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@SavedBcGrace @Socialist_Crow @KonstantinKisin Let me side with the communist nut job for once. Religion is opium for the people. Or as I like to say - God is a crutch for weak minds...

@Socialist_Crow @mlauritse @KonstantinKisin I’m not trying to convert you dear. Jesus chooses you, not the other way around. Unless you’re looking for him, you’re not going to get very far. It’s like expecting your parents to help you through life when you’ve never spent a day asking about theirs.

Welcome new followers - a few things you should know: - I am not left or right and I am not party political, I care about what's true and what works - I want Britain, America and the West to be strong, confident and united - I co-host the biggest independent political discussion show in Britain (@triggerpod) - I write my own thoughts down at konstantinkisin.com - Most important: I don't care if you're offended 😉

@PHChess So how was it before global warming? ;-)

@Socialist_Crow @KonstantinKisin Is that your idea of intelligent conversation? "Your reply is very idiotic?"

@mlauritse @KonstantinKisin Actually, the whole of your reply is very idiotic.

@Socialist_Crow @KonstantinKisin You don't think being far left puts you at risk of being fascist? Talk to someone who escaped from communism. You don't have to take my word for it.

@mlauritse @KonstantinKisin I am indeed far left. I have no problem whatsoever in being intellectually honest about where I am on the political spectrum. But the rest of your reply is very idiotic.

@viditchess Never look back :-)

Thinking of moving to Linux permanently... Really liking it so far.

@SDP65 @RobDaMugg @KonstantinKisin That's literally what he said :-)

@RobDaMugg @KonstantinKisin Or maybe his position is consistent and the world shifts around him

@Socialist_Crow @KonstantinKisin Everything looks right from the far left. If you think free speech is a problem then yes, you're far left. You're the fascist.

@KonstantinKisin "I am not left or right". Oh, so you're right.

@BRockzWell @LynAldenContact You don't have to "believe" in something not existing. That's Sasquatch talk...

@LynAldenContact It blows my mind that people can still believe that there is no intelligent creator.

People often underestimate how good the technology of a human body is. -A supercomputer that runs on less power than a lightbulb. -Housed within a mobile, mostly self-healing chassis.

@SteveMacDonal12 @Grady_Booch OK. You got me.

@mlauritse @Grady_Booch Nonsense.

There was a time that intelligence and education were celebrated by the primary resident of the White House. This is not that time.

@YourAnonNews @Grady_Booch Can you please make up new words rather than changing what you think existing ones mean? There's no mainstream fascism in America today.

The majority of the people in the US need to accept that 30-40% of the population wants a dictatorship, wants fascism as long as the right people in their minds are being opressed/punished/murdered/disappeared/tortured. They don't care what laws are broken. They don't give a shit about the constitution. They don't even care about the economy which is baffling. They have racist fantasies that are being played out, or are deluded that they will somehow be insiders in all this. Facts don't matter. Corruption doesn't matter. Hypocrisy doesn't matter. They call themselves christians but everything in their actions and hearts is the opposite of the teachings of the person they pretend to worship. Stop trying to convince them with logic. They have to come to it on their own and regardless they need to be stopped. Keep fighting for the rights of all. Keep your minds and hearts strong.

@allenholub You mean "defend", not "define", right? (Joke question - Please don't "define" your statement... :-) )

This image is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with the usual code-review process. People debate the grammar, even though there's no universe in which the prepositional phrase "of cell phones and earbuds" can be the subject of a sentence. The initial code review (changing "is" to "are") introduced a bug that was, fortunately, corrected in a subsequent refactor, but such corrections often don't happen. The underlying issue is the Dunning-Krueger effect. People don't understand grammar. They also don't know what they don't know. (I worked as a copy editor for a while, so I've actually read the Chicago Manual and do know what I don't know—I look things up. 😄). Of course, in a social media environment, people will define an uninformed opinion to the death while hurling personal insults and mean-spirited sarcasm, but a more subtle and polite version of that still goes on in a work environment. X is quietly discounted (often as "a junior" or some other pejorative). I want to think that collective review (e.g., by an entire ensemble/mob, or at least a pair) acts as a corrective, and often it does, but Dunning argues that an incorrect idea is amplified by social relationships. When a group holds a factually incorrect belief, people will not question it because group membership is more important than being right. Who wants to lose friends? This is one of the things the purveyors of disinformation and propaganda exploit quite consciously, but it happens spontaneously often enough. Think of the group delusion that emerges around some bit of tech that is rejected as ridiculous only a few years later. The tech landscape is littered with things people were attacked for not using ("of course, you have to…") that nobody uses anymore, and vice versa—people were attacked for using something that is now common but wasn't at the time. I'm not sure how to correct this other than to remind ourselves that our "gut feeling" is often incorrect, and noting that the majority of our circle believing something doesn't make that something correct, either. This applies to life in general, of course, but programming is part of life 😄.

@SoritesMinor @allenholub That's not a group.

@allenholub "group membership is more important than being right" Yeah, but the only group I care about being a member of is "people who are right".

@RpsAgainstTrump Democrats have been talking about this forever, and they aren't joking, they're scaremongering. Trump just picked up their thread and made it funny.

Q: Trump has talked twice in recent days about canceling the election. Why is he talking about this? Leavitt: “The president was simply joking.”

@ramez No-one has lost anything. They disagree on a topic. Grow up.

When you've lost Rogan...

@nocontextfooty That's cute. My team had one of those once... Amazing technician, useless on the pitch.

@BarcaUniversal He means to say we didn't face top-level opponents in the super cup? He's got a point...

‼️Toni Kroos: "Barcelona are very happy about winning the Spanish Super Cup, but now comes the Champions League, where Barcelona will face top-level opponents, and I don’t think they will win any international title."

@paulg @Daractenus Your democrat presidents have a long record of being just as crazy as your republicans (as evidence, I present to you the last one who spent 4 years clueless in office....) Trump is simply funnier, otherwise no diff. :-)

@Daractenus It depends largely on whether their party in power. If we had a Democratic president, the government killing citizens would seem to them (as it is) a monstrous overreach.

Maybe I’m too much of a European, but I honestly can’t understand how so many Americans find it perfectly natural to be shot in the head on the spot for the slightest act of disobedience toward any sort of law enforcement. You might wanna revisit that "land of the free" thing.

@allenholub By all means let's work together in the office, but can we please have some walls so we don't have to be in on everything unrelated teams are doing around us...

I'm going to get yelled at for this post, but here goes: I've been thinking about companies dragging people back into the office, kicking and screaming. Back when COVID first hit, and I pointed out that a return to the office was inevitable, pretty much everything ugly about social media reared its head. I'm hoping that we've all had a chance to calm down. (Also, just to head off an obvious critique, I'm not addressing neurodivergence here. This post is for the rest of us.) I don't much like those huge offices, but I also believe that physically working together is essential. You cannot hunt a mastodon by yourself. Solitary confinement is a form of torture. We are fundamentally social animals. I've, surprisingly, gotten pushback on that idea. If you can give me a single legitimate study that shows that humans thrive in isolation, I'll pay attention. I also believe that physical proximity is important. Azimov's "The Naked Sun" is a dystopian novel, not a blueprint for the future. Admittedly, some programmers enter the field because they think the work does not require interacting with people. I find that, under an objective lens, either their work suffers from that isolation or the loners form bottlenecks and make mistakes that slow down everybody else. Usually both. Working alone also encourages ineffective processes: E.g., you need big upfront planning to create the list of coordinated tasks the loners demand. Loners also talk about freedom from distraction, but when multiple people are working together, they are not distracting each other. To use an overused word, the interaction is synergistic. The whole concept of "distraction" predicates working in isolation. Lately, I've been seeing LLMs used as an excuse to work alone, as if they're a replacement for a human collaborator. Working with an LLM is not pair programming. For example, a pair or ensemble can identify problems in, repair, and refactor LLM-generated code much faster than an individual. Of course, you can work with others remotely, but I don't find that as effective. Unless you're doing something like remote mobbing, working remotely turns collaboration into meetings. Collaborative and meeting cultures are fundamentally at odds. Working alone, then having a meeting to resolve problems, is not collaboration; it's working alone. HOWEVER. Working face-to-face does not mean that we should be forced to commute for two hours to a soulless cubicle in a 2,000-person office where we talk to only 5 of those 2,000 people. I don't see nearly enough thought being put into creative ways to work together physically. For example, teams can work in a café, though a small satellite office is probably better, both because it doesn't drive the café out of business and because we can have several teams in a small building, so we can get cross-team collaboration.) By all means, reject a centralized office, but do that because they don't work. Develop better solutions for getting together.

@BillKristol @Kasparov63 Does that make it incorrect? When someone points a weapon at you, you should do what they want... In any society.

The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.