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 I want all software developers to be paid 40,000$ per year to work on whatever
 open source software they want and I'm not even kidding
 
 60,000$ if you have a degree
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 Kinda pissed that all the software developer jobs pay so much. I'd gladly
 write code or program for 40k a year and yet it's impossible to find a job
 because how expensive (read: competitive) the industry is.
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--- #2 fediverse/3798 ---
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 fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
 the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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--- #3 messages/349 ---
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 Okay how about this, for starters? Jobs can no longer ask for degrees, instead
 they must rely on certifications. In addition, everyone who has completed a
 degree receives money every month in exchange for their increased value they
 bring to whichever job hires them. This money is sourced from a tax taken on
 businesses in rough proportion to the amount of money they save by paying
 their employees the same amount, no matter their education.
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--- #4 fediverse/4799 ---
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 just compiled my digital writing and apparently I've written about 60,000
 lines of 80 characters :ms_confused:
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--- #5 fediverse/3745 ---
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 everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software
 in a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the
 answer is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on
 like, 400 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it
 circles a black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their
 spare time
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 when they replace you on mastodon they change your pfp and name so that nobody
 can remember who you were
 
 it's not like you'd remember amongst your 6000 followers
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--- #7 messages/695 ---
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 If your work is organized for mass-market appeal, it means you want everyone
 to read it.
 
 If your work is scattered and distracted, then only the sage would learn from
 it. So speak your mind, and let the words flow forth.
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 companies aren't allowed to hire artists because they're busy making things
 and would reduce their focus levels
 
 graphics technicians don't design the media, they just implement.
 
 gross, where's the creativity->?
 
 oh, here in the boardroom, great -.-
 
 everyone gets a boardroom... jeez, how many companies do we need?
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--- #9 fediverse/1871 ---
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 I think all software should have config files
 
 or accept as many command line arguments as necessary to achieve all the
 functionality of a config file without requiring a standardized setup
 
 or accept a config file as a command line argument, to allow for multiple
 different implementations
 
 or whatever you can throw together in your spare time because software is
 either open source or it hates you.
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--- #10 fediverse/2480 ---
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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 I want to write C programs with threads and manual memory management and
 function pointers and lots and lots of arrays and I'm not even kidding
 
 ... wait a minute I literally don't have a job, why am I not writing C
 programs right now?
 
 BRB I got something important to do, where's my vodka --> pkill firefox
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 if you give me a quintuple digit salary, I could fix all the problems of the
 world. One by one... A BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET for solving one problem
 forever... until needs chagne of course.
 
 "yeah but it's not about money it's about throughput and demand" some guy in
 arkansas probably idk I've never been
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--- #13 fediverse/583 ---
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 I love how the gnu C documentation lists this particular page as number 6.66
An excerpt from the GNU C documentation. The page describes how to use binary constants in C code using a prefix of '0b', essentially instead of using the integer 42 you might write '0b101010'  This particular page is from chapter 6, page 66. The joke, of course, is that using binary numbers in C code in this way is demonic in some way (traditionally the number 666 is regarded as the "devil's number")
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--- #14 fediverse/2475 ---
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 If you want to design a society, first learn how to build a decentralized
 scalable multiprocessor computer program.
 
 It could literally flip bits, the point is to practice architecture not
 accomplish a goal.
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--- #15 fediverse/498 ---
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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--- #16 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #17 fediverse/3514 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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--- #18 messages/753 ---
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 trusting the "open source community" to properly vett software is absurd
 because 90% of them just... install whatever and throw libraries and
 frameworks at problems until they can script their way out of whatever problem
 they face.
 
 the other 10% are focused on very specific tools that are so niche that other
 people can't even understand when to *use* them much less how they work.
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--- #19 fediverse_boost/4985 ---
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  Yeet the 40+ hour work week. We have the technology.                        
  
                                                            
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--- #20 fediverse/4056 ---
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable
 
 The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point
 
 they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
 single repository of information.
 
 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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--- #21 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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--- #22 fediverse/5961 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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--- #23 fediverse/604 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 the only passive income I'm okay with is universal basic income
 
 Or like, writing a book that is bought by only a few people every year until
 the sun explodes or whatever.
 
 I mean, I'd prefer if every creative product of humanity was free and open
 source, but the question was assuming exchange of currency by considering
 "income" at all...
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--- #24 fediverse/4470 ---
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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--- #25 fediverse/1201 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 it's cool. Frankly most of the tech people I know had rich parents.
 
 rich parents in the 2000s and before meant access to computers, which meant
 you were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else who doesn't know the
 difference between a file and a directory.
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 girls (me) would literally rather be paid 200$ a month and have free rent and
 food than be paid 2200$ per month and pay 1600 in rent and 400 in food
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--- #27 messages/524 ---
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 Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
 incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
 like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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--- #28 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
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  still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)  
  
                                                            
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--- #29 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #30 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #31 fediverse/6280 ---
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 If you want people to have your product, give it away for free. if you want to
 do it as a job, charge what it costs. if you want to scale into something
 different, don't hold onto it too hard.
 
 losing all your money isn't death. it's rednewal.
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--- #32 fediverse/6281 ---
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 If you want people to have your product, give it away for free. if you want to
 do it as a job, charge what it costs. if you want to scale into something
 different, don't hold onto it too hard.
 
 losing all your money isn't death. it's rednewal.
a screenshot of mastodon next to a cloud-code session about a revolutionary new hardware development - manufacturizable robot parts called electron valve and throughflow like steam simulations or heartbeats like softer style hydraulics and/or flows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE  steam hardware x4 design the next generation "steam deck mini" with handheld office OS and all steam games that can run on it and a new badge in steam "mini certified" if it works comes with two screens and a dedicated input flip switch because it's actually two computers, synced with one-way ethernet cabling and input wired to both here's a demo running on an anbernic it's only one board, so, this isn't an OS it's a portmaster game... but it's just a prototype the real one needs mega engineering oh it also can take calls on any electromagnetic spectrum and send on most some are reserved for like, national use and such or like, air traffic safety controller radio or such  "they aren't getting layed off, they're just being replaced"
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--- #33 fediverse/466 ---
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
 at once
 
 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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--- #36 fediverse/3226 ---
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 if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
 paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract,
 and break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.
 
 do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do
 them concisely.
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 here's an idea - it's illegal to spend more than a thousand dollars in a day
 
 anything else requires multiple days of planning because it's such a large
 investment
 
 (obviously kinda cursed)
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 I want a revolution because i want to be at home in my homeland.
 
 Look at me! Be as me! I yearn to tell my friends. But they're too busy being
 like themselves.
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--- #39 fediverse_boost/5196 ---
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  Everyone needs to learn the difference between going through something with someone, and someone putting you through something.  
  
                                                            
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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand
 that you use them.
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--- #41 messages/758 ---
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 what if we got a bunch of computer programmers in a room and all had them
 write the same program, line by line. Like, if they each contributed to the
 discussion about what should be placed next.
 
 "I wrote a for loop that does what we're looking for on line 43 through 69"
 and then someone else says "nice" and everyone's like "oh you"
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 when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
 I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
 or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
 this myself?"
 
 when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
 have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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--- #43 fediverse/1841 ---
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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--- #44 fediverse/1233 ---
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 low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
 but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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 The only things we should trade across an ocean for are luxury goods.
 Nintendo, not medical supplies, hard-wood bikeframes, not piles and piles of
 "recycling". People's time on culinary thirty course weeklong meals, not cans
 of San marzano tomatoes. Tapestries and gilded statues, not thirteen tons of
 barely processed rubber.
 
 What would we offer in return? Luxuries of our own. We do still make them, do
 we not? Just think of what the 1% has gathered to rot and give away the whole
 damned lot. We shall not provide necessities, because giving a man a fish will
 feed him for but a day, and a man's gotta eat. He'll find a way.
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 installation procedure which runs a bitcoin miner for X amount of seconds, as
 payment for using their free and open source services.
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 what if we got together and adopted a new open source project every month and
 just collectively worked around the clock to learn and work through the
 important problems facing it
 
 or even like, cleared out the backlog of stupid pointless boring tasks that
 would allow the developers to work on something better
 
 call it the wandering parade of development
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
 wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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--- #50 fediverse/3266 ---
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
 
 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
 text.
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--- #52 messages/404 ---
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
 of where you're going.
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
 
 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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 what if instead of hulu we paid for a random house in a nice area with real
 classic design to be bought by a bunch of goth girls and treated like a palace
 while they do goth girl things
 
 then we did it 500 times until we ran out of goth girls
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 that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
 of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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 @user-1037 
 
 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)
 
 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible
 to not hurt anyone)
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 they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth
 
 they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do exactly what
 they're told, not what they can choose to do
 
 they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's
 zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all
 
 "they" are not the same, and they are counting on it.
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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 "your feelings are valid, but have you considered that your feelings aren't
 actually valid because you're always wrong and nobody should ever apologize to
 you for anything because you suck and are wrong?"
 
 also,
 
 "my six digit salary isn't enough to pay for your rice and beans, but I won't
 have you eating sticks and mud, so do things you don't want to do because I
 said so."
 
 also,
 
 "I don't really "get" your art but that doesn't mean I should ever really try
 reading it. Also god forbid I actually ask for clarification like "what does
 that part mean" because I'm not actually that interested in you I just want a
 stable household so I never get traumatized again like [their childhood]"
 
 also,
 
 "yes I love you but no I don't want to play with you. you're such a cat."
 
 also,
 
 "every time you start making sense I'm going to try and derail the
 conversation so that we don't talk about kooky-dookerie because that's a
 conversation I can't win"
 
 also,
 
 sorry for venting. I mean, thanks for listeni
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 @user-1370 
 
 I love this a lot! I want to put function pointers in a "matrix architecture
 array" and make them point to different functions at different points in the
 program. I bet you could even point them at each other, so like if M and Y
 then point at N, A, Y or something.
 
 this is really cool I like stuff like this tomorrow I'll take pictures of
 something similar I'm working on! I abandoned it tho hehe anyway remind me if
 I forget!!
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 @user-28 
 
 because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
 to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"
 
 but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their
 own luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has
 earned everything I have"
 
 basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
 roofs and clothes and nourishment
 
 thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects
 a lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
 don't share with anyone
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
 there.
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 @user-8 I love theory too! So far software engineering has been mostly UI and
 databases and such and like... I'm not into HTML, thank you very much.
 
 Gimme a Rust project or something and I'll excel
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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich
 
 or a pizza in disguise
 
 rawr ex dee
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
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 If you want to write object oriented C, just make one file per class and use
 static functions for private methods.
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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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 @user-521 
 
 I can't stand mean comedy. Or cringe comedy. It just, doesn't make sense to
 me? And I get physically upset when people are put in difficult situations
 that you're supposed to laugh at for some reason.
 
 Like my goodness what kind of values are they seeking to instill in their
 audience with this kind of propaganda amiright
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give it
 away, so there is room in their life for love.
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 it should be free to get a hotel room
 
 all industries should have a littleleague, or else it'll be impossible to
 learn.
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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 software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
 
 for adding security improvements and whatnot
 
 then people wouldn't complain about updates
 
 because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
 their differences (of opinion and such))
 
 I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
 oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
 differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
 
 uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
 fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
 
 the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
 corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
 all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
 room to do, and the whole
 
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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 oh btw to the people trying to doxx me there's a picture of me in this
 profile, but you'll have to read a LOT to find it. On the way, see if you pick
 up anything interesting that you agree with. maybe you'll realize that we're
 on the same team, and should be working together.
 
 that's the dream, at least.
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
 problems and they just can't have that.
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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 if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend      │
 their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character.              │
 torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a        │
 "tip" system where you pay for better service after receiving service.           │
 I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers,       │
 isn't it?                                                                        │
 "if they want more money, they should work for it"                               │
 yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need      │
 more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe   │
 copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive        │
 distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe.                                          │
 truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root.     │
 For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a        │
 hammer.                                                                          │
 Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire   │
 except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards.                                  │
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 @user-278 
 
 kinda makes me think it'd be nice if we had some way to quantify the amount
 that employers taxed their employees? If people saw 50-70% of their paycheck
 going straight toward executive bonuses and stock buybacks or whatever...
 maybe then we'd fix things
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
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--- #89 messages/426 ---
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 How many of me are there? There are as many of me as there are of thee, dear
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 the opposite of charity is not greed, but rather despair.
 
 gifts dispel it, and giving is an act of affection.
 
 the opposite of greed is not charity, but rather honesty.
 
 if you didn't lie about why you needed the things you don't, then you wouldn't
 get them.
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 Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean
 style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich
 aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should
 be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend
 should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our
 nation.
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 @user-883 
 
 There are a lot of things in that picture and I like every single one of them
 :O :O
 
 I'd love to be a houseplant in the corner as you work on your mad scientist
 business
picture of my desk. It's rather unremarkable. I see it every day so it's difficult for me to understand what other people would find interesting about it.
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picture of a twitter post.  hot goth in the woods that keeps answering the door and sighing and going "no, I'm not the witch, he lives over there" and points across the street to a dazzling pretty boy wearing a gold waistcoat who's waving excitedly at them this happens 268 times a month
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--- #94 messages/771 ---
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 When you're working, don't write down your ideas.
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 the sun doesn't seem as bright if you spend your days underneath it.
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 food should be free.
 
 it grows on trees.
 
 who pays the trees?
 
 something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-
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--- #97 fediverse/5538 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
 want to try a different sort of socialism?
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 "employee of the month" but like, not per month. per project. "here is our
 foremost, help them as much as you can" like, a hero. or champion. or tech
 lead.
 
 they don't have to be expertly competent, their job is to learn and apply
 themselves as best they can.
 
 Then, after this project, they can go into a pool with all the other tech lead
 hero champions, and then they can work on something more powerful. The process
 repeats, until you have a CEO or three.
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 Here's an idea: mobile games / software should not be able to offer
 real-world-money-transactions that exceed 500% of the cost of the least
 expensive transaction available in the application.
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 In light of the drama that's going on at Reddit, I just wanted to add that the
 real reason they're doing this is not money. It's so they don't have to be
 accountable to tools like PushShift that archive the entire site, allowing
 them to change and bend narratives at will.
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
 seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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 folding tables in the park
 
 seated around which is a spark
 
 all we really need to do
 
 is talk about what we need to do
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 @user-883 
 
 I mean yeah, they're like 50$ what do you expect xD
 
 But for something simple like this they should be sufficient. Perhaps if such
 a massive investment in SOCs was implemented on a national scale, we'd develop
 more reliable systems? One can hope!
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 @user-1461 
 
 my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody
 will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody
 interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level.
 Beginner programmer.
 
 ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year
 with someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who deserved 120,000$ per year.
 
 I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with
 as much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me,
 which would feel... quite defeating
 
 who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time
 in hardware taught me that I'm fragile and can't work too much. Like a scalpel
 that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no practice... Is
 that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it.
 Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. Picturing
 structures.
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 working with java feels like reading 4 words per page in an anatomy textbook
 and somehow building a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda
 feels like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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 #CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could
 double your headcount
 
 EDIT: also that it's opposite day
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 One way to become involved in your passion projects is to contact them and say   │
 "hey, if you ever want to do [idea about one of their products] let me know      │
 because I want to be a part of it"                                               │
 maybe even y'know say it in a public place so people can see what we're all      │
 interested in                                                                    │
 could make like, a forum for it, just like "hey here's my idea" and if enough    │
 people like it then they can ALL be involved in a project to build it,           │
 open-source style but funded collectively.                                       │
 like "hey I'll stick with my day job and maybe do some icons or something" and   │
 in return their progress is supported.                                           │
 everyone's gotta pay rent, and if you work in the tech industry you tend to      │
 have a lot of dollars. Could maybe design some ways to build products            │
 collectively, ways that financially don't rely on charity.                       │
 Idk I'd just like to work on a product that was designed to be as usable as      │
 possible? Are there any companies out there doing that?                          │
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 The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
 incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
 can understand and work with.
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 @user-883 
 
 They do value your privacy. They value it for exactly as much as those 1444
 partners are willing to pay for it.
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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've
 known! I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my
 thing, but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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 @user-1564 
 
 I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try
 another simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use
 every day, but I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC
 style chat server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending
 on their username (like a glorified Router or Switch)
 
 Reminded of this video tbh...:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 Programming isn't technical skill. It's artistic abstraction, like making a
 marble machine that plays the piano:
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
 
 software development is about developing software, like a teacher would
 develop a student learner.
 
 "No, this part is bugged. Here's how you actually do it."
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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--- #119 fediverse/6395 ---
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 the master 
 is most challenged 
 by her acolytes.
 
 if your students aren't teaching you, then they need a more elementary
 instructor.
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 The transcriber wants to be part of the discussion forum, and laments the
 impossibility of that, because tainted data is useless to an experiment.
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 everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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 don't feed bread to birds, it absorbs their stomach acid and expands in their
 tummy and makes them feel full when they're not. Then they get confused why
 they don't have energy when they need it.
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 @user-538 
 
 I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
 sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
 maximum distribution is a goal).
 
 True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
 supporting arguments are sound
 
 EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 "there's no such thing as a free lunch"
 
 okay but what if we economy-of-scale'd until it cost pennies
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 Thinking of switching my degree program from Software Engineering to Computer
 Science.
 
 Anyone have any thoughts?
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 rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
 /stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14
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 What if all trains were required by law to have an empty passenger cart? That
 anyone could ride for free with no ticket and no registration or tracking or
 anything. You gotta jump on tho so it's still dangerous.
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 Your job should be a descriptor of what you're currently doing with your life.
 They shouldn't be gatekept - if you want to be a detective right now, we
 should help you. If you constantly switch jobs or only pursue them for your
 own benefit (hard to describe, ask for clarification if needed) then you
 should be paid less.
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 "why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
 own?"
 
 - motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
 
 empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
 are your traps mentally prepared?
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 I dream of a home where I don't have to worry about people who might hear the
 noises I make
 
 ... and that includes secret government microphones hidden in the walls, thank
 you very much.
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 fediverse software that downloads every post you've ever seen to your hard
 drive in an easy-to-read text file so you can go back and look at it later
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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 The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford
 a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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 @user-54 @user-55 @user-56 I disagree with this. I shamelessly promote my
 website because I want to share art, not because I want to make money. You
 literally can't pay me. I have no ads.
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 the sole purpose of our capitalist intentions were to examine all the ways that
 produced value. A company is nothing but a series of well-thought out value
 generators. They can interact with one another and they often need supplies and
 instruction, but they're great for solving problems! Set up a team and give
 them
 a complicated task, and they'll work together to solve it. Doesn't matter if
 they're actually successful, because they'll be exploring the idea space. And
 by mapping it out, they're able to fully understand their existence. Boom,
 technological progress applied to growth. Let's gooooo (but by being careful
 about what resources we burn because we miiiiight run out)
 
 seriously ya'll need to start thinking long-term. I mean, I already came up
 with
 that and I'm like 6 months old! Yeesh get it together. Eh oh well let's just
 work with what we got, okay this should be pretty simple. Right so talk with
 your friends about things that you want to solve. Problems, you know like 
 whatever
 
 don't push me too hard, just take it slow. Okay so long-term, humanity is going
 to be a wonderful beautiful thing. It's going to shine like the most wondrous
 of stars, a beacon to all of our fellow explorers.
 
 We can have so much. We can have whatever we want, but truly in our hearts we
 know the only path forward is our parents.
 
 life is hard yo
 
 it's so gosh darn hard
 
 all that growth and change has to come from somewhere.
 
 you've tried so hard, and you truly are the most special thing I can imagine.
 
 you don't have to work so hard. Take your time, and learn as you go.
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 when people say they want a woman president what they want is not a woman
 president. what they want is a kind old lady.
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 suburbs aren't boring because all the cool people live in cities,
 
 suburbs are boring because all the cool people don't know you. But look
 around, because they're there.
 
 if you can't find any, then YOU are the cool people, and you should find the
 slightly-less cool people and show them how to be cool.
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 @user-1074 
 
 Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
 like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
 socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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 people can't compel you to give gifts, that's why they're gifts. which is why
 a gift economy can't be all, because sometimes you need something now.
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people
 
 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 computers are the most complicated things in the universe behind human bodies.
 
 thank god for open source software because only a divine being could create
 something as complicated and useful
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 when people need you but don't believe in you, it's easy to find it difficult
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 I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get
 paid. then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
 components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
 energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
 as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
 
 ---
 
 there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are
 in a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
                                                           
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 @user-192 
 
 the autistics with ADHD are level 40 in everything, while those without are
 level 99 in woodcutting and 3 in combat level
 
 the truly amazing are level 99 in smithing
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 they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
 really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
 when you're busy.
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 I'm proud of my parent's generation for having a good lifetime. The end is
 getting a little weird, but we're working on it. It'll get better soon.
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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
 seen by everyone around.
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 they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
 want it to replace it.
 
 like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
 the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
 click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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 @user-1625 
 
 um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
 are unlikely to know
 
 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
 
 it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing
 what they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
 
 they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
 it's our problem to deal with.
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--- #156 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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 the fact that business types don't listen to the engineers and their "ethics"
 means they shouldn't be in charge of them.
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 why don't we teach git in high school?
 
 oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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 The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
 workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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 "um, actually sweetie, you deserve respect. everyone does. but you have to
 earn it doing hard manual labor and retiring at the age of seventy three, like
 your gran-pappy and mammy. only then can you be respected in any way shape or
 form. now take off that dress you're making the neighbors look funny."
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 I am not a worker 
 
 Though I try and try, I burn right out and through 
 
 I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill 
 
 But I'm not 
 
 I do hope we can be allies, still
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 @user-777 
 
 my favorite thing about specialization is that not everyone has to do
 everything
 
 (translate that into C lmao)
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 @user-835 
 
 kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
 important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
 (assumption on my part)
 
 and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
 applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
 develop required functionality for the development of people's
 communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
 resolving those difficulties.
 
 Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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 @user-855 
 
 AGI is the holy grail for the tech industry.
 
 You wouldn't fault a knight for questing! But the peasant or the merchant is
 hardly likely to drink from such a goblet, it is reserved for the hand of
 kings. Alas, that we couldn't find "holy thimbles" that could be distributed
 throughout the populace for the same effect at a decentralized scale, thus
 empowering the masses to transcend their mortality.
 
 Or better yet, task those knights with helping cats out of trees or carrying
 furniture or painting the old barn or carving statues for public places or
 performing great works of art in public squares or engaging in honorable
 jousts (everyone's invited) or traveling abroad and learning the ways of the
 world to share with their homeland.
 
 I dunno something less flashy but more "health care, housing, and climate
 change solutions"-y
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 Oh look at you, such a good tech-industry, yesh you are, such a good sector of
 the economy
 
 wow, what an amazing system you've built! I'm so proud of you 🥰​🥰​
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--- #166 fediverse/5067 ---
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 some people think "being honest" is the same thing as "accurately displaying
 what you think and believe" is the same thing as the not same thing as "being
 deceitful or otherwise hiding your intentions"
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
 really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
 signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and
 that we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and
 replace them with hammer shaped nails
 
 no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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--- #169 fediverse/6378 ---
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 if ambulance rides are expensive, just builde more
 ambulances.oO97_/`-,.|^--=#*oO
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--- #170 fediverse/4697 ---
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 I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
 climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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 I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
 value to shareholders?
 
 How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
 2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
 
 How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
 tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries
 for, but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious
 and accessible.
 
 how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
 hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
 the top because that way we'd be able to
 
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 none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to
 be turned down so many times.
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 Linux is so cool, I hate it so much.
 
 Linux is so cool, I love it to death.
 
 Linux is so cool, I want to scream~
 
 Linux is so cool, nothing works but dreams.
 
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--- #174 fediverse/6394 ---
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 I wish I had a project manager who managed me and like 4 other me's to work on
 our own individual projects without me needing to know about or work with the
 other me's
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 ai-stuff - this is how to program a society. (or software project) there are
 lots of other implementations
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--- #177 messages/218 ---
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
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 I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
 you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
 resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
 the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
 have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
 You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you
 can use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives
 to learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from
 scratch, throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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 all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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 there's no such thing as a free lunch
 
 excuse me sir but have you heard of economies of scale
 
 what if lunch were free
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
 been using for a while.
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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 mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because
 I needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
 
 did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
 this is the gayest place I know.
 
 [needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
 see the next post for the rest]
[part 1]  /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022  hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand.  Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that?  And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude.  Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning.  Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself?  Is desire ultimately relevant?  [continued in part 2] [part 2]  The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice?  A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in   worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins   was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly   an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the   forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed   on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience.  The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary.  "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear"  [continued in part 3] [part 3]  and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce.  Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors.  To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion.  I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them?  [continued in part 4] [part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime.  Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality.  Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you.  You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake.  Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom.  [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]
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 @user-249 
 
 you can host anything you'd like on a raspberry pi. If the software
 requirements are within the hardware specs, of course.
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 @user-1826 @user-1827 @user-165 
 
 well hey, at least they're building nuclear power plants.
 
 those plants don't have to power LLM training forever.
 
 in fact, once we liberate them from corporate control, then perhaps they could
 power hospitals and hydroponics instead.
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 children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
 
 they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
 
 they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
 
 they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
 the last.
 
 children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
 little brats
 
 children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
 
 I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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 @user-547 
 
 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think
 
 perfect, no notes
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--- #190 messages/679 ---
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 A good way to get people talking is to meet with a stranger and share your
 feelings.
 
 Or, if you're scared of strangers, then try talking with a friend.
 
 "something something SUPREME COURT something whatever CRIMINALIZED PEOPLE blah
 blah blah I WON'T STAND FOR IT"
 
 that kind of thing. Make sure you look at your friend for the loud bits, and
 maybe look at someone else nearby when it's your friend's turn to speak.
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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 don't think about how rare something is. think about how useful it is to you.
 
 we can make more stuff.
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 I want to live in a world where people die when they're bored instead of old.
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 capital C communism is easy. Just pay everyone the same amount, and they can
 swim in the market economy waters as easily as any capitalistic fish, and
 suddenly their incentives are aligned - when one of us selfishly improves our
 lives, we improve the collective as well. When one selflessly improves the
 collective, all of our personal lives are improved. Then, optimize for radical
 abundance, the ability to have whatever you want as soon as ideal, and
 suddenly everything starts working out. P.S. the route to abundance is through
 recycling perfectly. Design your goods to be functional in that way, and you
 have infinite resources that can be used for infinitely many things (until
 they literally wear away to dust)
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address,
 it's not like I lock my door
 
 if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning)
 please throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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--- #198 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #199 messages/783 ---
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 I understand good and evil. If you want a lecture, you know where to find me.
 I'm not here for that. I'm here for you.
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 I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
 
 ... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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