Notices by Cameron Watters (watters@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands A problem exacerbated by the fact that many software systems use "was implemented" as their de facto criteria for success, with only the thinnest and most tenuous connection to any meaningful outcome.

@thomasfuchs Wait, is this real?

@thomasfuchs Siri: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that."

@thomasfuchs Something like 5% of my incoming email these days is misdirected (intended for others) because one of my Gmail addresses is just my last name.

I have a hard time believing that obfuscation is a useful strategy unless it has been perfectly implemented forever and no service provider with that email has ever been breached.

@thomasfuchs As a former employee of a subsidiary, I am zero amount surprised.

@sysadmin1138 @inthehands It's worth noting that this varies from team to team and manager to manager and company to company.

There are frequently hidden penalties for asking for help in the wrong way, in the wrong forum, about the wrong topic that are not even widely known by most established engineers.

And, sometimes, they're enforced by a very small but influential group.

So, it's true that not asking for help will often lead to failure, asking in the wrong way may also limit advancement.

@thomasfuchs I experienced it as an overly simplistic compression metaphor, so didn't initially experience it as "replace things people love with a soulless slab of magical sand" in the same way others did.

But it is very weird that people are challenging the validity of the perspective of folks who hated it.

@thomasfuchs Ironically, in some of *those* cases, the putative victims of anti-conservative bias were actually anti-Semitic.

@thomasfuchs The high school dance scene would have a very different vibe in 1994…

@thomasfuchs Or even just preventing the proliferation of UI atrocities in Apple apps these days.

@thomasfuchs Something something pain killer something something vitamins.

@thomasfuchs @b0rk Perhaps, at a minimum, they might reconsider the "easy to learn" claim they make on the website…

@inthehands Anytime someone says "utilize" I can only ever hear Anthony Campos saying it in Idiocracy.

@thomasfuchs The "World Turtle" of whacky COVID-related beliefs.

@thomasfuchs tbf, I see people who order custom keycaps to get a similar two-tone effect. In this case, I believe it's called a "patina".

@thomasfuchs think of the flat earthers!

@thomasfuchs A groupthink?

@thomasfuchs We are old here in this poll.