VulgarExigency | 10 months ago | on: Meta's 'Digital Companions' Will Talk Sex with Users–Even Children
So because there's porn on the internet, you're OK with Facebook having groomer chatbots?
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VulgarExigency | 1 year ago | on: The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011)
let he who has never acted blasé towards safety protocols cast the first plutonium sphere
VulgarExigency | 1 year ago | on: Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
I made it up
VulgarExigency | 1 year ago | on: Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
He's the former CEO of Staples. He's going to have to change his name to Bill Gitlab.
VulgarExigency | 1 year ago | on: Two new books on John Calhoun and his rodent experiments
> This is the interesting finding I'd think, by putting the subject in un-natural settings, to see what can happen at extremes.
Interesting, maybe. Deeply unethical, certainly. I'm not against animal experimentation (although I'd never have the stomach for it myself), but it's hard to see what could be learned from these experiments except for how rats behave when placed in these strange prisons.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: If You Double-Park and You’re Rich, Should You Pay a Higher Fine?
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: Make your Python functions return something meaningful, typed, and safe
Why not use a a typed language instead?
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
The United States has invaded more countries than China while having a significantly higher incarceration rate. If anyone is brutal and aggressive, it's the US.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
Not that confusing, only the US measures fuel in gallons, isn't it? Everyone else just uses liters.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
All 3 things which are demonstrably false, but the american empire seems determined to continue to shoot itself in the foot
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs
I worked for a company that had both Slack and Workplace and... Workplace wasn't a Slack replacement at all? It felt like a separate instance of Facebook for our company. How would it act like a Slack replacement?
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
Yes, lobbying.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Yes, but the United States are the Good Guys, so their propaganda outlets must not get the label identifying them as such.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: China plans to ban exports of rare earth magnet tech
Exactly. "I have no idea of what I am talking about, but I will repeat American State Department propaganda regardless."
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: How to be a -10x Engineer
As I've become more experienced as a programmer, I've grown to hate unit tests that rely on mocks. They don't test a damn thing and they calcify code by making it a chore to update, since you have to update all the useless tests that don't do anything too.
VulgarExigency | 2 years ago | on: How to be a -10x Engineer
Thanks for sharing! I'll start putting everything here in practice immediately. Some of these are already widely practiced at the company I work for, though, so I probably won't stand out too much.
VulgarExigency | 3 years ago | on: Mullvad's campaign against EU chat control
Account created 17 minutes ago? Can you hook me up with an astroturfing job feckmore?
VulgarExigency | 3 years ago | on: COBOL: Thinking about it wrong
There are several programming languages with package managers that work better than NPM. Not having one is not a positive no matter how you try to spin it.
VulgarExigency | 3 years ago | on: Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve
By your logic, shouldn't countries that already have a nuclear arsenal be bombed first?
VulgarExigency | 3 years ago | on: ‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
Signal is funded by the US State Department[1]. I'm sure you can trust it to send messages to your drug dealer, your mistress, or the competitor you are selling you company's secrets to. I wouldn't trust it if I wanted to keep secrets from american 3 letter agencies, though.
[1] https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-open-technology-fund-makes...
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