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Re:Radiation Map of the World on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:35PM (#50331059)
> Keeping the map honest

I love me an honest map, it's absolutely load bearing for me.

Re:Product Managers aren't safe either on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:43PM (#50310546)
> the results can be verified quickly and easily fixed

Citation needed. Many of my users don't even know what correct would be.

> nobody is going to try building a building only to check if it's structurally sound because that would be absurd.

Well, that otoh can be simulated quite easily.

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:00PM (#50294934)
:(
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:02AM (#50271633)
I have a box full of cables, that's what I have.
It's things like "under the attacker's feet" which completely throw me off. While trying to parse the text, my brain tries to imagine a surprised hacker.
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:39AM (#50100512)
Or typst, did that with my CV.
Re:Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:52AM (#50069184)
Parent speaks of capital owners, not capital managers.
Same here, and I thought it was about their visuals or something
Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:53AM (#49974724)
> why would you ever design a program where a change in one place affects the other

If that would be possible, there would be no function signatures.

Re:Why Common Lisp Is Now the Best Programming Language on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:49AM (#49974698)
It's basically a myriad of unit tests without writing them down (in full).
Re:How to save a life without knowing CPR on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:53PM (#49970559)
Step -1: touch somebody and tell them to call 911.
Re:A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:18AM (#49961276)
Overhead per allocation, if you care about that, and reference circles.
It might not be the purpose, but it's the effect of laws.
Re:cp: -r or -R? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:02AM (#49943910)
I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this.
Re:cp: -r or -R? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:38AM (#49943746)
Do it once, make it your muscle memory - it's really hard for me to learn things by heart, but even I could do it :), and then you can forget about scp as well
Re:cp: -r or -R? on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:35AM (#49943722)
Relinking?
Re:Tiny Brutalism on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:39PM (#49936259)
It's also that it's really difficult to find anybody who could build rococo or neoVictorian buildings. And if you do, it's a lot more expensive. So the designs are not built, making it impossible for young people to gain experience building it.
I think it's not a matter of want. The goverment makes the rules, and the rules decide the emergent behavior of people, in companies and elsewhere. Whether their emergent behavior is good or bad, whatever that means, is a result of the way that your particular country selects the goverment. Mine is probably different than your's.
> I expect those people to behave ethically at any given time.

A company is set up and incentivised to maximize a profit function, and that in turn incentivises to promote people which are not impeded by ethical considerations. The hierarchy furthermore ensures that people which would otherwise act ethical, don't, for fear of losing their job. This structure behaves ethical as long as you put ethics in the profit function.

> we should also regulate them to ensure that they do and punish them meaningfully when they fail to

Fully agree, that's what I mean.

Re:A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:33PM (#49897130)
I think it's a fundamental difference in philosophy. Does the work exist, and you discover it? Or does it start existing as soon as you think about it? This person seems to subscribe to the latter world view.
IMHO one shouldn't expect a company to have any ethics to achieve a positive outcome for society. This needs to be baked into the rules (taxes, regulation, ...), so the ethical behavior becomes the rational behavior.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:03AM (#49814805)
And there's certain constraints related to patient's safety which have an impact (i.e. less handovers, longer shifts)
Re:Doing Everyone Else's Job on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:45AM (#49724084)
In Austria as well, it's called "Turnus".
Next up: Airport Simulator! Enjoy security, customs, and the inevitable panic of missing your gate across more than 50 international airports around the world!
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:23AM (#49680993)
> the problem seems pretty clearly to be the impossible goals, which cause them to go crazier and crazier trying to complete them

And if you think about it, humans in coorporations face very similar situations and choose to bypass regulations and guidlines knowingly to fullfill (at least from their POV) impossible constraints (thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal here)

I hate them because I seem to be the only adult that sees the kid kicking out another kid's teeth, or hurting them elsewhere.
Re:Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:32AM (#49594658)
> Fifty, maybe a hundred violinists in the entire world do earn a pure living

Coming from Vienna, that can't be right. This city alone breaks that assumption with it's largest 4 orchestras combined.

Re:When Fruit Is Scarce, These Monkeys Hunt Animals on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:35PM (#49501463)
When cows have phosphorus deficiency, they occasionally eat small birds, rodents, insects, or bones
Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:14AM (#49488262)
Of course there's many reasons to make something worse intentionally. Revenge for example.

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