kersplomp

@kersplomp@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Property tax is the big thing that forces people to engage with capitalism against their will.

  Without property tax, you could live off-grid for eternity. But with property tax, you always have to earn money, and the people that control that money therefore control you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Anti-Intellectualism of Social Media Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel enlightened now that you called out the self-reinforcing nature of the algorithms. It makes sense that an RL agent solving the bandits problem would create its own bubbles out of laziness.

  Maybe we can take advantage of that laziness to incept critical thinking back into social media, or at least have it eat itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To say it’s “completely incorrect” is an exaggeration at best. The paper you cited is far more nuanced than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.

  That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.

  Just picking the first one:

  Payne’s work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given.

  When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the “most important research” he’d seen on the subject.

  The real snub with Payne is that her title was “Technical Advisor” for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn’t until the 50’s she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.

  Source: www.amnh.org/learn-teach/…/cecilia-payne-profile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never done ecommerce logistics

  I literally have. Go climb up a tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it’s old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It’s the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything’s 50% off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question, why does the fediverse like firefox so much? This is not a common opinion to have on the internet, but everyone here and on mastodon seems to have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some random Chinese company: does something jenky.
  Blogger: “The entirety of China is doing this jenky thing!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to Hashicorp Vault?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you always complain about CC-NC licenses?

  “Oh no, I can’t get rich off this thing I got for free”