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got waved over to help someone with directions, and i mentioned "yeah it's easy to get disoriented around here because the road snakes around, north is actually that way"
after sending them off in the right direction, i figured i'd check and yes it was
i live in a old european city before you grid moders tell me it's easy

2025-02-15 19:25:41 UTC

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oh, right, yes, misreading you entirely
i meant "read repeatable is technically si" but yeah for some reason i mistakenly though that was the default, not read comitted

2025-01-17 17:40:37 UTC

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the thing about nerds at fosdem,
socioeconomically speaking, it's full of people who had access to computers at an early age, and people who earn well over the median
so, well, there aren't many people who've ever had to fight or protest, which is why you'll always hear "have we tried not causing problems" as a preferred option
it's the same sort of brainrot logic of "blocking a road could block an ambulance" where a theoretical consequence blocks any action with a result

2025-01-17 17:31:55 UTC

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someone has explained "pulling the fire alarm causes problems" and "the event organizers can suffer consequence for it" in what i can only describe as an incredible achievement in understanding a post

2025-01-17 17:26:09 UTC

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it's funny to note that the systemd guy doesn't protested at fosdem because despite the invective, he isn't as despised as jack dorsey

2025-01-17 17:11:15 UTC

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the thing about pulling the fire alarm to stop a talk, you don't even have to be in the same room, just in the same building, or somewhere on the same fire circuits, it's pretty impossible to stop
that, and with large enough buildings, they can't turn the alarms off without having someone from the fire service check
the more you know huh

2025-01-17 17:06:40 UTC

btw if you're planning on protesting a talk, the easiest way is to pull the fire alarm
and if you're at fosdem, you can say "i just saw a vape cloud i guess" if anyone asks why

2024-11-28 20:48:02 UTC

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phoenix is 25% off until end of month

2024-11-27 18:27:32 UTC

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McAffe, McAffe and Me

2024-11-24 19:45:56 UTC

software engineering methodologies are simple, there's really only two goals
the first goal of a methodology is to make workers replaceable, and this is usually achieved by removing any worker agency in the project
the second goal of a methodology is to insulate decision makers from risk and this is usually achieved by blaming the workers for failure—for not hitting estimates forced upon them
unfortunately, "delivering software people want" doesn't make the cut

2024-10-02 22:42:42 UTC

if i had a nickel for every time a shitty reactionary wrote their own libc,

2024-09-14 16:02:31 UTC

imagine burning all the good will accumulated to be known as "the esr of bookmaking services"

2024-08-04 12:34:13 UTC

i know i'm old but i've learned what the front end devs are up to now and i'm both yelling at the cloud and telling the kids to get off my lawn