griftrejection

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by griftrejection 2y ago
Are the owners not enforcing time limits or drink minimums?
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by griftrejection 2y ago
Have you considered that linguists have studied jargon before? There might even be books about it.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
I'm sure they blame it all on remote work, which has nothing at all to do with trying to prop up commercial real estate.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
No, I'm sorry, there actually are true believers. I think some people just have trouble countenancing the idea that maybe some of the people we've given all the wealth and power to really are just dolts. This tends to have an unra
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by griftrejection 2y ago
It's true. Everyone knows you can actually only judge a book by its cover.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
What's more shameful is that we've done nothing to make that behavior illegal, at least in the US.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
Won't anyone think of the corporations? :(
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by griftrejection 2y ago
I mean, we didn't really allow them to. Presidents who lost the popular vote appointed them, after other appointees were politically blocked under false pretenses in the Senate ("can't do it in an election year, unless you&#x
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by griftrejection 2y ago
It will lead to the destruction of the administrative state, which was the intended result, and which people have apparently forgotten helps keep a lot of people alive and cancer-free. I mean, how many rivers need to catch on fire again bef
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by griftrejection 2y ago
Can't developers just... not do that? You can write bad code in any language. What is our responsibility as experts to avoid doing things like this, then?
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by griftrejection 2y ago
Code is linked to textual representations because code... is text? The entire point is that there are algorithms to go from "print()" to something that actually makes the computer work. How else could it even possibly work? I thin
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by griftrejection 2y ago
In hostile jurisdictions, maybe. But there are servers all around the world. Take your pick.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
And that's why they're bad using gTLDs anyone would actually ever want to use. "Hey, fellow youths, check out our snazzy new website: statefarm.travelersinsurance! So easy to type on your IBM keyboard, amirite?"
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by griftrejection 2y ago
If only there were a better way to deploy that capital. Oh well.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.
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by griftrejection 2y ago
The solution is simple: vet the talks, vet the presenter, and don't focus on technology that is popular for grifting. Sorry, but I've been to enough JS/TS meetups to know what's happening. But that world is full of marke