scrozart

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by scrozart 1y ago
The devs have been co-opted into marketing roles now, too - they have to say it's that good to keep the money coming in. IMO this reinforces the original post - this all feels like a scramble. Whether it's indicative of patterns b
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by scrozart 1y ago
Those FOIAs are requested by politicians owned by industry in an effort by industry to scrape whatever leverage they can. FOIAs themselves are not problematic, obviously, but their application isn't limited to do-gooders.
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by scrozart 1y ago
You're not wrong about funding, but OP is correct about industry influence. It varies a little by division/subject matter, but they basically have to run everything by industry and are subject to FOIAs and public shaming by senato
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by scrozart 1y ago
I can't imagine using MS products for anything important these days. There are more reliable options for servers, databases, and OS, and those options all have better docs.
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by scrozart 1y ago
Lots of anecdotes and opinions in the thread. Read the post and the science.
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by scrozart 1y ago
Agreed. Additionally, negative sanctions have been part of human life since the beginning. Anyone who has raised a child or pet understands this. This discussion of far more nuanced than many of the comments in this post address. It's
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by scrozart 1y ago
The answers to stay until you find something else are correct. I would also add that it's probably pretty easy to fake it - in my experience management, especially executive level, have no idea how things actually get done. If they are
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by scrozart 1y ago
Hard not to feel this way sometimes given the quality of some job listings and the negativity bias here and broader media. In such moments of despair I recall two axioms: change is inevitable and ongoing, and talent rarely resides in the C-
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by scrozart 1y ago
Metafilter, hands down.
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by scrozart 1y ago
Lots of good answers here about part of your question: is it hype or not? In that it likely isn't going away, and is becoming a valid force multiplier, it's not. However, this question is better answered by asking yourself what yo
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by scrozart 3y ago
What, exactly, are you basing this assumption on?
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by scrozart 3y ago
Sure looks like documentation to me, but I don't need pretty webpages. 'man' is more than sufficient for tools like these.
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by scrozart 3y ago
> does the world really FEEL that different now, than pre-internet? Yes. You said it yourself: you used to have to WALK somewhere to look things up. Added convenience isn't the only side affect; that walk wasn't instantaneous.
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by scrozart 3y ago
Sleeping in more than one long chunk of time is called polyphasic sleeping [0]. It's postulated that sleeping in one go is an industrial age phenomenon. Anecdotal, but I embraced a mild form of this during college, using "Einstein
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by scrozart 3y ago
The idea that only these 2 companies can provide a platform for secure apps is patently absurd. What's stopping another company other than these companies' stranglehold? If you want to say resources, I guarantee I'm not alone
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by scrozart 3y ago
Rewriting history and books is actually exactly what's happening in Florida under ostensibly fascist rule, which is precisely what Orwell was referring to. I don't want my street named after a slave owner, period. No, it doesn&#x2
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by scrozart 3y ago
Agreed. I was always on the fence about children, and eventually decided/realized a strong desire to have children is a responsible prerequisite.
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by scrozart 3y ago
Yup. I work at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where we maintain pipelines for astronomical data that move petabytes, among other things. All of the heavy lifting is done in Python.
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by scrozart 3y ago
This is, unequivocally, rubbish. Denouncing recovered memories is precisely how the Baltimore Archdiocese covered up years of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Only utter dirtbags like Paul McHugh [1], who astoundingly still has an ~emeritu
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by scrozart 3y ago
What philosophical issues do you have with Gitlab?
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by scrozart 3y ago
And?
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by scrozart 3y ago
What about that?
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by scrozart 3y ago
Your comment indicates you can't differentiate between LSD and dangerous opioids. Cheese is the opioid supplying immediate gratification. LSD, and other hallucinogens, work much, much differently.
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by scrozart 3y ago
I've done LSD numerous times, including "heroic" doses, as have many of my friends, starting 30 years ago (I haven't in a while as i no longer feel the need to blow open those doors). Not one of us has ever had a single
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by scrozart 3y ago
I thought we were on "hacker" news ...
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by scrozart 3y ago
Yup. This is how they're taught in CS undergrad (as of 10 years ago, anyway).
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by scrozart 3y ago
An absurd comparison. Agriculture is an essential facet of civilization, and that water directly produces food.
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by scrozart 3y ago
Specific example? Just because you may not agree with a program doesn't make it "propaganda".
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by scrozart 4y ago
I recommend editing your post to clarify.
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by scrozart 4y ago
Presumably the ability to observe at different wavelengths. Most telescopes have (in not the incredible flagship like HST and JWST) observe in one wavelength, say infrared or visual.

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