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We have a winner. In my dictionary of corporatese to human "We value diversity" means "We pay between 20-50% of what the market price for your services is".

You can't critique Yang from the right. The idea of a UBI as a solution completely ignores the reality of the US: giving more money to the private sector only increases prices with…

And that's why you're not an open source company CEO.

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>Where is this person? Donald Knuth for one: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/things.html

Jives with my experience that any place that talks about diversity pays 20-50% less. I call it the virtue tax.

>So when do you imagine they'll be implementing Navajo language support in their UI? What is the roi for implementing Navaho?

Which one? The one in the wider world, the one in the US, the one in SV?

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What it says pretty much, used Guix to replace a bunch of containers people had set up and needed to be coordinated on the network. The only reason why they were using those was be…

No, I find the current climate of online discourse too vindictive and narrow minded, hence the throwaway accounts. I've scrubbed as much of my presence from the internet as I could…

C is pretty far away from the hardware these days. We are missing the true low level languages that C used to be in the 80s/90s.

Guile + guix. I work in devops and that replaced a horrible mess of god knows how many containers with a straight forward, boring and reproducible single large instance of Guix SD.…

But if you only make sure anyone who talks about Tienanmen square from ever holding job again that is fine, according to the people who keep saying the freedom of speech is not fre…

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About everything, which is why he must be silenced.

Currently in China, from what I understand, it is not about efficiency per unit food but per live animal. Their herds were severely depleted by disease and they need to make the re…

The last usable t series laptop is the t420 or the t430 with heavy modification.

I doubt it. Until the living standards of the majority improve we will be stuck in the same spiral we have been for the last 40 years. What's truly astonishing to a dyed in the woo…

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>Sure it is! A reputable CS degree will cover multiple programming languages and compiler implementation. An undergraduate degree in physics covers building nuclear reactors too. F…

To go for the nuclear option, are you prepared to support Auschwitz to stop child porn? China already has the concentration camps, it's one step away from extermination camps, all …

Don't get why you are being downvoted. We need science to focus on the right questions. Otherwise it's ideology with a veneer of scientism on top of it.

>It wasn't just awkward demeanor. He actively made women feel unwelcome in the workplace and behaved unprofessionally over and over again. I've met Stallman. He made everyone feel …

>started getting these weird ass recursive functions Nothing weird about recursive functions. Try and code up a loop that prints: (ab)^n a in your favorite language. You will need …