Notices by George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social), page 2

A friend shared this thought with me, and, to be honest, I find it a little depressing.

@jeffowski
That's not what "political correctness" refers to.

@jeffowski
What's called "political correctness" is mostly being polite to people who are already being oppressed.

If you stand with the oppressors, so be it.

@jeffowski

Fight ignorance!

@mousefriend @baldur
Yes, to put it in a different perspective, I've had people tell me that global warming is natural and not man-made.

My response is "Don't you still think it's a good idea to keep the planet habitable?"

I think the same response fits this question.

Reminder: The Republican VP candidate's real name is James Donald Bowman.

Why is it OK for him to change his name but right-wingers insist on dead-naming others?

#JDVance

@bmacDonald94
It’s Yusuf Islam’s 76th birthday today.

@paninid The last summer I spent in Augusta GA there was a 6 week period where the temperature didn’t go below 90 degrees and the humidity didn’t go below 90%, day or night. I was living in a poorly insulated frame house with no AC on a lot with no trees.

I think of that when I’m tempted to complain about the weather.

@ryanhoulihan
Stereotype much?

@seachanger
People would be wise to read The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
by Anand Giridharadas

@jeffowski

@inthehands
…he mentions how Faraday used the Boscovich model of the atom to predict behavior he could experimentally test, but reported his results in terms of the “traditional” model because the European scientific community had rejected Boscovich’s ideas.)
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@inthehands
Thanks for digging out the link.

I agree that other categories of functional design bear a lot of similarities that are not obvious to the casual observer. Everyone thinks someone else’s job is simple.

I wouldn’t blame it on DeMarco, though. Defense contractors were having big conferences to “make software more like engineering.” I think DeMarco was trying to communicate with them using the mental models they already had. (In L Pearce Williams bio of Faraday… 1/

@inthehands

In the early 80s, I helped develop a custom LSI. We breadboarded with standard SSI, going through numerous design revisions along the way. The first silicon almost worked, but in addition to a couple missed connections, it couldn’t work over at the necessary speed at the required voltage. Then we had to check over temperature variations using software simulations to size the clock driver transistors.

Lots of iteration invisible to outsiders. 😊 3/3

@inthehands
As Tom DeMarco said, "Most things that really matter—honor, dignity, discipline, personality, grace under pressure, values, ethics, resourcefulness, loyalty, humor, kindness—aren’t measurable."

(in Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5076468)

@SteveBellovin @inthehands
YES!

One of the best decisions I ever made was deciding that going to college was, for me, to get an education rather than to get a job in the future.

@GottaLaff
But what a wonderful vehicle for foreign governments to funnel money to Trump!

@georgetakei
What a clever costume!

@georgetakei
last Thursday. 🙃