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Hey, congratulations on discovering why statutory law and case law are both “the law,” and why criminal courts exist specifically engage in open ended fact finding.

A skightly different view, but when I started a lot of companies did give back. I have worked with, hired, managed and led at least a half dozen teams with the explicit mission to make an already existing open source project do what we want by contributing functionality upstream, or by forking the project. I actually wrote a “open source engineering management” curriculum back when I was still teaching.

Unfortunately these efforts often sttuggle in a similar way - some developer who is not affiliated with us starts creating friction, and blowing up internal schedules, sometimes seemingly on purpose. Management starts to ask why so many of our features are dependent on SkankTopia6969 approving PRs and awkward conversations ensue. And then the project slowly becomes the process of educating an increasingly detached internal hierarchy on the realities of open source development, and people inevitability start asking why this is even in-house tooling in the first place.

Despite that, I’ve fielded a bunch of products like this, though always at fairly small scale (like $10M/yr revenue). The only time I’ve really done it big league the project got canned during a technical reorg.

Definitely not something an imperialist would say.

In my college town they would use the municipal snow plows to block streets for festivals. I don’t care how much redneck shit you’ve done to your F350, it isn’t beating a snow plow.

Don’t tell me what to do

It’s allegory. I am an atheist but the magic doesn’t actually need to exist for the morality tale’s conclusion to exist. Religion uses mysticism because it’s a philosophical shortcut for idiots, but the real intention has always been to push some pretty stabdard normative ethics on the population. In some cases those things are good like “don’t be a jealous prick,” and sometimes they are bad, like “fear the outsiders.” And in many cases they are just anachronistic.

Honestly, as much as I truly want the world to be mature enough for secular versions of this philosophy, I would also be totally fine if we could just scare people into not running red lights, or wearing masks when sick, via some divine cosmic consequences framework. But the older I get the more I realize how much religion plays a role in keeping idiots in line. It just needs continued updating for modern times.

By this logic no healthy person would ever vote for a cartoonishly stupid oompa loompa.

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Well at least the Gaza bombings will stop!

In theory the hub should be active and participate in the power negotiations

Yeah, the kind if bird which rips a fucking airplane in half. What’s not to understand?

The current state of FSD is that it’s a really nice driver aid, but it’s pretty far from being able to do anything beyond level 3

I am still salty about this. I was generally neutral about Apple until the headphone thing, and now I just loathe the iPhone for forcing the bullshit of Bluetooth headphones in the world.

People you know in real life?

I am skeptical that he actually cares about these things that much. This stuff feels like an attempt to whitewash his insanity ahead of confirmation hearings so that senators have some populist cover to vote for captain brain worm.

Literally nobody who isn’t just a Russian troll is confused by this.

Bro, literally nobody is threatening Russia besides you clowns.

$12? Maybe at 711 or some shit, but Aldi by me still has eggs under $3

Yeah this is some top tier trolling.

Smart watches are largely pointless though. In the modern world a watch is mostly a status symbol, and smart watches don’t do enough “smart” things to displace that, and they obviously aren’t status symbols.

A real heads up smart device you can actually wear for hours would actually push the boundary on wearable tech imo. At least, I have zero interest in watches, but am looking forward to being able to interact with my phone without developing neck problems.