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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> Identities can backfire though because people who don't identify as your identity have different ideas about that identity than you might. That can be true, and I think it's particularly common with imposed, rather than adopt
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
People find others who have things in common with them. Those things people have in common get names. Those named things become a big part of a persons life and so become an identity. Sometimes, identities are something that we choose- the
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
I'm currently using an old iPhone, but my plan once it finally dies is to buy a pixel phone and immediately wipe it and install Graphene. It seems really weird to buy a google device if I want better privacy, but based on the research
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
This completely changes the chances that I'll buy this. I love the idea, but I just can't see myself ever buying an android device that is running Google's panopticon. I also noticed there's nothing on the product page a
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> Has it always been this way? Have Americans always allowed voting habits to dictate their choice of friends? Not to the degree we see today. I think it's something that's really taken off in the last 8 to 10 years, and I reme
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> The over riding DEI principle is that every profession, every organization, every role, must somehow have exactly the demographic breakdown of the society as a whole. I’ve simply never seen this happen, although I’ve seen a lot of accu
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
It seems to me like we’re probably not too far apart in our opinions- and perhaps each of us bringing a separate set of experiences is letting us come to a better and more nuanced view. I still do personally think that at a high level diver
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> Why? As a non-white immigrant, I’m deeply suspicious of the notion that a team with me on it is in any way different than a team without me on it based on my skin color or ethnicity. Perhaps, but a team that would not have hired you be
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> I don't like the idea that anyone disagreeing with any dei suggestion should be labeled as intentionally disruptive and bad faith. My point isn't that anyone disagreeing with a particular suggestion is arguing in bad faith, i
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
There's a pattern that I see come up quite often, and it's really common with any discussion about things that involve diversity and inclusion efforts. I don't know if there's a specific term for it, but it happens rough
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by rebeccaskinner 2y ago
> Argument 3 I find difficult to understand. Misinformation has existed for a long time, and AI is just one more way of making it (perhaps at scale). You've always been able to claim that your political opponent was a puppy murderer
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I've been using Kagi since the early in the beta, and I've been happy with it. I think most of this article is maybe a bit overblown, but there are a few things that give me pause. On the positive side, I still think Kagi's s
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
> One of them is doing something wrong, or at least something that needs changed. Which one? While this is as true in FP as it is anywhere, my experience is that it’s rarely true of the kind of small pure functions that tend to be compos
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
In this example I can’t imagine anyone preferring the second style, but there are cases where it’s nicer. For example compare the tacit: foo = h . g . f With the more verbose: foo x = let a = f x b = g a
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
There is no single easy answer, and I'm not a management consultant so I have no interested in trying to sell one. You simply have to do the hard work of understanding the constraints you are operating under and exercising good judgeme
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
Agile is a tainted term. For it's proponents, it's become nothing more than a vacuous manifestation of the No True Scottsman fallacy. Anything that works is True Agile, and anything that doesn't is Not True Agile (or would be
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
As someone who listens to a _lot_ of audio books, I'll admit that the majority of them are quite entertaining but are definitely not worth vaunting over other forms of entertainment. Most of the more intellectually demanding reading I
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
Everyone replying seems to be assuming this time is all for standups and status meetings, but in practice it’s probably about half an hour a week for status updates for us to. The rest of the time is a mix of reserved time for synchronous t
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
They are doing far better now than with fewer meetings, and they’ve consistently agreed that the additional meetings are valuable, so yeah, I think they are.
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I started managing a team with the “no meetings, let people do good work” philosophy and I can just say that I’m glad I was given the space as a new manager to find my feet, because I didn’t find that it worked well when taken to an extreme
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I think a significant number of people at least enter into the agreement thinking it's a feature. Roughly: - Going to the gym sucks, and I don't want to go - I should force myself to go to the gym anyway - Gyms are expensi
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
Returning isn't even convenient these days. I've been in the process of moving away from streaming services toward physical media, and Amazon is often the only place that carries certain things on disc. Unfortunately, the failure
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
To be clear I agree with this, I didn't intend to downplay the impact of that consequence. I think the continued existence of free software is both a practical and moral necessity. What I was trying to communicate here is that I think
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
There are two issues here. The first is when there's some product that's being sold. It could be directly, like selling someone software, or indirectly, like selling them a device that includes software. In that case, whoever sold
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I'm not saying this will happen, just that it's the one of the concerns that people have. I can certainly see the argument that some companies will go this route. It might not be the most rational decision, but people aren't
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I think that this part of it could break either way, but the concern is that when faced with a choice between being liable for their own code or being liable for open source code, most companies will choose to write their own code. If so, t
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
A bit of consolation may be that It's fairly easy to get ahold of region free players these days. 4k discs aren't even region locked at all. Unfortunately I can imagine shipping might be cost prohibited for individual discs. I hop
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I’m back to buying physical media for exactly these reasons. It’s unfortunate that a lot of things aren’t getting physical media releases these days, or are still only getting dvd releases, but even for Blu-ray the quality is far superior t
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
This reminds me a lot of org-mode( https://orgmode.org/ ). Do you have plans to add other org-like features, like evaluating code blocks? I don't personally see myself moving away from org-mode, but it would be nice to h
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by rebeccaskinner 3y ago
I suspect a lot of authors don’t have much choice. Big authors and people who self-publish sure, but a lot of people struggle to get published and I imagine a sizable fraction of publishers who don’t specifically cater to geek audiences wou

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