millihertz@oldbytes.space
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As a long time Linux user; do you know how bad you have to fuck up your operating system to make people WANT to use Linux?@rgegriff i dunno, but they might need these: 🫲 🫱
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You can tell if someone is a computering supergenius if their solution to a difficult problem looks like nothing.@athas @suetanvil "refusing to solve the difficult problem and realising you can get away with it" is exactly what software engineering is about. a lot of "difficult problems" turn out to be seventeen simple problems in a trenchcoat, and you only need to solve the one that applies to you; conversely, sometimes *over*generalising a difficult problem turns it into a simpler one - there's a couple of examples of that in Thinking Forth
the point isn't to shy away from the difficult problem, but not to take it at face value - to prod at it until you're absolutely certain you need to solve exactly all of it.
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🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our #HealthRecords - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses.@RichardAshwell strange for a site that claims to be all about privacy to refuse to acknowledge any button press that refuses Meta's cookie pixel