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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • I’m a straight white dude who goes to work to do work, not to find someone to party with. The common ground is having the same job.

    My current team has the following composition:

    • Two straight white guys in their 40s, one of whom is an immigrant
    • One gay white guy in his 30s
    • One straight Indian guy in his 50s
    • One straight Indian woman in her 20s
    • One straight black guy in his 20s

    We all get along just fine. Sometimes I learn something new about a different culture or lifestyle.

    Not all aspects of diversity are equally important. I’ve been in teams before where everyone else was Argentinian. I’ve had teams where everyone else was Indian. I’ve had teams where we were all straight white dudes. They were all fine.

    The most important part of diversity for me is a nice spread in experience level, which usually means a spread in age. I like training people who are more junior than me, but I also like someone more senior to learn from. Having someone more senior than me also prevents me from gliding into a role where I only train people or review their work, which I’m not personally interested in.



  • I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.

    Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.

    I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.







  • I certainly did as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s. I found dirty magazines before I had access to the Internet, and after I visited both pornsites and outright gore like rotten.com. None of it harmed me in any way.

    If anything, the various shock sites we were tricked into seeing, like goatse, tub girl, lemon party and 2 girls 1 cup were worse, but even those weren’t too bad, and I appreciate understanding the cultural references to them.

    The real question is whether seeing some porn is actually a problem. I’d argue not, provided there’s also sex ed teaching you that porn does not model healthy sex or relationships.


  • Dude, most other countries, bar the dictatorships, have more changes happening than the US. Most other countries don’t have two-party systems with filibusters, debt ceilings disconnected from the budget, and whatever else.

    Any country implementing parliamentarism, especially those not implementing first past the post, will have a lot less stalemates, because there are multiple other parties to make horse trades with. Do you have experience with any other country’s system of governance?


  • Things do not always get implemented in complexity order. A lot of the time it’s dictated by whether one has both a use-case and the means to implement it, and businesses have had money and a need to put things on paper for quite a while.

    That being said, 3D printing is difficult and complicated, in software. Mechanically it’s quite simple. A DIY-er can easily copy complicated software to use a 3D printer, but you can’t easily copy complicated mechanical parts to make a 2D printer.