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by chambers 2y ago
I don't trust Zuckerberg and I don't trust his motivations. That said, I think there's some truth in his words: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j... Skip the political mu
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by chambers 2y ago
Reading this statement, DEFCON's, and Reddit: it looks like the lowest bidder was a hired to do a complicated and costly project that the client historically underfunded (paper badges last year). If it's true that DEFCON wanted di
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by chambers 2y ago
I was excited for this standard a few years ago, but I've come to believe it's missing understanding of its domain. For example, Dynamic Configs is an important and relevant concept yet it's only mentioned briefly in the team
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by chambers 2y ago
The author described the frustration of drafting and publishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_(Smarsh_book) against concerns about notability. Reading more, I think the notability concerns may not be unfounde
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by chambers 2y ago
> Changed the name of the project from Benthos to “Redpanda Connect”, and prohibited anyone from using the term “Benthos.” https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796219957589786810 A complete rebranding suggests that
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by chambers 2y ago
I didn't see self-marketing in their words. Rather, I read a promise: > The founder of SQLite and all current developers have pledged to follow the spirit of The Rule to the best of their ability. They view The Rule as their promis
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by chambers 2y ago
A few too many principles mixing the BDFL & their project, I think. It's ok for a BDFL to share the things they care for, but I would prefer a harder framework for predicting BDFL behavior. My short go-to-example is https:/&#
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by chambers 2y ago
Fear, I think. It's unpleasant to know someone is harming the common good because they're being selfish. Some people can handle that knowledge and admit "well someone clearly owed their promotion to a legacy module/aba
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by chambers 2y ago
> You can trust people's greed, you can't trust their morals. I've lived this experience. It's a time old tale. Judas Iscariot sold out his best friend for a few silver pieces. However, I've learned I can trust s
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by chambers 2y ago
I rewatched Ghost in the Shell recently and I was struck by how poorly it aged. Its animation holds up but its story felt weaker than I remembered. Like the director reached for something deep, couldn't get ahold of it, and then covere
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by chambers 2y ago
This piece goes into some detail: https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta... . An erudite and incisive autopsy of a disintegrating accelerator. I'm no longer in the startup scene so I can'
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by chambers 2y ago
I thought this read as "Quaker News" which would be more compelling if the revival behind it played out.
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by chambers 2y ago
This article tries to describe the past, present & potential future of the relationships between the Media, Tech, and their Audiences. However, I felt the stream-of-conscious style was disorganized, and its ideas were undeveloped. If th
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by chambers 2y ago
I've lived this dynamic as a manager. I've come to see it as a problem of "ownership" which obscures a larger problem of role confusion. When competent people try to be responsible & knowledgeable with work but lack
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by chambers 3y ago
You raise a good point on how people like us enjoy leveraging ambiguous philosophy for our own amorality. If the philosopher fails to take a stand — something is good, something is bad, something is wrong, something is right — their ideas a
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by chambers 3y ago
Learning the full context before pushing a problem is alright advice. Same with sharing context on the impact of an otherwise hard-to-see problem. Otherwise, this article is banal. It lacks a strong or unique take on the topic of "Mana
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by chambers 3y ago
This strikes close to home. Until you've experienced love, you cannot understand it. Doubly so for the purest forms of love, love above human love. I wager we avoid that kind of love because it boils down to "sacrifice yourself fo
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by chambers 3y ago
See the TV Adaptation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(The_Twilight_Zone) for a different ending, and in my opinion, less edgy ending: > While Clarke's story ended with the priest in despair after the re
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by chambers 3y ago
I used to believe in the fancies of the communities I was apart of I thought they represented reality. Everyone talked up small iPhones, Linux on the Desktop, People paying/donating for FOSS, etc. But actually my community really just
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by chambers 3y ago
Grist was one of the first tools we looked at but it wasn't the desktop-first app my team was hoping for. Self-hosting a service felt like a little too much upkeep, on top of all the other systems we own. I recall the data was also not
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by chambers 3y ago
More like a git-based log than database. We use it for requests and questions that come up on our slack. We figured out how to extract threads from slack, transform them into CSV files and then load them into Airtable. Airtable has a great
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by chambers 3y ago
Love the idea of this. Is there a feature to support views or linked records from other CSV files? Basically, my team is curious if there's a smaller, lighter, local-alternative to Airtable, which we can collaborate on with Git. It&#x2
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by chambers 3y ago
The missing word from this conversation is "duty": a moral obligation to others. People pretend rights can exists without duties because, like you said, they're trying to get good things for free. They're asking for work
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by chambers 3y ago
The proportion of philosophy to features in their marketing seems off. They say "trust our code, not our words" and then spend several paragraphs of words talking up their ideals. It feels like something is being hidden or talked
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by chambers 3y ago
Neat. What's the name of the book?
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by chambers 3y ago
Yeah, the diagnosis is really weak. Superbly weak actually. "<X> is not easy to use" has zero insight and takes no stand. It's a flimsy, worn-out string to connect the dots; the upside is that any stakeholder can grasp
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by chambers 3y ago
Thank you for coining the term "mod pity". It makes me think about roles where people, myself included, have sought the pity of others as a shield against criticism.
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by chambers 3y ago
Do you write a blog? Your experience resonates with mine.
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by chambers 3y ago
The author observes that User Experience Research has fallen from grace. They see that UXR has become disconnected from the business. Their belief is that understanding users isn't necessary for making a good product, and that UX Resea
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by chambers 3y ago
I think your advice is a safe assumption that has some truth to it. For a rare counter-example, there's this fascinating article about a strongly opinionated minister who disagreed with the Tang Dynasty Emperor: https://en.w

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