jtdev

What you describe is a fallacy... it's more like: "I'm a heavy machinery operator, not a welder; if you need a weld, you'll need to requisition a welder."

> "corruption, bullying, and drive to have everyone do as little as possible" <-- this exact same verbiage could be used to describe the current state of affairs sans unionization.

Well I'd be interested in hearing how Brave search was able to surface results faster than Google yesterday... YouTube (another Alphabet echo chamber) was/is also removing video of the ambulance incident, so it was definitely on the big tech thought police radar.

Do you believe that Google doesn't engage in censoring search results? Do you know that YouTube was taking down the video of said incident yesterday and continues to do so today? https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/09/google-quietly-esc...

I’ve been using it. Seems like a solid search engine. Interestingly, Google appeared to be censoring results yesterday to hide reports about an unfortunate shooting at a Juneteenth event in Oakland and a subsequent situation where a crowd of people were blocking an ambulance from exiting the area of the shooting with wounded victims. Let’s just say the story didn’t play well to Google’s political base… so they hid it. Brave search provided unfiltered/uncensored results.

Define “intensive” in this context.

Do you realize that much of American beef cattle actually graze on natural grasses for most of their lives… in largely natural settings that support complex natural ecosystem? That will not be the case for “Beyond/Impossible/Soylent” burgers; they will be composed of plant proteins that require toxic monocultures to produce.

The primary ingredients in the fake meats being proselytized are plant proteins… meaning massive monocultures, pesticide and herbicide application, fertilizer application and manufacturing, and decimation of many thousands of acres of natural ecosystems. This doesn’t seem like a clear net positive change to me.

Okay, how do you feel about monocultures of soybean doused in glyphosate and multi-annual applications of synthetic fertilizers (which create radioactive leachate as a manufacturing byproduct)?

The farms that grow the inputs to your lab goo will have permits to shoot wild animals on these properties… it’s called a “block permit” and farmers in my area are known to kill so many deer through these permits that bulldozers are needed to handle the disposal/burial of the masses of animals they kill… and why do they do this? Because feeding humans is actually a rather important task.

Step off the concrete sometime… the solutions to the worlds problems and injustices are often far more complex and nuanced than what is proposed by the modern left.

A good coder does not a good technical document writer make.

con•spir•a•cy kən-spîr′ə-sē► n.

An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

Like, maybe the Fed is conspiring with the gov. and big banks to fleece the American people of their real estate assets…? Have you no ability to question things?

Consider that you may be far too trusting if you’re not considering conspiracy as a possibility at this point…

Twitter only does that when it facilitates manipulation of important elections. They’ve moved on to protecting Fauci, Harris, Biden from the harsh reality of their own incompetence and rapidly vanishing facade of legitimacy.

Our political leaders and absolutely terrible media are the villains here… not the rich people protecting their wealth.

It also encourages liquidity in the residential real estate market… which seems to be a net good thing.

Our fathers and mothers put man on the moon… we build shitty software that helps the technocrats sell more junk to the masses.

I’d love to see a good primer on data models and scenarios that are well suited to FDB.

ML/AI is such an irresistible siren song for so many… the possibilities are seemingly endless. But the “sales and marketing” people are getting over their skis selling AI/ML to the point of smothering the tech. The next AI winter is going to be long and cold…

FP = debating largely academic nuances that have almost zero material effect on software deliverables, purely for ego driven reasons.

From the Swift docs regarding closures (I would have used Haskell doc reference, but the Haskell docs are so esoteric and vague as to be nearly useless):

“A closure can capture constants and variables from the surrounding context in which it’s defined. The closure can then refer to and modify the values of those constants and variables from within its body, even if the original scope that defined the constants and variables no longer exists.”

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Closures.htm...

Explain why closures are allowed to mutate state in this “simple, well understood” framework.

FP is a cult.

Uhhh, you can stop using said services and software that abuse privacy, e.g., Facebook, Google, Twitter, TicToc, etc.

My next door neighbors just had a pesticide treatment sprayed on the entire exterior of their house... including patio furniture, outdoor cooking area, the yard that their young children play in... this just one week after a neighborhood wide mosquito treatment (I opted out and asked for an MSDS from the application company).

I just don't understand people. I would rather see a spider/wasp/ant occasionally than be doused in pesticides.

Support your local CSA and sustainable agriculture.

I'm all for GMOs that allow reduction of pesticides and more sustainable ag practices in general... but that's not what we've seen happen.

Additionally, the IP issues raised when Monsanto's GMO plant pollen drifts onto my land making me subject to litigation due to infringement of Monsanto's IP... yeah, that's total bullshit.

> “They help fight off infection…”

Yeah, that’s what the immune system does.

Of those cases, I’ve seen zero reported as symptomatic. If you have any proof otherwise please link sources.

Ah yes, the phrasing tricks have been a media favorite when discussing covid origins… conflating lab origin with natural origin through the almost certainty that the viral material used at the WIV originated in nature is pure intellectual dishonesty.