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   by ebcode 4y ago

   > All software contains bugs, unexpected failure modes, and undiscovered security vulnerabilities. I am convinced that there are essentially zero exceptions to these claims. /bin/true (humbly submitted as a non-zero exception t
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   by ebcode 4y ago

   > is software/system development the only field where masters of their craft ultimately become directors? Theatre and Cinema are two other fields where folks have been known to work their way up to director/producer/megalo
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   by ebcode 4y ago

   As a US Citizen who has had their twitter posts censored, I consider myself to be a critic of the US Government who has been effectively silenced. At a certain point you have to decide whether you are willing to die for your cause, or live
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   by ebcode 4y ago

   Get angry. Fight. Don't let another child get killed.
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   Harnessing Math to Understand Tipping Points (2013)(youtube.com)

   2 points by ebcode 5y ago|0 comments
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   by ebcode 5y ago

   I can recommend "Universal Algebra" by P.M. Cohn
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   by ebcode 5y ago

   ITPro has a recent write-up: https://www.itpro.com/hardware/361331/the-true-story-behind-...
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   by ebcode 5y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus%3A_The_Forbin_Project -- from 1970
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   by ebcode 5y ago

   In reality it could be both: meteor-flinging aliens.
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Thanks. I hadn't realized he was such a snitch.
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > including doxxing people who have left bad reviews on his books source?
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    I used to say, "It's always darkest before the dawn, so bring on the darkness." My younger self is quite happy with the way things are going, but my present self thinks my younger self is a fool.
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    And if you follow the link at the bottom of that post, you'll find what the thermocline consists of: >There was upper Apple management, basking in the sun; the great mass of Apple employees below; and between the two, a constantly s
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Firefighters in California had a law passed that prevents cell phone towers from being placed on fire station property[0]. They complained of headaches and nausea from living near the antennae. As a species and a culture, it seems we'r
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    by ebcode 5y ago

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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > I don't get how so many people are political on a site largely concerning itself with employment. Because employment, like almost everything else in life, is political[0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/di
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    just because there's a giant market for (covering up) something, doesn't mean it isn't normal and expected. Women's leg hair comes to mind. Also wrinkle cream. Advertising makes us do things we might not otherwise do, is
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    Weizenbaum examines computers and society (1985)(tech.mit.edu)

    1 points by ebcode 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Anyone here able to explain how this works? (Guessing there isn't a single SLIP[0] programmer around) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLIP_(programming_language)
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    I appreciate you, tosh!
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Get your local environment set up (Linux, nginx, PHP, MySQL), then configure Netbeans with xdebug, and start stepping through the code. I think this is probably both the most painful and most useful way to learn how Wordpress works under th
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Wow. Two turtle geometry-related posts on the front-page today. I wonder if Logo is headed for a comeback. (fingers crossed)
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    "What's more, the poor in other countries know that they are living in poor countries. They know that not only they but just about everyone is on the edge of starvation. The poor in the United States, on the other hand, are daily
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > Yes, but are there any political philosophies that advocate the adoption of elements of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle? I don't know if existentialism qualifies as "political philosophy" or not, but if all philosophies ar
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    I've given this a (small) bit of thought. With regard to the whales, it occurred to me that if one (or two, or more) of them all decided to sell at the same time and crash the price, the effect would be to disperse all those coins amon
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > ... having an orange instead of an apple, which is probably measurable ... No, it is absolutely not measurable. We have known since time immemorial that you can't compare apples and oranges. And now if we unanalogize the argument,
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > it's an experiment to inject vulnerabilities in a source code I'm guessing it passed for similar reasoning, along with the reviewers being unfamiliar with how "vulnerabilities are injected." To get the bad code in,
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    Since a lot of people will read this page, but won't follow the link, I'm posting RMS' quote from your link: > Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the chil
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    by ebcode 5y ago

    > The damage he does to the free software movement is incalculable. That's like saying the damage George Lucas has done to Star Wars is incalculable. Without George Lucas, there is no Star Wars. Did he fuck it up? Absolutely. Is th