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Schumer Amendment Shorts States Billion in Covid-19 Relief Funding https://theintercept.com/2021/06/30/covid-relief-schumer-small-towns-american-rescue-plan/

Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors https://theintercept.com/2021/07/01/scientific-american-palestine-israel/

One of the surest ways to demotivate workers is to waste their time. Most "all hands" meetings are wasted time for most of the workforce. DeMarco and Lister talk about ceremonial status meetings in #Peopleware. They define a ceremonial meeting as time bound. i.e., the meeting ends due to the clock and not due to solving an issue. They also talk about how status meetings are often "status affirmation" meetings; they affirm that the boss has the status to waste your time.

I was having trouble getting started this morning, then got notification of an important company announcement. The head of our division came on, said we had won new business, then turned it over to a financial guy to talk for 20 minutes. After that, I was so pumped I melted my keyboard coding so fast. /sarcasm

#dumballover #timewasted #outoftouchmanagement

Can FLOSS exist under non-FLOSS ownership, and if not, can FLOSS exist on a platform under non-FLOSS corporate ownership?

The specific use case in mind is FLOSS software on GitHub. To me, Microsoft buying GitHub invalidated it as a platform for hosting my FLOSS repositories, so I moved to notabug.org.

GitLab is a tricky platform as well, since it isn't fully open source, but it seems to have been declared good enough by many who left GitHub.

‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise https://grist.org/climate/the-water-is-coming-florida-keys-faces-stark-reality-as-seas-rise/
#climatechange

Minnesota Sheriff Barricades Pipeline Resistance Camp's Driveway https://theintercept.com/2021/06/28/minnesota-sheriff-pipeline-camp-barricade/
#ACAB #capitalismsucks

Computer class in high school in 1981 was a math elective taught by the calculus teacher, but it wasn't a taught class. It was free study and the grade was pass/no pass. Pass just meant you could show the teacher a program you had worked on in class. The computers were all Commodore PETs. I don't remember anyone doing anything too amazing. There was no after hours access and nobody I knew had a PET at home. My group of friends had VIC-20, Atari, TRS-80, and APPLE-II at home.

The trouble with learning an interpreted language is that you also get to learn about the limitations of an interpreted language. i.e., you might have to learn a compiled language in resource constrained environments. The ease of learning an interpreted language doesn't produce additional skills in it's areas of difficulty, so learning a compiled language is probably a better first step.

Naming GPU events, "doorbells", is an idiotic kind of obfuscation.

C++ hating #currently