Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It. - On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare https://inthesetimes.com/article/china-gop-trump-biden-coronavirus-cold-war-sinophobia

@ruff How do we know a trend was being tracked? Why weren't all incoming students and staff tested?

When you swell a population shouldn't you expect a corresponding increase?

I was just commenting that studies have shown that COVID-19 cases may be being underreported by 10x due to asymptomatic cases and a lack of testing.

People who think Trump is end of world but might not be willing to risk voting in person. ???

Postal Service does need protection from GOP, but is it being used as a diversion to foil progressive needs of the country from gaining media time?

”177 cases of the dangerous pathogen had been confirmed among students, out of hundreds tested."

"hundreds" tested

They probably have at least 1,770 cases out of the thousands not tested.

I'd like to see a graph of 3GLs vs. software quality and software productivity. My thesis is that it would be two level lines.

White House Plants Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Among Reporters in Briefing Room https://theintercept.com/2020/08/15/white-house-plants-pro-trump-conspiracy-theorists-among-reporters-briefing-room/

Agriculture is one of fifteen industries the DOL considers "low wage, high violation industries.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/agriculture-farm-workers-million-dollar-wage-theft

@fribbledom It always gets released again in generational timelines along with:

@fribbledom This, "It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.", applied to any 3GL language, including Haskell, explains a lot of the mess that is the software world.

I have a colleague who advises people learning software to initially avoid books targeting a specific programming language/environment.

@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz Ever hear those commercials that play louder than the TV program?

I've always been socially distant.

@salixlucida The real question is why are people still using that awful operating system?

NOTE: Any answer without the word, "monopoly", is wrong.

Mistakes Google makes:
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-google/
"One of the key elements of Google's software engineering culture is the use of defining software designs through design docs. These are relatively informal documents that the primary author or authors of a software system or application create before they embark on the coding project."

"informal" and then the use of "embark" for implementation show a very code-centric culture. This is the crux of the mistake. They are not unique in this.