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Joseph Bella retweeted
I think “never repeat yourself” has damaged more codebases than duplication ever did.
Developers see the same five lines twice and immediately invent a generic abstraction with 14 parameters.
Sometimes repeating yourself is cheaper than being clever.
We have arrived.
Where do you go next when you believe that some people are genetically inferior in a dangerous way?
The problem with people like this is that they have not read or watched any science fiction at all.
In case you are curious how things like naziism take hold. We are seeing it now. It starts with this belief that certain behaviors are hereditary. Then leads to the natural conclusion that some people are genetically superior to others. And we’re not going to genetically test everyone— it’s much easier to link superior genetic traits to easily discernible phenotypes like skin or eye color. Viola! Now we have a master race, eugenics, and a moral imperative to purge the blood lines.
Joseph Bella retweeted
We criticize what’s clean because it stands out, & ignore what pollutes because we’re used to it. Wind turbines are called eyesores, while smokestacks get a free pass. That’s not aesthetics — it’s status-quo blindness. Change looks ugly only to habits it disrupts. #Bettrification
Joseph Bella retweeted
Hard to express enough how much Musk, the world’s richest man, has become indistinguishable from a random Stormfront poster.
Folks. It’s time to start talking about what we need to do to remove Elon Musk from his companies. It’s not going to get any better.
Joseph Bella retweeted
It’s wild that Elon’s mask is now fully off, forget about any speculation from the salute, he has fully come out as a white nationalist from his own words.
And yet, there plenty of people and institutions that are perfectly happy being fully invested in him, even at a 300x price to earnings ratio with declining earnings.
At this point, if you are invested in Elon, you are pretty much doing it for the white nationalism lol🤔
When I go to turn on a new feature in Reminders — an app the made BY Apple— it gives me this dialog to go turn on permissions in order for it to work.
Am I the only one that thinks Apple has gone too far with its crazy permission structure? At this point just about anything a program needs to do can’t be done without adjusting permissions.
Joseph Bella retweeted
we’re reaching unprecedented levels of Silicon Valley Guy brain: they’re re-discovering affirmative action from first principles
A crazy idea would be a mandate that federal funding for universities can only happen when/if the ideological balance of its professors are within +/- 20%.
Any institutions that opts out/takes zero funding from the federal government (ie from taxpayers) can still do whatever they want.
Assuming neither side is more wrong nor right, the debate and ultimate quality of students coming from schools with more ideological balance would be meaningfully better I suspect.
