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standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2022 02:20:51 UTC 
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Linux is actually a really good unix, it's just not as good as proprietary unix xyz in the 90s that could do some random thing Linux still can't do that nobody cares about. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 03:00:35 UTC
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@clacke we shoot off our mouths more and i know personally i used to be guilty of thinking i could do anything. on the other hand software is used in basically every business now so we have a good track record! -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:31:48 UTC
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@shmibs @clacke @feld I do think they are also too hard to set up for yourself to get everything you ought to have, but it's possible to figure out by reading enough. i had trouble getting catchall domains to work with dovecot for example, I had to do some config things that were not common -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:31:23 UTC
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@shmibs @feld @clacke I ran one since 2010 and stopped recently because too much of my mail wasn't being delivered anymore -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:31:09 UTC
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@feld @clacke it's true, we even do that for things in our own field. I remember reading a blog saying "everyone tells you not to run your own email, but i did and it was easy" and then a year later he wrote a followup on how he wasn't doing it anymore. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jul-2022 02:30:58 UTC
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@clacke i always thought software developers got unfairly maligned for that because everybody does that. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 05:45:08 UTC
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@clacke @psf i'm probably being too critical and you're right that she wouldn't use as firm terms as we benefit from now -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 05:24:27 UTC
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@clacke @psf within a page she talks about generic payroll and inventory functions for business -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 05:24:26 UTC
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@clacke @psf does talk about two languages though, one similar to mathematics and symbolic wjile another suited to business heuristics which sounds a lot like haskell and java lol -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 05:05:06 UTC
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@psf she appears to be talking about code reuse -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 20-Jun-2022 13:36:00 UTC
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@elementary i already follow linux walt -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 17-Jun-2022 18:38:51 UTC
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@clacke i never met an open gay person until university. from my perspective things have changed a lot in my lifetime. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 17-Jun-2022 18:35:33 UTC
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@clacke from my perspective it was on almost nobody's radar until after 2012 -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 12:43:34 UTC
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@hankg @clacke I agree, mainly I want this addressed in society by making and keeping upward mobility a normal thing over generations.> There are tons of people working harder than that who are paid minimum wage too and society looks at them and says they are trash while these guilded techbros and their ilk as messiahs.on a personal level I try very hard to not fall into the trap of thinking someone is lesser than me because they make less money. My best friend's mom worked in a factory her entire life, we would be playing video games into the late evening and she would come home from her job and sometimes sit at the table and just cry because it was such hard work. she kept her family afloat at great personal sacrifice and it is an extremely honorable thing. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 12:17:22 UTC
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@clacke oh i also agree that "meritocracy" is a terrible model for explaining success. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 12:04:14 UTC
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@clacke the reason I don't care for the analogy is not the analogy itself i'm thinking, it's that it's often used to hand-wave away the requisite hard work. I understand perfectly that hard work doesn't equal success but it's a prerequisite to it 99+% of the time.in my own life it was an observation that some people just seemed to be lucky but i looked closer and the people that got lucky were people that 1. showed up and 2. kept trying consistently. also maybe 3. didn't fuck it up and were able to keep the ball rolling. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 12:03:01 UTC
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@clacke what I mean is, there's kind of a difference between angel investors and entrepreneurs. angel investors have a ton of money and they spread it all around because risk is just part of the game. the angel investor almost can't lose. but any individual business, the person starting it is taking huge risk. even then yeah the successful people are serial entrepreneurs that eventually hit it so the analogy does match that very well, you can be a serial entrepreneur if you have a lot of money. regular people opening a restaurant or whatever, 80+% are just going to fail and they go back to their regular wage job. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 11:49:51 UTC
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@clacke @noelle good explanation, thank you. That makes perfect sense. although I think it's generally understood by people (at least business people) that most businesses fail. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jun-2022 11:20:38 UTC
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@noelle this only works if you already decided that it's a game of chance. analogies are good for illumination, not argumentation. -
standing alone (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jun-2022 10:25:10 UTC
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@lain watched most of it last night, comically saccharine, the music lol, the music.
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