drngdds

If you're trying not to sound like a fascist, downplaying Yarvin's neo-fascism as "ideas you find distasteful" is a bad way of doing it.

>What could possibly go wrong if society as a whole can now identify who is sick? Regardless of your political position, or where you stand on the COVID19 issue, think we can all agree that this level of invasion of privacy should never be tolerated.

We actually cannot agree on this! I have a strong preference that my loved ones and I do not die in an unprecedented global pandemic. You can't just state libertarian principles like this as a fact and expect everyone to automatically agree with you.

It's still quite lame to try and get the article deleted based on that. Libertarian socialism is an ideology which exists and is noteworthy enough to get an encyclopedia article, whether or not the name is self-contradictory.

>Adoption rates are low, but perhaps that should tell you something about what users actually want.

I think it tells you that everyone who wants rich chat (which is most people, btw) already left for Slack or Discord.

>Or, really, part of standard js, maybe.

I think this would be the solution. I feel like a lot of the NPM transitive dependency explosion just comes from the fact that JavaScript is a language with a ton of warts and a lack of solid built-ins compared to e.g. Python. Python also has packages and dependencies, but the full list of dependencies used by a REST service I run in production (including a web framework and ORM) is a million times smaller than any package-lock.json I've seen.

Yeah. I maintain that most complaints about Agile are actually just complaints about crummy managers. It's really not that bad (in my experience) when the people you're reporting to have reasonable expectations and treat estimates as estimates.

This is the same thing I was thinking. We write imperfect software because the market (and the law) does not incentivize the significant extra work required for perfect software. Blaming individual engineers or organizations for that doesn't make any sense.

>They both result in degrees, but they serve (mostly) different communities of people.

Right - and if you're a recent high school grad with the grades to go to a good state school (not just Berkeley or whatever) and a desire to be around your peers while fully dedicating yourself to your education, you're not really in the target audience for community college.

It will never cease to amaze me that people (outside the media, politics, etc.) use their real name to post controversial things on social media, especially about their own employer.

I'd be 100% fine with difficult technical interviews if they actually reflected the job I was going to do. I wouldn't resent spending time outside work studying things that will help me in my day-to-day anyway. What sucks is having to bust your ass studying things that you'll never use.

Because unfortunately, competition exists. I work in fintech and we have two options:

- Convince bajillion dollar investment banks to switch web browsers just to use our service

- Accept a mild decrease in developer experience

I've been patiently waiting for them to do the same thing in the high-end/upper-midrange GPU market for a few years now. Unfortunately Nvidia basically has free reign right now to charge whatever prices they want for the RTX 2070 on up.

Ok, but your preference isn't everyone else's! You can disable the pop-up asking you for push notifications on all relevant browsers, afaik.

>a well-spoken critic of the supposed existential threat is dangerous

This is also true when the threat is actually real and the people concerned about it are acting in good faith, which is the case here.

Most programs can download new code and open whatever files they want as long as their process has the permissions. You can certainly argue that that shouldn't be the case, but calling Discord a RAT because of it is pretty silly.

(Not defending it on the other counts, though. If I wanted a platform for anything controversial or privacy-sensitive, I wouldn't trust Discord or any other centralized, unencrypted service.)

I'd rather not tie something to an account (and therefore my identity) when I don't have to. I don't know what kind of information about my computer use they're associating with me. Windows always worked without an online account before and it's not like Windows 10 introduces must-have features that need one.

You're just making an argument against the NPM model of installing five billion packages

It's a lot easier to read a few lines of code from a Stack Overflow answer than it is to read thousands of lines in libraries...

Excuse me, but that parking lot is a historical landmark and a cornerstone of the community!

I use Windows because:

- Chromebooks don't meet my needs and Macs are incredibly expensive.

- There's a lot of software I care about which is Windows-only and doesn't have a good Linux alternative, especially games.

- I have not had great experiences using Linux. I still run into lots of dumb little issues that make me feel like I'm back in the Windows XP days, except this time I have to enter mysterious terminal commands I found on Stack Exchange to make things work right.

- You can easily avoid this kind of nonsense in Windows 10 with like half an hour of setup after your initial install.

Yeah, this is important. I remember reading plenty of screeds about how awful the music industry and record labels are for artists long before streaming took over.

I haven't done a ton of Python, but I can't really think of a situation where relying on a dict to be ordered is an easy mistake to make. Do you have an example?

People care more about this because the animals involved are cute and fluffy, but this is pretty much just regular factory farming. (Which itself is a hellish indictment of humanity, of course.)

I want to be wherever you are! Here, you make up a plausible-sounding excuse, and it's up to the other person to guess whether you're just being polite or not, based on whether you've made so many excuses that it's statistically improbable that they are the truth.

It's hard to see religion as "tertiary" to intelligent design when the concept was invented by Christians to make their religious beliefs sound more scientific. Hell, the first thing that came up when I googled "dependency graph of life" was an article from a site owned by the Discovery Institute, an organization founded to promote conservative Christianity. Berlinski also works for them.

I don't think it matters that much. My only online presence under my real name is a locked-down Facebook account and an inactive LinkedIn profile with no profile pic, and I get recruitment emails from big tech companies pretty often.

The main thing I'm getting from this is that Twitter is terrible. Why do likes have to be public? Why can't you choose to make some tweets followers-only? Those two things would cripple this kind of background check.

(Mastodon has both of those, but a social network is only as good as its userbase, and Mastodon's is small and niche.)

Nah, it means "people being mean and awful, by a reasonable person's standards." Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but abstracting it into "things I don't approve of" misses the point.

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My takeaway from this is "do code reviews".