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Oh nonsense. Reverse the argument, does it make any sense? "Every time a (whaling ship crew, police force, oil executive, etc) gets angry at protestors and sprays them with (water …

So, you have a duty of care to make a safe workplace, at least in most countries. Consider what a job with no joy means for the ongoing mental health of your staff, where the main …

It is very true in a physical sense. "Use it" results in neural pathways being formed. What happens when you dont use them? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0…

The problem is this is the difference between one or two obscure skills fading away with disuse (normal); and potentially all ability to load programming information into your work…

Basically had the same urge to write about this problem, prompted by the exact same comments around mental fatigue this week. Only got to the research stage. Here's some of the lit…

Your best bet is probably to look for wikidata entries that are marked defunct; and match up to something like name-suggestion-index to get broad categories.

Quick questions; as this project clearly exists in a community-less vacuum: How do people keep finding and using it? How do complaints or feature requests keep arriving? Why is the…

You might need to go back and read that one again, this is the faintest criticism of a lengthy screed in which the person you are replying to labels user-hostile behaviours as "act…

Picture this scenario. You make one really good birthday cake. Following the success of this went to your local school fete out of the goodness of your heart and set up a cake stal…

I agree. I would add a pet peeve of mine: - Don't publish a code of conduct and then be an absolute asshole to contributors (pick a lane and stick to it) I feel there is a lot of p…

As others have expressed, sycophancy is not leadership. How do you "safely push for change" in private if your executive leadership display sociopathic or narcissistic behaviors, w…

Basically, yes. It is murkier as the involvement of some of the original creators in Ruby Central is there, so there are claims to being the original copyright holder applicable to…

My point is that he chose to communicate the way he did; it is poorly thought out and extremely difficult to accept as an explanation. Objective tests you yourself can perform. 1) …

It's not just one person. Between the initial removal of access, then giving it back after explaining it was a mistake; the people involved started a conversation about governance …

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It's such a weird thought process to have gone through, to write this. The sentiments expressed are basically: "I WANT to apologize ... that I feel awful." "How can you possibly ta…

What an insane thing to say! But also... how insane is it that I agree with you based on objective reality? Can you imagine seriously saying that 20-30 years ago? 1984's doublethin…

I strongly disagree with the premise of the article and content being reiterated here by a number of commenters. An incredibly common pattern is a maintainer thinking they know bet…

For a wild alignment of timing - https://www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some-etsy-witches-to-curse-c... - published September 8.

This is a kind of nuts take; - Senior engineer - Uses tools for non trivial undertaking - Didn't find value in it Your conclusion from that is "but they are doing it wrong", while …

From: https://ics.uci.edu/~gmark/CHI2005.pdf (sample size: 1x company, n=24, lots of limitations discussed at end of paper) "When people did resume work on the same day, it took an…

Politely, I disagree. It means you are in a context where the risk aversion is high, everyone keeps their head down. Done right, you can be a disruptor , for what are very benign o…

More or less? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG is fairly neutral. As someone in userland at the time on the other side of it, it was all a bit nuts. IE we got new standards i…

To a degree re ads on pages, but why didn't big business end up publishing all of their products in JSON-LD or similar? A lot did, to get aggregated, but not all.

ChatGPT etc does an OK job at SPARQL generation. Try something like "generate a list of all supermarkets, including websites, country, description" and you get usable queries out. …