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hannah, to random
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I had a dream i was playing a card game where each card has a line of ancient latin poetry and you have to combine them to make interesting combinations. It came with a little electronic dictionary with a monochrome lcd game boy screen and a menu where you could pick which latin to english dictionary to use. There were very funny opinionated descriptions of each one

shuruchan,
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@hannah the card game description reminds me of Hyakunin Isshu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uta-garuta although in that game there are 'correct' pairings rather than it being free-form.

0xabad1dea, to random

Unclean data in action: oh, you’ve never met a Nushi? Me either. But this database claims it’s the second most common given name in the world — because it’s Chinese for Miss/Madam

It’s understandable if weird artifacts like this slip in at , but #2? When you subtract the number of “Nushis” from China, there’s only a few hundred people named Nushi in the world. This doesn’t pass the most basic data health check imaginable, but they published it, it ranks highly on google, and doubtless it’s getting cited all over the place.

(hat tip to Soron for helping me diagnose the source of the fake name) https://forebears.io/earth/forenames

shuruchan,
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@0xabad1dea which reminds me irresistibly of the mystery of Ireland's worst driver -

"He had been wanted from counties Cork to Cavan after racking up scores of speeding tickets and parking fines.

However, each time the serial offender was stopped he managed to evade justice by giving a different address.

But then his cover was blown."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7899171.stm

broximar, to random
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    shuruchan,
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    @broximar One thing I really enjoy is getting out into nature and walking and canoeing, a use-case that public transport doesn't really address. Do you imagine it somehow doing so in future? Or are these things your kid doesn't need to do?

    georgetakei, to random

    Well, that did not go over well.

    https://www.comicsands.com/bill-ellmore-ibm-fires-employee-2665448412.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    shuruchan,
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    @georgetakei
    I'm sorry to be disagreeable, but I cannot stand the framing of "saving his life" in this sort of case.
    The guy took one flight, rather than another. Either flight had an equal probability of a hijacking occurring, the change didn't lower his risk in any way. It just happened in this case that the original flight was hijacked.
    If his actual later flight had been hijacked, would we be calling for the woman to be locked up for murder? Of course not!

    claresudbery, (edited ) to random
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    On October 5-6 I'll be in Berlin at Agile Meets Architecture, talking on the topic "Let's Stop Making Each Other Feel Stupid."

    This is a bit of a bugbear of mine, the way we in IT can denigrate one another on erroneous grounds and, in my view, discourage learning as a result.

    In this blog post, I dig into the subject in a bit more detail: https://www.agile-meets-architecture.com/essays/lets-stop-making-each-other-feel-stupid

    shuruchan,
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    @claresudbery Good post, the industry would be a better place if your points were widely accepted.
    I'm lucky to work somewhere that's quite good on this. I think possibly the fact we're attempting an unsolved problem (self-driving cars) helps, because no-one can pretend they know all the answers to an unsolved problem - it helps foster a growth mindset of valuing the ability to learn new things, rather than the store of existing knowledge.
    (Or it may just be we had a great CEO).

    broximar, to honkaistarrail
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    “We’ve made a choice, go fight against your fate.”

    My bingo card did not have my favourite battle cry of the year coming from a song in a gacha game

    shuruchan,
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    @broximar that reminds me of
    "You cannot change your fate. But you can rise to meet it, if you will"
    from Mononoke Hime

    shuruchan, to random
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    My favourite slack channel is . Team-mate solved a tricky problem? them. Seen a great act of advocacy or communication? . Office manager ordered sandwiches and cakes for your big meeting? . You get the idea - share positive feedback in a timely, public manner.

    It makes the recipient feel good, it builds a culture around what you value, it raises awareness of good things in the company, and it provides hard data for review/promotion discussions.

    andrewstroehlein, to random
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    This week marks 15 years since the Convention on Cluster Munitions was adopted in Dublin, Ireland, but the international ban on these awful weapons is being tested like never before.

    To understand the problem, let’s first understand what these weapons are and why they are banned. An explainer in my newsletter today: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/05/31?story=paragraph-5813

    shuruchan,
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    @andrewstroehlein
    Possible counterpoint: giving Ukraine DCIM to use on their own soil may be necessary for them to defeat massed 'human wave' Russian attacks https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/give-ukraine-right-artillery-ammo-dpicm
    Ie it's the lesser of two evils right now vs Russian occupation of Ukraine.

    theresnotime, to random

    It is generally accepted that defaulting to using "they/them" pronouns for people you don't know is okay, right?

    Tempted to build justusethey.com or something for the folx who are struggling to grasp the fact that calling everyone on the internet "he/him" is a little problematic..

    shuruchan,
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    @theresnotime
    Benefits to you:

    • minimises (not eliminates) chance of giving offence
    • makes your life easy, don't need to make any judgments or decisions
    • lets you background the person's gender in order to place the focus on them as a human being, a colleague, a professional as appropriate to the situation.
    bastianallgeier, to random
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    A while ago, I read about the psycholgical effect that kicks in when someone tries to fight for a good cause, but then makes a tiny mistake.

    We are very hard on hypocrisy because our brains like when things add up.

    I.e. a climate activist with a plastic cup triggers much harder than Elon taking a 5 minute flight in his private jet every other day.

    The first feels wrong, while the second just meets our expectations.

    I can't stop seeng this everywhere ever since.

    shuruchan,
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    @bastianallgeier If someone's suggesting that I ought to change my behaviour, but their own actions don't align with what they're calling for, then it makes me wonder if they have an ulterior motive for trying to change mine.

    Like if Elon turned up in a Bentley or something, I'd wonder whether he might not believe his Teslas are all they're cracked up to be.

    esther, to random

    Happy , everyone!

    In Mai 8th in 1945 the Allies of World War 2 accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender. It marks the end of WW2 in Europe and the Nazi regime with it.

    Let’s make sure we don’t need another one, anywhere, ever. That work certainly didn’t end back then and is far from done today.

    Old shaky black and white film footage of a German nazi building with a swastika on top, the swastika gets blown to pieces in an explosion

    shuruchan,
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    @esther
    > Turns out it was quite hard for the Allies to implement a new government without people who have experience in those roles and the local language

    • a point proven when we attempted to do just that in Iraq
    rbreich, to random
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    This is the graph everyone needs to see for International Workers' Day.

    shuruchan,
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    @rbreich It looks significant to me that pay stopped rising with productivity in the 70s, before the significant drops in unionisation began. Maybe to do with energy prices & inflation.

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