>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation. Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and whose kids get a medevac flight to a major…
This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in control. And what's a bit of traffic…
Gaslighers gonna gaslight. You don't need a Ph.D. to see this "research" was guided by motivated reasoning rather than genuine desire to figure out what is going on.
More like "I'm tired of anticipating the inevitable, while being relentlessly gaslit about its probability". Whether or not edX is sold to a third party, the underlying problems are already in the system. It's the…
This is an excellent question/framing. The security model used in the industry right now is insane and doomed to fail, and yet it is relentlessly pushed forth and defended.
1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this…
>In all my experience with OOP, it's always been inheritance that is the root of all evil. It's not, though, and the fact that people keep repeating this meme shows that most developers don't even bother thinking about…
Alan Kay spent the last 40 years educating people on OOP and system design. His talks and research papers are now widely available on the internet. There are free, modern and easy-to-use versions of Smalltalk. Anyone…
You are smugly describing your personal benefits from the system that is also used to spread massive amounts of propaganda, organize campaigns to socially ruin people and to coordinate political violence.
MDN should be a separate company. Personally, I'm no longer interested in supporting Mozilla in any capacity. Their management behaves in a way that's consistent with the idea that it's barely more than controlled…
>Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel shouldn't be…
More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions. Assumptions that either changed over time or never made sense to begin with. The…
Could have something to do with literally all major sources of information in US showing ideologically-charged garbage in front of people who want to focus on other things in life.
>The blue badge is one of the ways we help people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. This is gaslighting. That's not how blue checkmarks work in practice. They are a completely…
I see that you didn't get the memo. If an algorithm or a mathematical definition is made by a white man, it's by definition racist and sexist because it was made by a white man. Entropy was defined by Claude Shannon who…
https://factorcode.org/ One of the most impressive languages you've never heard about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
Yes. Communication software that can be set up by anyone with some technical skill is bad. Communication software run by centralized corporations is good. No drama possible when your entire chat system can be nuked with…
>As for the remaining millions, only a tiny minority of them will even know this is a thing, let alone care enough to make the change or contact a developer who can do it. These are the folks who have hosted their…
>The ordeal at our Capital proves there's a problem that needs to be monitored. Unlike, say, nightly riots in Portland, that require neither monitoring nor federal response of any kind? It would be one thing if posts…
>For example, why would you write something in PHP when you've got an excellent choice between Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView You can make a simple website on PHP in ~30 lines of code (routing + boilerplate…
>My mindset wasn't that they really cared that I could do these obscure programming exercises that I hadn't used once in 20+ years of real-world programming, but rather that I could prove that I could learn and adapt.…
People who pay attention know that this is already happening due to social media posts.
Gotta love the constant movement of goalposts and gaslighting around this. As in many other cases it started with claims that nobody intends to censor any content during the move. Then when deletions actually took place…
No. If you know anything about history, you know that attacks on free speech do not have to start or stop with official government sanction. In Soviet Union it wasn't uncommon for dissidents and their families to be…
This raises a giant red flag for me. Storage is storage. This is not like hash mining, which is based on probabilities. You either have the data or you don't. If you have the data, even partially, this should be useful…
>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation. Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and whose kids get a medevac flight to a major…
This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in control. And what's a bit of traffic…
Gaslighers gonna gaslight. You don't need a Ph.D. to see this "research" was guided by motivated reasoning rather than genuine desire to figure out what is going on.
More like "I'm tired of anticipating the inevitable, while being relentlessly gaslit about its probability". Whether or not edX is sold to a third party, the underlying problems are already in the system. It's the…
This is an excellent question/framing. The security model used in the industry right now is insane and doomed to fail, and yet it is relentlessly pushed forth and defended.
1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this…
>In all my experience with OOP, it's always been inheritance that is the root of all evil. It's not, though, and the fact that people keep repeating this meme shows that most developers don't even bother thinking about…
Alan Kay spent the last 40 years educating people on OOP and system design. His talks and research papers are now widely available on the internet. There are free, modern and easy-to-use versions of Smalltalk. Anyone…
You are smugly describing your personal benefits from the system that is also used to spread massive amounts of propaganda, organize campaigns to socially ruin people and to coordinate political violence.
MDN should be a separate company. Personally, I'm no longer interested in supporting Mozilla in any capacity. Their management behaves in a way that's consistent with the idea that it's barely more than controlled…
>Nostalgia for the simplicity of the past ends up having ugly cultural implications. It's easy to say "let's go back to the time when things were simple"; it's a lot harder to say "folks in (e.g.) Israel shouldn't be…
More often than not a problem that looks simple and has insane complexity once you dig a bit deeper is based on some faulty assumptions. Assumptions that either changed over time or never made sense to begin with. The…
Could have something to do with literally all major sources of information in US showing ideologically-charged garbage in front of people who want to focus on other things in life.
>The blue badge is one of the ways we help people distinguish the authenticity of accounts that are of high public interest. This is gaslighting. That's not how blue checkmarks work in practice. They are a completely…
I see that you didn't get the memo. If an algorithm or a mathematical definition is made by a white man, it's by definition racist and sexist because it was made by a white man. Entropy was defined by Claude Shannon who…
https://factorcode.org/ One of the most impressive languages you've never heard about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
Yes. Communication software that can be set up by anyone with some technical skill is bad. Communication software run by centralized corporations is good. No drama possible when your entire chat system can be nuked with…
>As for the remaining millions, only a tiny minority of them will even know this is a thing, let alone care enough to make the change or contact a developer who can do it. These are the folks who have hosted their…
>The ordeal at our Capital proves there's a problem that needs to be monitored. Unlike, say, nightly riots in Portland, that require neither monitoring nor federal response of any kind? It would be one thing if posts…
>For example, why would you write something in PHP when you've got an excellent choice between Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView You can make a simple website on PHP in ~30 lines of code (routing + boilerplate…
>My mindset wasn't that they really cared that I could do these obscure programming exercises that I hadn't used once in 20+ years of real-world programming, but rather that I could prove that I could learn and adapt.…
People who pay attention know that this is already happening due to social media posts.
Gotta love the constant movement of goalposts and gaslighting around this. As in many other cases it started with claims that nobody intends to censor any content during the move. Then when deletions actually took place…
No. If you know anything about history, you know that attacks on free speech do not have to start or stop with official government sanction. In Soviet Union it wasn't uncommon for dissidents and their families to be…
This raises a giant red flag for me. Storage is storage. This is not like hash mining, which is based on probabilities. You either have the data or you don't. If you have the data, even partially, this should be useful…