well tbf, the standard coming from computing is doubling the bits until it stops being a problem, or with ipv6 practically having more IPs than there are atoms in the entire planet of earth (i think i did the calculation a while ago, and it was like, most of the atoms in earth, so like, not quite, but for all intents and purposes, might as well be)
to be fair, the israeli palestine conflict is significantly longer running than anything that the germans managed, and so far, hasn’t killed 6 million people, so there’s that.
Part of the problem is that it’s really really difficult to see the magnitude of the issue until the dust has settled, part of the reason we know how many people died in the holocaust is due to the work of various jewish archivists/historians that have spent decades crawling through information trying to piece together what they can, paired with the reasonably meticulous documentation that the germans were known for. (though i can’t confirm that one)
Up until we practically landed boots IN germany, we didn’t really have any idea what was going on, that’s part of why it took so long for anything to be done.
Thankfully it’s 2024 and we have modern technology, so you can’t exactly just “hide” things like genocide anymore, it’s a lot more apparent.
A lot of people with poorly developed social skills like to pretend that poorly developed social skills don’t make them a bad coworker. I don’t think I agree with that.
this is definitely true, but it’s a doubled edged sword, some of the best people in their fields are just complete assholes. Either through time, or ego, sometimes it’s just because they’re too good for the world. Usually, these people are few and far between.
It’s also worth considering how much of the job actually is being socially proficient. In most cases people are willing to put up with people being a little weird and goofy if they’re good at what they do. Sometimes those are the best people. Some of the people i have the most respect for in my life, are the weirdest people i’ve met. Unreasonably kind people, who are a little socially out there, i still really appreciate because they’re genuinely good people. Some of the more unruly people are some of the most interesting, and knowledge people i’ve ever met. They also guarantee a unique perspective on things, which is valuable sometimes.
Different people attract different company, and different people work differently, ultimately the simple rule of getting as many differing points of view on something as possible, still seems to be holding true.
than again, this all depends on the type of team you want. You may want a groundbreaking research team, you may want a greybeard maintenance team, depends on the environment.
production code: “hehe this is running at polynomial scaling”
huh, an interesting idea but i’d be surprised if it gained much traction.
Tends to be a large inertia for these sorts of things, but it might be an interesting small community i suppose.
what the fuck is a pixelfed
i think programmers need a self inflicted rule of it being less than 500 lines of code means you need to write it instead of using a pre written package/library.
On the other hand, we could make the packages like is-number the worst possible way of checking if something is a number, which would be really fucking funny…
lmao yeah it is 2025 now, still stuck in last years shit i guess lol.
Anyway.
yeah, you would think with how easy it would be to expose and report genocide, that if genocide were happening everybody would immediately know about it and be worried about, and move to do things to prevent it.