CamTin

4 ms·

1.
by CamTin 5y ago
In my experience, "joie de vivre" isn't really everyday vocabulary, but then I've never heard the phrase "joy of living" spoken even once. Google trends seems to bear this out: https://trends.google.
2.
by CamTin 5y ago
You're not missing anything. Yes, this basic assumption underpins all orthodox liberal economics. No, it can't be true.
3.
by CamTin 5y ago
It's righty because pro-police policies are right wing policies. Sunsetting old laws takes away power from the police, and so is a lefty policy.
4.
by CamTin 5y ago
While it may be broadly popular in the electorate across party lines, it's definitely a righty policy, since having lots of old, ambiguous laws on the books increases the discretion of police and prosecutors to deal with "troublem
5.
by CamTin 5y ago
Weird to call something "at a glance" when it is a 500 page PDF that costs $161.
6.
by CamTin 5y ago
Regular state-employed cops can and often do employ largely the same strategy but on a much bigger scale.
7.
by CamTin 5y ago
The ITAR restrictions are imposed by the US, not Iran. Therefore, the US is at fault if you believe this to be a problem.
8.
by CamTin 5y ago
The American solution to this problem is just to charge people for the expense of being arrested and jailed: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/2091-jail-fees
9.
by CamTin 5y ago
Why bother to exist at all (besides profiting) if nobody is changing their actions based on the reporting or programming you provide? It's a fantasy that there was ever objective reporting, or that NPR/PBS was ever capable of prod
10.
by CamTin 5y ago
If you don't chase ratings, you're not chasing viewers, and you're not having much impact on discourse. The current toxic sludge of cable news sprouted up decades after public broadcasting had been around.
11.
by CamTin 5y ago
Perl almost does this. Various CPAN packages have different "use" lines where they can declare themselves to be written in a particular version. These can all live together on an interpreter recent enough to know all the dialects.
12.
by CamTin 5y ago
Speaking colloquially, I'll often use "pop" as in "Do we have a log of when that event popped?"
13.
by CamTin 5y ago
I worked for a Dreamhost competitor for years. These "managed VPS" accounts with providers like that are definitely not something where you can just throw your code over the wall. There were and are whole teams of unix weenies lik
14.
by CamTin 5y ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. To me it's obvious that performance reviews aren't and cannot be objective. You may disagree, but this will inevitably lead to dissonance when you your boss's assessment of y
15.
by CamTin 5y ago
Yes, I was mirroring your own use of the word "truth." My point is that performance reviews are simply the result of management's opinions. You asked the question "Why do you assume the manager always know the truth?&quo
16.
by CamTin 5y ago
Management effectively does know the truth, for the trivial reason that they get to decide what the truth is. They are the ones who get to decide what counts as performing and underperforming. It's not as though there is some objective
17.
by CamTin 5y ago
My job is definitely not essential (I work in ops for a category of app where nobody dies even if it is unavailable for years at a time). "Essential workers" are the flipside of "bullshit jobs". If grocery stores aren&#x
18.
by CamTin 5y ago
...or a cabal of capitalists who never really meet at all but just "coordinate" via the market, media, armies of accountants and lawyers, etc.
19.
by CamTin 5y ago
I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value of the Accept-Language request header regardless of what IP
20.
by CamTin 5y ago
There's usually (always?) an "other" or "I would prefer not to say" option though.
21.
by CamTin 5y ago
I assume you're asking because people around you tend to smoke spliffs rolled from hash and tobacco. I know this is common in Europe at least, but in the US (and probably elsewhere) it's relatively uncommon and smoking just cannab
22.
by CamTin 5y ago
Also the full DEL scheme proposal hinted at in RFC-1 is the subject of RFC-5.
23.
by CamTin 5y ago
This still seems to be "house style" for a certain brand of "old school" open source mailing list.
24.
by CamTin 5y ago
Thanks, this does look interesting! I find any old ITS-related technical discussions like this (despite it being ostensibly OS-neutral standards language) to be very difficult to pore over. Sometimes I wonder if I'm computer-literate o
25.
by CamTin 5y ago
> We propose to implement this solution by creating a language for console control. This language, current named DEL, would be used by subsystem designers to specify what components are needed in a terminal and how the terminal
26.
by CamTin 5y ago
Agreed. Palantir in particular is a bizarre example. It's a private company specifically engineered to vacuum up government money. Anything it makes in nominally-private transactions just window dressing.
27.
by CamTin 5y ago
Yes, exactly.
28.
by CamTin 5y ago
FWIW this definitely wasn't the case for their Austin office pre-pandemic.
29.
by CamTin 6y ago
...and presumably also the point of the comment it was responding to.
30.
by CamTin 6y ago
Or Scheme :) One of the motivating cases is working around the Nix language's shortcomings: > The Nix package manager: Nix is a declarative package manager using its own language for specifying packages. Nickel is inspired in part b

More ›