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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
I use Mastodon for mostly train of consciousness posts. If you want to discuss software, I can suggest matrix room I made, https://matrix.to/#/#SoftwareEngineering:librem.one
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Will GM Workers Stay Out On Strike In Hopes of a Better Deal?
“They always say it will take multiple agreements to reach equality—we can’t win it all in one go,” said Sean Crawford, a second-tier worker at Flint Truck Assembly in Michigan.
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Why I’m Voting No on UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker Speaks
After 33 days on strike, the leadership at the United Automobile Workers (UAW) has negotiated a tentative agreement with General Motors (GM). Nearly 49,000 UAW members—concentrated mostly in the Midwest, with a few plants scattered in the South and Northeast—will stay out until their contract is ratified. And although union leadership has encouraged the rank and file to ratify the contract, many workers are unhappy with the highlights of the proposed deal. Numerous workers at the General Motors plant in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, tell In These Times that local union leaders are travelling to Buffalo, New York today, to read the full tentative agreement. Members have until October 25 to vote the contract in or to send the bargaining committee back to the table.
This music makes me want to kill myself.
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Trump's pick for a federal education board is the author of "self-help Illuminati books."
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Nostalgic for “normalcy”? See the world through Joe-colored glasses.
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Pirates Press unveils extensive online raffle ahead of this weekend’s Rock The Ship
Ahoy, landlubbers! In advance of this weekend’s spectacular Rock The Ship festival in the Bay Area, Pirates Press Records have launched a hell of an online fundraiser auction. It features items from Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Cock Sparrer, Bar Stool Preachers, Fat Wreck Chords, Chunksaah Records, and a ton more. The auction closes THIS SATURDAY […]
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Goals are another big company aberration. I think the idea is that you'll somehow foster innovation by telling your employees they have to think of extra work to do in addition to their job. Dumb all over, but type A personalities believe everyone is driven.
It's funny to see them pushing cloud-based tools as, "You can even work from home!", but still want you to be in the office M-F 9-5. Yeah, everyone I know would rather work 80 hour weeks than 40 hour weeks for no extra pay.[sic]
Insane companies who have "learning" quotas...
I took python training as resume fodder. Python is pretty much like any other 3GL. Memorize the syntax and start programming. The secret lies in knowing what's already in the libraries/modules/??? so you don't reinvent the wheel.
I'll be perfectly happy if I never use python on a job. I enjoyed learning Rexx more. Wonder what the hot language will be in 20 years?
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Slutty Halloween costumes of the Victorian era.
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That’s what they want you to think, at least.
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Finally, things seem to start moving in the right direction:
Meet @forgefed, an ActivityPub / Federation protocol for networked version control services like GitHub or GitLab.
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Little progress made in tackling #air #pollution in #Europe, research says | #Environment | The Guardian
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All the people threatening to murder people on behalf of Trump are OBVIOUSLY joking. We’re laughing!
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Kurds Between a Rock and a Hard Place
There’s one possible way out of this.Python tenet: 'explicit is always better than implicit' ... except when you're talking about things that save typing like g-strings, no block delimiters, terse collection specifiers, etc.
#notatenet #learningpython
Knowing built-ins vs knowing libraries equals not much difference. #learningpython
Encapsulation enforced by the honor method. #eyeroll #learningpython
I see that python has good container mechanisms, but object handling is not anything exciting. #learningpython
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You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000006687787/facial-recognition-police.html #privacy #security #libremone #librem5 #purism #bigtech
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
