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-> file: fediverse/1622 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── @user-883 yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1623 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── @user-95 tell that to my love of Majesty: the Fantasy Kingdom Sim ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1624 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-1037 │ ║ │ ║ For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing │ ║ tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying │ ║ your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry. │ ║ │ ║ You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute │ ║ to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but │ ║ the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the │ ║ rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create │ ║ tend to be the worst kind for humans. │ ║ │ ║ I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give │ ║ every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want. │ ║ │ ║ The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the │ ║ quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers. │ ║ │ ║ The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers │ ║ will want to build because it means more toys to work with. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1625 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: mathematics │ └──────────────────────┘ EDIT: Ooops, sorry, should have content warning'd this post two incredibly useful tools I found for boolean logic in mathematics: | f(x) | / | f(x) | or more visually: | f(x) | --------- | f(x) | this will return a 1 if f(x) evaluates to a non-zero value, and 0 if f(x) evaluates to zero. Pretend there's an infinitesimal at the bottom if you're one of those weirdos who think dividing by zero doesn't equal zero... the other tool is this: ( A B ) + ( (1 - A) C ) or more visually: ( (0 + A) B) + (1 - A) C) This will evaluate to B if A is 1, and C if A is 0, essentially creating an "if true" check. Note that it doesn't work if A is neither zero nor one, but that's what the first tool's for. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1626 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight. human rights however, are not up for discussion. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1627 ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── it's easy to mistakenly mis-hear things that sound similar in their contrasted grammar context. I like to say "understood." when I understand something that someone's telling me, because all of the contrasts to that statement (like "I don't understand" or "can you explain more about X as it relates to Y? etc) are different in pronunciation and structure. Meaning it's much easier to "get" the intended message just based through sound-patterns. Great for people who are only half-listening because they're thinking about something really hard and aren't thinking about what you're saying as much. Great for describing problems and getting assistance as you both sorta mentally-puzzle through it to a solution. ... and they say debug isn't solved HA ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1628 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ so I had this idea about this collection of social media screenshots that I │ ║ took over the past ~6 months ago. I thought about redacting the names from them │ ║ in order to preserve privacy, and then I thought about boosting someone on │ ║ Mastodon without their consent. Shouldn't they be able to decide whether or not │ ║ their name is attached to the content they create? │ ║ │ ║ An un-sourced claim should be treated as the author expressing themselves │ ║ through the words of another, rather than the expression of the person who │ ║ isn't necessarily being quoted. Feels the most ethical to me, that we know │ ║ where the source of our news is coming from, so it's less likely that they're │ ║ faking it. "Blind trust" is nice and all for trust-less systems, but society is │ ║ based on trust. │ ║ │ ║ as a collective, it is important to decide how our collective obligations │ ║ create and reify our current situations. we live in contact with one another, │ ║ in one way or another, so it's important to design a set of common grounds. │ ║ │ ║ have you ever met me at the park? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ |