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Vrimj

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It appears I owe people an introduction. I live in Seattle with a wife, a dog and a child who is now in Kindergarten. I wanted to be a marine biologist, graduated with a degree in geography and eventually went to law school. I have mapped sewer, rural electric coops and grocery stores. I have done floodplain management and emergency management. Now I do queer law which is like small town law but in a big city for a small community. I have a collegen disorder and disgraphia.

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Vrimj, to random
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I don't trust people who write literary fiction to not hurt me.

I don't have anything against the style, I enjoy complexity.

But I don't trust writers in that category's intentions twords their readers.

Vrimj,
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@lzg

It isn't really about who the writers are as people, genre fiction has had monsters.

But it is the one category where there is no emotional safety pact with readers. I understand why there can't be but also if I just wanted to be emotionally drained and horrified I would practice family law.

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    Vrimj,
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    @lzg

    I really want a gel manicure that includes at least a flathead on a nail.

    Vrimj, to random
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    Daily Glitch, post bath edition

    Vrimj,
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    @Andres4NY

    Yep Glitch gets a tidy with a bath and a full cut in between because she does need to see!

    Vrimj, to random
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    Someone is gonna write a book about the post Bader-Ginsburg court called The Ruthless Supreme Court and I know I am probably gonna read it.

    Vrimj, to random
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    Violence is always an option.

    It is one of the works of civilization to put as many reasonable options as possible between dispute and violence.

    But it can never remove violence from the list of options, only make it unappealing.

    Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to get out of the work required to make violence unattractive and trying to sell it to you as virtue.

    Be wary of them.

    Vrimj, to random
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    It might just be my mind paying tricks on me but I swear that the child becomes slightly but noticably heavier when asleep

    tess, to random
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    Given that the streaming services are now permanently memory-holing shows for tax write-offs, it becomes a moral imperative to pirate these shows (if only for archival purposes).

    Headline: "Paramount+ Cancels Second Season of Star Trek: Prodigy, Will Remove Series from Platform"

    https://www.tor.com/2023/06/23/paramount-cancels-star-trek-prodigy/

    Vrimj,
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    @aburka @tess

    Yep make the requirement that you release it to the public domain instead

    futurebird, to random
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    Admittedly I'm doing the most chaotic kind of "research" into symbols of power and dress... I can't seem to work out why the "High Constables of Perth" march around in top hats with these fancy sticks.

    Are they just fancy clubs since constables are kind of like cops? Are they magic baddy boppers? A tube with a fancy paper inside?

    Anyone know?

    Vrimj,
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    @futurebird

    My best guess is that it is an analogy to this society
    https://www.edinburghhighconstables.org.uk/history.html

    Which has batons in part because they are explicitly rich people doing a cop larp because their ancestors couldn't be bothered to do the work but would not give up the title

    Vrimj,
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    @trochee @futurebird

    Except older and by nobility is my read, granted that isn't very charitable

    They even let women join now!

    emilygorcenski, to random

    It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

    Vrimj,
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    @corbin @tess

    If you can't commit malpractice, that is there are not legal standards for the advice you give, I don't think you qualify as a professional. Lots of people give advice, having standards for the quality of the advice that are socially enforced, to my mind, is the difference.

    Vrimj,
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    @corbin @tess

    Yeah I think that in general software is not going to have coherent ethics rules until they decide to whom they owe a duty, until that is sorted what the duties are is always going to be incoherent.

    Civil Engineering decided they owe their duty to the safety of the public. Law decided it was to the client. Real bankers, those who are fiscally responsible owe a duty to the client pocketbook.

    I don't think software really has any plan for whom they might be accountable to?

    tess, to random
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    Q: What do you call two billionaires and a CEO dead at the bottom of the ocean?

    A: A good start.

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    @trochee @tess

    And the only person empowered to install tracking hardware so arguably the most responsible party as well.

    Vrimj,
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    @trochee @tess

    Sorry?

    Vrimj,
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    @trochee @tess

    I mean on one hand good for him for not asking other people to take risks he was unwilling to take himself.

    On the other treasure hunters are not really known for their conservative risk assessment.

    aeva, (edited ) to random
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    You've making the next hot new freedom software The Gimp killer. What will you name it?

    Vrimj,
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    @aeva

    I prefer super generic names for copyleft projects so they also can't be trademarked but do make it super obvious what it is for.

    So drawing and image changing environment would be my preference. Dice is a nice abbreviation but it is too generic for trademark and also totally understandable what you use this thing to do.

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    @aeva

    Oh it is as long as it isn't descriptive or obvious which is why what it stands for is important

    Vrimj,
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    @aeva

    Open source does seem to believe in divine right so you have a point about them being just as uninterested as the SaxeColburgsGothes in being accessible to outsiders.

    Vrimj, to random
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    Today in deeply unsurprising news famous employer side attorneys had been sending each other deeply offensive emails that were also based in discriminatory opinions for years, we found out when they left their old firm with a bunch of attorneys to found a new one where they were the named partners, the old firm released the emails

    https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/leaders-of-lewis-brisbois-rebellion-sent-emails-with-wildly-offensive-language-newspaper-reports

    Vrimj,
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    This is petty but also effective, they founded that firm in May and just resigned, but seriously the old firm kept them around and is now somehow shocked now that they are not their jerks anymore.

    But meantime I will enjoy the tea

    Vrimj,
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    Also let me make a side point here, the guy who works for you who is an asshole to everyone else?

    He is only not an asshole to you yet, once he sees an opening he will totally take 100 lawyers and start his own firm.

    Firing assholes is just good business practice even if you don't care about the kind of behavior you make other human beings tolerate.

    tess, to random
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    LOOK if you are going to let people scan their face and body and have an AI-generated avatar of themselves in AR meetings, the least you could do is support people using their own VTuber/VRChat-style avatars, because they will be (a) less Uncanny Valley™, (b) a way for people whose presentation doesn't match their self-conception to participate fully, and (c) a way for people in groups that are discriminated against based on appearance to sidestep some of that bias if they choose to.

    #WWDC

    Vrimj,
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    @wakame @tess

    If you give people this ability, some one is going to make all his coworkers naked porn stars.

    Letting other people change appearance is just an invitation to very bad things

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    @wakame @tess

    You can't stop people from doing bad things, but you do want to make it as difficult as possible.

    Both from a practical point of view and because then it makes more sense and feels less hard to punish people when they do engage in nonsense

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    Context: https://pony.social/@thephd/110446817486174177

    Vrimj,
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    @tess Has rust finally outstripped LISP as the language with the most toxic purity culture?

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