It is very important to say 'I don't know' and to practice not knowing. Academia demands that we be experts, and if we stumble at all then we are punished for it. We are not allowed to have partial knowledge or ongoing knowledge.
But that's toxic. It's okay and good to not know things - even things in your own field.
The beauty of it all is that we will never fully know anything. We can only ever learn more.
"Why are we so bad at software engineering?" by Jake Voytko https://www.bitlog.com/2020/02/12/why-are-we-so-bad-at-software-engineering/
Love this post.
Oh god, I'm jumping between instances and checking their hashtags for people who might still be posting about netrunner. Why am I so focused right now?
I recently got into #netrunner again, spending hours making decks, buying-up my brother's cards from him.
Somebody stop me (nobody stop me).
Pronouncing acronyms, TAATR
Have to say, I disagree with @mike when he uses the hard G in "graphical" to argue for a hard G in GIF.
In "LASER", the S for "stimulated" isn't a hard S. In "SCUBA", the U for "underwater" isn't a short U. I think people tend to just look at the pile of letters and let their intuition guide them.
Anyway, have a great day and #Zhaif4Laif.
AATR, Constitutional Law, Podcast Reccomendation
If anyone really liked the back half of the "Donuts" episode, there's a great podcast called "What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law" where Roman Mars talks to his neighbor (who happens to be a professor in constitutional law) about all the ways this president is doing weird new (dumb) things that push at the edge cases of our constitutional system.
I highly recommend it.
Complaining about Mastodon UI
Well, that real-estate just got a lot smaller. Now the entire column of open space under the avatar opens the post. There's still a few spaces at the top and at the bottom-right corner where I can click on a post without opening it, but it's a bit more fiddly.
It's a really small thing, but it'll annoy me until I get used to it in a few days.
Complaining about Mastodon UI
I mostly get around Mastodon using the keyboard, and it's passable but not great. When you switch between columns you always get reset to the top of the feed - pretty annoying if you're trying to catch-up on a days worth of posts.
I've been okay with it, though, because there was so much real-estate on any given post to click on it without opening it in the third column, so I could switch columns with my mouse and continue up or down with the keyboard.
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An #Enneagram9 who loves tinkering with #software, riding my #bike, and #writing fiction.