Windex007

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I used to think that too, until the pattern emerged that he's outspoken only when it's about Russia or Russian-aligned countries. His "interview" with Putin really was the icing on the cake.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Iran and Russia are allies, Iran is pretty much the last one they've got in the region. It's in Russias medium/long term soft power interests that the current government isn't toppled.

The war itself isn't improving Russias bottom line as much as Trump dropping sanctions. The global price of oil didn't matter much as long as the price caps were in place.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago

Not IT, but my dad said they lost a chemical engineering hire over this once, like 25 years ago.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

In pretty much the opposite direction, my hill is that "right","wrong", "blameworthiness" and "praiseworthyness" are concepts that people are in general allergic to critical thought towards, and they are EXACTLY the concepts that people should be approaching in order to have a better life and to make a better world.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There is a reason "liberals" are strawmanned as wanting free open borders to let in rapists and drug dealers, and then to actively protect the rapists and drug dealers in lawless sanctuary cities.

It's often the only thing left for "conservatives" to find viscerally disagreeable.

INB4 someone chimes in saying: "I DO want no borders and no restrictions whatsoever".

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

More "switching brand of margarine" than "adding spice", IMO.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

My refugee neighbors English wasn't great. Apparently I was one of the few Canadians they regularly talked to.

They said a few times people were like "you're Ukrainian? The troublemakers who started the war?"

It was thier perception, based on that, that the general consensus was that Canadians thought they were responsible for the war, and everyone else was just too polite to say it.

So... no... tons of fucking idiot right wingers are not ok with Ukrainian refugees either. Apparently.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

At the risk of sounding smug, I handed my tax documents to my accountant MONTHS ago

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Bingo.

Maybe not outright fired, but absolutely open them up to career limits based on what you described.

All of Amazon's code undergoes code reviews already. Accepting a PR is already spiritually a sign off.

This is just explicitly a threat, explicitly trying to find someone to hold accountable because you can't hold ai accountable. What are they gonna do, fire the ai? Sign here to be the fall guy. Fuck off.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When people type 70wpm andit it requires thier full attention, it seems intuitive that this is a bottleneck. I just don't believe that's the typical state of affairs for most devs. Most management, sure.

I'm not saying there aren't some code that get written that is braindead simple and have a lot of keystrokes (builders come to mind) but modern IDEs will generate them for you. We already had a plethora of deterministic code generation tools at our fingertips.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You only need an "other" category (or anything else) for the map if that "other" is the largest group. Because that's what this is showing: the largest group.

If you look at the data that was used, they have Muslim. Hindu. Other. Etc.

None of it made it to the map because in no region is this the largest response.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

After overshooting and dinging the meat cooler, popping my 3 year old out of the cart and me squatting down to have a heart-to-heart:

"Look, buddy, I'm not blaming you. You're still learning. We learn every day.

But the navigator is a crucial role here. I need you to to call out the distance and sharpness of the turns so that I as the driver can execute the maneuvers"

Him, nodding in agreement "Executing the maneuvers"

"That's right buddy. We'll work on it. What's next on the list?"

"Beers for the boys"

"That's right, buddy."

 
 
 

Our city leaves free dirt out at the fire station for people to spread on their sidewalks in the winter. I grabbed some for the back ally which is very icy.

I probably only grabbed 30 lbs or so, but I was still very diligent to lift it properly. Last thing I need over the holidays is to have a sore back.

 

I know that the CTrain reminders to not forget your newspapers when leaving the train have been overwhelmingly successful because I haven't seen a newspaper on the train even one time in the last 10 years.

 
 
 
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