josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
@veer66 I assumed the point of working remotely was that you could do it from wherever you wanted.
That said, I've seen offers where they say: “Anywhere in our timezone.” Is that what you mean?
@veer66 Are workers from Myanmar banned anywhere?
@veer66 Yes. The difference is that the scale of US propaganda is global. Also, China is a totalitarian state, but the US is supposed to be a democracy, so it should at least act like one, but it doesn't.
@veer66 Or it could be that the US government is seeing how certain content is becoming more and more viral on the platform (pro-Palestinian accounts, bin Laden's Letter to the American People, etc.) and wants to censor it. Maybe TikTok is defeating their propaganda and they're mad about it.
@lxsameer In fiction, Alien's Ripley. In history, Hypatia of Alexandria.
@coolboymew Sorry, I forgot to mention that I know nothing about finance and you should never trust anything I say on the matter. I'm basically ChatGPT when it comes to finance. I can sort of sound knowledgeable, but deep down I'm full of shit.
@coolboymew Try to get a variable rate mortgage, if you can. I don't know how it is in Canada, but, in Europe, rates are pretty high, so they're bound to go down sooner than later.
I'm not fond of people who say: “Don't reinvent the wheel.” I say: “Yes, reinvent the wheel! Maybe yours is better. Maybe your work leads to some awesome, unexpected discovery on roundness or friction or aerodynamics.”
Regardless of your opinion on its outcome, this is how a referendum should be presented to the people:
I'll believe an LLM is on the road to AI when, instead of bullshitting its way through the conversation, it asks: “What do you mean by that?”
@convexer What about it?
@convexer I'm going to assume his distro installs stuff on /home, which is a big no-no for me.
@convexer Never happened to me in twenty five years. How did he managed to do it?
Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There's no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”
Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially _no_ partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.
@sendadeapolo Me alegro de verte por aquí de nuevo. En cualquier caso, siempre es bueno (incluso necesario) tener una alternativa por si acaso.
@BitBun I had a boss who once said to me: “Always play dumb. It's worth it.”
I didn't follow her advice, tried to be competent and all I got was a meeting on Monday with somebody else's client outside my working hours. FML.
josemanuel
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Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
-- David Graeber
@noyoushutthefuckupdad I would argue that it never became really popular. It was just transformed into something pallatable to normies, and ruined in the process. Think about how normal people react, even today, when confronted with a command line.
Nerds used to be artisans (left to our own devices, we created great things), but bullshitters like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs wanted to turn us into a chain gang, and they're succeeding.
@iron_bug I was half-joking. Of course what I said was only true on a very superficial level, but my point was that, even though both disrupt the control flow, one is generally seen as a good thing with no visible influence on program verification, and the other is not, even though both can be misused (as @pkw pointed out) and used acceptably (as you mentioned yourself).
Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
