dingosity

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by dingosity 1y ago
I think I was talking about the pundits, not the staff at Bluesky. They certainly existed in 2020. You can be a pundit and say things without saying them on Bluesky. There is a notable history of people saying things before 2023.
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by dingosity 1y ago
If your assertion is "a bunch of people got on Bluesky to talk about the election..." well, did you notice there were two candidates? I think what you're saying is "DEMOCRATS left TWITTER to go to Bluesky," which m
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by dingosity 1y ago
So your data is "I noticed BlueSky is people who left Twitter." This may not be the convincing argument you think it is.
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by dingosity 1y ago
It sounds like your point is when left wing politicos are targeted and people celebrate it, those are obviously sock-puppets and bots. But when right wing celebrities (for lack of a better word) are targeted, it's the democratic base
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by dingosity 1y ago
There was a joke bumper-sticker in the valley back in the day that said "Windows 95 == Macintosh 89". But the critique of this was "Macintosh 95 == Macintosh 89". In the same way, "NeXTStep 89 == MacOS X 2001 == M
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by dingosity 2y ago
Once long ago I worked for a small company doing unified messaging as their Security Architect. In that job it meant I was a software engineer with domain experience in implementing cryptographic protocols. I was well prepared for this ro
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by dingosity 2y ago
So the smartest guy in the world doesn't know that flashing a Nazi salute is bad? Also, he's not an aspy. I worked with him. He's an Asshat.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Thank you for posting something unrelated to politics today.
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by dingosity 2y ago
This is problematic.
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by dingosity 2y ago
I wonder how much of Ferris' latency is related to net speed and rendering speed / computational horsepower of their local machine. I've seen several different evaluation regimes which try to objectively measure web-site &qu
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by dingosity 2y ago
I was born in Texas. I wonder what country I'll be deported to.
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by dingosity 2y ago
meh. i always thought the real reason for the ban was EVERYONE in the states who has had to deal with ByteDance walks away from the experience thinking they've been dicked. Or at least everyone I've talked with. In my own exper
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by dingosity 2y ago
I was a little surprised by how many times commercial airliners have been shot down.
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List of Airliner Shootdown Incidents(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by dingosity 2y ago|1 comments
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by dingosity 2y ago
I came across this one and it really spoke to me. I'm often thinking about how to optimize my career, project or code-base. But I am reminded that "play" is an important aspect of human development and understanding. The o
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Attempts to Improve Critical Thinking in Higher Education - Play Makes Us Human(petergray.substack.com)
4 points by dingosity 2y ago|1 comments
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by dingosity 2y ago
I have such fun memories of x86 real-mode assembly programming. Thx for the stroll down memory lane!
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by dingosity 2y ago
Should we be scared? [asked in all seriousness, not as a quip.]
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by dingosity 2y ago
Them: What's your LinkedIn Account? Me: Don't have one. Them: Twitter? Me: Nope. Them: InstaGram or TicToc? Me: Nope. Them: Do you use the web at all? Me: Only through Lynx. I see a lot fewer ads. Th
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Ask HN: Is there a way to disable "Chat With Gemini" on Android?
1 points by dingosity 2y ago|0 comments
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by dingosity 2y ago
Hmm... doesn't really offer a suggestion for measuring progress. FWIW, in our dev team, we don't talk about "percent done," but say "percentage of unit tests that pass without mockups" and then "percentag
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by dingosity 2y ago
Hmm... "Why don't more people use XXXX" type of posts seem like an invitation to argument and drama. But I'm a Lisp fan, so I can't ignore this opportunity for people to down-vote me because I don't make a ful
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by dingosity 2y ago
YMMV. I came the other way. I started with AWS a couple decades ago. I was lucky 'cause I worked at Amazon and there was always a friend-of-a-friend inside the organization which could put me in touch with someone who understood what
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by dingosity 2y ago
NP. I love seeing people experiment. Thanks for listening.
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by dingosity 2y ago
First things first... hella props for just going out and doing something creative. Things I like: 1. It's obvious where sections begin and end. 2. PLENTY or margin and padding. I know some people try to cram as much info on a single l
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by dingosity 2y ago
weird. ad farm.
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by dingosity 2y ago
"literally" literally doesn't mean "literally" any more.
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by dingosity 2y ago
Also... the definition of the Python language changes every two years so older examples will eventually not work with modern implementations of the language.
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by dingosity 2y ago
This blog post by Jason Fried has been posted several times here, but it's been about a year since the last time so I'm adding it again. It's as simple as you might expect from the title. If you're going to criticize so
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Give It Five Minutes (2012)(signalvnoise.com)
1 points by dingosity 2y ago|1 comments

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