Can people please stop posting paywall’d links? It’s annoying to only being able to read the headline. If this is just a thing because I’m in Canada then that’s different.

See 'Are paywalls ok?' in the FAQ. Article text: https://outline.com/f9FLAD

I still think they suck. They should really change their policy on this.

Is this what you do?

It's what I do, and it's a huge inconvenience.

Instead, I recommend getting a smartphone known not to have dedicated spying hardware, replacing the OS with Lineage OS, installing F-Droid and microG (and perhaps Yalp, but only install apps from it if you really really need them) and then keeping it usually switched off (unless you need it on).

How inconvenient is it to turn off all location sharing at the OS level on a mobile device? I have just started testing moments ago and am not sure what I’m up for.

It's a step in the right direction, but be aware the police could also ask the cell service provider for location information.

Stop being so jealous of our Canadian version: https://nrc.canada.ca/en/web-clock/

Giant box telling me “ Browser compatibility To ensure the proper operation of the web clock application, please use the most recent version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari, with JavaScript enabled.”

Viewing using latest version of mobile safari, JavaScript enabled.

Not sure if they aren’t detecting browser, aren’t detecting JavaScript, or are just letting everyone know this even if they have the right browser.

I suppose I should be lucky that it’s not twice the size and in French as well.

Ok. Done being jealous. Thx

doesn't even work without enabling third party JS

Yup, I noticed that myself. If it doesn't work with uMatrix … then it doesn’t work.

Hardly "third-party", it's just a second domain of the same institute.

Whatever they’re doing, it’s still “third-party” enough that it won’t work with mobile Safari (or perhaps Safari’s default settings).

Are you arguing that all tools are equal? Or that some tools are better than others but the difference is negligible compared to experience? I don’t agree that experience is everything (if by everything you mean that all other factors have zero influence).

Without experience, tools don't matter. A skilled developer will most likely write better code regardless of language/framework.

It's a repeating pattern in this society, fools with advanced gear doing what fools do best.

I'd argue that no matter how "good" you are, you are capped at what tools you're using.

Consider using a hammer against a pneumatic tool. A newbie will hose you with better tools, they're wielding that condensed knowledge at their hands, their sum overshadow yours with only a hammer.

To a degree. Python has plenty of advanced features that I have rarely used. 20% of the language gets used 80% of the time.

Couldn’t agree more. I was part of a $30 million Rails project that got unmanageable and burned after 2-3 years. Golang is so much more forgiving to human error.

30M. Well there’s your problem. I can just imagine the premature optimizations and the bloated abstraction that went in the planning phases.

Yeah, welcome to enterprise development (regardless of programming language). Every VP fancies themselves as the next Steve Jobs and like to be uncompromising about delivering their vision. Which ironically ends up as design by committee when you have that many assholes in a room unwilling to back down but also needing to save face.

And to be fair, most of the premature optimization and bloated abstractions are just your architects sitting around bored for 6 months while the project sponsors argue over reporting minutiae (but won’t approve the designs until their pet features are pulled in on the roadmap). They know the entire feature list is going to get changed at the last minute as the political winds shift, so they’re designing an overbuilt architecture to CYA for whatever random bullshit someone will pull a week before a deadline.

It's not even about programming languages at this point. It's Peopleware. People are the number 1 cause of all problems in software.

NYTimes + incognito = rejection.

Disable javascript on their site.

The next question would be "why is the browser advertising that it's in incognito mode?", but that's not a question for the NYT.

This "feature" is being removed:

https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/1138471166115368960

Couldn’t read the article because NYTimes blocks my incognito browser mode. Times are changing.

I wish this article included photos comparing the look of a dog face when using vs not using the cited muscles.

Something about this article felt disjointed. I read back over the jarring part to see if I had somehow skipped over a section or read it in the wrong order.

I felt something amiss as well, and then I realized what it was, it was built to force compliance in a family dynamic

One of the reasons for this feeling is that the author only sees herself. For example,

> Because the really intractable problems — like the social expectations placed on mothers, the gendered division of labor in homes, the invisibility of all sorts of care work — are not going to magically disappear.

All three problems she mentions are on her "side." As the reader you are left wondering…

But still a worth read, her overall point is IMHO solid.