Functional programming, TypeScript, tooling. He/him. Views and opinions my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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The National Weather Service is forecasting dangerously high temperatures across parts of #Washington this week. #Heat advisories are issued for several counties statewide for much of the week, with dangerously high temperatures both during the day and overnight and close to 100 degree highs expected Wednesday in some areas.
More at https://doh.wa.gov/newsroom/heat-get-ready-high-temperatures-across-state-week
I really wish someone had told me that sometimes people are non-binary when I was growing up.
I'm not non-binary myself, but it would have made a big difference.
I'm biased but I suspect this isn't uncommon. There are so many stories where the theme of "be a man" or "be a real woman" is central. And so many people I know have told me the most painful parts of growing up related to having their ability to correctly do gender questioned or belittled. Why.
Reminder that the 'bystander effect' isn't real, Kitty Genovese's neighbours didn't ignore her attack (most didn't even witness it, two people called the cops, someone even went out and held her while the ambulance arrived), and a lot of psychology that's really well known from this period is just total bunk.
I was taught this uncritically when I was studying psychology and it'll take a generation or more for it to really start getting the critical examination it needs.
I’ve been thinking and I think what has me frustrated is the so called “bystander effect”. “The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is for any one of them to provide help to a person in distress.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/bystander-effect Basically we look around to see if anyone else is reacting, and if we don’t see anyone reacting then we assume that it isn’t an emergency. The problem is everyone is doing this. Everyone is looking to other people to check if they should react. So nobody reacts.
The corps like Publix that get mad about CIW & fair farm wages, it's not bc proper farm wages will put them out of business.
It's because they get upset when ANY workers get collective bargaining wins. It's just generic anti-labor politics- not an existential threat to their business.
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
The people call and I answer.
Here are my thoughts on that developer RCT and the "AI slows down developers" claim.
Seven different people texted or otherwise messaged me about this study which claims to measure “the impact of early-2025 AI on experience open-source developer productivity.” You know, when I decided to become a psychological scientist I never imagined that “teaching research methods so we can actually evaluate evidence about developers”
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