Tehchops

>So the personal life experience of a male doesn't count for anything? THAT is what I would call the actual toxic attitude.

Ah yes, the classic: "I'm not toxic, you are!".

Where in my original comment did I say the male perspective, anecdotal as it may be in a given context, counts for nothing?

I didn't.

What I did say was that a singular, anecdotal male perspective was not appropriate as a justification for depicting a woman desiring a similarly-gendered role model was somehow indicative of "toxic feminism".

>What makes women unable to have male role models, but men able to have female role models?

No one said they couldn't, but you're depicting what was said as far more benign than it really was. You didn't ask an open-ended question about it, you specifically categorized said desire as "toxic feminism".

>if that is your attitude, STEM may be better off without you anyway. After all, science is about keeping an open mind, among other things.

Maybe one of the STEM fields will be able to develop a device that can accurately measure the immense amount of irony bundled up in that sentence.

Same merry-go-round as usual in these threads:

Subtly patronizing comment(mansplaining if you will), someone points out "hey that's kind of toxic", original commenter retreats to victimhood and "I'm not toxic, you are! No one has an open mind about this kind of thing etc...", and around we go.

If you want to pretend like STEM doesn't have a centuries-long history of fairly uneven footing for other genders and minorities, and accuse everyone of suddenly being close-minded and toxic, fine, but you're going to have a hard time cashing in the victim card when someone points out the ridiculousness of it.

This is exactly the kind of comment that make these threads toxic.

Gender, like it or not, shapes the life experience of an individual. Why would you not want to have a role model that had a similar life experience to your own?

Except, inevitably, when a woman expresses that desire, it gets called "toxic feminism", and the justification is, wait for it: the personal anecdotes and experiences of a male.

I am shocked that in 2019 there is still so little self-awareness around this.

>How is gold created out of the collision of stars composed of neutrons?

They are composed predominantly out of neutrons. Some percentage of their composition is still electrons and assorted atomic nuclei, which is a non-trivial amount of matter considering the common range of density they tend to have.

I would imagine all kinds of interesting(strange?) interactions take place when such dense and energetic objects collide.

>"During such events, massive amounts of heavy metals are formed. This collision, for instance, produced a lump of gold with the mass of our planet in just a split second."

We need to find a localized wormhole and go mine that.

His book is excellent as well.

I don't think I'm missing any nuance.

You wrote:

> For anyone who is primarily a sysadmin, I would recommend sticking with the default behavior

Am I reading that wrong?

"Don't customize the default behavior if you're a sysadmin"

Do you not agree with what you wrote?

I'm simply arguing that, as a sysadmin today, you're far better served eliminating the need for N node access to make changes, and using your customized local config to push changes to a repository that is applied by a CM-esque system.

I do not understand the:

"don't customize your VIM, what if you have to use vi/vim on a server?" trope.

I submit that if you're having to log into individual servers enough to make those kinds of changes, you're already engaged in a systems management anti-pattern.

Code up some CM/automation to handle that.

You can probably write that code from your workstation, with your more customized Vim. :-)

Wonder what the potential long-term psychological/physiological impact is...

Your brain would essentially be forced to constantly process more visual data than it was used to... more data than human brains in general had evolved to process.

Surely that has consequences.

>It just seems to me that the more competent you're _perceived_ to be, the lower the threshold for bad behavior gets you labelled as a "jerk".

Yep. If the 80/20 rule is true(and I keep finding anecdotal evidence it is), then wouldn't the natural frustrations of the 20% doing the 80% simply be perceived as toxicity by the other 80% doing the remaining 20%?

Take a team of 10 people. If 8 people get together and decide to say the 2 top performers are "toxic"(by whatever metric that is defined), what chance do those 2 people have, even if they are doing 80% of the work?

>I don't want corporate politics and all the worst parts of MBA culture within a hundred miles of tech, yet here we are.

If you think politics isn't an implicit reality of any organized group of human beings, I've got a bridge to sell you.

>it seems to be his immediate manager that's the larger problem

Not discounting this, but someone that thinks comparing to Jeff Bezos to Adolf Hitler is either legitimate or merits public attribution is bringing their own issues to the table, and is likely not telling us the whole story.

I hope this guy gets help with his issues, because they seem to extend far beyond "working at Amazon".

That's fair. Then they've managed to educate themselves, not exactly a non-trivial feat either.

Where did I say or even imply that?

I simply said it was hard and rigorous. Not the most.

>seems more like a bunch of entitled brats.

I'd say anyone that drops the money on a 4 year CS education of any rigor, survives it, survives and succeeds at the fairly rigorous interview cycles required to get a job in SWE these days... is absolutely entitled to requesting top of the line hardware to perform their duties.

I'd say your argument makes it "seem" like it's coming from envious, curmudgeonly luddites.

If individuals of other vocations feel that these developers are "entitled brats", perhaps they should switch careers? I can't imagine a teacher went in to education seriously expecting to get provisioned the latest rMBP as a perk?

Are we assuming all jobs are equally dependent on high-end hardware to provide the best RoI for time spent?

What's the generally hold-up with 32GB RAM being a standard option(or even possibility) in this form factor?

> Let's also consider the social advantage of those who do imbibe with those who don't in regards to building relationships with superiors at your job.

Ok, but that "advantage", or lack thereof, is not exclusionary only to non-white, non-males, which was a fundamental premise of the article.

You're shifting gears between:

"alcohol is evidence of, and further exacerbates, a diversity/inclusion issue stemming from a heavy bias towards white males"

to:

"alcohol is bad for the workplace, regardless of context, because it is exclusionary and leads to problems and implicit/explicit social and health consequences"

This post carries a similar theme to many before it: tech worker(who maybe or maybe not drank in a work-context in the past) gets "woke" about it and decrees that it's bad.

The line I quoted from your recent comment alludes to what I think is what most of these articles are truly railing against:

the implicit, unstated social hierarchies that are created in a given workplace, and the advantages they offer to their members in terms of choice project assignment, progression, recognition, and overall career satisfaction.

Guess what? Remove drinking from the workplace, and the exact same thing will happen anyways. It may not form around drinking. Or, in all likelihood, it still will, just unofficially after-hours, which is likely to be even more exclusionary, because there will be no impetuous for forced inclusion.

We as a species have been building complex social hierarchies for most of our history. That will always select for individuals who are more "social" versus ones who are not.

While I will absolutely concede that being born a middle-class white Caucasian male in the US is an objectively advantageous and generally privileged situation to be born in to...

You're going to lose me at the notion that I'm somehow exercising "white privilege" by consuming/offering alcohol at/around/near work functions or venues.

If the author is already making the reader concede an implicit agreement that there is an "inclusion/diversity" problem, then I'd argue the problem exists at a deeper, more fundamental level.

This reeks of selection bias and circular reasoning when you say that things that occur in a non-diverse environment are immediately perfect examples of non-diversity because "look at this non-diverse group of people partaking in $thing".

I'm even fine with saying it's non-inclusive, except that has to cut across all demographics, including white males. There are plenty of white males employed in tech who find the idea of socializing/drinking with co-workers absolutely contrary to what they feel is fun or engaging.

As a thought experiment: let's say all tech companies, from startup to FAANG, as of today, went completely "dry" for any and all work-hosted functions, as well the same policy for all corporate offices/locations.

Would diversity get any better? And if not, how can you say it was making it worse?

Yep.

Since it's down, I can't actually read the content, but I too find no small amount of irony in a claim there is any kind of bubble in knowledge work, when the site said content is hosted on doesn't even appear to work.

>Why don't you hire one of these for the job instead of recipe/containering yourself into 'doesn't work, I dunno' posts.

Because every.single.one of these "integrated environments" I've ever come across was an objective mess, poorly documented and littered with tech-debt.

It was clear the "20-year SA" had forced 20-year old administration abstractions and ideas on top of modern infrastructure and application concerns. It was cheaper/better/easier to throw it out and rebuild on something like k8s than to make any attempting at "scaling" the existing solution.

You're simply trading the "in-fashion" disease for the "I'm a 20-year Linuxbeard I know best and no one tells me different" disease.

>Fixing the DA clock-source results is far better music quality, then any speaker cable will ever can.

I read this as a having a decent quality DAC inline between the source and listening device will do more than expensive speaker wire?

Seems like some pretty domain-specific(frontend)choices about which $jsThing to use, and one pretty bad operational miss on choosing a DB tech correctly.

>Source: I'm a software engineer and a qualified lawyer

I imagine there is no shortage of demand for your cross-section of skills?

Do you utilize them both, or did you pivot from one to the other?

> One of the big features Macs have for me is that I can call customer service any time of day and they can work through any serious issue I have with my Mac

This is something else that often gets left out in these discussions. For better or worse, Apple offers an ecosystem/platform, and the support to go along with it.

Suppose you do make a Linux laptop work for your daily driver. You're still left out in the cold if you have an iPhone/iWatch/iPad.

The tight integration that's offered, along with the ubiquitous(and very useful) iCloud is something that Linux just doesn't have.

And yes, I am aware of the various flavors of self-hosted solutions, the dangers of lock-in etc...

If I've already been fighting to make my laptop functional for work, I don't want to start the same battle again for my hobbies too.

>Almost all my colleagues struggled with setting up python 2 und 3 correctly at some point, whereas this just worked for me on Linux.

This is one area where I'd have to concede the Apple experience is objectively suboptimal.

However, the Python ecosystem isn't doing anyone any favors here.

^^ Things exactly like this.

The practical implications of what it means to the end user is that companies/entities that write any GUI-enabled software for Linux are forced to make decisions about what(if any) OS they'll support.

And just like that, we've waded into "cracking open the window manager" just to figure out what's going on.

Is there one that works with Soundcloud and Spotify?

Found the elephant in the room, you did.

End-user Linux has definitely improved in the last few years.

It offers a lot of attractive features for what I imagine to be the typical HN demographic.

That being said, it's still got rough spots that OSX doesn't. It works great when it works, but when it doesn't....

Font rendering, display/compositor fragmentation etc...

Inb4 the anecdotal "well it works for me I just had to download the xf86 font library and compile with a legacy glibc version..." crew comes in with a thousand and one rebuttals. Problems like that are still a suboptimal user experience, no matter how you slice it.

I'd definitely consider a Linux daily driver for some of my work, but there are things that are just going to be less painful on Apple.

> In the second half of 2019, IBM will open the IBM Q Quantum Computation Center, located in Poughkeepsie, New York to expand IBM’s commercial quantum computing program, which already includes systems at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York.

Does this mean, in true IBM fashion, the older, remote one will be terminated?