partyboat1586

>spiraled into calling out individuals with even a small following who hadn’t come forward with a timely public statement of solidarity or remorse.

>timely public statement

Being a public figure sounds exhausting.

>Plus, last I heard, he's still stuck on an evo-psychological model of society that is quite out of fashion these days, which doesn't exactly help matters.

>quite out of fashion

Yeah I don't get the impression this guy is into intellectual fads. If anything he's a contrarian and will deliberately take the opposing position to the mainstream.

Evo Psych is out because a bunch of idiots (and self proclaimed non intellectuals) use it to justify and explain everything and anything with stories and no evidence. Meanwhile real research continues but is sidelined due to this bad reputation.

Understandably contrarians see this happening and immediately take the position of Evo psych because it allows them to do a lot of hypothesis generation (their favourite pass-time) and because it flies in direct opposition to current political and academic movements.

>170,000 lines of MATLAB code

This is a deep problem. Many scientists don't understand software engineering and more and more need to write bigger and bigger programs. And most of the time they don't open source their code.

Open source science.

>marginal utility for increasingly artistic and engaging UI seems to be fairly low from a cost/ROI perspective.

This is exactly the problem. The artistic part of design is gone and turned into another utilitarian measurable. The same thing has been happening in architecture, designs getting simpler and more usability focused but they held on to some kind of artistry better than web designers. When we design a building people are happy to spend a little extra to make it beautiful but not so with websites.

Thanks, I thought as much. Do you still suffer with it / has it got any better or worse?

Out of interest, what was your disability that caused you to need mid day naps?

We have a different culture in the UK, no one will confront you for using the disabled spot even if you look fully able bodied. They announce in supermarkets "some people have an invisible disability and are not able to wear a mask" so people don't get harassed for that too. It's pretty good. Unfortunately this trust does get abused but when it works it's good.

The bone problems are caused by nutrient deficiencies and inflammation from the digestive issues, correct?

On first take I thought this was satire. Looks like one of those fake mockups of new Apple products.

It's important to remember that SARS was a lot more deadly that COVID-19. I am not at all surprised such a high percentage of people suffered long term lung damage given how virulent it was. Case fatality was somewhere around 10%.

That's an unfortunate evolutionary rut to be stuck in.

Some people still think unit tests for view layer code are pointless. Me included.

This is good to know. I always thought it meant 10x average which seemed absurd. I can certainly attest to having worked on teams where there are one or two developers 10x better than the worst developers on the team. Tbh I think the worst developers are actually negative value because they take so much time from other developers.

This reminds me of that episode of the office.

>If you split up clauses, having things modify other things across long distances with other ideas in between, it can get complicated.

I found this version easier to read. I think because with the other one I have to remember the beginning part of "It can get complicated" and try to apply that to all the conditions that come up throughout the rest of the sentence. I prefer to build up the picture of 'split clauses', 'long distance modifications' etc and then classify this as complicated afterwards rather than start with the classification.