I mean without documentation… what is an API?

Use kodi for last mile?

VLC is great as a file playing app, terrible as a home server…

A horrid mindset.

Camp fire for the saints…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

Edit: to point out that the comment demonstrating the worst parts of that book has 50 upvotes.

While my pointing that out has negative downvotes.

Then a later comment of mine mentioning how fucked up that mindset is… was upvoted… just like the original comment acting out that mindset…

Now that’s a headline!

Game consoles

Move fast and break shit!

Ignorance of the past isn’t really an excuse to keep being ignorant of the future.

“It’s a museum” is a reason why people ignored the British outright stealing India’s cultural heritage.

Sure it COULD be a monument to the ignorant usage of petroleum. But why are you so desperate to make it such?

Why did Biden do this?

That right there. If 70s rent control can’t even allow for a super hero, then fuck it… close the books.

Holy shit that was weird.

The important thing is to be important. Engineering has to deal with teammates that don’t have these problems, so they equalize.

My first thought too! How could you talk shit on Blankman? J5!

Makes you feel better? So changing groups totally makes it all okay?

No shit. Doesn’t make them capitalists and it doesn’t make a mob boss the monopoly man. Regardless of “systems” I wouldn’t call China capitalist nor Russia and comparing them to or claiming them as such wouldn’t be accurate or even helpful really.

It’s not helpful in assessing current context or motive. But yea let’s just call em all capitalist…

You have to understand “capitalist” in this case means “I’m in high school and someone looks greedy”.

Like, there’s nuance and then there’s “everyone who is not an anarcho-socialist-utopian-solar-punk-revolutionary is a capitalist”.

And I say this totally not defending capitalism, I’m just smart enough to see a difference between “fisher-price my first socialism” vs reality…

Having a greedy oligarchy isn’t capitalism, it can be just as bad if not worse but the idea things being different is lost on these folks… if you are going to argue that Putin taking everything for himself is just Russia being “capitalist” then you are literally telling the world “I can see lots of trees, but no forest…”

WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY.

Now don’t look…

OP was curious enough to ask, but not curious enough to you know…

Totally agree with you. Didn’t mean for an appeal to tradition, or a “we’ve always done it” type of reasoning.

While history sure as shit isn’t pretty, there is some measure of stability and institutional knowledge that we have developed and shouldn’t be written off.

Kinda like that quote from the economist that goes something like “we’re not on the gold standard because it’s some new wild idea, we’re not on the gold standard because of everything we know across history about the gold standard.”

The same as everyone else on the planet not desperate to sign up for a pump and dump scheme like crypto.

Same as my parents and your parents and their parents and everyone’s grandparents and the whole sum total of hundreds of years of human experience in what has been pretty much a prosperous economy.

But something tells me the whole internet couldn’t stop you from telling us all why we have it all wrong and should instead waste the energy output of Argentina on fake math problems to artificially create a coin…