stjobe

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[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

What a funny way to spell "shine on you crazy diamond" ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

"Praise the lord and pass the ammunition" ;)

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the "deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic" side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (11 children)

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

That was an interesting read, thank you!

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Heh, haven't seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades... Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world's population is about 80 million people.

You'd have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 56 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it's confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there's no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always been partial to the phrase "the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they've experienced". Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.

[โ€“] stjobe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

BizTalk was (is?) a solid and also quite impressive product. That said, I'm happy I haven't had to work with it for years ๐Ÿ™‚

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