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Can you elaborate?

There's a lot of awkward folded her arms beneath her breasts for sure but I never understood this criticism. Some female characters were trope-y, but so were many of the male characters.

I went in hearing about controversy online and guess I ended feeling like I'm miscalibrated from fantasy that is so much worse.

I agree, but I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on why. Like, why is good collaboration in an open-source office software so unrealistic when way more complicated-seeming state synchronization happens in open source and indie games all the time?

I've used dwm for years and recently switched to niri and really, really like it.

I'm with you, that tiling vertically is not useful. Niri aligns better with my innate mental model: just keep adding new panes to the right offscreen that I can scroll through, then I can swipe up and down for more lanes to do collections of different tasks.

I feel much more productive doing read/write tasks, like viewing tickets + code or PDFs + tickets and so-on

This is one of my favorite quotes and I'm glad to see it discussed here.

My favorite interpretation is focusing on the beauty of how even such a mundane thing as a sandwich is a unique experience. Someone made it by-hand, the ingredients have their own backstory in arriving in the present moment, and the taste is greater than the sum of its parts because of all the competing and complementary flavors.

Sandwiches hide in plain sight and even when they aren't great they are unique and will underscore how good your next great one is.

I think the key is that young people get to approach new technology playfully, over-use it, and make mistakes.

I learned lessons as a teenager on Twitter in 2012 that clearly none of the middle-aged people posting constantly on the company Slack ever internalized.

I'm starting to notice AI power users communicating in a shorthand tech-speak I find unintelligible. I genuinely cannot follow the individual points in this article or what the overall arc is.

Is this something that was already part of web dev or is it new?

I think it's deeper than that, once you know software is never done you have to design for constant change.

When clients ask why something takes so long, I explain that I'm not building what you asked for today, I'm building something that will be easy to turn into what you asked for today and possible to turn into whatever you ask for tomorrow.

I'm not sure which is worse: human marketer instructing AI specifically to make everyone more diverse and attractive or human marketer instructing AI to do basic marketing and AI has internalized to make everyone more diverse and attractive.

I didn't mean it to be harsh. I'm not denying the validity of their perspective.

I'm just less interested in it than the usual business of surveying domain experts of differing professional opinions and weaving something out of it.

This one reads like two coworkers casually speculating over lunch.

I'm just not that excited about journalists interviewing other journalists about things other than journalism or the media.

> I believe that not only do 20% of the people do 80% of the work, but that all this work only achieves its ultimate goals thanks to the <5% of the people who do stuff that someone else is supposed to do, but won't, for reasons which are perfectly legitimate in the organization's view of reality, even though the cumulative effect of such legitimate reasons is the certain death of the whole place.

I don't know that I've ever felt so validated by a HN submission.

I am definitely one of those suckers that does extra work others will not do. It isn't altruistic, I just can't motivate myself to work at all if my tasks are stupid. The problem is that at any sufficiently large organization many of the tasks are stupid because hardly anyone is on the same page.

I have worked on DO-178C (aerospace) and IEC 62304 (medical device) software design documents and they are much narrower in scope.

OP's design document is comprehensive enough to cover much of ground of the full documentation package for regulated software submissions. Basically all that's left is tracing requirements to design to verification method to verification result.

Stimulus checks?

I agree. Sensationalizing "is correlated with increased risk of cancer" to "could cause cancer" undermines the legitimacy of the inquiry and findings and just generally makes everyone dumb.

I'm annoyed I had to go googling around for the baseline rate. At 5 per 100,000 cases of this cancer, does even a 10X increase in risk matter versus having your beverage the way you like? Maybe cut the cream and sugar first.

Lately I've been making a conscious effort to flip my coordinate system around on inflation.

Instead of tracking cost increases of fuel, I try to conceptualize prices for all things in equivalent fuel or metered energy.

The fed can overlook energy and food in their "preferred metric of inflation", but that's 90% of what I care about as an individual. Very interesting to track your purchasing power in MWh

My observation is simply that tech leaders misinterpret rewards from the market in conquering some abstract representation of a facet of a domain with conquering the domain itself. Then they become egomaniacal.

Did you conquer commercial real-estate ushering in the future of work and society, or did you build a handy scheduling app?

Did you have a neat idea for an online community or did you revolutionize human connection?

Much lower odds of default support on average, but not zero, and the odds are not uniform throughout all the red states or any given one.

For example, my small town in a red state was not accepting of homosexuality in general, but my church was tolerant, and my church youth group was affirming and supportive.

It's also about where you go with your struggles.

Do you go home and talk to your spouse? Do you go to church and talk with your pastor? Do you go to your therapist or to the local bar?

> Comfort with mental health care has become another facet of political sorting in the U.S.

I'm skeptical. Bars and churches and friends are way cheaper and more accessible in red states. It's hard enough to get poorer, less educated men comfortable going to the doctor, let alone a therapist.

Price increases are tolerated if the value increases. Even rent-seeking is tolerated if the value is relatively stable. But what we have here is value proposition decreasing from fragmentation and shallow content and increasingly intrusive targeted ads while the prices keep going up.

We traded one annoying cable company for dozens.

It's a vague ick.

Both parent and child are now mediating their experience through technology with the parent blaring recognizable intellectual property at the child to psychologically manipulate them into a better photo.

Well "kid cue" is pretty uncomfortable for some reason

The whole idea that AI will usher in this utopia where workers in healthcare are able to realign their primary job functions with obvious value creation by sweeping all the paperwork under the rug is just silly.

It will just fester out of sight and out of mind: audit bots and compliance bots and malpractice bots and insurance bots will arms race creating such a mess it will become unfixable.

I had a coworker that would always ask this, like a javelin thrown in the bicycle spokes of every demo.

We hoped for tens of users.

Surely there is an agreeable third option between life-and-death subsistence farming and spiritually/ecologically/gustatorily desolate conglomerate monocrop agriculture.

Food literally grows on trees.

> I think that is tied to the general trend that people see themselves as far less replaceable than others.

What if (almost) everyone is right, that their work really is more difficult to automate than others realize?

This could be the lesser minds problem. Based on it I am doubtful most knowledge workers are as immediately replaceable as everyone suspects.

Science as a monolithic institution is a trap.

We ought to be able to trust the public with complex realities and contradictions. The scientific method and dogged researchers have brought us many wonderful things, but at the same time fraud happens and the layman might reasonably question to what extent the academy attracts fraudsters and to what extent it creates them.

If we can get over the absolutes then we can discuss policy changes.

Graduate student collective bargaining is one experiment; how can anyone blow a whistle on malfeasance with such an extraordinary and widening power imbalance?

I did a similar test and it came back neurotypical.

Given the overlap between ADHD and video games, I'm not convinced of the accuracy. It felt like a lame rhythm minigame to me.

I don't think the research is solid, my guess is these tests are convenient for insurance and liability paperwork since stimulants are controlled substances.

> We're all frustration addicts. We just want to bang our heads against problems we don't yet know how to solve.

I've been tapering off AI lately. I think I've realized that conquering the struggle is the fun part, and accomplishments just don't hit the same if AI is smoothing over every friction and cordoning off all the pitfalls and rabbit-holes.

fully keyboard-driven is a high bar, I'd settle for prioritizing the most common actions for keyboard shortcuts.

I would love a return to function keys. You get 12, make 'em count.

You're probably right. It was mostly hyperbole, but the older I get the more I think hyperbole does eventually come to pass in situations like this. It's gradual, though, not all at once.