@[email protected] you might have a future in the CDC!
@[email protected] Ouch. Harsh.
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
it’s sad when the CDC is just a bunch of politicians. they updated their #vaccines page to promote the possible link to #autism. think about how many unnecessary deaths this will lead to.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/autism.html
to be clear, studies have been done- they just want to scare people. the studies say there is no evidence. but somehow that’s not good enough for the CDC. #asd
@[email protected] "kumquats do not cause walnuts" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled it out... :sigh:
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Michael Newton
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I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪
The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.
No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.
My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.
Yours shouldn't either.
Michael Newton
boosted
By student request, the next lesson of our Coding Games with a Story course will reveal the GSV Badly Sketched By An IT Professional as the setting for a daring recovery from space disaster!
Michael Newton
boosted
"People are especially attuned to the beliefs and behavior of powerful others in their environment"
- Muenks et al., 2020: "Does my professor think my ability can change? Students' perceptions of their STEM professors' mindset beliefs predict their psychological vulnerability, engagement, and performance in class"
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Michael Newton
boosted
"people look to situational cues in their local environment to determine what is valued there. These situational cues can be communicated verbally—in group or one-on-one interactions—and nonverbally—by the materials, policies, and practices created by powerful people in a setting"
Michael Newton
boosted
The outages will continue until decentralisation improves.
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Michael Newton
boosted
browsers should be allowed to display the <li> in a <ul> in whatever order they like
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So I got up this morning and thought: I know, today would be a good day to set up my own Activity Pub host.
So I did that, and then I found out Cloudflare is yoyo-ing destruction across the internet, and now I have no idea at all whether the slightly alarming failures rates are me not having a clue or somebody else's problem.
I mean - some things are working some of the time so it's probably not me, maybe?
Michael Newton
boosted
I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.
Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation
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@[email protected] I've had the unfortunate experience of working in a team where the tech lead (who's priority on paper was managing, not coding) used this position to "get stuff done" by lobbing low quality work over the wall and relying on the teams under him to tidy it up, fix the bugs, add the tests, etc.
I found out via an irate bug report from a customer one Monday morning that he had released a whole new feature over the weekend without code review (because, well, no one else was online...), and I was now responsible for second line support on it.
@[email protected] He was called out by name in the next all hands as an example of the work ethic we should all aspire to, when in reality he was at best a minor driver in the team making any progress at all and frequently caused other team members to be late delivering things due to having to clean up after him.
Prompted by both a tragic study on personality phrenology I saw today and by my current book revisions, I have a question
Where have you seen "individual" explanations given for software development outcomes when the REAL driver was group work?
E.g., heroes get the credit when the thing was really a team effort? Or people thinking your best skill is coding fast alone when really it's about collaboration? Any stories like that would be welcome as I chew on this
@[email protected] I've had the unfortunate experience of working in a team where the tech lead (who's priority on paper was managing, not coding) used this position to "get stuff done" by lobbing low quality work over the wall and relying on the teams under him to tidy it up, fix the bugs, add the tests, etc.
I found out via an irate bug report from a customer one Monday morning that he had released a whole new feature over the weekend without code review (because, well, no one else was online...), and I was now responsible for second line support on it.
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Whelp, new account time. With much thanks to the folks at the SDF, I decided that it was time to spin up my own host as I'm starting some projects that I'm hoping to build communities around - some of which will be somewhat private.
As such, I'm trying out bonfirenetworks.org/ in its social flavour, as it gives a much wider selection of tools to manage groups and privacy - and it means that I'm able to take direct responsibility for the personal data of people who decide to join the community via creating an account on this server.
That said: next time I'm being paid again, the SDF will be getting a donation from me. It's a great organization, and they've been great hosts on my fediverse journey.
