brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LD and SNW are easily some of the best Trek series.

How would TNG have fared if people dipped out at ep 2?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Your "proof" is that there isn't a position that will win approval with everyone?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

That, and Troy McClure's house. 😄

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This would be better with a more accurate projection, like Dymaxion. That black area is so much bigger than it looks here.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

You get used to it sooner than you'd think. There are libraries to convert between regex and English. Maybe it deserves a Unicode code block like APL?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Not something I've encountered.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wait until you see what they do to avoid learning SQL or Regex or JSON Pointer or XPath.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

If you want everything bundled instead of à la carte, that sounds more like eclipse to me. But then, I don't understand how anyone can program in Java.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don't seem to be prearranged.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 26 points 2 months ago

I think the rationale is that, when it's a single individual, they can't pass the buck or blame the group. It's a final appeal at a human level.

The trick is not electing a troll.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's this: https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-deletes-post-depicting-8647-after-backlash-online-2073031

James Comey posted a picture of "8647" (get rid of Trump) spelled in shells.

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