Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

It frustrates me that people in software space ask us so often what our items are and so little about how we create research practices and communicate with participants. It is obvious to me as a scientist that you need to create a "research situation" if you want to collect "research data." Shoving a link into a bunch of people's inboxes and never doing ANY of the work to explain, situate, contextualize, and make clear to them that their experiences are valued and for what? It's not gonna fly.

"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)

@inquiline

The song has ignited a conversation about whether it's appropriate to make light of the ongoing conflict on campuses and the war in Gaza. For No$hu, it's not only pertinent — it's necessary. In conversation with Mashable, he pointed to a quote by anarchist printer Jack Frager paraphrased from anarcho-feminist icon Emma Goldman’s autobiography Living My Life. "If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution."

AMEN

https://mashable.com/article/bonk-bonk-jug-of-justice-palestine-song-noshu

2) Google is a strange dysfunctional conglomerate. Search/Ads is/was one of the best businesses ever: Extremely high margin, network effects etc. - at the price of requiring heavy R&D for scale, search quality etc. -- a lot of early Google culture was built for such a business.

If you read about retirement, the number one issue that impacts retirees is feeling a lack of purpose. They don't know what to do with themselves. And they didn't realize how much they depended on work to give them direction.

My problem is a little different. I care about a lot of things. But I can't do them all. Have to make some hard choices about where to focus my time and attention.

*Deep breath* okay. Okay! After a bunch of fiddling I have discovered that, inexplicably, disabling "Touch Haptics" causes the vibrate-on-phonecall-connection to stop without having to disable vibration completely. That makes *no sense*, and it sucks because the touch haptics are a critical part of what makes Android feel good to use despite the removal of physical buttons, but it means I can continue to use my phone as an alarm clock so it's "good enough".

…I am still very angry at [carrier].

So when I receive estimates from engineers, I work with PMs or go-to-market teams to sketch out agreed upon timelines for them to be ready for handoff. Those teams usually have goals driven quarterly KPIs or OKRs.

So for example, "We're on the hook for $2MM in new revenue next quarter. If we can get this new thing from engineering, I can tell my team to push it in sales calls."

@narain @mjambon @gregeganSF

Dear word processor authors: I have never wanted to drag highlighted text. No one has ever wanted to drag highlighted text.

Circulating word is that #LAPD plans to disperse #UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment at 6. A number of groups including faculty and campus unions are planning on rallying in defense. Meanwhile an administrator has entered the camp to negotiate

#StudentSpring #StudentProtests

@polotek 1. You can only estimate in a team that has estimated before and learned from the actual-estimate difference. Usually you need to do this a couple of times before your estimates hit.

2. Estimation confidence is a funnel, wide at the beginning of the project, highest confidence is just before the end of the project.the funnel starts with a 100% confidence interval at *least*.

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.

I would like to connect with the #accessibility dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

How I feel listening to programmers concerned that floating point math is non-commutative

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commute-2

The rotation of Gos.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#fractalArt

@Blueteamsherpa A synecdoche walks into a boozer, intending to turn to the bottle, but at ten dollars a glass they changed their mind.

Uuuh, I guess I need a new job soon...

Who's hiring Rust people at the moment? Preferably based in Germany/ Europe? CV is here: https://spacekookie.de/downloads/resume-kookie-2024.pdf

[ #GetFediHired #Rustlang ]

English translation below.

Ifall du skulle vilja gå min kurs som heter Patterns in SuperCollider with SuperClean och sträcker sig över fyra helger i september på EMS i Stockholm så läser du mer här:

https://elektronmusikstudion.se/courses/tillfaelliga-kurser

In case you'd like to attend my course Patterns in SuperCollider with SuperClean which spans over four weekends in September at EMS in Stockholm then see above there for the link to more information (in Swedish, but translate.google.com translation works, I checked).

… manual clean-up is just not how security engineering should be done in 2024 anymore.

With systemd v256 we are going one step towards this. There's a new tool in systemd, called "run0". Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool "systemd-run", but when invoked under the "run0" name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's *not* in fact SUID. Instead it just asks the service manager to invoke a command or shell under…

There are things science just can't explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IzS2oBBN0