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gdinwiddie

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

Software development coach and consultant ● I try to learn from everywhere. ● I follow those who enter into interesting conversations with me. ● He/him/they

Interests: #softwareDevelopment #VirginiaSatir #SatirModel #systemsThinking #humanity

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EricAlper, to random
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It’s 1987. Which movie do you go to?

gdinwiddie,
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@EricAlper Radio Shack was the best movie on that sign.

gdinwiddie, to random
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How about them Os, hon!

18+ VeroniqueB99, to random
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Writing

gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99 🤨 😂 🤣

gdinwiddie, to random
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Bette Midler's new hit song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvUyOFgVZI

rayckeith, to random
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Judge Aileen Cannon Responds to Claims She Did Not Disclose 'Luxury' Trips

"Sean O'Driscoll
Published May 02, 2024 at 9:35 AM EDT
Updated May 04, 2024 at 3:11 PM EDT
Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case, has said she declared two "luxury" resort trips to Montana that were mentioned in a National Public Radio investigation.

"Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries," NPR's online investigation states.

"Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that 'Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent," it adds."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-classified-documents-case-miami-florida-montana-trip-npr-1896480

gdinwiddie,
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@rayckeith
"Inadvertant" meaning "she didn't realize anyone would notice."

sashag, to random
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Be kind with yourself. This can be something as small as buying a bouquet of flowers 💐

Actually I love to buy flowers for myself.

gdinwiddie,
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@sashag
You must not have a cat in the house!

gdinwiddie,
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@sashag
🙀 One of our cats eats any flowers, and knocks over the vases.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Ben Wikler:

Absorb this graph—but note that the final year is 2018, the year of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s ’s big goal, always has been: to rip off working people and hand huge bags of cash to the ultra-wealthy, like himself and his Mar-a-Lago buddies.

Rutger Bregman:

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

gdinwiddie,
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@GottaLaff @Npars01 … and if it wasn’t for those meddling kids. 😁

grimalkina, to random
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"Finally, all of these terms—virtues, traits, competencies, or skills—have the disadvantage of implying that they are consistently demonstrated across all possible life situations. But they are not (Fleeson & Noftle, 2008; Mischel, 1968; Ross, Lepper, & Ward, 2010; Ross & Nisbett, 1991; Wagerman & Funder, 2009)."

(source: Duckworth & Yeager 2015)

gdinwiddie,
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@grimalkina
I think everyone could benefit from distrusting what they think they know and holding their conclusions lightly. You don't have to be doing replicable science to get value from that.

This is an area I've been idly exploring for a few years.

gdinwiddie,
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@grimalkina Yes, and it's sad to me that people take that to mean it's only important in those fields.

I think part of that is discomfort with uncertainty. Many people let uncertainty undermine their sense of worth. That's why so many self-help slogans try to boost projecting confidence.

sashag, to random
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Me at the Bakery/Café: "I'll take a cafe au lait and a sweet raisin bun."

Woman behind the counter: "With or without raisins?"

😳 That's a trick question, right? 🫠

gdinwiddie,
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@sashag
Do you have a raisin for asking that question?

ajroach42, to random
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Wait, Orangutans have started applying medicine to their wounds?

Are they coming to replace us? They are aren't they?

gdinwiddie,
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@ajroach42
Perhaps we're just starting to realize that we're failing to replace them.

abbotofunreason, to random
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Here’s my position on the important debate going on: it can be kittycorner when you are young, but once you are mature it is always catercorner.

gdinwiddie,
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@abbotofunreason
Where is this debate going on?

cdarwin, to random
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A European court on Thursday upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles,
ruling that Italy was justified in trying to reclaim an important part of its cultural heritage and rejecting the museum’s appeal.

The European Court of Human Rights, or ECHR, determined that Italy’s decades-long efforts to recover the “Victorious Youth” statue from the Getty were not disproportionate.

“Victorious Youth,” a life-sized bronze dating from 300 to 100 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Getty collection.

Though the artist is unknown, some scholars believe it was made by Lysippos, Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor.

The so-called Getty Bronze, which was pulled from the sea in 1964 by Italian fishermen and then exported out of Italy illegally, was purchased by the Getty in 1977 for $4 million and has been on display there ever since.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-05-02/european-court-upholds-italys-right-to-seize-prized-greek-bronze-from-getty-museum-rejects-appeal

gdinwiddie,
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@jamesmarshall @cdarwin
Finders-Keepers

rayckeith, to random
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Writing in the Dark: Forty Years as a Writer: Lessons Learned

"Well, forty-two, actually. I was eighteen when I decided to dedicate my life to writing, and I’m sixty now. This seemed like a good time to take a look back and pass along some of the most important things I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the course of my long career. I mean, I guess it’s long. Seems like I just started yesterday, but old people always say stuff like that, don’t they? The following items aren’t in any particular order. I wrote them as they came to me. If you’re a long-time reader of my blog, you may have encountered some of the following in previous posts, but hopefully most should be new to you.

"Take your writing as far as you can. I pass along this advice all the time. …"
http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2024/05/forty-years-as-writer-lessons-learned.html

gdinwiddie,
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@rayckeith
WRT "Do an ego check when dealing with editorial comments/changes" I found with my non-fiction book that when my editor had feedback, it meant that SOMETHING was wrong. Sometimes it wasn't the thing they said was wrong, but something nearby.

The feedback was always useful, though the suggestions sometimes didn't fit for me. At one point, rather than take out something that was important to me, I made it 3 times as long so it fit better for the editor.

Vaguery, to random
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TFW you are doing a little inventory maintenance and five books in this one box are not even present in the inventory?

Have they ever been?

Are they real books, or did the Brownies create them?

gdinwiddie,
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@Vaguery
It's the opposite of what stores call "shrinkage."

Maybe book gnomes have been sneaking them in under cover of darkness.

gdinwiddie, to random
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnoVMEH7QI

rayckeith, to random
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Wyoming voids 28% of its voter registrations in mandatory purge - WyoFile

"While it’s not unusual for voter rolls to fluctuate, local election officials want residents to know that anyone who didn’t vote in the 2022 general election must register again to vote in 2024."
https://wyofile.com/wyoming-voids-28-of-its-voter-registrations-in-mandatory-purge/

gdinwiddie,
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@rayckeith
That seems like a very short span to de-register a voter--being sick and missing one election?

Barbramon1, to soulmusic
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"Sugar Sugar" Wilson Pickett covers The Archies.

https://youtu.be/OrZluYnMJUY?si=fvdTKATD-riAQ65C

gdinwiddie,
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@Barbramon1
Land of 1000 Dances (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRiM26hyms

weilawei, to random
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I think we should ship our monarchists to a "safe third country" like Britain.

gdinwiddie,
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@weilawei
Won't the British just export them to Uganda?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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This blows my mind.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

gdinwiddie,
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@lowqualityfacts
Try folding a piece of paper in half 8 times. That's a million times harder than 5 times.

VeroniqueB99, to random
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gdinwiddie,
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@VeroniqueB99 Seems like an unsanitary place to eat.

gdinwiddie, (edited ) to apple
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On iOS 17, how do I load an existing ringtone onto the phone? The online directions I’ve found use iTunes, which is not on current macOS, or recording a sound on the phone. I already have the sound on my computer. I can load the ringtone as a file, but it doesn’t show for phone or text tones.

EDIT: Added solution in reply.

gdinwiddie,
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What worked for me for ringtones and text tones:

from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254926430?sortBy=best

Connect iPhone to MacBook
Open iPhone in Finder
Select the General tab
Drag the desired .m4r file and drop it on the iPhone General screen in Finder

I was then able to see the sound on the phone under Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Ringtone and Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Text Tone.

They're available for timers, also.

inthehands, to random
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JFC, job references going the way of grad school applications.

Grad schools, employers, HR departments: a form like this is an invitation for me not to think carefully about my answers. Quantity over quality? Fine, ask and ye shall receive.

gdinwiddie, (edited )
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@inthehands
As Tom DeMarco said, "Most things that really matter—honor, dignity, discipline, personality, grace under pressure, values, ethics, resourcefulness, loyalty, humor, kindness—aren’t measurable."

(in Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5076468)

gdinwiddie,
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@inthehands
Thanks for digging out the link.

I agree that other categories of functional design bear a lot of similarities that are not obvious to the casual observer. Everyone thinks someone else’s job is simple.

I wouldn’t blame it on DeMarco, though. Defense contractors were having big conferences to “make software more like engineering.” I think DeMarco was trying to communicate with them using the mental models they already had. (In L Pearce Williams bio of Faraday… 1/

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