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1d ago
That article is right on point and 15 years later on the dot. Neal Stephenson called it, yet again.
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1d ago
There's also the minor subplot about his woke ex-girlfriend in academia. Including him getting dressed down by her academic friends for his privilege enabling him to learn a technical skill by reading a book and practicing. He made the mistake of trying to explain his technical skills as a result of study and practice rather than unearned privilege.
It is like mockery of tumblrinas, but 15 years early.
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3d ago
This was more or less stated in a new parents' class I took long ago. Presented as advice to put your baby to bed properly even if you are really tired. Don't fall asleep in a chair holding them.
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3d ago
According to the new parents' class my wife and I took long ago: most SIDS is probably accidental suffocation. Like a parent falls asleep holding their baby and rolls slightly pressing against their baby's face. Something like that.
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3d ago
Indeed you will, but that's because we don't build enough housing. GreatAI (or lack of useful AI) is not to blame.
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3d ago
He outright dismisses Darwinism and the theory of evolution
Many years ago one of my Chinese coworkers asked me if I believed in evolution. I said I did. She said she didn't and another coworker agreed with denying evolution. Both professional workers with degrees.
Googling it, I see around 2/3rds of Chinese people accept human evolution.
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4d ago
Or as a modern sage once explained:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@redhat.com wrote:
Are you saying that pulseaudio is entering on some weird loop if the returned value is not -EINVAL? That seems a bug at pulseaudio.
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?
To make matters worse, commit f0ed2ce840b3 is clearly total and utter CRAP even if it didn't break applications. ENOENT is not a valid error return from an ioctl. Never has been, never will be. ENOENT means "No such file and directory", and is for path operations. ioctl's are done on files that have already been opened, there's no way in hell that ENOENT would ever be valid.
So, on a first glance, this doesn't sound like a regression, but, instead, it looks tha pulseaudio/tumbleweed has some serious bugs and/or regressions.
Shut up, Mauro. And I don't ever want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously.
I'd wait for Rafael's patch to go through you, but I have another error report in my mailbox of all KDE media applications being broken by v3.8-rc1, and I bet it's the same kernel bug. And you've shown yourself to not be competent in this issue, so I'll apply it directly and immediately myself.
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!
Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP. I'm angry, because your whole email was so horribly wrong, and the patch that broke things was so obviously crap. The whole patch is incredibly broken shit. It adds an insane error code (ENOENT), and then because it's so insane, it adds a few places to fix it up ("ret == -ENOENT ? -EINVAL : ret").
The fact that you then try to make excuses for breaking user space, and blaming some external program that used to work, is just shameful. It's not how we work.
Fix your f*cking "compliance tool", because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming.
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9d ago
Shanghai people have the same wealth and comfort as in Western cities
I worked there for a bit. No they don't.
and in addition complete safety
One of my coworkers got robbed in Shanghai.
Points well taken about the lack of drug addicts wandering around.
And I'm way, way freer than them. Let's have some perspective here.
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9d ago
There was a weird interview with Bernie Sanders years ago. A journalist asserted he was an Israeli dual citizen in lead up to a question. He cut in and said he is not an Israeli citizen. The journalist pushed on reiterating that he is a dual citizen and tried again to ask Bernie about his foreign loyalties. He couldn't answer and just repeated that he is not an Israeli. Such an awkward exchange.
The demand for 'ZOG' exceeds the supply. People want an explanations such as dual citizens with divided loyalties composing a significant portion of Congress. That's not true in a factual sense, but it feels right to them.
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10d ago
A few time longer and much slower pace. Snow Crash is quick and action packed. Cryptonomicon is very much not. I prefer Cryptonomicon, but it is quite different.
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11d ago
Now imagine how poorly American pedagogists would behave if they could run wild and never answer to voters or parents. Which is my response to BurdensomeCount rather than Tyler.
I'm deeply skeptical of would-be technocrats. Self appointed "experts" aspiring to shape society free from petty concerns like consent from the governed so consistently go against my preferences. This happens to be a good example of the "experts" not clearly aligning with broader societal preferences, expectations or goals. Maybe American school administrators are especially unaligned with any positive societal outcomes and BurdensomeCount is fairly pointing out how British schooling is well managed by competent professionals. That's certainly not a point in America's favor given how school administrators seemingly run rampant. But that is especially not an argument for why they should be freed from the last bit of voter influence over them.
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12d ago
I have jogged miles through Shanghai late at night because I missed the last train. Eventually came across a taxi and the smoking teenager driving it who was not the guy on the taxi license took me the rest of the way to the hotel.
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12d ago
schooling should be run by professionals
In a better world yes. Unfortunately some of our professionals like to ban teaching phonics and think Gender Queer is good content for 8 year olds. I like having a democratic veto over these people. If the school board goes looney enough then they can be voted out. As a taxpaying voter I get a say.
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12d ago
Okay. "Breeders" is a gay term for straight people. You can borrow gay language. People reading it will think you are gay.
Not clear what old apps are. Dating apps? I have never used a dating app. This is actually confusing since the same apps are inside and outside city limits. Some other meaning of "apps" I'm not getting?
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13d ago
Yes, but,
"breeders."
He's gay. Or using gay lingo. I don't forsee a wife and kids in his future.
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13d ago
Chinese grind 996 work weeks
I worked in China a bit. I have visited a number of times. As best as I can tell, none of my Chinese in laws work 996 and certainly none of my coworkers did. I worked more hours than the Chinese engineers.
Google tells me Chinese people are working longer hours in the past few years. Around 48 hours per week. That's certainly not taking it easy. But not greater than typical hours in my current and former American offices.
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14d ago
I don't know about actual warehouse workers, but the people who comment on reddit love bitching about CEO pay.
When Luigi Mangione murdered that CEO a few security guards at my work laughed and joking asked which CEO would get it next. On their break in the lunch room where I could hear them.
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15d ago
I never got 100% on a college essay. They always have a series of issues with any writing sample. Or they did back when I attended university.
Almost any clear improvement that I quite enjoy doesn't have a large impact on my whole life satisfaction. So I trivially answer not very much.
Radio is terrible. I like clicking up a podcast or music from my phone. I remember the pre-bluetooth days with CDs and ipods and GPS units. Tolerable but a step down from Bluetooth. I already own a phone and they already have to put a PCB in the console. Sticking a Bluetooth antenna in that is almost free. Certainly cheaper and less complicated than me buying a set of CDs.
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17d ago
my phone connects to the radio for some fucking reason
I use this feature every day and love it.
I've said it before: women seeking sperm donors transform into hard eugenicists. It certainly a revealed preference of some sort.
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