Brian Baker

He/him/his/ベーカーでお願いします. 🇯🇵 linguist, 🇯🇵🇺🇲 translator/interpreter. Interests: ⚽🎾, programming (🐍☕VBA), machine learning... #Crew96

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@theo Sent

[Mike Madrid @madrid_mike]

What’s it called when the government owns the means of production?

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@mykola This reminded of this podcast episode I listened last night : https://t.co/a40hGXDa4Y

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

Every abuse survivor understands this in their bones. I sometimes forgot that there are people who don’t understand this. It’s like not even subtext it’s just text.

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

I think anyone who doesn’t recognize it as a five alarm fire by now simply won’t until they are personally burning.

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

The number of people insisting that Covid is harmless but the vaccines cause problems is really almost funny.

If you are so worried about spike proteins, do you understand that those are also present in covid?

The still spreading virus?

[Myk is Walking Backwards @mykola]

Like honestly, if you think Covid is over, just look at this chart. Do you see that this trend line is not coming back down?

Do you understand what we are saying when we say each new infection increases the odds of permanent disability?

This isn’t going away.

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

And Japan pays us a bunch of money for the privilege of hosting our military bases for us to project military power into Asia and the Pacific.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

TRUMP: "We have an interesting deal with Japan, that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.... who makes these deals?"

The United States! After we literally wrote in a pacifist clause into the Japanese Constitution and neutered their military!

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@mykola Glad to hear it!

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

韓国とポーランドを挙げているけど、日本も同じことを検討すべきだと思う

[Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly]

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If you’re a US ally and you think we are going to fight for you, that press conference should be the last straw disabusing you of that fiction.

And if you’re a smallish, exposed, frontline democracy - like S Korea or Poland - you should really think about a huge defense

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[Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly]

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If you’re a US ally and you think we are going to fight for you, that press conference should be the last straw disabusing you of that fiction.

And if you’re a smallish, exposed, frontline democracy - like S Korea or Poland - you should really think about a huge defense

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[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

Funny, I thought forced migration is inhumane. So inhumane that it is a crime against humanity.

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

US officials defend Trump's plan to relocate Gazans: He thinks it's 'inhumane' to keep them there during long reconstruction

https://t.co/ObvFFdTZW3

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@mndl_nyc @patio11 Probably "professional managerial class"

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of the bodies of 193 Dutch citizens being returned to the Netherlands after Russia shot down MH17 over Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

27 Australians, 10 Brits, 4 Germans & 4 Belgians were also among the 298 passengers killed

Young ppl might not remember

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

“Israel has a right to try and target civilians”

What an admission

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

China just cured Type 1 diabetes with stem cells!

Within 75 days, the patient had normal glucose level; and has maintained that for a year now.

Groundbreaking medical accomplishment! And the surgery takes only half an hour!

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

I finished Persona 3 Reload tonight, and I haven't cried this much in 25 years. Incredible #Persona #atlus #P3Reload

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@Morgan_Hughes 😢

[Brian Baker @BakerBdb]

@mykola Ohio is pretty bad about this during election season.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It’s always one line of code but it’s NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist. Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn’t a “git gud C++ is hard” issue and it damn well isn’t an DEI one.