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found the bootlicker!

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For-profit companies don’t care about anyone’s rights. To believe otherwise is naive.

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So when is actual work done among all those meetings?

When Trump announced his first campaign in the quaint old days in 2015, I began cleansing my Twitter feed of anyone who switched from nerd stuff to politics. After a couple of mont…

I prefer not to follow news at all. 99.999% of it never has anything to do with me. If I can’t hear it from the front porch of my house, I don’t care to know about it.

I quit Twitter in 2015 when my supposedly level-headed friends (most of whom are fellow software engineers) lost their minds and switched to posting only about politics. Twitter im…

How is Twitter a source of information rather than gossip, opinion, and outright information warfare conducted by both sides?

One can of course boot more or less directly to Vim: https://raymii.org/s/blog/Vim_as_PID_1_Boot_to_Vim.html You asked for a decent editor, not a kitchen sink, so I’ll stop here wi…

Have you considered renting a car?

The Epstein drive is great, but it only lets one travel to the private island. ... Alright, alright! I’ll show myself out.

Thank goodness! The unicorn I work for will finally ditch JIRA and move on to something more user-friendly. What a relief.

It’s clearly not made for people who don’t want their dog shot by fed bois.

I regularly rotate my anonymous accounts on HN. A significant risk of reputational damage is attached to saying anything at all in a public forum. Who knows what else might get me …

Come to the South: affirmative action isn’t a thing here. It’s a breath of fresh air. You’ll find that there are other freedoms that have been taken away from you in the north. All…

I’ve interviewed with both Facebook and Coinbase via Triplebyte. Guess what? Both forced me through a complete gauntlet of interviews and disregarded Triplebyte’s report entirely. …

The idea of Lambda is great, but their execution has been shit. First off, the ISAs are securitized and resold. Lambda has zero incentive to do anything above and beyond pushing st…

Don’t attribute to racism that which can be adequately explained by greed. The good thing about greed is that it’s generally colorblind. The bad thing is that it’s much harder to s…

> Why can't we peer review this stuff and let the "market" decide what is true. In a sense we already do. Right-leaning and left-leaning groups already believe mostly non-overlappi…

Offshoring is not a new concept, and everyone knows it doesn’t work. How come offshoring hasn’t eaten my lunch yet?

"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run The Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!" Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done The Linux OS SUCKS (I'm sorry to say…

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