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  • it’s a combo of trolling and attention seeking. “there’s no such thing as bad press” and all that.

    we should point it out, condemn it, but not engage in arguments with them about what is and isn’t a sig heil.

    and when they pop up in other places trying to talk about other stuff, just bring up the fact that they threw a Nazi salute from time to time.

    the most important thing is to focus on their evil policies and actions. but we can’t forget their performative evil.















  • first, you’re talking about software “engineers” which means you aren’t talking about engineers in general.

    and there’s a good chance none of them have ever had an engineering course in their life. they’re hackers who are good at making code.

    the reason they probably seem reluctant to share is that what they’ve cobbled together with bubble gum and bailing wire is difficult to explain quickly and thoroughly AND they’d be taking time away from their assigned tasks to do so without having any change to their deadlines.

    stop blaming them and start blaming their management for not giving them the time and permission they need to help you. go to the management and say you need so-and-so to be assigned 40 or 80 hours specifically to help you understand these widgets.

    and in the future you need to push for clean up, documentation, lessons learned, and training to be part of every project estimate.


  • Well back when computers were being developed/ improved there was a pretty strong commitment throughout the Western nations to advancing and expanding education for everyone.

    In that paradigm, people would become more educated and better at critical thinking at a steady pace, probably on par with the rate at which computer programs advanced in their capacity to mimic human behavior.

    So, “can it fool more people into believing it’s a human” would’ve been a great test of whether the program was super advanced.

    Instead we’ve had 50 years of attacks on public education by Republicans that has been tolerated - or at least not fought hard enough - by Democrats. So not particularly advanced programs can fool a great many people. That does make the Turing Test moot, I think.



  • The F-35 would be good if they hadn’t wasted so much time and energy and weight on having a pilot in it. On board pilots are a complete waste.

    (Plus I bet dollars to doughnuts every F-35 we’ve sold to an “ally” has a secret switch somewhere to turn it into a drone.)

    It would be impressive if it didn’t have a meat sack in it that needs climate control and fresh air and not to turn to hard…

    there’s a reason the F-16 and F/A-18 are still the major US workhorses in the skies. (And of course my favorite the A-10 for blowing shit up on the ground.)


  • “A kid being sick is one thing”

    You just wrecked your whole argument and put the flaw to OP and all the kid-free people here.

    If your opinion is that “a kid being sick is one thing” then all we’re talking about here is degree of consideration, not whether to consider or not.

    OP and others here are acting like having a kid is some get out of work card. “This one weird trick drives bosses insane!!”

    It very well may be the case that parents get a little more grace, but chances are that the boss has kids too. Because it starts with “a kid being sick is one thing.”