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generalk

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About generalk

ColumbusOH • TechWitch • Trans • Experienced 2 • Unique

Easily in your top five favorite trans tech dorks in Central Ohio.

Built CoverMyMeds (as part of an incredibly talented team), sold it to McKesson, now I dork around with tech and synths while raising my two kids and being my hot wife's hot wife.

she/her

Mastodon: @jesscanady@hachyderm.io Email: jess@canady.tech

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45347658

    I saw that. The title did not make me think it was related. But fair enough.

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    Comment #45339320

    It sure fucking is bonkers. Ruby Central as an organization touts that it is responsible for RubyGems. Assuming this narrative is accurate, they needed to get agreements in place w…

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    Comment #45339102

    Wait, what? A maintainer of RubyGems was forcibly removed from the RubyGems GitHub org — which was renamed to Ruby Central — along with every other maintainer. Then access was rest…

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    Comment #45338760

    It does not, for me. Given that access was cut, then restored, then cut again, then days, then someone finally says "hey were were going to lose critical funding" makes it seem lik…

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    Comment #40106668

    Folks did this plenty prior to Electron, either by using cross-platform GUI toolkits (GTK and Qt both run on Windows, Java's been doing this forever with Swing and JavaFX, etc), or…

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    Comment #34781718

    Of course, and I can't fault Microsoft for that, even if (having been on the bad end of a similar acquisition and IT merge) it sucks for GitHub. My point was: GitHub as an organiza…

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    Comment #34781614

    Bingo. Nearly impossible for our staff to do their jobs and not discuss something considered PHI.

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    Comment #34780558

    Regardless of what you think of Teams -- I myself have had nothing but poor experiences over 2.5 years of using it daily -- it's telling that Microsoft has to require folks to use …

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    Comment #33060770

    Oh no, the stuff I put in quotes was not Robbi speaking during the hand, but my imagining of what Neganeau would have sounded like in his typical confident chattery thinking aloud.…

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    Comment #33060738

    > Right but chasing what - she can't beat J8, QJ, KQ, any high flush draw. Fair, there are definitely semi-bluffs that beat J4 here, and of course if Garret had a made hand she's t…

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    Comment #33060450

    https://twitter.com/RobbiJadeLew/status/1575758837465812992 "He cornered me & threatened me. If he has the audacity to give me the death stare ON camera, picture what it’s like OFF…

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    Comment #33060391

    > It's not marginally +EV to call given the pot odds and she doesn't need to know her exact equity to be cheating, she could be getting binary "you're good" / "you aren't good" sig…

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    Comment #32513495

    > Say, initially you were told "if I click this button the status should > update to complete", you write the test, you implement the code, rinse and > repeat until a demo. During …

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    Comment #32510829

    +1 on "well defined spec" -- a lot of Healthcare integrations are specified as "here's the requests, ensure your system responds like this" and being able to put those in a test su…

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    Comment #31948604

    > tl;dr I can't understand getting mad at the Internet for being the Internet > in 2022, it will never get better, if anything it will only get worse [...] If I may provide an alte…

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    Comment #31948358

    > The question here is: "Is this a really innovative graphical design that > will get praised by future generations but is misunderstood now" or "Is this > just a bad decision that…

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    Comment #31948137

    "continue to blame the customer?" He's never said that folks were wrong, or blamed anyone for anything. Seems to me like he just wanted folks to not be shitty. Take, for example, t…

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    Comment #31688687

    Definitely, better marketing around differentiation. I'm a huge dork for open standards, I frequently miss the days of Gaim/Pidgin and having Google Talk be Jabber/XMPP underneath,…

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    Comment #31288672

    > If self-hosting Sentry is a problem I would start doubting the skills of your > tech team. I can't think of any team I've worked at in the past year for whom reading the self-hos…

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    Comment #31285198

    The quoted text is vague and non-directional, whereas the biting response to the GitHub issue screenshot posted in TFA are incredibly directed. I'm new to all of this, and so I dun…

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    Comment #31170449

    > Like he wants to move the clock. Oh my god just leave it where it is > and get on with your job. I have an ultrawide monitor. I would very much like for the macOS clock to be cen…

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    Comment #29100777

    > Blocking the faces of children in the prime of their > life, where they need to develop social skills through > interaction and facial expression, is madness. [Citation needed.] …

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    Comment #29100646

    Sure, a cloth mask won't STOP Covid. But the science indicates that community mask wearing does decrease transmission rates as mask wearing rates go up.[1] Similarly, the current v…

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    Comment #28829634

    > but i think this is actually kind of smart Claiming you're right because you have more expensive things is a trope associated with assholes for a reason . It's at best an "appeal…

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    Comment #28406497

    > So, you could have delayed the app by the same amount > but now have a mongo environment for production as well? No, we couldn't have. Not just because we didn't want MongoDB, wh…