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by schneems 2y ago
Saying “great job” after MJ sinks a shot won’t make him awful and saying “try harder” after he misses won’t make him amazing. Baseline moves with sustained practice and accurate, actionable feedback. The comment is speaking. To the feedback
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by schneems 2y ago
Really what people need is an accurate sense of their performance (where they are at), an alignment with a goal (where they want to be), and a concrete action plan on how to make up that delta (how to get better). I think instead of asking
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by schneems 2y ago
> it does seem like negative reinforcement works better than positive reinforcement It 100% seems that way, but perhaps not for the reason you might think. In “thinking fast and slow” they highlight that fighter pilots seemed to do bette
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by schneems 2y ago
I love this. I watched The Bear (a show about an aspiring chef) and I’ve been struggling to find the words about how I related that to my own workplace ambitions. I think this post is a good start. Not to ruin anyhing: It seems the characte
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by schneems 2y ago
> When a fantabulous, whimsical home deteriorates with age, it starts to look spooky." That makes sense. Those abandoned theme parks with knock-off cartoon characters with smiles slowly peeling off are very unsettling. I hadn’t thou
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by schneems 2y ago
Right. I understand that. I agree it’s a good functional choice. It was my original point that functionality largely drives the design. This comment you are responding to was me digging deep and wondering what design flexibility existed and
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by schneems 2y ago
On reflection, I wish they had gone in for stronger comparisons. Shown old and new side by side and talked about where they kept things classic versus styled them up. I also think of some things like a white shirt and black tie will never l
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by schneems 2y ago
These are a huge upgrade in flexability and comfort. Aesthetics are not ignored, but they are certainly deprioritized over functionality.
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by schneems 2y ago
With the caveat that this number is for situations where you cannot backtrack (choose a previously seen option that isn’t the current one). There is a great book Algorithms to Live by that goes over this explore/exploit problem and mor
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by schneems 2y ago
> Most […] don’t want to be known But some do.
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The key though is that you don't know how much everyone else puts in. There's a psychological effect of seeing the amount and saying "That's it? I can do better than that." It's basically a silent auction. >
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by schneems 2y ago
The ultra rich don’t get paychecks. If you’re thinking in terms of “paychecks” you’re not who they are talking about when they say “tax the rich.”
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by schneems 2y ago
> we should probably celebrate gifts to the US government more than we do. I had the idea that we should put a donation box on tax forms. The 100 top donators get on the “US 100” list (like Forbes) but it’s based ONLY on how much you don
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by schneems 2y ago
From the article: > WordPress’s GPL code Which, is a FSF license. What change are you advocating for in this situation?
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by schneems 2y ago
> It produces no As someone with kids. We now know that “senses” aren’t just things that we have that inform us about the world, there are also “sensory needs.” From proprioception to vestibular and plenty other $5 words. This seems like
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by schneems 2y ago
Profit is revenue minus costs. How many of those “costs” are things like private planes for executives? How much for reps that visit doctors and give out free samples and swag and tickets to Cancun? Famously some major tech companies aim to
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by schneems 2y ago
It’s not like: visual stimulus. It’s more like when you see something, that experience eventually translates into a picture in your mind. When I close my eyes I “see” black, but I can recall the face of someone I talked to last quite well.
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by schneems 2y ago
My senior design project for mechanical engineering was swapping lead acid batteries in an electric skateboard for nickel metal hydride (2008 lithium battery prices were not within a college budget). It gave me a new found appreciation for
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by schneems 2y ago
Big exercise at it again.
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by schneems 2y ago
I read a lot of hostility in your questions. And you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth that I never said. It’s upsetting because I’m trying to advocate for treating open source contributors and maintainers well, and either you’re not unde
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by schneems 2y ago
I see this thread as victim blaming and a distraction from my main points. I feel attacked and I’m not sure why it’s so important for you to judge me by one thing I did 8 years ago. It’s pretty frustrating. I came here to share my raw story
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by schneems 2y ago
The odd thing is I have empathy for him too. It’s actually quite hard for me to talk about this stuff in an accurate enough way to get my point across but convey the nuance I hold too. I did want to speak to this though > gave you rails
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by schneems 2y ago
I’m not sure Dave noticed to be honest. To this day, I’ve never heard him mention or talk about it in public or in private chat. It also wasn’t me running a shadow campaign or something. We were all talking about it and joking about it. At
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by schneems 2y ago
I’m a top 50. Rails contributor. I worked with him in the sense that I tried for him to not need to notice that I exist. I felt lots of community with other contributors and core. But never Dave. The year I got my Ruby Hero award was the ye
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by schneems 2y ago
Here’s my solution: I have a github action that checks if the changelog was touched in the diff. It fails tests if not. It’s impossible to rewind your brain to the time of when the change is made to consider the total impact to the end user
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This is great thanks!
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I think in an ideal world they come with some kind of a diff. Maybe an activity guide with prompts for parents. I picked up “Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves” from naeyc and that’s more or less what they propose. They su
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by schneems 2y ago
This is cool. It reminded me of a dream project in my backlog: I want to build a fan that tracks my head when I workout and always blows at my face. Do y’all think a similar stack/setup (raspberry pi and python3 and this model thing he
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by schneems 2y ago
Bootstrapping and different behavior for different versions and not being able to use the dependency ecosystem really make it a lot more difficult than people realize if you’re trying to “script” at scale. I’ve used rust for this task but p
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by schneems 2y ago
I do a ton of open source but I don’t beg. I negotiate with my employer to find a common goal that advances the business and the community. Companies don’t donate out of (pure) goodwill. Lots of talks about risk mitigation. Even if they don

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