot.) Terminals have been 'going away' for longer than I've been alive, and they will continue to diminish long after I'm gone. The reason they don
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by undoware 4y ago
A "straw man" is a variety of argument. This makes no argument; it is satire -- a caricature -- as has been repeatedly pointed out; hence, it cannot be a straw man. Now, this is not to say that it might not blamelessly strike you
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by undoware 4y ago
Also true at MSFT
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by undoware 4y ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Typescript, React, NixOS, OpenBSD, Python Email: liz.mars@pm.me CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tq83z7BbX11WkKrm8ORQkLsiNTW...
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by undoware 4y ago
Yes, but it's a shadow ban. Thinking aloud, I suppose there are three kinds of bans: 1 - Actual, explicit bans (formal) 2 - Intentional shadowbans (decided by humans) 3 - De-facto shadowbans (unintentional artifacts of ML vertex weig
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by undoware 4y ago
My gender, actually
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by undoware 4y ago
I did this. At 37 I was marginally employed. In 2019 I was FTE at MSFT. It was tricky but worked out You got this, kid
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by undoware 4y ago
They are the same container but the entropy is reversed
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by undoware 4y ago
IMO at MSFT there's a big cultural disconnect between the old-guard, who are of course senior management, and FOSS-forward teams. The needs of the latter are not always understood by the former. E.g. the recent HMR debacle with C#. Par
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by undoware 4y ago
Relatedly, here are some of the trends that I hope can be reversed. Pointing them out is a form of hopeful activity for me, because, like Rumplestiltskin, these are problems which cannot be solved unless they are named. Proviso: this list i
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by undoware 4y ago
I think the best medicine may be giving up attempts at perceiving an optimistic future. I don't have so much 'reasons for optimism' anymore as a list of negative trends that might still be reversible. Cf the amazing _Cruel Op
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by undoware 4y ago
Their release schedule isn't that different than previous years. I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that some people here are simply feeling the vibe less right now -- it's likely because of the woman-centered vibe, and
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by undoware 4y ago
Both Mapy and Windy.com are from the same devs and I paid for both, and both are exquisite pieces of engineering.
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by undoware 4y ago
My first thought as well -- but it was phrased as, "of course there is some specific person here who, due to a long-running disagreement over facts, has been passively gathering relevant data over a period of years." It's sor
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by undoware 4y ago
Misses the most important reason. Repetition creates symmetrical cases . As they say in German, 'einmal ist keinmal' -- once is never. Overly DRY code is incredibly non-educational. Why? Because you learn by comparing and contras
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by undoware 4y ago
And I'll quickly duck back in to say that while there is an abundance of recent examples, including the early 2020 attempts to limit public use of n95 masks(!), there isn't a solution to the health-comms predicament per-se. You
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by undoware 4y ago
Yes, it works rather too well, in fact. So much so, that people subject to it will likely be slathering up, no matter what science finds out. Again: Science changes; emotions do not; the job of public health comms is to generate emotions th
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by undoware 4y ago
impressive public-health comms technique, but again, will still 'show jet black' even if: - you're wearing a sunscreen which is itself carcinogenic, and are being affected by this - your sunscreen is destroying coral reefs -
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by undoware 4y ago
This is incredibly exciting news, but I'd like to kick the tires real quick. Main worry: The magic ingredient this time appears to be vanadium instead of lithium, but there's still a magic ingredient (at least, according to my cur
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by undoware 4y ago
that sounds hard but I... don't often code in python? I can see bolting a fallback regex mode for the few languages that have features which ts cannot (yet) accommodate. And 'niche layered on niche' is -- well, it leaves me w
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by undoware 4y ago
I loved vi for decades, but I don't miss it. Neovim is my current go-to but even this feels stodgy these days. Helix Editor is probably my future -- it manages to have just the right features, but with saner defaults and syntax -- but
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by undoware 4y ago
Having worked at a big tech company, I can report that there is an intense, career-making-or-breaking individual imperative for managers to prove the 'value' of soft assets like credibility or popularity. In my opinion, the reason
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by undoware 4y ago
Raindrop. Every day, for all things. The snapshots of the pages it takes means that if I see something I can later say something, it doesn't matter who grooms the content meanwhile.
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by undoware 4y ago
I feel you. Ansible means yaml, and yaml reminds me of perl. But not in a fun nostalgic way. Like Perl, yaml has too many "intuitive" features that you never actually use but will for sure be learned, by you, in a hurry, when you
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by undoware 4y ago
A set of three foot pedals: one for screen recordings, another for instant replay, and another for quick voice notes. Usage: mash the leftmost pedal to toggle recording the screen; mash the middle pedal to save off the past 30 seconds of my
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by undoware 4y ago
> This only logically follows if literally all cryptocurrencies are proof-of-work (let alone proof-of-work using a hashing algorithm as energy-intensive as SHA256). This is patently false Against this, I argue: - easier/cheaper hash
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by undoware 4y ago
To be honest -- and this says plenty about the industry, but, yes, me as well -- I got a job at a large tech company by sleeping with the right engineer at Burning Man, got the referral, and then did well in the interviews and H1B lottery.
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by undoware 4y ago
Most of Green's article goes through, except for the answer to the 'climate change' objection (Objection 1). Which is, of course, the most important, and without it, the article as a whole also fails to convince. The problem
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by undoware 4y ago
I once attempted to buy a laser for an EDM music art project on Amazon and wound up with something that is more or less intentionally down-marked as a less dangerous class of laser. I only found out about it (and thus saved my retinas) beca
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by undoware 5y ago
Handedness is a fact. I'm left-handed, but my passport doesn't need to say so. Why is it 'sensible' to include this? Shall we include my favourite foods as well?

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