ranandtoldthat @ ranandtoldthat @beehaw.org

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r/confidentlyincorrect

Carbon Tax is the best incentive here.

When done properly it is indeed a great practice.

But so many don't. The way the modern tech industry functions makes it hard to consistently get right, sadly. I've left two companies in the past two years where computational resources for automated testing and validation were simply not available. One didn't have any manual QA beyond the implementing developer. I'm in a better situation now, but those companies still exist. They're not exactly tiny startups either.

For all its strengths, without any amount of validation, RWD is very likely to lead to such issues. Unfortunately many industry execs are unsympathetic, seeing RWD as little more than a way to get two things for the price of one.

Responsive design was a neat idea, but has failed in the context of the modern web and tech industry.

Reading that, any winner of the affected awards, however deserving, should decline their award. This year's Hugos are clearly illegitimate.

This is a misunderstanding of the UN's primary purpose. The UN is a diplomatic organization meant to enable a baseline minimum amount of diplomatic interaction. It's primary raison d'etre is preventing a world war / nuclear war. If military might was not respected, then nations would leave the negotiating table and large wars would be harder to avoid. The veto was instrumental in establishing the UN in the first place.

Amazingly Google is still the best unpaid search engine, as bad as it has become. Terrible websites have completely taken over the web. To find actual information you need access ProQuest or EBESCOhost or something like that, though their indexes are much smaller.

In the mid aughts every time Google updated their ranking, and results shuffled it was called the "Google dance". We sorely need a major Google dance.

And, perhaps separate from my other reply. I'd suggest editing to strike out the accusations of bullying. It's quite an unfair accusation.

I get ya. I don't think there is a real way to feel satisfaction when someone trangresses like this. A sense of justice, one day, perhaps.

That last video was indeed sad, it was good for nobody. I don't envy Mr. Somerton. He, unfortunately, continues to make bad choices, which he puts in full view of the global public. I hope he gets the help he needs. His feelings are valid, and he may need help understanding and processing what he's done and how it's impacted his life. It's probably going to leave an acute trauma, which I don't wish on anyone. It may take years to recover. I also understand that his own feelings don't justify his past miadeeds.

I don't envy his victims either. Those who's work, ideas he plagiarized. Those he scammed. Those he lied to. Their feelings are equally valid. And their voices are numerous. We mustn't try to silence them just because they are numerous.

We'll see what comes from Harris' fund. Maybe that will finally produce a modicum of justice.

Longer term, I hope Mr. Somerton's story can be educational, and make it a bit harder for someone like him to hurt people next time someone tries.

I believe that you don't realize that you are saying that. But you accidentally are. The individual in question targeted and attacked people, smaller creators, that correctly called him out in the past. He abused his weight to hurt people with full knowledge of what he was doing. He plagiarized dozens of people. He scammed thousands of people. He lied to hundreds of thousands of people.

And you're saying he got bullied by Harris. You are (likely unintentionally) implying that many of his victims individual feelings of betrayal are somehow not their own and less valid than the scammers' stated feelings.

This is the most radical centrist take I've heard yet. The idea that exposing immoral acts is worse than the acts.

Riven is still perfect, more perfect now that you don't need to switch CDs. Doesn't need a remake.

On mastodon, @pluralistic@mamot.fr (Cory Doctorow) there's a community centered around his broad work

Might also find luck with @mmasnick@mastodon.social though there is less activity.

Lemmy, like reddit, seems to be very copyright maximalist in most larger communities.

Cultist simulator, even

Santorum leaking again?

It's so rare to find a situation where someone's declared opinion is actually wrong on merit.

You can also check for dead links on the internet archive or archive.is.

Yeah wow. What a horrible person. She has no care for the children's well-being as evidenced by the conclusion where she attributes the child doing well to "heroing on".

But everything is content now. sigh