Just had a great discussion with a senior tech team based on ideas from my PyCon keynote (People, the API User's Guide: https://nedbatchelder.com/text/key23.html). It got me thinking about introverts and extroverts, and how wrong that division is. There aren't two kinds of people. Everyone has places they want to be small, and places they want to be big. Understand your own factors, and find your spaces.
Men, I would love to know: what are the life skills you wish you had learned when you were younger that have had a positive impact on your mental health and resilience, and how did you come to learn them?
Two biggest stories in the world - Israel vs Hamas (& maybe Hezbollah) - US GOP paralysis. I ignored news for a couple days and thought I’d check in, see what’s happening…
It’s interesting how the debate around AI ethics has reconfigured the moral landscape around piracy. People who proudly supported The Pirate Bay a decade ago suddenly are very concerned about the rights of IP holders.
@jacob I also find it very intriguing. I agree it’s different, but I often hear people using the same arguments as two decades ago, just in the opposite direction, which…🤨
Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).
They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.
@timbray On the opt-in, it feels like people are happy to exchange privacy and ethics of others for their own convenience when onboarding, and then they realize it’s them as well too late
I wonder why programming culture is (on average) so enamoured with smartness over reasonableness.
It's particularly striking if you hang out with people who have the opposite values (e.g., trades, which, on average, strongly value reasonableness over smartness). By contrast, programming culture seems quite ridiculous?
@danluu@heathborders My working theory is that when you are in a group that tells you that you’re best at X, it’s extremely hard for a human brain to resist the Halo effect to not to think that you’re also best at Y and Z, and not to start detaching from reality. See points at almost any leader in position of power for >10y
@Migueldeicaza I don’t know, to me the whole move to Windows ecosystem fet like an ex-MS exec malevolence. I don’t think the Nokia downfall was inevitable.