4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.

This was all pretty unrelatable. Makes me wonder if the author has ever studied how these methods are supposed to work.

Deadbeef is awesome. No nonsense and powerful features.

On Android I use Poweramp. Not open source or even free, but great UX and all the features I need, with every effort being made for the best sound quality.

I actually haven’t used an ad blocker in a very long time. I block third-party cookies and trackers, and disturbingly that seems to prevent almost all advertising from working. In fact I frequently get told by sites to turn off my ad blocker, which is impossible since there’s nothing to turn off.

My bigger problem is that these browsers have no good built-in way to clean out the “IndexedDB”, “Service Worker”, “File System” and “Local Storage” directories in my profile. They are essentially frankenstein cookies without expiration date so they keep accumulating. I use the “Cookie AutoDelete” extension for cleaning them up, but it looks like that will stop working with Manifest V3. Once that happens I’m switching back to Firefox or some other browser that gives me enough control to avoid being tracked, and to save 10+ GB of disk space.

Is that what manifest v3 does though? Ask the user? I haven’t paid a lot of attention but thus far my overall impression has been that they are simply going to forbid a lot of useful things wholesale. Things that ad blockers need to function.

Exactly. I see no evidence in the article that this is a trend - that seems to be a naive interpretation by an incompetent reporter. They’ve just confirmed something that has always been true.

Also:

While teens may or may not track these tech news headlines as closely as their adult counterparts, this overall shift in sentiment is affecting them, too.

Uh no, it’s the adults who are out of touch here. The old media news headlines don’t represent reality very well.

All of these are measurable. I’m not sure what’s the source of your confusion. Yes the terminology becomes a bit ambiguous unless we make up a new word/term for the tuple, but gender identity is just one dimension of it. It can be measured with a standardized questionnaire.

I like how you think but I’m not sure if that alone will hold water. A variable can vary wildly even though it’s not very relevant to the property you’re interested in, and PCA would consider such a variable to be very significant. Perhaps a neural network could find a latent space. But ideally we want the components to have some intuitive meaning for humans.

I’ve been thinking about this now and again. IMO gender, if one insists on tracking it at all (which I mostly find counterproductive), would need to be a vector / tuple of floating-point values. The components would be something like:

1. Sexual Development Index: Encodes chromosomal sex, genitalia, and other primary sexual characteristics (X/Y chromosome ratio).
2. Hormonal Balance & Secondary Sexual Characteristics: Combines hormonal levels and the resulting secondary traits (body hair, muscle mass, etc.).
3. Brain Structure: A dimension indicating how a person’s brain structure aligns with typical male or female patterns.
4. Gender Identity: A measure of self-identified gender, representing the psychological and social dimension.
5. Fertility/Intersex Traits: A combined measure of fertility potential and the presence of intersex traits (e.g., ambiguous genitalia, mixed gonadal structures, etc.).

Ideally it would track the specific genes that code for all of the above factors, but unfortunately science hasn’t got those down yet.

Yes but you only get the subsidy if you buy Melania’s book

You know what? I don’t care and I stopped reading this article after one paragraph because I found that I couldn’t be bothered to go on. During the reddit exodus I was pissed off about how they would ruin something good, but I’ve long since lost interest in what happens on that site. Honestly I was a tiny bit surprised that it still exists. Like who the heck goes there still?

It’s a compliment. You’re skilled and valuable enough that the company won’t dare to give you any bullshit for leaving on time.

sometimes, it feels like managers hate engineers

They hate engineers because the engineers ask difficult questions that somebody needs to answer in order to really automate a process, and they take the time necessary to do so.

SQL was explicitly designed to allow “normal humans” to query the database. Nowadays even “normal developers” aren’t able to use it properly.

Oracle has a product called Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) that it sells as “you can write the rules in plain English in MS Word documents, you don’t need developers”. I worked for an insurance organization where the business side bought OPA without consulting IT, hoping they wouldn’t have to deal with developers. It totally failed because it doesn’t matter that they get to write “plain English” in Word documents. They still lack the structured, formal thinking to deal with anything except the happiest of happy paths.

The important difference between a developer and a non-developer isn’t the ability to understand the syntax of a programming language. It’s the willingness and ability to formalize and crystallize requirements and think about all the edge cases. As an architect/programmer when I talk to the business side, they get bored and lose interest from all my questions about what they actually want.

Brainpooping

And I don’t see why Arch is relevant to the discussion. My point is that software being non-proprietary is not a guarantee for preventing fuckery like Microsoft’s. Profit-maximizing companies will maximize their profits, proprietary software or not. Canonical, which sells a non-proprietary Linux distribution, is an example of this.

I mean canonical also tries to monetize its users. The problem is more shareholders who want profit than the software being proprietary.

But but… branding!

Draw… with a mouse??? Now I’m possibly more confused.