#curiosity

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“AI didn't kill #programming. You killed programming decades ago by stripping it of all individuality and #curiosity to satisfy the whims of giant #corporations. You created #universities that taught only one #language and trained programmers to never think of programming as personal expression. You turned programming into a sterile #profession who's only purpose is making other people money. You even went so far as to hunt down and threaten anyone who dared to disagree with you. You threatened their jobs, their reputations, and their mental health over petty bullshit like an underscore in a variable name. You worked extremely hard to frame programming as only a profession that serves corporations, and made sure anyone who threatened the great corporations was shut down, ridiculed, humiliated, and fired. So everyone fell in line, made only projects for corporations, and talked only about how they could best serve corporations. Even when they tried to fight back against the corporate mindset they came up with a movement that's still about corporate efficiency. Congratulations bootlickers, you got what you wanted.” Don’t ever change Jed ☺️ #OpEd / #LCTHW / #JedAShaw
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"There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest, which makes us desire to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing what others are ignorant of."

  • La Rochefoucauld, Moral Maxim № 173 (1678)

If he's implying that the second kind is worse, then pub #trivia must not have been invented yet in 1678. I want to know; AND I want to vanquish all challengers. Don't talk about my $25 gift card like it's some kind of vice.

#quote #quotes #quotation #larochefoucuald #pubtrivia #curiosity

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Absolute pointless #curiosity: When you say the phrase "not you," how does the word Not come out? (Edit: DAMMIT. Tried to clarify some issues to respond to comments and now I guess all the responses disappeared. FFFFUUUUUUU) NoT means there's an actual "t" sound with a little plosive on that TNo' means there's a glottal stop instead of a "t" sound, like the word ends without a consonantIf it varies, choose the one that happens most often These polls don't offer a lot of options so I've smooshed a lot of regions together; feel free to specify that or anything else not shown (e.g., different way of saying "not") in comments. Clarification: "BBC English" is my American attempt to say RP or "The King's English" or something like that. #language #regionalisms #english #dialect #poll

Absolute pointless #curiosity: When you say the phrase "not you," how does the word Not come out? (Edit: DAMMIT. Tried to clarify some issues to respond to comments and now I guess all the responses disappeared. FFFFUUUUUUU) NoT means there's an actual "t" sound with a little plosive on that TNo' me

"No' you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth speaking BBC English) 0%
"Notch you" (grew up in the USA) 6%
"NoT you" (grew up in the USA) 19%
"No' you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth NOT speaking BBC English) 6%
Something not shown here 19%
"NoT you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth speaking BBC English) 6%
"No' you" (grew up in the USA) 13%
"NoT you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth NOT speaking BBC English) 19%
"Notch you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth speaking BBC English) 0%
"Notch you" (grew up in the British Commonwealth NOT speaking BBC English) 13%

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@samuelpepys@mastodon.social "He would not be wooed to go to a play, nor to White Hall, or to see the lyons, though he was carried in a coach. I never could have thought there had been upon earth a man so little curious in the world as he is." And the man W. Stankes doesn't even want to see the lions! Not even the lions! We share your disbelief and disappointment. And more importantly, my friend, we look at you and we love you for your own unstoppable curiosity about everything around you: the lions, plays, la musique, ship building, the fabric of your new overcoat, a good meal, ..., nothing that does not interest you. #Pepys #curiosity #CuriosityIsLife
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