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Words mean what they mean as intended by the people who use them, but they also have history. Also and especially, phrases have history. Keeping not only the original language but also the original alphabet/script/glyphs/characters strongly call back to that history.
Gravity is so much less powerful than the other forces.
68/2=34
If electricity costs 35c/unit then T could be making 10c and R could be making 33c.
T could be choosing to take less profit.
Oh and every subsystem shares dependency references that are only used by one subsystem.
Oh, and the C includes are wrong and overwritten by the shell scripts and make files.
GOOD LUCK
OH, and your team is too scared to use the simplified build because there are too many things they don't understand, even though you did hash comparisons for every built artifact.
What happens when media sells our virtues back to us?
In other words, it feels really good and righteous to be angry at the bad people. It feels really bad to consider that they might just be people.
Not just bad - it feels subversive - disloyal to the in-group. It would take a heretic to claim that the demons are just sinners.
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I think the greatest qualities of humanity are curiosity, humility, patience and empathy, but it is very hard to feel curious, humble, patient and empathetic in many online discussions.
I know that my comments do not address the original meaning of "Big Government", but over time "Big Government" has come to encompass anything the government does. Apparently including things that I depend on, but don't know about because they just silently work. Until someone turns them off.
Also, remember (or learn) that it was Carter, not Reagan that the bulk of the deregulation.
See Dan Davies - Unaccountability Machine
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The version of the narrative that we fight about is the stupidest version of that subject.
Gamer's Gate taught me this. From the outside, everyone looked like stupid assholes. I definitely have more empathy for one side vs the other, but each side's narrative is forced into the minimal version that carries the most moral weight. The great tragedy is that we use the moral narrative that appeals to US, not to THEM or even to BYSTANDERS.
See Jonathon Haidt - Righteous Mind
And Amanda Ripley - High Conflict
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I think the greatest qualities of humanity are curiosity, humility, patience and empathy. To me, nonviolence is not about naivety or tolerance of evil or being unprepared, it's about maintaining the ability to learn about the world and the people in it.
Historically nonviolence has been one component of a diversity of strategies - nonviolence itself implies the possibility of violence.
The emotion of anger makes people feel right and righteous in themselves - no matter if they are helping or hurting overall. A person's anger does not know what side they are on. Anger makes the world much, much simpler.
Our current political environment does not allow for complex problems or complex understanding of other people's needs. You have to fit in my simple worldview. You have to be exactly as angry as I am at all the people I'm angry at.
No matter who you feel started this or who you blame, this is all happening inside each of us. We are all being exploited and treated like broken toys. The fight is making us all act and speak very, very stupidly.
So if you feel like you have to fight, and you already know who to fight and how to fight them - I am not trying to change that. I am NOT saying that "the other side" has a valid point of view or that the other side has some good people. I am saying that the other side is made of flawed people each with their own history.
I am asking you to find some time for curiosity, humility, patience, and empathy for the humans in the world.
The tragedy of all anti-war movies is that they show us the horror and terror and destruction of war ... but 'this' is the fight we need to fight, this fight is needed, this fight is good.
There are many ways to explain what is going on right now. One partial explanation that makes sense to me is that whenever a new form of media comes out (Printing press, Radio, Social Media) - our brains are not prepared for it, and the balance of power shifts like gravity has been temporarily cancelled.
Book recommendation: Amanda Ripley "High Conflict"
ctrl+f specificity
Yes, I've noticed that people having nasty public fights with family members can lead to extremely negative effects on decision making.
Carlos Ghosn was able to "turn Nissan around", but it was at the expense of future product capabilities (in my opinion) [Disclosure I work for GM, this is solely my own opinion]
Also, I must say that it is not clear to me that anyone could know what a long term winning play looked like 10-15 years ago when the damage was done (in my opinion). It takes a lot of effort and money to make a mediocre automobile, it takes a lot more to make a high quality automobile.
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The drive to fight can make people say some really dumb stuff sometimes (speaking about the banking CEO)
We spend an incredible amount of time and effort on educational curricula, so it's worth thinking about.
My opinion is everything you learn before you start actually using knowledge is "just" familiarization. In my opinion, pedagogical instruction should do a much better job of explaining this and incorporating this realization. I do think individual teachers understand this.
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edit: there's why and there's why. Drugs is the answer you sell
The biggest hidden assumption I see is that we expect other people to be trying and learning things in the same way we do.
Experienced devs will write code to improve their own understanding, they will create tests to improve their own understanding, they will do research, they will do a lot of learning and all of that rarely gets talked about at standup or in a pull request. This work never shows up in a planning or budget meeting.
I see junior devs getting stuck hard on delivering production ready code - which is the WORK PRODUCT that we want; but that is not what the actual work of software development looks like. A lot of junior devs are hesitant to do throw-away work that does not get committed to source control - they feel like someone out there knows the answer and they just have to find them. And for a long time, that works - they can find someone to provide the answer they need, they can find a senior dev who glances at the code and fixes it effortlessly.
This whole thing is exacerbated by managers with no or minimal dev experience, who also confuse work product and tracked work items with the actual work of producing software.
(And if you're wondering who 'junior devs' is, it's me. I'm junior devs.)
Anyway, I have no idea what's going on with me; it's not really severe enough to investigate further right now, and my case is only the tiniest part related to Dianna's.
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Private, you better realign yourself in the next 60 seconds!
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So sorry, your alignment score seems to be too low for this promotion.
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Citizens, peacefully disperse and align yourselves.
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
So for most automobiles, the tire (tyre) can be detached from the rim, which can be detached from the wheel hub, which encloses the wheel bearing, which is generally friction fitted to the axle (or steering knuckle/hub carrier).
Or said another way, both the tire and rim are subassemblies of the wheel, which is also constituted of a wheel bearing and hub. Some manner of brake is also generally attached to the wheel, but is not essential to the definition of a wheel.
Bicycles wheels are generally packaged along with the axle, which can be removed as one subassembly from the bike fork.
Of course the great problem with pedantry is that once you start down this road, each following step must be taken with great care. In other words, I've almost certainly said something wrong here, Muphry be praised.
What is the most technically correct definition of the "RJ45" connector that you can construct? Something something 8P8C EIA/TIA standard UTP termination something something.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Exploded-view-of-wheel-b...
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Math is very precise, and has very obvious correct and incorrect answers. Language much less so. So when we have a question like this, it FEELS like there should be an obvious and precise answer because we are talking about math, BUT we are using language to talk about math, so we are going back to an imprecise realm; which may feel confusing and wrong.
This is also the effect behind the engagement bait word problems and order of operations problems you see on social media.
0) Elect people who claim they can make the voters' existing lifestyle affordable.
I agree that sometimes nothing or not very much is the best thing for the government to do, but a crisis is a very bad time to say that, because the other side will just claim they will fix things.
After all, deflation is not good, but claiming that you will bring down grocery prices does seem effective.
If you volunteer to help someone else, you can't do it on your own terms alone, you have to be aware and willing to work with what other people need. This might sound obvious, and the people who really need to hear this may not accept it.
Also, it's a brand new income stream. Managers love to talk about income streams at shareholder meetings.