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draNgNon

@draNgNon@hachyderm.io

Release engineer at Google.
Reader of science & science fiction.
Fan of astronomy, astrophysics, and astronautical engineering.

Opinions are my own and any resemblance to or divergence from my employer's is not an intent to represent.

Nivenly member, #NoBridge
Profile pic: the Horsehead Nebula, with the "horse head" clouds just right of center.
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StillIRise1963, to random
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Notice how quickly the fascists moved from not requiring masks under the guise of freedom to OUTLAWING masks for everyone in NC.

draNgNon,
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@StillIRise1963 not for everyone, still o-k for the k-k-k

hrefna, to random
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Everyone wants to do the fun work, everyone wants to play with grand ideas, but getting people to actually do the gritty, challenging, in-the-weeds work is really difficult.

Getting people to agree on how to do the in-the-weeds work is really difficult.

Then, getting people to acknowledge that you did the work is further complicated.

draNgNon,
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@hrefna there is also the point where enough work as been done that thing is now able to be useful with lots of handholding.

workerbees do a lot of unacknowledged handholding and leadership is meanwhile celebrating work completion.

many versions of this exist, just search for "in the beginning was the plan" -- here is one from the army:

https://medium.com/@sburnsy.2011/i-can-no-way-take-credit-for-this-kind-of-brilliance-but-its-too-great-not-to-share-23c63f2b1d58

hrefna, to fediverse
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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect.

draNgNon,
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@hrefna screenshot or it didn't happen

-every gamer ever

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

draNgNon,
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@StillIRise1963 and that'll just be the first step ☹️

hrefna, to random
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It takes a singular genius to run a company into the ground as efficiently as Musk seems to be capable of doing. Like between Twitter and Tesla it's pretty clear that my parrots—and possibly my chickens—could do a better job.

draNgNon,
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@hrefna I've been thinking about that, and I realized it's very familiar-feeling. like the weird tendency of Google projects to be either deprecated or not-yet-ready.

it's that some people can't maintain. the rush they get is disrupting, either building up something new or tearing something established down. maintaining something (successful or not) is boring to them, they cannot deal.

divya, to random
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    draNgNon,
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    @divya what is "this"? Recalled for reviewing the cases or recalled because she is part of the institutionalized bias or recalled because dumb people think she's personally responsible for prosecutorial misconduct 25+ years ago?

    The whole thing is incredible like simi valley

    thomasfuchs, (edited ) to random
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    Where would we be today if Al Gore wouldn’t have been robbed of his presidency and Yitzhak Rabin wouldn’t have been assassinated

    draNgNon,
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    @thomasfuchs all music strictly censored

    hrefna, to random
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    Okay, so the news on the FTC voting to ban noncompetes is interesting, but I've now seen several people commenting on that article with variations of "Google employees will now leave…"

    Noncompetes are already generally illegal in California. NDAs also sometimes get classified as noncompetes there ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/14/google-nda-illegal-california/ ).

    They are mostly illegal in Colorado.

    Like, I know you want to see companies get their comuppance and all, but can you at least not spread misinformation while doing so?

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna I did not say that, at all.

    but since you post about it, I will retort with: many tech companies would be perfectly happy to leave you unaware of where non competes are and are not enforcable, and certainly Google lost in court a couple times about it.

    this FTC ruling effectively reduces a cognitive load on trying to remember if it applies to you or not...: it does not if you are in the US.

    that said, I think it's more... relevant right now to health care employees than tech workers.

    hrefna, to random
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    Imagine being the sort of person who thinks that David Brooks, of all people, has something valuable to say about trans healthcare.

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna not to diminish the importance of the topic to you and others, but, David Brooks

    you could conceivably just put the period after the word "say" and leave it at that and be just as accurate

    divya, to random
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    draNgNon,
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    @divya no
    stop
    stop

    why are you qualifying it with "from 9/11" when it applies to... everything in the last century and a half of history

    mcc, to random
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    When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

    1. The US government can crack it OR the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
    2. The government of Israel can crack it
    3. My friend Kristin could crack it
    4. The government of Russia can crack it
    5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
    6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
    7. I could crack it
    draNgNon,
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    @mcc oh

    I read that and thought better security for higher numbers

    hrefna, to random
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    Snerk. "In the style of the Golden Dawn, can you generate a pathworking between the first and second egyptian gates of the underworld as described in the Papyrus of Ani?"

    The AI tried really, really hard. It really did. But honey. No.

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna huh at least it's sources ought to be all in public domain

    mjg59, to random
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    Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there

    draNgNon,
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    @mjg59 regex, how does it work

    hrefna, to random
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    When Ruby (1600 lbs ) does not want to come in from pasture, getting her in is a PITA.

    That is all.

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna https://youtu.be/_DZKwCVKneg?si=oPKJMZWOZQyAmjQK

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    What. The.

    draNgNon,
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    @thomasfuchs I'm pretty sure what MERID is but... what are these others?

    amazing find nonetheless.

    skinnylatte, to random
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    Me at an Asian restaurant: everything extra extra proper normal extra spicy motherland spicy give it to me

    The next table: absolutely nothing spicy

    I hope they don’t mix up our food. I will be very angry, but they may be dead

    #Food #makanapatoday

    draNgNon,
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    @skinnylatte do not leave us in suspense

    draNgNon,
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    @skinnylatte wait, did they mix up the food? What a tragedy that would be

    Despite being white I can't stand non spicy. That doesn't mean I'd survive Thai spicy!

    hrefna, to random
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    I hate when someone posts "evidence" of something and it is like… the most milquetoast, you-have-to-squint-to-see-it, ship-of-theseus evidence. Then they are shouting "SEE HOW BAD THIS IS?"

    No? I don't?

    I often see it used as a tactic against transfemmes, though I've seen it used against a variety of other marginalized groups as well.

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna o wow I thought about that post a lot, and typed a reply, and then deleted it, becuase I'm not trans and couldn't think of how to phrase my reply without sounding boorish

    I've actually thought about the generalized case of that situation a lot; and it really bothered me how people reacted to the post.

    anyhow, people like those you are describing are jerks.

    hazelweakly, to random
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    I believe in the power of delicate language, which is why whenever I say the word "fuck", I say it in cursive

    draNgNon,
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    @hazelweakly

    jasongorman, to random
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    A minute's silence, please, for the LinkedIn guy who just posted that testing steals time from shipping features, and that's why developers shouldn't do it.

    draNgNon,
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    @jasongorman huh does he work at boeing

    draNgNon, to random
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    ok, I have a dumb question. I've seen some posts where there are font decorations like bold or italics.

    how does that work? I can't post that. but our mastodon server is serving posts with the font decorations, so clearly it's not a limitation there.

    🤔

    draNgNon,
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    @danielpunkass huh, and here I thought it was rendering via users applying markdown or whatever is the markup that is in all the chat/wiki apps.

    now I wonder if the client on my phone can do it... there's a toggle... no, doesn't seem to work.

    🤔

    hrefna, to random
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    JK Rowling said what now.

    draNgNon,
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    @hrefna evergreen post

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Dear world,

    Please ban American goods made with American slave labor.

    Thank you,

    A member of the African American community.

    draNgNon,
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    @housepanther
    it will ruin your day, and possibly many more afterwards.

    abolishing private prisons is only a start.

    @StillIRise1963 @BenCotterill

    divya, (edited ) to random
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    "NEW: After taking a $200k donation from AIPAC's Republican-funded super PAC, pro-choice Dem group EMILY's List is spending $1m alongside AIPAC's $4.5m to knock out a Dem candidate with a 100% Planned Parenthood rating in a top Republican target district."

    Think about this the next time you donate to Emily's List from California.

    https://twitter.com/alex_sammon/status/1763630260174598338

    draNgNon,
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    @divya wait what

    Is there a non Twitter source?

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