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> and the culture is less RTFM than anything else.
To this point, adding "on ubuntu" to a search gives me better tutorials.
> Perception on this has shifted quite a bit.
Media or events from outside your living memory need an annotated guide providing context if you want to reason about them.
We watched The Bad Seed in class and spent some time talking about the drinks cart as a plot point until it was explained to us that people actually drank that much.
The band VNV Nation had an amazing deconstruction of Triumph of Will going on in the background of their live shows... lo these many years ago I guess. I don't have the vocabulary to do it justice but it seemed like they'd removed in-group cues and replaced a sense of organized violence with organized effort.
For anyone curious about how you'd apply a literary tool to a different medium, check out The Chemical Brothers breaking down and then Rebuilding New Order's Temptation at a live show. Link should take you to the song 30min in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GikjhOEqX3Y&t=1852s
This is where human-directed looping revision fits in on a lot of my projects.
The background here is that people didn't really trust the individuals or institutions involved with nuclear power, and those same individuals and institutions weren't exactly enthusiastic about a new form of energy.
We're familiar with the Green point of view, your niche parties are like NGOs in the US. I think the larger context might be the conversation about technology we've been having in the US since the atom bomb. Articles about nuclear power, GMO, AI, and other advances will trigger similar interest. The timeliness of this article isn't a factor, it's an interesting event and a chance to broach a few topics.
Target demographic has shifted from male to female. Your point of view is no longer being catered to because your purchasing power as a demographic is in decline.
The midwit take in this day and age is assuming you need an adversarial relationship with labor. The problem with McKinsey et al is their point of view.
Stepping back a little to look at the point and gravity of the exercise makes me wonder why they didn’t just fly it over.
Actually came here to "attack" that point. It's a view of reality that requires a conceptual bias-free media as reference for any commentary, and bias-free media is a tautology.
Compelling a perspective is the only thing cinematography / photography is doing. Bias equals point of view. There can't be any unbiased point of view because they're the same thing.
There's a conversation on education to be had here.
Were those the guys trying to remove roadblocks set up specifically for people who’d like to encourage sprawl?
Oh definitely, I was speaking more in terms of moral absolutes. The people I knew who wanted to run a financial institution more than they wanted money are all dead.
Hacking was mostly about
gaining access before AOL and there was absolutely a "let's give this kid a summer job" attitude floating around after War Games came out.
The chain of resource acquisition and information gathering necessary to arrive at a point where you need to make a long-distance phone call you could never afford was impressive in itself. Calling card fraud by a bright minor for educational purposes against a corporate entity absolutely loathed by every adult at the time just wasn't that big of a deal.
From my perspective the point of being a hacker is individual but follows observable desire paths. A lot of those have been filled in now.
> pilots are probably at peak automation
Any role where the human is a buffer against chaos should be thought of as secure by everyone involved. All automation and information flow will be in service to this position. This is not a bottleneck, it is the point of the exercise.
My programming cohort in the '90s were predominantly ex-trades and service and the pay was initially a cut. The work environment and the people were almost a middle finger to everyone I couldn't stand in the real world, and they paid me to solve logic problems.
A large part of the trades is learning how to deal with toxic coworkers or shops, or understanding that you're being worked like a rented mule for no real reason. And I was able to leave all that behind for a moment.
The point of the fallacy is that
you don't know what value they bring or when they bring it.
Real estate agents are a good example. They might be the only people involved aware of the processes everyone's engaged in and moving things forward. Having helped build tools for a local shop I can tell you that their checklists and flowcharts can't and won't be built with AI because hoarding and sharing information has always been part of their competitive advantage.
A corollary might be that the value of human involvement is unknowable because human beings aren't rational. The Doorman is a buffer against chaos.
So critical that the work is done in-house. Contractors are for audits. I wonder what’s going on here.
The people who didn’t immediately reduce headcount are all busy rewriting their stack from the ground up and you won’t hear much from them right now.
If I wanted to live with my mom I’d be doing that, Eric.
My first exposure to ‘compliance is not equivalence’.
> Fire trucks are far more expensive to acquire and maintain than necessary due to monopolistic actions by manufacturers, plus local governments buying fancier apparatus than they really need. There's a lot of room to trim those particular expenses.
The real problem with fire equipment is that it will sit there in an emergency unless you have the staff on hand to operate it. Small, remote, or cheap towns get to burn while they wait for volunteer #2 to make it to the station.
Your mistake is viewing this as "someone else's email" instead of a communication medium for certain types of messaging. Similar to how `webmaster@` can be used by anyone attached to the role.
Every organization sets up something like this once they grow past a certain point.
> Not everyone is interested in programing.
This isn't a pipeline, it's a pool.
Actually, let's think of it as a stew. Lots of different base ingredients, add seasoning and heat. When the individual bits are delicious they start bubbling up to the surface. Not every bit is a carrot or chunk of meat. Some are potato, maybe that's a bean.
Our discipline fundamentally seeks to remove “grind”. You’re missing the point.
> This, to my knowledge, very rarely works.
Strictly a function of management quality and experience.
The blindness bit had me wondering why the author didn't just look up info on the subject instead of making things up in the middle of a post about honesty.
His gears start slipping halfway through the article and it ends with a weird parasocial vibe.
Sure, you could intentionally conflate analogies like that if you wanted to mislead.
Saying that she “sent a message” is both literally true and obviously intellectually dishonest.
I mean you could just as easily claim there are only 5000 “elite” software roles available at any given time.
I've never worked a job where getting rid of the people who don't want to be there wouldn't improve the situation for everyone else.
As an employer, UBI and universal healthcare might slash payroll costs and eliminate most of the hiring process.
As a founder, UBI might remove the funding barrier to entry.
What's the downside, and who is it a downside for?