@mattly gotcha. Sorry i missed that
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She thought it would taste funny@mattly and because toxic masculinity doesn't let us dress young boys in dresses with easy access to clean the lower half anymore.
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I was literally not connected to the internet when I took this screenshot.@jsit @littlesnitch yup, that’s what the screenshots in the following posts are from.
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I was literally not connected to the internet when I took this screenshot.I was literally not connected to the internet when I took this screenshot. No wifi. No ethernet. Both are disabled, and yet Apple's Activity Monitor claims i'm sending and receiving packets on the network.
W. T. F.
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My short #Beetlejuice review:@jsit trying too hard to recapture the magic of the first?
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Today’s pondering of ridiculous allistic social rules:Today’s pondering of ridiculous allistic social rules:
Why is it socially inappropriate to wear a bra in public but socially acceptable to wear a bikini top which is likely to have even less fabric?
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Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ options to limit dogpiling and hostile quote posts https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/29/24231414/bluesky-anti-toxicity-features-detach-posts-from-quotes -
THIS. So Much this.@gregdosh @inthehands @hrefna I am SO tired of arguing with "expert" programmers that think that because when _they_ read code everything is "obvious", that they spout the stupid "code should be self documenting" line. They never seem to "get" the things you said.
@dachary's a programmer/tech writer and her super-power is being able to put herself in the shoes of a reader who doesn't know anything and giving them the tools they need to succeed.
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THIS. So Much this.@inthehands @hrefna agreed, but i think there is an important aspect it’s missing. It should be obvious to juniors and new hires with no institutional knowledge.
To often we write code that is obvious to people who’ve been there for years but may as well be a paragraph of random jargon terms to an experienced new hire without the context
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THIS. So Much this.THIS. So Much this.
This is what I am constantly trying to teach younger devs.
The best code is the most stupid-simple solution to the problem that runs in acceptable time.
The new intern fresh out of boot camp, with no understanding of the context should be able understand what it's doing.
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PSA: “if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“@elr @julia @Npars01 @samhainnight The "Oddly Influenced" podcast https://podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/ has a 5+ part series lately about "The offloaded brain". It's a very "thinky" series but the basic gist is that you can eliminate many memory items by setting up "affordances". Ex. You don't have to remember if a door is push or pull because the affordance of a flat plate, or a "pull handle" triggers the appropriate action when you reach it.
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PSA: “if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“@Npars01 @julia Memory Aids are 100% advisable. I would strongly recommend reading Moonwalking With Einstein https://amzn.to/3Si2j32
it is totally possible (for most folks) to apply effort via specific techniques to increase the likelyhood that you will remember a specific thing.
The problem is that you can't do that for _everything_, and sometimes it doesn't occur to you that X thing should have that effort applied. Also we gaslight ourselves "I'll remember that".
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PSA: “if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“@julia I am not a psychologist, but I am someone with an objectively poor memory. Personally, I have found that learning to accept the reality that sometimes your body just does not form memories when you wish it would have is a much healthier approach which, if internalized will eventually spread compassion to those around you when they forget something.
It is a simple strategy with no blame, no falsehoods, no gaslighting, and it help others not feel like failures when you share it.
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PSA: “if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“@julia
The human brain starts to believe things that we tell it again, and again.So while it may reduce your stress, when you forget to do some thing that is actually unimportant, or that you actually don’t care about you are also training yourself that when you forget some thing that is important to you and that you do care about that it is because you must not have actually believed it was important, or actually cared. Thus setting yourself up for self gaslighting.
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PSA: “if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“PSA:
“if it was important, you would have remembered it.” And “if you cared, you would have remembered.“Neither of these claims have any basis in reality. Importance, and caring have no correlation to whether a memory is formed.
These sentences only serve to gaslight people about a chemical, process that they cannot control.
Please spread this knowledge.
Please stop gaslighting people with memory issues.