count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"Some guy I know"

Well no shit. I don't think in sentences, I think using imagination which sometimes involves language but often doesn't.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

These are the little fuckwits that pretend waiting on a phone call back from someone is hard work. They have no concept of what real work is like; their "work" is just their ordinary greasy life made to benefit a shareholder in addition to themselves.

Oh, you want me to go play golf with this guy using the company card and then go for dinner and drinks? Do some soft sales, just having regular conversation? Sure, I'll take that "work". Man, it's tough. Nobody works 80 hour weeks like me.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago

These opinion pieces really need to focus on more important messages. They ought to literally read:

"If you understand 1, 2, and 3, you use Arabic numerals. Who told you New York's mayor was introducing 'Arabic numerals'? They did this to scare you. They are trying to manipulate you. They think you are stupid, and that they can control you. Block them."

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Better to hoard data than refrigerators and car parts in your yard

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Police don't show up quickly enough to deal with a serious threat, so I have a firearm for home defense. Just one. Not into collecting, whether firearms or anything else.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You put the opener on the top, not the side of the can.

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

You think the Palantir CEO has a soul? You gaze into that orb once and it's game over

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

IMO it's sloppy, or at least a code smell, to be merging changes that still have comments like that into commercial software main branches to begin with. But it's still not a security issue or anything like that.

The future engineer who picks up whatever ticket that's referenced is going to have no idea that comment exists in that file unless it's called out in the ticket anyway, or people just know to globally search for references to whatever ticket they picked up in a given day for some person's old notes. At that point, just share a source code line link in the ticket to however many lines of code are relevant. Quite irritating to see an old comment in the code saying something like "TODO: Remove once PROJ-1234 is done" and PROJ-1234 was marked done three years ago. Does it still need to go? Why was it left in?

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

English language pedantry hot take? As long as a reader can understand, spelling a word the way it is pronounced is more correct than spelling it the way a dictionary spells it. The word only ended up in the dictionary spelled some way in the first place because some people were already spelling it that way. But it doesn't mean their choice was correct then and forever. Let language evolve.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I disagree. Someone doesn't return their shopping cart...? No remorse. No hesitation.

 

Jesus was 100% Jewish circa year zero. Observed Torah, went to and taught at synagogues, celebrated Hannukkah, ate a kosher diet, etc. But Christians don't follow Jesus's own religious practices.

 

I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by "higher level" governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?

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