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I’ve been saying people need to do this for over a year. I’ve known (personally) quite a few executive leaders and while I don’t think AI is a good replacement for any _good_ person at a job, the executive team is the low hanging fruit.

We glamorize execs but at the end of the day if you watch their careers they have plenty of failures (usually) and generally fail upwards. I’ve known some amazing CTOs and VPs of engineering and they’ve brought more to the table but a lot of what the executive team does is looking at the currents in the industry and trying to make educated guesses about where things are going. Yes more than that but this is a news.y comment.

the amount of code i've seen either allowing * when it shouldn't because someone was desperately trying to make their code work is astounding.

contractors, "specialists", etc. who never took the time to read how CORS works and how simply you can handle a list of allowable sites, etc.

it's only complicated until you take the 5-10 minutes to properly understand what happens where. if you don't know, go do it now.

100% been saying this for a while now. the main thing AI will be able to replace is a C suite.

100% and I’m a software developer and have been for ~30 years. Good QA people know how to find regression and bugs _that you didn’t think about_ which is the whole reason why it shouldn’t be under “engineering” and that it should exist. One of the QA people I work with currently is one of my favorite people. They don’t always make me happy (in the moment) with their bugs or with how they decide to break the software, but in the end it makes a better, more resilient product.

(and yes — i do love a good emdash, and despise that it makes me look like AI)

I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.

Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a pretty large user community (as do all the major distros), and love Fedora too.

One note - a lot of the distros are Debian based (Mint/Ubuntu/etc.) vs. Red Hat (Fedora, Asahi - M1/2 Apple hardware Fedora, etc.) vs. Arch Linux.

If you're just getting started it's probably easier to get into the Debian world, but I'd advise you to dip your toes in other distros too unless you just deeply fall in love with your first pick.

(I have my 80 year old neighbor happily running Mint on their old computer to save them from having to buy a new Windows machine.)

Get off social media, and go do things you enjoy that aren’t centered around consuming.

Volunteer at a museum if you like art, etc.

You just have to go live and bump into other people living in the world.

this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere.

the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you don’t. and it clearly doesn’t always protect you.

not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly wiki.

https://tiddlywiki.com/

“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?

lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?

for anyone else not able to get past the paywall:

from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little".

for thinking increasing DE&I at work is a good thing, only 47% of white people agreed while 78%, 72%, 65% (Black, Asian, Hispanic) thought so.

This is totally true more often than not (in my experience).

you make good points but i'd argue it's both. i'm talking about the subconscious bias aspect of racism (to your point it's a relic of racism, but it's an active relic) as well - this is the very reason we need DE&I. we're 3 to 4 years into it and still non-marginalized folks don't seem to fully understand the problem.

i feel like "talk to an African American of privilege" and what follows is incorrect. i know and have known a lot of well off Black friends and associates and they all have stories - there are a lot of racists in the north too, they just act a little different.

“No one”?!?

Poorly written headline for a very thin article.

Sure, lots of people who are white and deny systemic racism or the effects of it exist. That’s literally the problem we’re fighting and why we need diversity efforts.

(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-way relay for sites that want it)

i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate speech have been making a lot of inroads in the fediverse and in part (imo) due to the fact that we don't have a good way to trust other admin's decisions to block/ban servers and users and relay those quickly.

Dorsey isn't really "actively" in any of this process or direction beyond the initial setup of things at Blue Sky btw. Jay is doing a great job and a lot of the "protocol" hubbub is actually some unfortunate (in this scenario) nomenclature and less actual new protocols.

i'm for whatever thing(s) allow for a healthier online experience for folks and whatever keeps _us_ from being the product.

I see a comment I’m not going to engage with, but I have two kids and I had them happily in a Honda Fit and a VW GTI (3 door) when they were little.

I came here to say this is a great idea, I literally took a loss and sold my Volvo XC40 Recharge and went back to an old BMW i3 because the larger vehicles honestly don’t make actual sense (the article clarifies this more than I’m going to bother with here) to me.

We need to stop propelling tanks and start driving vehicles sized to fit the need.

This is fantastic - (note: confirmation bias on my part) - it's quite similar to the list I keep in my head and have been trying to gently teach my daughters as they are growing up. Who they are partners with is a good one, that (for me in the work world) hasn't come up in a timely fashion to make other decisions but would be quite handy in social situations.

100% literally came here to make sure someone said this.

Yikes - thanks for sharing. I'm one of the few people I know who occasionally call to verify anything on CVs, especially when the interview feels off.

You can do this (crudely but effective enough) with a any watch if you take a second to make a simple sundial. Rotate it with the stick (or whatever) until the shadow reflects the actual time and you’re pointing North (in the Northern hemisphere). It helps to be familiar with the angle range of how time is broken up in the day on a sundial but it works.

I still host some things from home, but Linode, Scaleway, etc. are so cheap for tiny machines it might make more sense to build some APIs that the webserver can call on a machine running from your house.

I miss QNX.

aka the subtle art of a55 kissing.

if you’re open to it ;) imo we do a terrible job of training managers to be leaders instead of “bosses”. we have an absurd view of leadership equating to a person’s value being higher.

it’s not. when you work in management you have a role to perform, but if you have a culture that has to work to assuage you in order to disagree with you then you should probably find a different job.

100%

i always have pushed to hire based on how the developer approaches problems and thinks about logic.

the hype around memorizing referenceable facts about a specific language/stack has always been overblown.

i’ll take a hacker who learns and digs in quickly over a recalcitrant developer stuck in their ways any day.

i’d add that you also learn (perhaps more) about what _not_ to do if you pay attention and keep your ear to the ground while working.

my thought is just "why not"?

0 is a number, and just because the west ignored it for quite some time (read: "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea") we have these odd built-in aversions to it but in the end it makes plenty of sense.

0th element is 0, so why don't we just do a better job of educating kids to start counting with 0 and thinking about 0.

in the end - as a CS person, i think it's good - but i also don't mind if you disagree with me. :)

while likely correct (confirmation bias) i’d add that none of this prevents poorly designed systems from having partially potentially lethal (at scale) unintended consequences.

we (developers) need to be far better at second-order/second-level thinking.