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by asoneth 4y ago
> They have the right to know the contents of the list. Is this true? If you pass along a warning to friends/coworkers does this obligate you to make a public accusation because other people have a right to that information? Persona
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by asoneth 4y ago
In addition to the other answers given: If a name is erroneously omitted from the list then a subsequent incident would presumably re-add the offender. If a name is incorrectly included on the list (accidentally or maliciously) then there c
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I think it depends on context. If "Can we just <x>" is coming from a trusted colleague who understands the problem space that is exciting because they may have found a shortcut or clever solution. If "Can we just <x&
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Reading these replies, it's surprising to me how many people think that constraining writing a linear sequence of fixed characters is somehow natural as opposed to a simplification made for cost and technical reasons by Gutenberg, type
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Echoing the above, I had a bike commute in midtown Manhattan as well and found it more convenient than the subway and safer than biking in the suburbs. Compared to the NYC subway it was faster, more consistent, and less prone to delays. Com
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In addition to the balancing vans, Citi Bike in NYC has a reward system[1] that incentivizes users to take from full stations and dock at empty stations. With enough effort you can earn enough points to more than offset your monthly subscri
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by asoneth 4y ago
This is sort of what Boston tried to do with the big dig[1], where several highways were buried under the city. It ended up costing billions and took 15 years to complete. Also, while the RFK Greenway is nice it is also regularly bisected b
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As a datapoint, I got an adult kick scooter in NYC years ago to use for transportation. It worked as an alternative to walking around the neighborhood for distances up to a couple miles and the kids loved riding with me on it. But it didn&#
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by asoneth 4y ago
I'm not convinced that the mere presence of forks is necessarily evidence of poor decisions. It's been eleven years since MATE and Cinnamon were forked from GNOME and they all seem to be relatively healthy projects.
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No, but hopefully that issue is resolved soon: https://feaneron.com/2022/10/21/the-death-of-the-meme/
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It is certainly possible that GNOME is only popular because of legacy inertia, and that it will eventually be surpassed by other desktop environments as, by definition, inertia doesn't last forever. But it's worth acknowledging th
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> Honestly GNOME is there because of inertia more than quality of the changes. I have heard this explanation before for why GNOME is so popular despite the fact that so many people vocally dislike it. It's certainly possible, but I
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I did not interpret "radical" in the prior comment to have either a positive or negative connotation. It merely implies that some of GNOME's decisions are polarizing and a drastic departure from norms, not that people who obj
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by asoneth 4y ago
As a data point, I give my interview candidates the option to sign an NDA. The only benefit is If they sign I can use customer names instead of generic descriptions (e.g. "large bank" or "telcom provider") and I can sh
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by asoneth 4y ago
> if slow compilation is such a pain point, I wonder why it takes seven years and counting to fix this bad decision I'm not sure it was a "bad decision" if it was something that can be addressed after the fact and allowed
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I am typically able to poke around and figure out why something broke so I can fix the dependencies. And I can search online to figure out where some feature I depend on was moved to, or what extension I need to re-enable it. But I neverthe
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by asoneth 4y ago
> just trust feedback from user testing One challenge I have run into is that certain kinds of accessibility accommodations may only be necessary for a tiny fraction of your user base who have a specific type of vision, motor, or auditor
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> At least we used to pay lip service to that ideal. When was that? For as long as I can recall, a core mantra of free/libre software has been that it was provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. Decades ago the domi
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by asoneth 4y ago
I think it started with Weston and Wayland: "Høgsberg had the inspiration for Wayland while driving through the town of Wayland in Massachusetts, which gave the display server its name. Weston, the Wayland compositor, is named after a
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by asoneth 4y ago
I think the Window Controls Overlay[1] approach that Microsoft is proposing for Progressive Web Apps on windows seems like an interesting compromise to solve some of the issues you raise. Specifically that the client code is allowed to cust
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> there's already a well defined level that Popper, common law, and the US constitution have all given The "utterance of intolerant philosophies" does not solely refer to calls for violence or assault. As you point out you
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Companies that are highly exposed to price volatility like wholesale electricity and gas prices can include some kind of energy hedging in their risk management portfolio. It will cost them money in good years but it keeps them from going o
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When it comes to the "the utterance of intolerant philosophies" Popper suggested that "we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force". Specifically if: "they are not prepared to meet us on th
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When you (sarcastically?) said "That's right, CEO needs to focus on those quarterly numbers" it seemed like you were implying that this was someone's argument. As no one is making this argument, it's rather hard to
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I believe there really are undesirables -- people who have demonstrated an inability to participate in civil society and who eventually drive away or drown out all other perspectives in a community. Given the paradox of tolerance, every com
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You have my sympathy. I once worked in an organizational culture that produced toxic behavior. I was privileged with enough experience, savings, and alternative options to get out quickly. If I was forced to work in places where I could not
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This is a strawman because no one has claimed that a CEO must focus on short-term shareholder profit. The point is that the CEO works for the owners of the company. (In a publicly traded company that's typically shareholders represente
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Good point. I used to bike over the Queensboro bridge every day and daydream about living there. I even took the gondola once to see what a commute like that would be like. We ended up looking at a couple condos in an older building near th
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For now we're in an old New England town with good bones and good pedestrian infrastructure. Not much in the way of crime waves or shootings and the only religious laws are blue laws which I can live with. But the cars are enormous a
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Love the channel. The Toronto Islands seem like an attractive place to live. With a population of only ~700 and a (full) waiting list capped at 500 it's clearly in high demand, which makes it all the more strange to me that more develo

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