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@whitequark imagined users is their core audience

@whitequark it's our fault, we made them in our image

@whitequark sounds like something the pypy people would like to know about

@silverwizard According to my limited experience, they don't really believe the grifters. They just do whatever seems more convenient and beneficial to them at the moment. Of course they will *claim* that they did it in good faith when the thing inevitably explodes, and they are in fact the victims, but that's just covering their asses. Words mean nothing. Look at their hands, not their mouths.

But that means they don't trust words. They will never believe things you say to them just because you said them. They will always need some "proof", even when they have no way of actually understanding and verifying the proof. Anything that has a real cost is needed, because words alone are cheap to them.

This is also why they will sometimes go into a series of meaningless reorganizations and changes. They are not attacking you. They are trying to communicate the only way they know.

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One thing about management you have to understand is that the higher they are, the more politically minded they have to be to do their jobs, and that means they don't understand the concept of independently verifiable truth, or interpersonal trust. They only understand trust in authorities. Anyways, that means that they will always say whatever is the most convenient for them at the moment, and don't even consider it lying. It's just something obvious that anyone smart would do.

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@piggo I quite like the suggestion of Cory Doctorow that we should instead cancel all the agreements that "harmonize" with the US intellectual property laws, basically ending the "designed in USA, produced elsewhere" practice that is so profitable for them. It would also greatly improve scientific and technological progress outside of USA.

@njion Last time I checked burned beans were not considered herbs. And no, it's not any kind of plant infusion (then tomato soup would count as tea), only infusions made of leaves and roots. And then it's also not any kind of infusion (plant dye is not tea), only when it's used as a beverage. And I'm sure it's possible to find more cultural rules to further narrow it down.

Human language doesn't work on definitions anyways, and what a given word means is constructed on the fly in context.

@njion I have no idea what you are talking about, it's called buckwheat coffee in here. May also contain acorns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal_coffee

I'm ashamed to admit it, but when I was a kid, I didn't understand why we take care of the severely disabled, especially the mentally retarded. To me it seemed like such a waste of effort in humanity's quest for technological and cultural progress. It never occurred to me that technology and culture is not just the artifacts produced and knowledge hoarded, but more importantly the relationships, the social structures, and the world views developed along the way.

@piggo we can only hope that the empire will disintegrate fully and never recover, and the land will be reclaimed by the rightful owners

I've been interested in the usability and user experience design for years, as a hobby. I've been reading a lot of books, and following publications on the topic. I find it very significant that the more actual strict scientific research we have accumulated on the subject, with rigorous experiments, large samples, and fancy tech like eye tracking or even fMRI, more we understand how human perception works and how to design for it, the worse the actual usability of websites and apps becomes.

Apparently there is some kind of national bowling competition in USA now?

Isn't it fun when uploading a file to an external server and downloading it again to another disk is faster than copying the file between the disks? You gotta love Linux.

I don't quite get the "our project is so badly designed that you need assistive technology to even be able to use it" flex of programming languages that require an IDE.

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@piggo Oh no, do you think it may be because of the monolithic structure of systemd?

@revk I thought that's a genre of music?

I wonder if it's because the companies no longer have the budget to send their engineers to conferences, or because the engineers are so burned out that they no longer want to go. Or both.

I feel like I no longer meet any new developers on programming language conferences. Everyone are developer advocates. Especially the speakers.