drphungky @ drphungky @lemmy.world

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You ruined your country.

Ah yes, I really fucked up back at the constitutional convention when I designed a system that mathematically guarantees a two party system, leading to inevitable gerrymandering, entrenchment, and no incentives against unlimited fundraising . Same with that electoral college that allows minority rule via farmland. I think I got a lot of rights right, but in retrospect I probably should have worded the 2nd amendment differently, or at least foreseen the exponential development of weapons' destructive power and not implied that citizens should have equal arms to the government. Maybe I could have even got rid of it, I don't know. I definitely fucked up when I allowed slavery to continue for a while and then after we got rid of it, decided redlining was fine and wouldn't affect things for multiple generations. I probably also fucked up when I was running all those lobbying firms in the 50s and destroyed American communities to make room for automobiles, and simultaneously started the military industrial complex subsidizing the rest of the worlds defense in exchange for not having healthcare.

I really fucked it up bad, totally my fault. Crazy that I managed to do all that before I was born, and despite voting in every election for the only people who want to slightly change some of that stuff. But you're right, my bad. I should fix it by voting for a rep in... Oh wait, I forgot I lived in an area without any actual representation for a while. I guess I shouldn't have created Washington DC!But it's ok, now I live in an area where my vote means nothing because our system is mathematically designed for gridlock. Guess I should just soak in the unfixable path dependency, instead of trying to go contribute to a different country that has none of these problems. But I was born here, so it's my...duty to fix all those mistakes I made before I was born rather than going somewhere else, because it's my responsibility. And you're probably right to want to keep me out, because I just wanna come... steal your good society instead of contributing to something that more closely aligns with my values. Good read on the situation, you got me!

Average American man is 5'9.3" (and has been around for a long time). So not only is the graph misleading it's just wrong.

In case anyone was wondering, within America: White 5'10", Black 5' 9", Asian and Hispanic around 5'7".

Don't mention landlords, unless followed by "... deserve the guillotine."

An even better title would be "'Study' by firm pushing new technique finds old technique is bad."

Ehhhh...Kanban is much older than Agile even if they tried to subsume it and say it's an agile technique, so that's sort of right. But kanban vs "scrum" - which virtually everyone means when they say "agile" - is fair.

Well John Oliver did a whole episode on this like two years ago. Maybe then.

What @whereisk@lemmy.world said below, but instead I'd recommend You Need A Budget (YNAB). YNAB is amazing, and despite not liking paying for subscription services, I keep using it and not getting firefly (and I do self host my own things). It's like $100 a year and will save you far more than that if you use it correctly. Check them out: http://www.youneedabudget.com

Make sure to read their intro stuff on why they recommend doing things the way they do, as active budgeting isn't for everyone.

Oh man, Street Complete is very cool, thanks! I always wanted to contribute to OSM but found it a bit daunting. This is like Pokemon Go but useful!

Hear hear! The government should completely get out of marriage and leave it to religion, or completely go in on encouraging marriage (actually domestic partnerships) between whoever if we think it's going to be good for communities. Before Obergefell I would've said marriage is old, let religions have it. Encouraging people to take part in their community, have close ties with benefits like hospital visitation, tax breaks, etc should all be domestic partnership based, and we should've made everyone get domestic partnered - marriage should have conferred no civic benefits. As is, we have a weird hybrid religious and civic thing called marriage but at least everyone has access now.

But yeah as far as encouraging families we should do the same incentive wise with having kids and immigration to help with our birth rate problems, and continue trying to make home ownership more affordable (and more varied - looking at you missing middle housing) and encouraging it to again, incentivize investing in local communities. Civic policy like this stuff gets jumbled and we should be more clear about what we want to incentivize and why.

I am shocked I had to scroll this far to find someone saying this stuff exists. Literally look around on Lemmy, check the comment section of the Washington Post, like half of TikTok, a huge portion of twitter, etc. All of it full of angry radical liberals, actual communists, people crying for guillotines, deriding uneducated hicks and rednecks. Mocking all christians instead of just the fundamentalists, constantly deriding white men for existing, even just dumb infantile names (e.g. Repug-licans). Literally last night at my local college, some portion of protestors started calling for lynching college administrators. Now I'm not saying pro-palestinian protests are full of those people, just like the average liberal would be pretty ok with universal healthcare but miiiight not favor seizing the means of production or banning landlords. But even though these people are a minority, they're just like the crazy right wingers - they are loud, and paint with the same wide brush that hardcore conservatives do, just using a different color.

And I want to be clear, this isn't some enlightened centrism bullshit where I'm saying "both sides suck." I am actually very, very left wing (though on Lemmy sometimes it seems like that makes me a moderate because I'm not calling for guillotining the rich, but I digress), and I probably agree with 90% of the angry people's actual policy views. But at least anger and vitriol wise, and even a tiny portion of radical policy-wise, the fringe of "both sides" do kind of suck. Not everyone who is angry fits that profile (certainly I get angry thinking about climate change, but I'm not out there telling everyone who drives a truck they're evil). But many people like that absolutely exist, and OP not seeing them likely is a result of our fractured echo chamber world, certainly not because they aren't there and angry.

Totally agree police departments need better candidates but that intelligence thing is not true at all. The one case that started that rumor was just a police department doing age discrimination against a candidate, and covering their asses in the lawsuit by using intelligence because it's not a protected class. It was never about intelligence - it was age discrimination.

What police departments need is better training, a smaller mandate (i.e., mental health professionals need to be called to those types of events), and a big enough cultural change that normal people at least consider doing the job, like firefighters.

Also they clearly didn't take this guy seriously since he was yelling, "They want to kill me!" before they even touched him. They probably thought he was crying wolf. Better training would mean they wouldn't have used an illegal hold and killed him, they'd probably have taken him seriously if they knew the dangers at that particular moment in time...plus with better training over a long enough period of time people wouldn't be as scared of the cops in the first place so there wouldn't be any miscommunication. It's still clearly the fault of modern policing but you can understand why it happened at least. Super tragic.

I just got one of these the other day. I picked up an Nvidia Shield because I was tired of my shitty Samsung TV not being able to stream Plex correctly and Google is the only data devil I've made a deal with. I hadn't watched much YouTube on it I guess until last night and I couldn't believe how many ads I saw.

Holy. Shit. YouTube has ads in the middle of fucking videos now? And then I paused and saw another ad and about lost my shit. Immediately looked up how to adblock on Android TV. Jesus it's invasive.

I'd argue it's a bear and I still use it. YAML is just fucking awful and I'm glad they've been hiding it more and more over the years but it's still there. Zwave is still wildly confusing compared to something like a Hubitat which is just plug and play (guess who has to just rebuild his Zwave stuff from scratch). It's also insanely organized where add ons are different than integrations, and are hidden in different menus, as are system functions and just... It's a mess from UX POV. It's also a nightmare to try to interact with the codebase or documentation or even ask questions, much less make a suggestion. As an aside to address the point of the article, I have absolutely zero worry that they will ever forget about power users, because I, and many other power users who have interacted with Paulus on boards before agree he is kind of an asshole who absolutely does not understand why anyone would want to do anything different than how he imagines it - including documentation or UX or whatever. Home Assistant is totally safe for power users.

Now of course I'm not trying to say it's bad, just that it is kind of a bear even for the tech savvy. You can't beat HA for being able to interface with absolutely anything. There's almost always already an integration written. It can do anything, and if you're persistent enough you can kludge together a solution that works in exactly the way you need. You might even be able to hide all the kludge from your spouse. It's also all free, because Paulus and a hundred other devs contribute their time for free and they're amazing for it. Absolutely awesome for power users. But being simple or easy just isn't one of its many, many pros.

I fell backwards into programming and did it for years before ever needing or encountering a mod operator. It never really came up in statistical programming (SAS) and since I wasn't a CS major I don't think I even learned about it until taking online programming classes for fun. But I know I was a pretty damn good SAS programmer. I never had any issues solving any problems in my field programmatically, but I took a few leet code tests and was completely puzzled before taking said CS classes. The algorithms and common problems just never remotely came up. I never found fizzbuzz particularly relevant in statistics and data CRUD.

Now maybe since SAS is procedural and not OO you'd say it doesn't have typical "programming language features", but I could easily see that experience being common in all kinda of business side programming like R, VBA, maybe JavaScript or Python, etc.

...but anyway obviously I'm not saying its not a good thing for a dev shop to interview on, and if they want someone classically trained then it's probably a perfect question. My quibble is just that you might need to widen your definition of who programs.

For weird shaped waves like this you can also visit Lake Erie any time of year. Shallows and shore shape and wind combine and you get some absolutely wild waves.

I'm unironically interested in trying it, but the ratios seem off at first glance. Too much crunch, not enough chew. Also the hot dog is already salty, so adding a salty pickle means you might need a sweet batter, and certainly more of it.

I think, much like a Chicago style dog, this could be amazing.

That's a pretty unfair characterization. He called out multiple times how it's fine for the other guy if that's what he wants, but that it's not his own specific wants. And his central thesis is fine: coasting is fine as long as you're going to be ok with where you coast to. If you want to be somewhere else then coasting is not fine - but it's up to you where you want to go.

In my experience, at first managing is always harder than doing it yourself, because you're usually put in charge of managing people who do what you used to do.

Have you ever been in a situation where you've had to do something at work, but you were hamstrung by your tools or timelines? Like, oh man this would be way easier in Python but you are only approved for MS office, so you have to struggle through some VBA. Or man, I could whip this together super fast in Ruby but for some reason this has to be in plain JavaScript. Or maybe you could make this really well, but not in the two day turnaround they need. All that is frustrating, but you usually find a way to perform given these imperfect scenarios.

Now, imagine VBA has feelings. You can't even really complain about VBA, because it's not malicious. It's just bad at its job. So now instead of quickly coding a workaround in a new language (but you learn fast so not the end of the world), you have to help someone get there and do it on their own. And you can't just do it for them because you have 4 VBAs. Oh, and by the way, JavaScript is malicious. It's actively trying to avoid work, or maybe trying to make VBA look bad. So now you have to convince JavaScript that it's in its best interest to work. Sometimes its a carrot, sometimes a stick, but you're responsible for getting functionality out, and it's more functionality than you could possibly create on your own.

That's what managing people is like. A deep desire to do it yourself because it will be better and faster, but you don't have time, and also you need these people to be better. So you have to learn to teach instead of do, and support emotionally and intellectually and motivate instead of just bitching to your manager when someone else isn't getting their work done and it's affecting your work - now you're responsible for getting their work to be good. It's really hard, and some people who were amazing achievers and doers can't hack it when they have to help other people achieve and do. It's why you have so many bad manager stories. The skillsets are nearly completely different.

The nice part though is when you get good enough at managing that you start managing people that do things you can't do, or do things better than you ever could. Suddenly there's some whiz kid straight out of college who knows more about data science from their degree than you did your whole career actuallydoing it, and all they really need help with is applying it. Then you start helping with vision and the "why" of things. "Yes, you could do it that way, but remember our actual end goal is X, so that's all we really care about." Or you help people work together to make a cohesive whole. That's when managing gets really rewarding. It can still be harder than doing, or it might be easier if you're a big picture thinker, but it gets different eventually.

A. It did, just only a few and the investigation will probably reveal not enough based on giant ships these days.

B. It was built before the Sunshine bridge collapse in 1980 so before the standards were updated.