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Patricia

@Patricia@vivaldi.net

C++ Programmer, Co-Founder of @turtlesec (ex-Opera browser, ex-Cisco, ex-Vivaldi browser :vivaldi_red:), infosec, parent, bi 🏳️‍🌈, speaker, CoC required, NB, she/they @OsloCpp (@pati_gallardo on Twitter)

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Patricia , to random
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I’m struggling because I am angry.

I’m angry that these people who are in a field that has a complete disconnect with the type of problem they are claiming to solve, have had so much influence and power.

Every single regular person understands how this is bullshit, they just wrapped it up in stuff that sounded complicated, mathy, scientific and rigorous.

Try to ask any woman on the planet what are the considerations (variables) affecting if, how and when she would leave her abusive husband. She could write you a whole paper, it would have so many variables. One single decision. So many possible outcomes and blowbacks. So much risk to be managed. One single action in a relatively small part of a complex adaptive system. And she knows it in her bones.

And these assholes make a childish formula and fuck up real peoples lives over it.

Patricia OP ,
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I don’t know how to reconcile this in my own brain.

antnisp ,
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@Patricia Some related outrage fodder where economists also failed in programming and destroyed my country as a result
https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how-not-to-excel-at-economics-13646

Patricia , to random
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I spun off reading one of the books y’all recommended: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Ref my thread over the past days: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112634382833590675

Patricia , to random
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I started reading “The Unaccountability Machine” which is actually quite interesting. I don’t know what I think about the subject matter, but it touches on a lot of things I’ve thought about over the years. It seems to describe a different economic model, not capitalism and not communism, but a systems theory field called “Cybernetics”. For some reason it’s like I asked someone: explain economics to me like I’m a programmer. And now my brain is slowly reworking itself to understand economics like I would understand a program. It feels very unnatural as a human having grown up in this waves vaguely at the world but it is the first time I am starting to feel that it makes sense. It’s still completely wrong, of course. I fundamentally disagree with some extremely axiomic parts of capitalism, but I suddenly might not end up with a parse error.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112626658364328553

Patricia , to random
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Musicians, I know an autistic kid who’s passion is music and they’re already creating music in basically any way they can. I was thinking I’d buy them a dedicated device and I want to get one that is good for creating music. Any hardware/software recommendations?

mnl ,
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@Patricia @blanchepage I had so much fun with maschine by NI, you can probably find used ones pretty cheap, although the more affordable versions need to be tethered to a computer.

mnl ,
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@Patricia @blanchepage also I found the model samples and model cycles to be really fun and immediate

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