MasterBlaster @ MasterBlaster @lemmy.world

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I feel this is the best first choice. I fear i will end up emigrating as a refugee rather than by choice after this path. The level of surveillance is highly sophisticated such that i can be individually identified by facial recognition even if I'm careful about cell phone security.

This is a government that almost certainly will go after identified protesters, so i cannot do this until i have a peer group that can support me. That's what i need to find now.

Thanks, I will look into this. I don't speak the language, so it might be a challenge getting a job.

That said, i have long had a fascination with Scandinavia and learned much about the Eddas, the different cultures of the Scandinavian people, and of course the pantheon of dieties. I feel i have at least a thin base of knowledge to start.

By "homelab", do you mean your local network? I tend to use shared folders, kdeconnect, or WebDAV.

I like WebDAV, which i can activate on Android with DavX5 and Material Files, and i use it for Joplin.

Nice thing about this setup is that i also have a certificate secured OpenVPN, so in a pinch i can access it all remotely when necessary by activating that vpn, then disconnecting.

Any countries out there willing to take in an American who lived in France for a while, is sane, reasonably intelligent, and does not think he's better than everybody else?

I think I might have lost my country, could use a good home and community. Skilled software engineer, so i won't be a burden.

Well, we'd have to wait for his next election. She's a NY rep, so she can easily decide ro run for the senate.

Looks that way, doesn't it?

Many Democrat peers are urging AOC to do just that.

Based.

Your description of what would happen already happened. We're past any illusion that the Republican party gives a rat's ass about the nation, constitution, or common decency. Either way is a path through hell, but at least the Democrats could have had moral high ground and an ability to get citizens rally around our last hope for non-violent options. That is shot to hell now.

Of course he did. Toss him out and gice AOC his job.

Fellow gen-x?

Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?

Others have covered this well. From my experience (35 years), most "developers" write stream of thought code. It reflects how their brains process, without regard to others. When I have agency, I can steadily refactor the code to reduce indirection, nested if.then, etc. When I don't, I'm in danger of being too slow in completing the work. Just lost my job for that reason while working with a 1000 line service entry method with a cyclomatic complexity of 310 and 34 class parameters. Coupled with being the acceptance tester as well, it makes it near impossible to succeed.

For extremely complicated code I used to create simple diagram sketches that illustrated the dependencies. It acted as a series of bookmarks to help keep my place. I think I have a smaller "working space" in my mind than non ADHD programmers. I think they can keep all that complexity in their mind at once while I cannot.

In a way, I turn that into an asset by writing code that I can reason about, which by definition requires it to be SOLID, and with minimal responsibility per function.

Lately, I've been using AI to generate sequence and class diagrams of the code to act as a high-level view of what's going on. Major time saver.

Damn, you sound like me at my company... except I just got fired because I can't fix code fast enough, and they reject any effort to improve it. 35 years of experience here. In some environments, pointing out problems leads to unemployment.

I find it ironic that you think I am unaware of some propaganda, presumably related to this thread.

I learned about the imperfect personalities of our founders and their peers in elementary school. No passes were given. I also learned that many of the founders sought to explicitly outlaw slavery, but compromised in order to get unity vs. king Charles and a viable nation.

Had they not done that, we would have been divided against an overwhelmingly powerful existential threat and probably would have lost. It is an example of making incremental progress and postponing a conflict until later so that there will be a later.

You are missing my point. "Canceling" historical figures or rewriting history because "bad" is a disservice to everyone. Acknowledging both the good and bad is the better approach. We learn by studying history, identifying the failures and successes precisely to learn from them and hopefully do better.

Our current president is an example of what happens when we don't learn from history. I don't know any reasonable person who whitewashed our founders. For those people, you need to look at movements that seek authoritarian control over a population, the people who follow them, and their victims who were denied the necessary education in history and critical thinking.

Additionally, I think most on this thread need to brush up on logical fallacies. Even the best of us forget some of them, but it is endemic in these forums.

Perhaps I'm not seeing the sarcasm in this. The level of hatred one has to have for a whole population to genuinely want them all killed in disgrace reminds me of something that happened in recent history several times... hmm... what could that be? Cambodia, Serbia, Germany... hmm.

Mighty high horse there. Got a mirror? Consider using it.

Your prose belies your ideology, which indicates said ideology depends on defining those who don't fulfill said ideology as sub-human. So far, most responses have been attempts to indirectly assert that the idea that people who were wrong about some things cannot possibly have been right about anything (and by the way, any who think otherwise are just as horrible).

I am quite aware there is nothing i could possibly say to get anybody to address the actual issue i raised, never mind "win" a debate over it.

That statement does not make any sense. You need to review the concept of 'logic'. This is another excellent example of twisting a statement to discredit the person who said it rather than addressing the concept put forth by that person.

Excellent job taking what I wrote and reframing it to make it appear i asserted something I did not.

Reading the room, I can see this forum is filled with people who have an axe to grind and have already decided I am a "part of the problem" because I had the audacity to suggest that we should not demonize the American founders.

Good luck finding a nation that has any redeeming qualities, given that no founders are unimpeachable for anything.

Really? You think because people existed who held our view of what is right means all who did not have an epiphany, and whole-heartedly agree, are horrible subhuman beings?