drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
> What I found fascinating though was the group of existing document specialists were not suddenly capable of doing 2 - 3x the work. They just appeared to move slower. It was like pulling blood from a stone. They had no interest in learn
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by drewcoo 2y ago
What? I'm American and I thought 2016 showed us that Americans don't understand error bars. We're innumerate.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
what else is "healthy, happy aging" but controlled decomposition? /s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/its-time-le... The 5 stages were from what I like to call the "just make shit up" era of psychology. Because if it sounded true it was psychology! So
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The DSM-5 was released in 2013. Could that have anything to do with the bump in depression diagnoses? https://www.verywellmind.com/dsm-5-and-diagnosis-of-depreasi... As for the assertions about "governability," th
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Can't tell from the context that's here. It's important to have a contract testing layer in place to make sure your test doubles are still behaving like the real thing, though.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> We are all goths now I suspected it was contagious when I first saw a Hot Topic and mall goths oh so many years ago.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Has become" is a bit of a stretch. The 20th century was the century of Bernays. https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american... In the 20th century, teenagers were invented. Their purpose? An adve
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> “Independent” in this case meaning high priced grocers people didn’t want to shop at. Not necessarily high-priced. Expense to the consumer (me) is also measured in time. Maybe the little stores didn't have a large selection, so a
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> an era of congress that had appropriate mistrust in business and a strong desire for anti-trust busting That would mean Congress serving the people and not corporations who lobby them.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The article which causes HN to hurriedly redefine perfectionism, thus solving the problem . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The long-lived projects I've seen have some code that mostly works that doesn't have any tests and is hard to grok. Nobody touches it because 1) any change might break something unexpected and 2) if you touch it, you might end up
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The assertion was "good code is rarely read." good code ⇒ rarely read In that context, "often-read code" does not tell us anything about code quality. And often-read code that's not bad is not a defeater.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Without the "I wish," that title doesn't make any sense.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> maybe we should stop centralising critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company Managing your own on-prem or in-colo infrastructure sucks: it's expensive and a source of risk, which is why we moved things like source se
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I agreed with a lot of that except this: > set some context and then present the problem to be solved And this is exactly why: > Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it Addressing an audience of programmers is al
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> But for Fixing Hallucinated code that written by Non Software Engineers. And for testing to find those inconsistencies.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The thing about phones is that they make bad parenting obvious. And that's apparently terrifying to a lot of adults. Luckily for us, we can just blame tech and sidestep any responsibility.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think it's a verbal marker of upward social mobility. Low status folks say "me" when they should say "I," so some people overcompensate, using "I" too often. There is no "me" in "nouveau
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There are a variety of motivations to believe in nonsense. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214177182... Also worth noting, higher levels of education tend to correlate with lower belief in
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by drewcoo 2y ago
There is a certain appeal for Javaheads. java -Xms$FOO -Xmx$BAR I've worked on things where we had to know the correct heap incantation to run a service.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> These days, conspiracy theorists seem to be some of the most open to manipulation folks out there. "Conspiracy theories" are narratives counter to the status quo. Arguably more people are "manipulated" into followin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Odors. Smellepethy. The future William Castle saw for us. Um . . . sniffed for us.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
- "Bring your whole self to work" . . . when the interviewers all seem like cloned/pod people under the skin. - Any job ad for a FOO Dev, where FOO is a language. They're hiring code monkeys. - A panel of interviewers su
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If they're wearing a suit, why aren't you?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Imagine the embarrassment when the pay-to-win Minesweeper user list leaks.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Because of A/B testing and design by committee.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
"Toxicity," that most first world of problems, rises up to make "news" again. Can't we just give the elite some safe spaces and fainting couches already?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> had a conclusion they wanted to reach and worked backward . . . to make it work Also known as "motivated reasoning." For what it's worth, it doesn't match what I see here in flyover country. Helicopter parenting cam
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Yet frankly, what most of us do is more like plumbing than art. In that we're just fitting systems together and in that it's actual skilled labor and in that we're seen by everyone else as the ones willing to do the shitty wo

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