Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 8

@maiyannah most people don't actually understand the discipline of science, and often mistake facts discovered by the use of science with science itself.

The funny part is, that science is the way you prove current commonly accepted facts wrong.

The Luminiferous Aether was proven by the methods of science, then disproven decisively by those same methods with deeper knowledge.

@emsenn @Wolf480pl I've heard that if someone says there's something wrong they're almost always right, but if they offer suggestions to fix it they are almost always wrong.

That was WRT fiction writing, but I'm happy to extend the rule to UX.

@Wolf480pl @emsenn that's normal OS contributors, but there are outliers for sure, and those outliers can do a lot of damage because they "know best".

@mostlycoolmark I thought Jenkins was aimed at the "one service per instance" model with full automation.

Requiring human hands to touch the -chocolate- software after the instance is built seems to be off the use-case for it.

@maiyannah you are halfway there.

The "Liberal" vs. "Conservative" thing is also an artificial wedge issue.

Most people don't care enough about who other people are sleeping with or what's in there pants to actually make a political issue out of it unless you say that "those other people are out to make trouble for you".

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-12-30

Security talk on doors. Almost a full hour and worth it. https://youtu.be/4YYvBLAF4T8

@bthall they are of equal importance, but critiquing the concrete implementation of a language is easier.

@maiyannah sounds like the first half hour of the later FF series games.

@maiyannah @purplehippo it was never sustainable as practiced, the publishers just pushed a lot of the costs on young programmers who were too foolish to look after their own interests

@maiyannah Trade Unions are why an electrician makes at least as much as a computer programmer of similar experience, and more than sysadmins.

The music business has so many distortions from government interference and near-zero distribution costs that it only makes sense that their unions would be just as distorted.

@bthall a market can only emerge for a good if there is some direct profit available in a way that market actors can reach in a reliable enough manner, and with a margin of cost proportionate to the incremental revenue and risk.

There's a lot of goods for which that simply isn't possible, or hasn't been the case so far. Some of them are necessary goods.

This is where economics as a science necessarily bumps up against the disciplines of business and politics.

@gudenau Minecraft/Extra Utilities. Looks like you're playing with MC 14 now, so I guess that's it.

@gudenau it will be missed.

Which version is that?

@gudenau that sounds like the realm of modern component amplifiers to me. I've seen quite a few models with HDMI in and out.

On the other hand, once you've got a component amplifier in the fray the HDMI out to the TV might not need the sound channels quite so much...

@gudenau OK, *this* time there's not enough context for me to even try to answer.

@ashfurrow @mdhughes @bamfic I don't care at all what the units are unless I'm having to set the thermostat (in which case guessing wrong is bad), or doing science, in which case it's Kelvins (not degrees Kelvin you savages!)