deranger

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[–] deranger 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You didn’t discover this as a child? Shit, spinning around was the first high I ever had, followed a few years later by hyperventilation.

[–] deranger 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They’re different species.

[–] deranger 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Imagine if George Soros was the head of said organization. They would be absolutely losing their minds.

[–] deranger 1 points 5 days ago

I’m aware. I’m also a medical lab scientist and the entire thing screamed bullshit from the start, not necessarily due to the feasibility of testing on small volumes, but things like calibration and quality control.

[–] deranger 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Prosecute for what, exactly?

[–] deranger 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] deranger 15 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Why is there a need to rewrite it at all? Is it because COBOL is basically ancient hieroglyphics to modern programmers thus making it hard to maintain or update?

[–] deranger 27 points 6 days ago (29 children)

Non programmer but skilled with computers type guy here: what makes Java well suited for this?

This is probably an incorrect prejudice of mine, but I always thought those old languages are simpler and thus faster. Didn’t people used to rip on Java for being inefficient and too abstracted?

Last language I had any experience with was C++ in high school programming class in the early 2000s, so I’m very ignorant of anything modern.

[–] deranger 33 points 6 days ago (5 children)

The most bizarre part of the Theranos scandal is that any medical lab tech/scientist could have told you, right from the initial pitch, the entire thing was a massive scam. There was literally no reason to ever think this technology was feasible and a mountain of reasons it wasn’t.

[–] deranger 2 points 1 week ago

I know you said read, but the reason this came to mind was from rewatching an excellent Down The Rabbit Hole video recently. It’s a good one, 24 minutes long and no annoying bullshit or filler. The concept of social density is mentioned in the video, which isn’t something I saw reading the wiki on it or during a quick search.

https://youtu.be/NgGLFozNM2o

Side note, these experiments are what inspired the Rats of NIMH books which you may be familiar with.

[–] deranger 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What I’m trying to say is they’re going to use pedantic definitions of what’s classified, or what is “war plans”, to distract from the issue. You can make a case for these people needing to be severely reprimanded even if the leaks were completely unclassified. I’ve seen people get fucked up for way less with unclassified information.

[–] deranger 13 points 1 week ago

Mass murderer?

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