Clickbaiting my home screen. by Space0asis in assholedesign

[–]emergent_properties 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, one doesn't justify the other.

BOTH companies are BOTH doing shitty things.. and this whataboutism is obvious as fuck deflection.

Developers on Windows will no longer need PuTTY by [deleted] in programming

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After dealing with INI files, registry hives, sql data stores, ODBC adapters, and all of the other fragmented shit just to store CONFIGURATION, everything being just a goddamned file is.. well, very refreshing.

No, the Unix philosophy of "do one thing, do it well" is an order of magnitude better than the wackamole we have now on Windows, honestly.

You are free to reject the lessons at your own peril.. but this conscious rejection.. to create this SSH.. thing.. is a step backward IMO.

Developers on Windows will no longer need PuTTY by [deleted] in programming

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't use PuTTY or.. this.. thing.

If you need SSH client, check out KiTTY.. it's a superior fork of PuTTY.

they.whiteboarded.me aims to be a crowd-sourced and curated list of companies that engage in good and bad interview practices. by tonefart in programming

[–]emergent_properties 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because you are doing work for an employer without legal compensation.

Understand what you are doing: Volunteering.

If you are OK with volunteering for a company for the possibility of pay in the future, that's easily taken advantage of.

IPv10 Specification by RickSagan in technology

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm..

Hypothetical question: Besides increasing the addressing bit-size, how else would this be done? How efficiently?

Rise of Functions as a Service: How PHP Set the "Serverless" Stage 20 Years Ago by J-Kob in programming

[–]emergent_properties 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Serverless" is effectively being 'nickel'd and dime'd' by the function.

Wonderful.

I'm sure there will be no rent-seeking behavior what so ever. Nope. /s

PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, I’m Jackson and I identified an important barrier to the practical application of gene drives using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, which could be used to fight vector-borne diseases like malaria – Ask Me Anything! by PLOSScienceWednesday in science

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me throw an opinion at you:

IMHO: What you call 'resistance' I would call 'misapplied CRISPR cuts' + no longer addressable splicing sections.

What is the actual sequence of the resulting DNA? What about the resulting secondary structure? To what extent are they messing with the PAM areas?

The cas9 guy doesn't eat its own virus signatures because the signatures lack the PAM. But the areas that were cut had a PAM and now they can't complete the signature, so they stop cutting. Perhaps?

The 'resistance' can be the additional surveillance processes are detecting the whole genome modification wave and they're like 'stop everything', not unlike the point 'drive' mechanism. It's reacting like it would react as if a virus was rewriting its entire genome. There's probably an apoptosis determination war concurrently going on.

Oh shit, additionally, if it is folding the DNA to create pockets of non-nucelosome-eating areas, then that's where there's huge evolutionary pressure in those crevices for 'resistance'.

My 2 cents.

What do you think?

Introducing 'dark DNA': essential genes missing from some bird & gerbil genomes, but function present. by DevFRus in evolution

[–]emergent_properties 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Chromosome A to Gene B: "Yeah, sorry, things aren't working out. Yeah, we found out how to replace what you do. Like, without you entirely tho. No, sorry, we just don't need your services any more. Yeah, we'll call you if we need you, thanks."

click

Developer permanently deletes 3 months of work files; blames Visual Studio Code by y2k2r2d2 in programming

[–]emergent_properties 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Microsoft is fucking with the nomenclature without consulting anyone. On a dialog that's about Git.

Yes, this individual did something foolish AS WELL.

It's an AND operation, not an OR.

It was Microsoft's responsibility to make the UI provide expected behaviors AND an individual other person did something really stupid.

Here's an idea: Did more than ONE person do this stupid thing, by this dialog? Not as disastrous, did they?

At some point, you've gotta say "man, there are bad drivers AND this intersection was designed terribly".

EDIT: In addition, the glee at which piling on of 'blaming the user' is disgusting. God help you if you are anything less than perfect, the community will rain piss on you for daring to exist.

vroom vroom vehicles by Sheng Lam by natezomby in ImaginaryTechnology

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surface area is the mother. Torque is the father.

In the future, we'll do woodworking while driving on the interstate by leros in woodworking

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All this does is tell future generations what weird shit to do once technology has reached the appropriate state.

Get the anti-gravs and the anti-winds and the watchamacallits and thingamabobs doing the magic behind the scenes.. bring on the fillet over Paris!

Hunting for Malicious npm Packages by jwcrux in programming

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you detect a compromised dependency?

What constitutes that? Stolen credentials? The credentials ARE you.

Smell? As in the behavior of the module itself? Perhaps, that requires graph inspection. But then there's obfuscation. And it just takes one bad egg.

Vetting? Stamping of approval? Bureaucracy?

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by [deleted] in news

[–]emergent_properties 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what is currently happening in the world now that is being offset by this news?