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Re:We Sleep: a tale of institutional failure on Thursday December 28, 2023 @08:14AM (#38793133)
Pop sci book filled with errors and bullshit to tell a story and make a buck? Expected.

A website dedicated to an email exchange with the author’s employer to get him cancelled build your name? This is the next level!

Re:Using Make – writing less Makefile on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @05:43PM (#38776901)
There’s so much of it in this thread I couldn’t possibly reply to all of it, but wow. Lot of make/shell wankery going on. No one is impressed with your pipe.
No one has ever done that. But I imagine if someone does we will all need licenses for gas stoves, or have to take our cast iron pans out of our luggage when traveling, or some other dumb thing.
Perhaps in 10,000 years archaeologists will find urinal drawings of circumcised penises and guess that there was some religious reason to chop off foreskins… they’d even be right!

Seems like a stretch here though.

Re:The end of retirement on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:19AM (#38760051)
Also it’s just work to hire, manage, administer another enployee. Fiddling around in Justworks one extra time per month. Creating an email address. Etc.
Re:Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:10PM (#38757429)
It’s gotta be tough to write a more realistic speech for those folks though: “if you don’t love business and making money you done fucked up. Even if you do? This was almost certainly a dumb idea.”
Re:The end of retirement on Sunday December 24, 2023 @10:11AM (#38753936)
I wonder if the fixed costs associated with employing an individual make that more challenging in some regulatory environments?