The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-14-2020, 04:38 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I don't cluck like a chicken or talk smack or make empty promises or empty threats...

In my note to Eric above, there is one commonality I didn’t note between you, CH86, Eingize and and Xenakis.  You are all tribal thinkers.  Whether it is roundheads, boomers, capitalists or blues, you have each chosen someone to feel xenophobic about, to blame everything wrong on.  As I am pretty much all of the above, I have to be against tribal thinking?  Can you blame me for wanting to solve problems that the supposedly better cultures have not solved?

You spend a note saying you don’t cluck like a chicken by clucking like a chicken?  You are not going to convince me you are free of squawking that way.  Perhaps if you stopped squawking?

Yes, violence has been needed at times.  It is not at all clear this is one of those times.  Violence won’t cure the bug, fix the economy or stop global warming.  Non violent protest is driving Black Lives Matter.  The Boogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, bad cops and Wolverine Watchman are trying to use violence to keep the clock from turning, trying to keep the worst aspects of the Agricultural Age alive, working for unraveling greed and stagnation over crisis sacrifice for the common good and focus.  Changing the law and strictly enforcing it will do much.  For the most part, the violent excursions have already been turned back.  It might be just the cooler weather, but the violence seems to have been met so far.

How you describe a potential interaction with your brother shows you are not familiar with how engineers work.  On the projects I’ve worked anyway, each engineer is responsible to make his own function work, and to define as simple and clean an interface with the functions the other engineers are working on.  It isn’t about power trips.

I still remember one project I was on where I was 90% coded on my personal Mac, never having got on the custom hardware which for the most part hadn’t been built yet.  I was just missing the memory map.  How the software talks to the hardware is through the memory map, the addresses you write to or read to change or interpret the state of the hardware.  The requirements were determined by the human interface, the screens by which the operator communicated with the software.  I had to derive what the software had to do by looking at what the screens were supposed to do, and guess what the memory map would look like.  In short, I had no requirements as such.  Thus, I didn’t have to write test plans to make sure I was meeting each requirement.  Whee!  I wound up doing most of the code with no one knowing much about what I was doing.  I’d like to say the code worked fine the first time it was started, but the first time failed.  

Second time.

I also remember how my mother forced us kids to learn typing.  Why would a guy have to learn typing?  That was women’s work.  That was what secretaries were for.  What sort of job would require a male to do typing?  At the time she was bigger than I was.  Ah, well.  I wound up doing my share of typing and then some.