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Jon look at me

Look at me

Jon

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Me every morning

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What it's like to be a square because you didn't want to imitate the chaos your hippy parents put you through chew 5 gum

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And humans are just ears on a head

But I agree with you, I just needed to say that

Now I can finally rest

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I was trying to figure out why I was belting out this song while doing the dishes yesterday. Seemed like the song entered my consciousness out of nowhere.

Now I remember it was because of this cute comic, so thanks for sharing it

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Omfg this is perfect

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It's because the good libertarians just call themselves anarchists or maybe even syndicalists.

Your typical online libertarian is like the stereotype of the "parasitic socialist" who doesn't want to work and just wants free stuff.

To continue my gross simplification: libertarians want to be able to boss around poor people using their wealth, but don't want poor people to be able to band together to stop them from doing so. And they definitely don't want to share their wealth.

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It'll pass

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What did they take from us? I haven't played an online game in years now.

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Even if it was the law I would fight it.

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Yeah unless the story is good I'm rarely going to stick around for the last bit, which is usually just padding. Actually, good difficulty levels / other accessibility options have been a nice development.

Lets you turn down the volume on the gameplay so you can finish for the story.

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Yeah I see that. I remember the disappointment of sim city.

It could be I don't follow games close enough to see what I'm missing. I find more SP games popping up in my feeds / friend recommendations than I could ever hope to play.

I definitely feel like mainstream AAA/AAAA and even iii to a certain extent have been progressively enshittified. But I've been at this a while, so I've seen how it's gone this way as more and more money got brought to bare on games.

The moment someone who wasn't involved in actually making some part of the game was expecting a fat return on investment was the moment the wheel of shit started to turn.

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Fuck that's so nasty

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Sounds like another pan

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This exactly. And also the more splintered similar user bases are, the better

More competition, less easy to enshittify a "captured" user base

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No phones in the bedroom club!

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Next section will be the perfect one to end on bro, bro I promise, just a little more bro

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This feels like a crime

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The foxes' genders aren't coded obviously enough - which one is the female?

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No one said it was right, just that without violence or the threat thereof, you can't have private property rights

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I don't think anyone who has done any thinking on this topic would deny this, but our hypocrisy does not mean that change isn't desired or is somehow impossible.

Naomi Klein has written well on this topic in her book Doppelganger, which is the first place I ever heard this concept mapped out in all its dark detail.

I'll just paste the Q & A here, because I think it's important that people read it. You can look up more on this yourselves:

Q: You also write about another kind of shadow self, borrowing a formulation from the writer Daisy Hildyard—the idea being that, while we’re typing on iPhones, we also exist in rare-earth mines alongside poisoned teen-age laborers. The awareness of the plunder and damage inherent in the idealized American life has increased, but so, perhaps, has the lived acceptance of it, and the result is a simmering sense of unease.

NK: I quote James Baldwin a lot in the book, because I think he’s probably the most powerful theorist of the fear of what Hildyard is talking about. She calls it the second body—the shadow self that’s implicated in all of these systems that are unveiled. It isn’t just that they’re hard to look at, it’s also that we are implicated; we are not apart from them. There is my body sitting in this chair, and there’s my other body, hovering over the tax dollars funding drone warfare, implicated in oil wars, implicated in the plastic in the ocean. That’s not other people—that’s me, that’s us.

Emphasis mine. I just chose this link because it's free. Not the original source.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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-f follows the file so you can see updates as they come in to the bottom of the file. I wasn't aware this worked with globs, but that's neat.

Is that what /s does? I haven't used Windows in years.

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As someone who does product dev support, unfortunately I have.

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I distinctly remember that once it has indexed everything, it was pretty fast, yeah. Back in the 00s anyway

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I mean I can see it both ways.

It kind of depends which of robot stories you focus on. If you keep reading to the zeroeth law stuff then it starts portraying certain androids as downright messianic, but a lot of his other (esp earlier) stories are about how -- basically from what amount to philosophical computer bugs -- robots are constantly suffering alignment problems which cause them to do crime.

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Oh man I forgot that

That is pretty eschatological in a wrathful human centric way, so my point unintentionally stands

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Praise be! What a storied chatter. I also really like Asimov's fake names. They sound good in the ear

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Oh fuck you just reminded me I'm supposed to be working

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How am I just hearing about this comic?! Thank you for sharing, I love it

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I haven't read the article yet, but surely they can't be juxtaposing waterfall as the alternative to agile. The modern alternative, especially in small to medium businesses, would be kanban.

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In my experience it's just kanban, but make the devs feels guilty between sprints for not meeting their goals.

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Well that's news to me

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If you know exactly what you need, then specs are great.

If you know exactly what you need and the specs are great, then you barely need project management framework at all.

Maybe I just work at shit companies, but it feels unrealistic to expect this this level of maturity from assigned work.

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Yeah. Which actually doesn't have to be bad as long as leadership accepts that this exploratory work (sometimes called a "spike") might have to be thrown away, if findings reveal better paths.

The trouble begins when you start shipping your proof-of-concepts (without immediately paying back that tech debt).

It very quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess.

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I imagine it's a 2D array? So width would be captured by uhh like a[N].len.

It could be I'm misunderstanding you, because not not sure what you mean by:

linear data with varying sectioning content

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Tell me you don't add alt text to your posts without telling me :p

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Nothing scammy about a good deal. Honestly whenever I see ".io," one of the pricier TLDs, I think vapour tech bullshit.

My opinion on this has not changed since signing up with an employer that ends all branding including domain in "io"

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Dang. Yeah I don't feel good about putting pictures online anymore for this reason

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Yeah don't feel great about past stuff either, thanks

Username

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I love the rage bait

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Just read Bradbury's Death is a Lonely Business (introspective, life-affirming, lightly fatphobic), and in it he writes something like:

Throw up in your typewriter every morning
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Clean up every noon

Good read for writers, fence sitters, and half-livers

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Ugh this is relatable as a (hobby) writer, but also as a programmer.

I just finished a rewrite of an internal library, and now that I take a step back, I see how my new implementation 1) works, 2) is bad, 3) is useless.

It's hard to throw away so much work

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I mean I don't hate the principal, but I'm a filthy commie hippy socialist type

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Thank you for your service! I don't have much energy for posting myself, but I do try to be an active (and appreciative) consumer. 😁

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Yeah I remember. TTFC = Time To First Crate :)

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Thanks to sharing. This art really takes me back

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I tried, but I think this requires the nightly build of Firefox?

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Oh I think it's doing something! Thanks.

It's under "RPV privés" in French but yeah, looks good.

Thanks again, especially for taking the time to circle back and clarify

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