• Cargo cult programming
• Five whys
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is

That’s at least partially true, perhaps even predominantly, but there’s also the desire to have very lean distributions for containterization, and GNU is comparatively “bloated,” for lack of a better term.

Stallman, begging to be defenestrated.

All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

That’s not even true, because they don’t all have a GNU userland.

It’s bigger than it looks: our data is spread across 64,000 worksheets.

When I make espresso at home with a La Marzocco GS3 I’m cool, but when I partake from a Costco tub of caffeine pills, somehow I’m the freak.

Our “big data” is ActiveSheet.Rows.Count big.

Yes? “Consciously” and “knowingly” would be synonyms in the context.

I had accidentally replied to the wrong person and then immediately deleted it, but it looks like the deletion request never got processed by midwest.social.

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This one takes the cake 😂 Won’t somebody please think of the imperial hegemon!

You might think so, but today’s NASDAQ & NYSE seem to imply that Trump is the better choice for empire 📈

That depends on whether you’re a US capitalist or labor aristocrat who benefits from US neocolonial exploitation of imperialized states.

It so happens that I do benefit, but I side with the workers of the world and against imperialism nonetheless.

It’s hard to say which would have accelerated it more, but for the sake of the global majority, it can’t end soon enough.

Trump won’t stop the decline of US imperial hegemony, but then neither would have Harris. It’s a process that’s been in motion for decades and has accumulated a lot of momentum.

This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.

It seems you’ll blame anyone but the Democratic party itself. This was their election to lose. Beating a right-wing clown like Trump should be an easy win, but they lost to him two times out of three.

And they brought this upon themselves.

• How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy
• Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
• Democratic Party’s choice of Harris was undemocratic − and the latest evidence of party leaders distrusting party voters

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We don’t always have the luxury of choosing our tools, and some tools are garbage.

Sure, though you’re arguing against an entirely different thing. Nobody said writing code is bad.