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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Good luck finding any substantiable facts or useful citations in this article. Here's an article with actual sources: https://digpodcast.org/2018/10/21/witches-brew-how-the-patri...
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
I don't mean a hobbyist in terms of your level of competence. I mean that employers might see your motivation for employment as the pursuit of a hobby -- that is, they cannot rely on you to respond to economic carrots and sticks.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
> I do it for fun, and I don't really need the work Have you considered that this might cause you to be perceived as a hobbyist?
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
I think the point is that the ingrained dynamics continue even when the context / group size evens out later.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
"Disable pull requests while keeping issues"
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Money is the greatest coordinating force in the history of civilization.
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Bang–Bang Controller(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Footkerchief 6y ago|0 comments
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Mailing lists (aka Google Groups if you're on GSuite) allow retroactive access. That said, none of my employers have ever made effective use of this. I don't think open communication is an instinct that most people have.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Slack has fantastic search. It has good filtering, sorting, and pagination, and has the right degree of fuzziness. I use it on a daily basis to discover the reasoning for things that happened before my time. I've never known anyone e
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
As happens way too often, the confusion is from pronoun abuse. "It" refers to protein poisoning, not to the set of all carnivorous diets.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Definite lower bound, indefinite upper bound.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Propaganda disguised as research has historically been a source of immense harm to the public good, and identifying it is a crucial step to reversing that harm.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
"Condemn firing" is a misleadingly narrow headline that focuses undue attention on the resign/fire question. The important part of the story is not the HR machinations of her departure, but what caused the situation to escal
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
How do you interpret "approved for submission" as "submitted without review"?
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Dean's statement is clear that it was approved before being submitted: > Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
The followup does not answer the major questions raised by this part of Dean's original email: > Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of re
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
I agree -- the passive voice here (intentionally?) makes it impossible to tell whether the external submission was done in good faith: > Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we re
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Thanks for this link. One of the entrepreneur suicides that resulted from the Downtown Project was a friend of a friend, but I hadn't made the connection to Hsieh until reading this. I strongly suspect that Hsieh's repressed emot
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
> By 1775, however, sporadic rioting and violence in and around taverns transitioned into outright war when a group of ‘minute men’ gathered at the Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, just before murdering more t
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
An example issue: the interactive `--patch` mode, by far the most powerful paradigm for interacting with diffs, is available for `git stash [push]` but not for `git stash pop`. The CLI is full of inconsistencies of this kind.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
A Postgres feature I took way too long to discover: exclusion constraints, which is essentially "unique by some function of a column value" instead of "unique by a column value": https://www.postgresql.org&#x2
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
> bad actors will use any available tool they can to gain power and do harm Of course they will. That's what makes them bad actors :) But are the bad actors in the two scenarios (with/without Coc) the same kind of bad actors?
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
> Rather, Codes of Conduct are more difficult than you think. That's a bug when trying to apply a coherent standard, but it's a feature when using the document as cover for arbitrary mob action.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
"Never attribute to engineering that which is adequately explained by marketing"
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Extrapolation, as the general act of generalizing from observed events to not-yet-observed events, is necessary for making any kind of prediction about the future, and for any awareness that goes beyond direct sensory perception. I think t
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Carbon footprint refers to atmospheric carbon, typically combustion products. Burying carbon, assuming it stays buried, does not contribute to carbon footprint. It is in fact how fossil fuels were formed in the first place.
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Pulse width modulation -- what can't it do!
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Immunofluorescence(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Footkerchief 6y ago|0 comments
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by Footkerchief 6y ago
Your intuition is correct. Even if they have the same apparent color, two light sources can have drastically different spectra, which is perceptible. Some info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index
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by Footkerchief 7y ago
Why would someone go multiple times? Because they're still hungry? To resell it to someone who... can also get free food?

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