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by worik 2y ago
I know it as: If the elephants are fighting or fucking the ants are scared The context I heard it was politics
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by worik 2y ago
Dell laptop running Debian-12
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We cannot solve homelessness with market mechanisms, I believe We are in agreement, I think. > Hell, I don't want to own property right now You need some place to live where the organisation of the capital is somebody else's pr
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by worik 2y ago
> Putting aside rent (which should be illegal IMO outside of rent to own—it just makes no sense as a social construct I understand the sentiment. But many people at many stages of their lives do not want to be owning g property, so some
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by worik 2y ago
> Apple now allows third party web engines on iOS Really? I want to know more about that Silly me: Should have checked for myself... https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-b...
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by worik 2y ago
> Nothing says nerds can't keep a Chromium installed as an emergency backup, I do, now My boss insists on Google Meet, and it will not access audio on Firefox Every single other website does not have this problem, dark patterns ind
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by worik 2y ago
> Or perhaps Apple believes that developers are subhuman… From my three years of experience as a developer of iOS applications, this is the root cause. How the mighty have fallen
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by worik 2y ago
> That sounds good - until you realize they have only 136,000 personnel total. The UK wound down personnel when they got out of the Afghanistan quagmire In peace time effective militaries equip and train officer corps Large numbers of so
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by worik 2y ago
This could be a good thing. Uniting Europe possibly Mr Trump is not wrong IMO that Europe has depended too much on the USA for too long. Europe is divided, both between and within nations, this might be the impetus needed to reverse that.
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by worik 2y ago
> AI crash is gonna lead to decade long winter Possibly. I am reminded of the dotcom boom and bust back in the 1990s By 2009 things had recovered (for some definition) and we could tell what did and did not work This time, though, for th
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Tech workers resign to not dismantle critical public services(independent.co.uk)
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This is not politics anymore
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> Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it Not a product, but a service: is Red Hat Linux a counter example?
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I do not trust the scetchy guy running it I do not trust their relationship with crypto I do not trust their business model
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I'm sorry mate, that does not make sense I am appalled by this change, but I am not switching to Brave. Mozilla is loosing trust, Brave started with zero.
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> I wonder if Tesla, as far as the business goes, would be better off pivoting to being a battery company The Chinese are far ahead of Tesla, specifically BYD Tesla are not doomed (hyper inflated share price might be) but they have been
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by worik 2y ago
> Why would humans feed wolves scraps Human feces is very attractive to a dog. So perhaps not deliberate?
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by worik 2y ago
Yes I have a dog that starved as a puppy (not by me, I rested him, best thing I have done in the last decade). He is four now, and we have an extensive routine securing every acces to food like substances when he is left alone. Other dogs I
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by worik 2y ago
When training a puppy (I've trained five +, strictly amature) food is very useful As an adult it becomes a relationship, and the dog is more responsive to praise and criticism. That is what is meant IMO by "food motivated" F
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by worik 2y ago
Animals are grass fed around me. There is some supplementary feeding, but mostly hay made in summer for winter. The economics of farming do not stack up, here, with feed from off the farm. Mostly sheep, a smattering of beef.
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Treating people with such a lack of respect. Machines and technology in place of human decency.
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No, it should not. That is why I ask. The president has immunity and unlimited right (?) to pardon. So are they going to listen?
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> They're arguing that employers can't access their internal records on their employees. How are they doing that?
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> You want to know how to make it more nutritious, cheaper, sustainable, healthier and efficient? Eliminate animal farming and feed humans directly I hear that a lot. Apart fom the nutritional benefits of eating meat, notr every place in
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> it's nice to see things being tried in the real world that aren't just scammy/$ grabs. It would be nicer if it was not saddled by hubris and a lack of domain knowledge It would be great if it were not such a colossal was
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> To be successful in this business you need to eliminate the hubris and just be a farmer. Yes. That is not to say that farming is not due for some revolutionary redefining. But it will be farmers leading the change, not software people
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by worik 2y ago
Testing is very important. But.... > something that can be introduced with minimum initial investments Testing is very expensive. Setting up an automated testing environment is tricky, prone to failure, and requires constant expensive
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by worik 2y ago
I think the point is that not using Docker is easier, simpler, cheaper and better than using Docker. Unless it is not, then you should use Docker. But many (all?) of us have had the experience of a manager insisting on some "new thing&
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by worik 2y ago
> Its massive adoption proves you wrong No! * Window NT in 1991. Displaced much better systems, on mass * Node.js (my job) is simply dreadful. Mass adoption there too * It took until 2015 to get half way to a replacement for C for real
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> You have to have some level of trust between yourself and your boss Yes. What you are suggesting is corrosive to trust though. Frank discussion is good. Stating what you need and what you expect. Game playing is no good and I would pr

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