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Finished reading "The Book with No Pictures" by B. J. Novak https://a.co/bbtS2MP
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh FFS, this is like a 2nd-rate novella: “Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/30/tara-reade-defects-russia-biden
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
caveat: my graduate training was as a psychodynamic psychotherapist, so this strikes a chord for me
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Jonathan Shedler, a psychodynamic psychologist… [says this] fails to capture other ways patients benefit from psychodynamic therapy. “It’s not a fair comparison to look at how they’re doing the day therapy ends… aiming to go farther — to change something fundamental, so that people can feel more at peace with themselves and have more meaningful connections with others.”’https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The most significant difference in patient outcomes… lies in the skills of the therapist, rather than the techniques… the strength of the patient-therapist bond… is a powerful predictor of how likely that patient is to experience results from therapy… a therapist’s agreeability, years of training, years of experience — do not correlate at all with effectiveness of care." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Like, there's clearly *some* effect. Faster cycle times matter. Faster build boxes are better, etc. etc.
But there's no shared terminology, no metric, and no empirical basis to believe this effect is more powerful than many other effects (better test collateral, safer languages, better product organisation, etc. etc.)
But to hear the proponents sell it, this effect should be visible from space! It should overpower even terrible management...has it? Seems not.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The idea that a focus on developer experience leads to better products has to be the most widely cited, evidence-free shibboleth in modern software.
Where are the papers? The double-blind studies? The meta-analyses?
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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:
Stunning timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. ©JAXA/NHK
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing Steppenwolf LOUD
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh, memories of a wasted 3-day-pass and some very clean acid with friends
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MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist (they/it)") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedhttps://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/
This gets weirder and weirder
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w0bb1t@tldr.nettime.org ("mr.w0bb1t 🌐") wrote:
IBM slide, 1979 ..
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@sbourne /icymi
https://mastodon.social/@damianogerli/110463817193839816
::perfect:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, masters of understatement…
from the Elecraft AX1 manual:“Radial length adjustments to achieve resonance can be tedious. An antenna analyzer is recommended.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my new rose bush seems to be adjusting nicely
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The dead rabbit argument: Men, and only men, have honed their spear-chucking genes through generations of rabbit hunting, therefore trans women should not be allowed to do sports.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/31/we-hunted-the-rabbit/
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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:
#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, NY. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting that all of those arrested were wearing KKK robes
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
antenna number 1:
Elecraft AX1 (20m) plus extender (40m)
antenna number 2:
Taiwanese wander-lead with telescoping whip element (80m - 6m) plus tape measure #AmateurRadio 📡
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Honestly, though, every university in every state has lots of students who are avid agriculturalists already. Minnesota isn't that special.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This should be another reason you would choose to enroll at the University of Minnesota.
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
packing for a radio play-date with a friend, we are going to try out setting up a couple of vertical antennas on a hillside near Highland Park Reservoir #ROC
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
trying to stick to my “follow often, unfollow easily” socmedia behavioral pledge
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Preemie baby spiderling.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The vendors that built these sites are failing, but in a monopsony with disempowered and under-staffed in-house tech, there's nobody to call BS. Regulatory capture is most effective when suppliers are able to degrade state capacity to even outsource effectively.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
To get the sense of scale of this misapprehension, here's a comparison between a competently built site from the UK's GDS vs. the MA site. They do substantially the same job:
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Went down by the river and found a very angry Big Headed Ground Beetle that wanted to kill us and eat our flesh.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The common thread? Megabytes of JavaScript on the wire:
MA: 7.7MB of JS
NJ: 3.0MB of JS
MI: 3.1MBThis is stochastic errorism: the frontend community's unshakeable, ungrounded belief that it's fine for us to suggest that building JS-first is healthy or normal. That the complexity is under control and that CPUs and networks get faster every year (they don't).
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The (absolute) state of frontend, 2023: a brief tour of some websites folks need to use to feed children in America:
MA: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDc9H_682-r:1-c:0
NJ: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_AiDc6G_6AG-r:1-c:0
MI: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230416_BiDcSN_6GF-r:1-c:0
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AstroKatie ("Katie Mack") wrote:
When you walk into the ladies’ room and discover that your hotel is part of the Hilbert franchise
