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I'm seriously of the opinion that allowing HR departments to call programmers "engineers" was the single biggest mistake the tech industry. They aren't. They generally have no idea how to engineer anything. They don't understand risk-benefit analyses. They don't understand that in the real world, 'efficiency' and 'optimization' which address only one variable solution spaces are neither efficient or optimized.

And we've put them in charge of our econony and our government because they are really good at making things that have less features, but at least cost more and run slower!

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theonion.com/authorities-wait-…

Authorities Wait To Release Details Of Hiker’s Death Until They Learn Correct Collective Noun For Emus 

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—Refusing to inform the press or the man’s emergency contacts until they could nail down the vocabulary for the press conference, local authorities were reportedly waiting Wednesday to release the details of a hiker’s death until t…
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into The Midterms

How the hell are we allowing this to continue? Musk is literally buying our government, again.

wired.com/story/elon-musk-just…

Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76 Million Into the Midterms

The trillionaire has given more than $445 million to Republican political groups this election cycle, as Democrats vow to investigate him.
Dell Cameron (WIRED)

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Even if the Trump regime is prevented from subverting the voting process, they will be unconstrained after November 3rd, because they'll have no more political cards to play unless they create some chaos. This is where the real danger lies. The fascists in the regime are at least constrained by political necessity right now. After the election, they literally have no political necessities, because its a lame duck administration with a hostile Congress, and Trump will see them as a means to an end.

Mark my words. In the week or so after the election, there will be major actions both within the US and in the war on the Middle East. New massive military action in Iran is my primary bet, with starting a new war with a different MIddle Eastern nation in second place (Perhaps Yemen?). Simultaneously, I expect a huge burst of blatantly unconstitutional domestic actions from the Trump regime, all of which are anti-democratic and most of which will never really be intended to survive the courts, but rather to make people confused and scared.

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It's that time again, makers! 3 Days of hands-on workshops, lessons, and displays for a couple of hundred dollars. That's like $10 per class, but you get dozens of options! Kids are welcome, and can even do the hands-on stuff (with a guardian present, yadda).

You should come...

catskillmountainmakerscamp.com…

The Catskill Mountain Makers Camp

For event info and reservations, please call (518) 634-2541
The Catskill Mountain Makers Camp

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One has to wonder how many new makers gave up because the instructions said "needle nose" pliers, so they ordered them, never realizing that sites like Amazon and TEMU have decided to label all fine-tipped flat and chain-nose pliers "needle-nose", while calling needle-nose pliers "Round Nose".

Words have meanings , folks!

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Unus Nemo

@Blaise

I preferred notepad++ or using gedit or kate via mingw64 Though these days I suppose people could use WSL2 as it supports GUI applications as well.

I am completely MS/Windows free these days so it is not really an issue to me anymore. I know that some people, due to work, are force to still use that OS. I feel sorry for them. I dropped all support for all MS/Windows projects early this year as I now personally consider the entire OS spyware and unfit for use.

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Mark my words. The Epstein/Techbro totalitarians are intentionally trying to thin out the population!

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist (@princess-vimentin.bsky.social)

Recall that the CDC lab that tracked outbreaks like cyclospora was hollowed out to a point of being non-functional. More than 17,000 people have been sickened with cyclospora. This is deliberate, part of Project 2025. 🧪 https://www.politico.
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist (@princess-vimentin.bsky.social) (Bluesky Social)
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