@jentrification ah ok, looks like it didn't update on my instance. Fediverse quirk. I see the updated comment on your home instance and agree.
Ted Lasso and Emily In Paris are the same show. You only need to watch one.
@jentrification I think the 2nd half of your sentence might be missing
It's interesting to me how much #slack has failed to seize the day and be the "work OS".
Their entire UI is so fixated on the endless stream model, which can be made to work for many things (#slackops), but is suboptimal for anything that isn't fundamentally a log.
Where are the dashboards and forms?
There's a world in which Slack is almost like a work-optimized web browser, and people in a lot of operational roles at companies basically live within Slack.
#protip I use 1password and I find it extremely helpful to put metadata in parentheses in the entry name. Like "Vanguard (company name 401k)". Makes it much easier to keep track of what accounts are for what purpose.
@tess I often think about that and just how deeply homophobic the whole culture was.
The struggle continues. It's not a small number of people who follow all this men's rights stuff, trying to drag society back.
@Bronwyn I went to my 20-year reunion last year and it was like, damn, none of us were having a great time in life in high school.
I thought something was wrong with me at a teenager. Turns out, everyone was just desperately trying to look ok.
It was refreshing how much in our 30s we could just say that. Who the hell cares if you're not "normal" anymore? But it was all that mattered back then.
Question for #data people -- I'm trying to understand headless BI. In particular, what it solves that SQL doesn't. In other words, why dbt (pre-analytics layer) isn't enough.
From what I can tell, it solves the problem that SQL can't easily be parameterized. You can make views that slice and dice your transactional data, but those views would hardcode a bunch of decisions better left up to the consumer. You can also denormalize the heck out of your data to make all conceivable queries easy, but then you end up with an analytical table that's way too tall and wide.
It seems like what these semantic layer / headless BI tools do is apply the metadata to your transactional data that allow for BI tools to offer slick query builder interfaces, which ultimately are generating SQL. Furthermore, the logic for different types of analysis can be standardized and controlled, compared to people handwriting their queries.
Do I have this right?
#semanticlayer #analyticslayer #headlessbi #businessintelligence #analytics #dataanlytics #datamastodon
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I hadn't really kept up with the literature on childhood development since high school; after catching up to what's now known, I feel like I was lucky to have access to video games (and later, board games) since I was in an otherwise impoverished intellectual environment growing up, e.g., before I had video games, I would literally wake up and turn on the TV and watch static, and then the test pattern, and then (IIRC) something called U.S. Farm Report because there was nothing else to do.
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If you'd like to learn more about the benefits of ranked choice voting, be sure to check out @fairvote@twitter.com. Their resources were incredibly helpful to our team during the production of this video. https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/
@atomicpoet @ivory I'm cool with toot iconography, but I just can't use the word earnestly
Life right now feels like Tetris, when the level is high and you've got a lot of rubbish you can't quite clear out and the blocks just keep coming. Exhilarating, but perilous.
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UPDATE: This is also happening in Duval County, FL.
A principal sent this note: "We are being asked to restrict classroom libraries...sadly you will need to remove student access...I will be the one with a felony if we are found in violation...I wish I was making this all up"
It's always a danger to equate layoffs with lack of hiring, but the number of simultaneous large scale layoffs makes me worried that many people in tech aren't going to land new jobs for a while, and potentially only with big cuts to compensation. Could get ugly as people's savings dwindles.
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#UFOI article is out now. I discuss why it’s better than #Fediblock #Fediblockmeta, my ideal solution for the #Fediblock, and how the #UFOI approaches these issues, with a nice word from @freemo addressing my most serious concern with the project.
I hope y’all find it interesting, if nothing else. Been wanting to release it for awhile now.
No, Fediblock Isn’t Better Than The UFOI https://paper.wf/casey-magazine/no-fediblock-isnt-better-than-the-ufoi
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.@crampell nails it. Again
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Republicans say they want to balance the budget — but meanwhile they have ruled out every mathematical path for doing so (cuts to defense, cuts to entitlements, wiping out nondefense discretionary spending, or raising taxes). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/24/republican-debt-ceiling-hostage-budget/
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1617865790178590721
Honestly, it's disappointing to see people so quickly forget who they're giving their content to.
From what I can see, a lot of the people I follow on Twitter with large followings seem to have bounced back from Mastodon to Twitter. I suspect they don't see the same kind of reach here.
@ranimolla yeah, I get your point. If blame-shifting is an F response and taking some nominal responsibility is a C-, then an A response would be explaining how you're going to actually bear a meaningful amount of the pain.
@ranimolla I guess it's kinda the bare minimum, though. Some folks don't even rise to that bar.
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