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If you go back 1000 years to central America, there were all kinds of "experts" with literally books full of data saying that if you didn't keep on sacrificing people to the Gods, the sun would decide not to rise anymore (almost all remaining books from the time and place are about this topic). A lot of people would get very worked up if you said that maybe you didn't need to sacrifice people to keep the sun from rising. I'm sure they'd explain in detail what would happen if the sun stopped rising and why we must continue to sacrifice people.

This is going to sound stupid, but my preferred language is a dialect of BASIC that does multithreading really well -- I made a multithreaded multiplayer game back in 2005 that worked out pretty well. I assumed that Java would be similarly straightforward...

Sorta shocking that something like that would be the case for so long.

"who are you going to believe? Me when I wrote that article, or me when I wrote this article?"

These publications need to stop using the word "baseless" since they themselves are the basis.

Having participated in and run a number of OSS projects, it's self-evident that the people who did the work of writing the original program and popularizing it get the power to steer the project. For most projects there *is* nobody else. For a lot of projects there aren't even users or financial backers or even other developers. It isn't until much further down the line that there's even anyone else in the room to ask about governance. By the time there is someone else to ask about things, the Hot shot developer who actually did all the work is firmly in charge because they've done all the work, they've made all the decisions, and that work and those decisions ended up being successful.

With FOSS anyone is free to fork the project and run it differently, but that isn't really what most people want to do. It's a lot of work, and it's fairly thankless work.

When people say socialism doesn't work (and in this case I'm talking about socialism not as Marx's conception of socialism as a totalitarian dictatorship that sits in between capitalism and stateless communism, but the definition of more social programs and the like), I'd say it doesn't work on a practical level.

As a middle-class individual I give over a dollar of tax money to the government for every dollar I get to bring home, and yet there are still homeless people begging for food at the supermarket.

My great grandfather didn't pay income tax for a good chunk of his life, and here I am paying half of every dollar I make, and I'm still seeing homeless people begging for food at the supermarket. That's an epic failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuQZrA4cl5E

This was really incredible to watch. Gives you an idea of some techniques used previously. The results are really something else.

I cosplay as that every convention I go to.

The hypocrisy of people who supported Trump's first impeachment being totally OK with Trump being indicted now is not surprising, but it's disappointing.

I never knew that Leonard Cohen released a cover of "Happy happy, joy joy" in the tone of the original.

"Hello! It'sa me! Senor Tato! I don'ta know who this Tate guy is! He soundsa like a bad hombre!"

I like to say all my services are run off of "parts scavenged from a roadside sign" because it's all fanless sign PCs, commercial grade and designed to be on 24/7/365 for years at a time. Really nice being low power, no moving parts to fail whatsoever, and if you find a good deal on ebay ridiculously inexpensive.

Meaning that they just needed to fudge the numbers by 0.1% to pretend there wasn't a recession.

My stagflation call was right on the nose!

"Oh wow, you're right! Thanks for bringing this to our attention!"

>Google stock jumps shartply after they announce layoffs of thousands of subcontractors

Define "worked". (I'm hard on technology, you know!)

Similar;

Femininity; nurturing, creating
Masculinity; Protecting, providing

Individuals aren't just archtypes so there's lots of aspects to an individual, but when you get right down to it, I think that's what ended up working in nature.

Every time I see [blocked], I know it's solely because someone disagreed with what I said, and it makes me laugh that someone is so affected by mere arguments they dislike.

Imagine being in a world so small, you think it needs to be inhabited only by people who agree with you completely.

I found that bing felt borderline retarded when I tried it. The big problem I saw was that it changed what I said to become a better search query, and seemed to respond to the simplified query instead of what I actually asked.

That suuuuucks.

The one bad thing about SSDs is that when they fail, they tend to fail catastrophically. Contrasting hard drives which tend to have a slow burn so you can get out of dodge in time.

(I should really get the automated backups running on my systems this weekend...)