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@xgranade@wandering.shop The overlap between “slopbros” and “men who have a wider difficulty with the concept of consent [1]” seems to be high.
[1] You know what I mean
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mastodon 4.6.9- Software Architect at Cadence Design Systems
- IT&T Sector vice president at Prospect Union
- Reluctant "C++ expert"
- Bicycle-riding tofu-munching foreign wokeratus.
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There has been some Mastodon discussion about whether it is appropriate to refer to techbros and transphobes as “motherfuckers”.
Alas, I feel that we may now be in a position where it is more likely appropriate (and, unfortunately, apposite) to refer to them as “kiddiefuckers”.
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@commonslibrary@mastodon.me.uk It's perplexing that entire European countries have operated extremely successful glass bottle deposit and reuse schemes for decades, but at the same time it's somehow “too hard” to implement in the UK.
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@amydiehl@mstdn.social The only message I want on my cup is the little sticker for “oat milk”
Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
If you have experience of integrated circuit design, and you'd like to join our team working on EDA software, we currently have a Product Engineer role open at our #Edinburgh office.
https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/EDINBURGH-01/Principal-Product-Engineer---Custom-Layout---Virtuoso-Applications_R54863
#FediHire #GetFediHired #Job #JobSearch
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@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social
No paperwork → I would be fired for cause
This is pretty bad advice for nearly everyone working in the tech sector.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop The one ray of hope I've had for corporate tech has been my Steam Deck. It's just been… some good hardware? And reliable software, with a genuine Linux desktop built into it? And the tech stack has been created by directly funding independent open source developers?
It feels like a doorway into a parallel dimension where Google and Doubleclick didn't merge.
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@stroz@infosec.exchange Yeah, $10k–$20k sounds about right.
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@whitequark Labour's actual achievements in government don't make people angry, so no-one is interested in reporting on or discussing them.
So far Mr Starmer's government has been a *massive* net improvement on the preceding Tory government, especially for working people.
But it is impossible to ignore the continuing British institutional xenophobia, transphobia and Zionism. It's all anyone will remember.
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@Havoc_online I live in Peebles, and the main barrier to building transmission infrastructure is NIMBYs who insist that the new transmission lines have to be underground.
@EarthOrgUK @ChrisMayLA6
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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social I often don't understand some new-to-me code, so I rewrite parts of it.
This helps me develop enough understanding to be able to go back to the original code and make my changes, without having to check in my partial rewrite.
I think it's a useful tool for overcoming Chesterton's Fence. But only if you understand that that is what it is.
I've been in one, highly successful, feature rewrite project. It took years and enormous diligence.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange That makes sense!
Considered a DIY air shower for removing the worst of fine dust from your clothes on the way in? (This is not a serious suggestion)
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@futurebird
Roughly half the length of index finger
Roughly length of index fingernail
Roughly twice the length of index fingernail
Most people will have access to at least one index finger, either their own or borrowed
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@xgranade@wandering.shop I was very happy with our Chromecast, but it will be replaced as soon as I can get my hands on a Steam Machine.
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@eclectech@things.uk Is the Highlands going Lib Dem and the Hebrides going Labour a story about ferries?
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@mossman Every “business” laptop I've used over the last decade has had a physical slide shutter to cover the webcam, and on many the shutter doubles as a switch to electrically disable the camera
@beyondmachines1
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@jacqueline I stopped using IDEs and started using Emacs in ~2005 and, uh, it's been 21 years already?!
Tired: Minimum Viable Product
Inspired: Minimum Delightful Product
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@whitequark What about giving workers the right to stick pay and paternity leave from the first day of their job?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dz16jxjp1o
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online You're in luck! @TechConnectify@mas.to did an incredibly detailed deep-five into this exact question.
https://youtu.be/Limpr1L8Pss
@futurebird@sauropods.win
What's the deal with the popcorn button?
Business leaders really need to start treating product source code as a liability, not an asset
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@whitequark Maybe an RAII approach would be better (if I acquire a resource, e.g. a cooking pan, I'm committed to properly cleaning it up at the time of releasing it).
The #KDE 6.6 desktop window tiling/organisation features are greatly superior to those of the Windows 11 desktop.
The KDE window manager is much better at inferring what you're trying to do with your window layout, which gives more flexibility.
I also find that windows get "unstuck" from the tiled layout less often than with Windows 11.
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@abcdw@fosstodon.org With a lot of technology these days, my needs are fully addressed by the tools I use, so I don't feel a strong urge to swap them around.
My version control tools haven't changed a lot over the last 12 years, but neither have my text editor, my car, my mechanical pencil or my chisels.
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@abcdw@fosstodon.org For years the only way I've used git in my development workflow is to with Stacked Git (stgit) and its Emacs integration.
“Build a sequence of well-explained, self-contained patches,” remains the best way to construct a highly reviewable feature branch IMO.
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@whitequark Absolutely. Where I wrote, "No-one," I should have written, "Very few people on Mastodon."
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@airadam Re: text adventures, I didn't enjoy the classic single-player games, but I did put 100s of hours into a MUD back in the day
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@aarblaster@mastodonapp.uk Even non-FPTP electoral systems have tie breaking mechanisms that fall back to selection by coin toss or similar. See this article about tie breaking in the single transferable vote system, for example.
https://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE18/I18P6.PDF
I think there are much, much stronger reasons to criticise FPTP, and that we should focus on the strongest arguments available.
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@theogrin I love this whole judgment. I'm sure that if I was on the plaintiffs' legal teams this would be a career highlight!
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@halla@kde.social Oh wow, really? I have had to travel to South Korea for work several times over the last few years and the food has always been a highlight for me.
It's really distressing to discover that Steven fucking Miller is the same age as me
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io I'm struggling to understand how someone can have a starring role in the unambiguously antifascist TV series ‘Andor’ and then turn around and completely miss the point of ‘Animal Farm’.
I guess it demonstrates that you can be an outstanding actor and also incredibly politically naïve.
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@annewalk Oh. I thought the prevailing argument against ICE imprisoning brown people was, “It's fucking evil.” TIL.
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu Don't forget that Google have now cancelled the “finding cancer” project!
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@mikemcquaid@mastodon.social Yes, absolutely. My employer is indeed a freeloader. Freeloading corporations exploit open source software *wildly*.
Nevertheless, if I was caught publishing open source software on company time without the appropriate paperwork, I would be instantly fired.
Believe it or not, I have read my contract in detail, and there are no examples of contextual obligations that are “broadly ignored.”
People who do “no paperwork” will lose their livelihoods. Bad advice. Do the paperwork.
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@Di4na@hachyderm.io @shafik@hachyderm.io I call this “loss of intellectual control” and it's going to be a huge problem for software quality.