MasterBlaster

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Classic movie! It was commenting on the Regan era trickle-down, job exporting, tax-cutting agenda and the people behind it

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Go to a science fiction convention. Seriously. There's some wild live music. I wouldn't be surprised if you heard it there.

I used to go to several in the Northeast US, like Arisia, Lunacon, Philcon, Boscone. Of course yor best bet would be WorldCon.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Until you realize republicans are on a PR offensive against empathy. Litterally, not figuratively. I'm not speaking in metaphors.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

By "homelab", do you mean your local network? I tend to use shared folders, kdeconnect, or WebDAV.

I like WebDAV, which i can activate on Android with DavX5 and Material Files, and i use it for Joplin.

Nice thing about this setup is that i also have a certificate secured OpenVPN, so in a pinch i can access it all remotely when necessary by activating that vpn, then disconnecting.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Others have covered this well. From my experience (35 years), most "developers" write stream of thought code. It reflects how their brains process, without regard to others. When I have agency, I can steadily refactor the code to reduce indirection, nested if.then, etc. When I don't, I'm in danger of being too slow in completing the work. Just lost my job for that reason while working with a 1000 line service entry method with a cyclomatic complexity of 310 and 34 class parameters. Coupled with being the acceptance tester as well, it makes it near impossible to succeed.

For extremely complicated code I used to create simple diagram sketches that illustrated the dependencies. It acted as a series of bookmarks to help keep my place. I think I have a smaller "working space" in my mind than non ADHD programmers. I think they can keep all that complexity in their mind at once while I cannot.

In a way, I turn that into an asset by writing code that I can reason about, which by definition requires it to be SOLID, and with minimal responsibility per function.

Lately, I've been using AI to generate sequence and class diagrams of the code to act as a high-level view of what's going on. Major time saver.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I find it ironic that you think I am unaware of some propaganda, presumably related to this thread.

I learned about the imperfect personalities of our founders and their peers in elementary school. No passes were given. I also learned that many of the founders sought to explicitly outlaw slavery, but compromised in order to get unity vs. king Charles and a viable nation.

Had they not done that, we would have been divided against an overwhelmingly powerful existential threat and probably would have lost. It is an example of making incremental progress and postponing a conflict until later so that there will be a later.

You are missing my point. "Canceling" historical figures or rewriting history because "bad" is a disservice to everyone. Acknowledging both the good and bad is the better approach. We learn by studying history, identifying the failures and successes precisely to learn from them and hopefully do better.

Our current president is an example of what happens when we don't learn from history. I don't know any reasonable person who whitewashed our founders. For those people, you need to look at movements that seek authoritarian control over a population, the people who follow them, and their victims who were denied the necessary education in history and critical thinking.

Additionally, I think most on this thread need to brush up on logical fallacies. Even the best of us forget some of them, but it is endemic in these forums.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Excellent job taking what I wrote and reframing it to make it appear i asserted something I did not.

Reading the room, I can see this forum is filled with people who have an axe to grind and have already decided I am a "part of the problem" because I had the audacity to suggest that we should not demonize the American founders.

Good luck finding a nation that has any redeeming qualities, given that no founders are unimpeachable for anything.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So you believe the entirety of the United States' existence is an affront to humanity as it's very foundation is as evil as Nazism, right? Nothing America ever stood for was any better rhan the worst of humanity.

It is telling that you can so lightly equate my comment to waving off Nazism as if across the developed world Nazism was the norm of the time. Yes, most peoples in the European culture were naturally Nazis, and only a few morally sound people were against it. I see your troll... And I set your straw man on fire.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Okay, fella - take a few breaths and relax. People are products of their times. The better ones fight for virtues and values they see as better at the time. They see an opportunity others do not and rally people around those.

Others they don't see and continue wi5h those norms, or they see the wrongs but don't believe they can rally people around fixing them.

Do not demonize people in the past who do not meet current norms. There will never be anybody who will meet those standards.

Judge them against the standards of their peers.

What if MLK did not support feminists? Would he now be considered scum, thus negating everything good he ever did?

Heck, i don't know if he had a stance on women's rights explicitly. Maybe he didn't. Is he evil if he didn't?

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