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When we decide that we don't want perpetual growth. So - not any time soon.

Reminds me of this story from WW2 [0]. I'm sure I saw a documentary about this but that's the only reference I can find.

"In late December 1942 Grimson and Allan Morris walked out of the camp with a group of German servicemen but were recaptured 2 days later, when they showed more courtesy than was expected from a German Officer. The prisoner forgery department had produced the documents necessary for the escape and the German uniforms to go over their civilian clothing. Both Grimson and Morris had again noticed that they had near doubles serving as officers in the German guard company who they impersonated and both had lain in wait for 3 nights fully disguised in their German uniforms waiting for the right moment when the two clones attended the show. Outside the wire they changed into civilian clothes disguised as foreign workers, walking to Sagan station and catching a train to the outskirts of Leipzig before being caught."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grimson

When it doesn't work correctly [0]. But it's easy to think of other scary scenarios, too. Having worked in the public sector (in the UK) I know how useless they are at securing data.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/11/25/chinese-bu...

It is a really good series, even if it is a bit like reading a sci-fi story whilst being beaten over the head with a physics textbook.

This sounds horrendous. It doesn't really feal like it would achieve much either except making standups even harder.

> It's like the developers who immediately rush to massive scale when all they've been asked to build is effectively a prototype.

I just finished working in the public sector and it's absolutely terrible for this. We had a microservice based event-driven architecture, all on AWS, load balancers everywhere. It was so complicated not a single person knew the entire architecture.

Current number of users: 65

Expected maximum number of users ever: 8000

Which ones are the "bad" FAANGs?

How do people like that ever get investment? Like, surely the investors must think, "well, they just screwed up their last 4 or 5 startups so maybe I'll keep my money."

> At least you'll have had fun doing your thing.

Whilst working 40+ hours a week for someone who was lucky enough that "the rest did follow."

But you can go back and change a commit message with ammend? Or are you wanting to change other people's?

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/rewriting-history#gi...

I was at a party once, which I didn't really want to be at but didn't really have a choice, and everyone was taking drugs and I was hiding in the corner. I started speaking to the only other guy who was also hiding in the corner and it turned out he was a heroin addict. He was quite open about it. He was talking about his life, and after about half an hour of him talking I thought, "this guy had no chance."

I mean, I grew up in a lower-middle class home. There was always food, 2 parents, a roof over my head, education. I had so much luck that when I made a whole bunch of mistakes (to the point that I was hiding in a corner speaking to a heroin addict), I could call up Mum and Dad and move home. This guy had none of that, and worse, people were actively trying to make money off him the entire time. His friends had got him addicted to heroin and then sold it to him, for example. The reason he was sat in the corner for so long was because he'd been late paying his heroin bill so the drug dealer was making him wait until he started to suffer withdrawal before he got some more.

The next day he died of a drug overdose. I stood there in the crowd as they took his body out of his flat. The same friends who'd sold him the drugs were saying things like, "that fucker owed me £20! If you're going to OD you'd at least cash your dole check and pay your mates back first?!"

I think I must be one of those people. I wouldn't even know where to start to "invest 10% of my income favourably in stuff I understand." What does that mean? Examples?

She's not "being used", she undertook all of this on her own. She's just really fucking angry.

This is what happens when people abuse those conventions.

arrow functions

curried functions

I worked at IBM and it was a no to most of those questions...

Not all people who voted leave are racist, but all racists voted leave.

Oh yeah, absolutely all of the people who voted leave were completely rational. Like my father-in-law who voted leave so we can send all them Indians back home.

When I worked in the data analysis world, we would have a bounds for this stuff.

Number of people >100 in the area: <10

You'll generally see cash machines with fivers in the poorer parts of the UK.

While the rule for devs is, "never roll your own crypto", what is the authoritative resource for what we should use?

Openings are the killer for me - I can never remember them, and it feels like a cheat to just remember a particular opening and trot out all the same moves all the time anyway.

But then I lose because I've made an obvious mistake during the opening...

At no point did I scream anything. I said I thought he was a creationist, which means believing in the idea of creationism. I also got mildy frustrated in some comments.

Your comment over inflates my reaction.

The supernatural is unfalsifiable. I cannot prove that the supernatural does not exist, in the same way you cannot prove there is not a teapot orbiting the sun.

On the one hand you demand pure scientific evidence for evolution to explain EVERYTHING, but on the other you say that the supernatural has been ignored, without giving any scientific evidence whatsoever to back it up.

I apologise for calling you a "creationist", as it seems you took that as a pejorative term.

It seems to me you're suggesting that there is some combination of evolution and the supernatural that can be a perfect model for explaining the world, but you're going to have to give some falsifiable theories on the supernatural for that.

Oh my bad, so you DON'T believe creationism is a valid alternative to evolution then?

He's a creationist. Accept it. Read all his posts in this thread.

I think EGreg doubts evolution itself:

"I think the evolution of flight is one of the clearest examples that the standard theories of evolution purely by mutation and natural selection are still lacking explanatory power."

Fair enough, but had he answered, "no", to, "do you think creationism is a valid theory" I would have been happy to accept his premise that he was only interested in scientific discovery. That's why I asked that specific question. To clarify my possibly incorrect assumption that he believes in creationism and is only saying what he is to further that agenda.

That's why I asked. I could well be wrong about that. But he hasn't answered.

Oh I must have missed that press release. And I'm sure he was talking about lamarckism. Give it a rest.

Where on earth did you get that? And you are clearly incorrect as he/she hasn't answered my question. Therefore I cannot be "smearing" him for a response he hasn't given.

What ridiculous ad hominem.

I asked a genuine question that hasn't been answered and you inferred far more from it than there really was.