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padolsey
4,466karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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Performance Summary Cycle. From experience, the psc culture within fb/meta is intense, internally competitive (even within teams) and heavily focuses on quantifiable gains (e.g. often tech-debt o…
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> We just don't notice it outside our area of expertise. This is a common trope - and has a name - "gell-man amnesia", that people raise again and again, but I don't think it&#x…
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So, to me, this is just calibrating against a continuum. Right? I think of this as binary-searching a kinda normal'ish distribution? I'm not good at math so I had a hard time once the OP art…
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Honestly I would always go full-frame if I can afford it. The staying power of APS-C seems to just be a price-based competition between the big players. Full-frames have gotten sufficiently petite as …
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Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or needlessly abrasive. Anyway, it doesn't really matter how supposedly intuitive something is if the actual experience of using it results in the p…
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Oh agreed! Sorry about mixed terminology. Though they don't really provide "equality of opportunity" either :/ People w/ more privelege, at the starting line, will have more s…
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>medical issues that have since been treated And what if they haven't been? Disability isn't usually a temporary thing or even necessarily medical in nature (crucial to see disability as …
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how would a ML model find applicants with any kind of disability unless it was freely volunteered in a resume/CV? A few off the top of my head: (1) Signals gained from ways that a CV is formatt…
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I would love a return to that historic ideal, though it just wouldn't be economical on its own. It would end up being a loss-making add-on to some larger enterprise.. perhaps a bookstore or a loc…
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This is cool. Reminds me.. I have always liked the idea of opening a cafe (who hasn't !?) but I'd struggle with the modern behaviour of peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exc…
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It was never intended as a definitive _thing_. I don't think anyone believes it has an exact definition. Just like good writing. There is no canonical good. Shakespeare and Hemingway are both &qu…
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Tbf the website doesn’t state it’s for those with depression
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It seems that some people are misunderstanding the value in these questions and the insight they lend. It seems potentially very useful for those with various types of executive dysfunction or mental …
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Heaven forbid you explore a noncategorical perspective and consider that the usefulness of the website is not contingent on your experiences alone nor on your insistence that it completely encompasses…
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> The device itself plays recorded instructions and itself conducts diagnostic tests to determine whether or not it should be used. If it can't detect a treatable condition it doesn't jus…
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This is really cool! Tho I've found it really hard to not just disable these self-made barriers when the urge overcomes me. I guess the trick is to create sufficient _additional_ barriers to disa…
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I had a stroke a couple years ago at the age of 29. It has forever changed me. It is a scar on my brain and body. It is a part of me. I suppose I will never get true closure from the trauma until I __…
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Thank u for these insights. I found it rung true for me, as I experienced quite specifically physiologically local changes when I had a haemorhagic stroke in the parietal area.
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People keep saying 'trustless', without realizing the upsetting and very real truth that no mechanism is trustless. Even if you can, if well informed, verify the cryptographic integrity of a…
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Can you elucidate us with how exactly this is an advancement of web technologies per se? I agree with OP comment that it's strange to adopt web3 as a moniker when it is a distinct stack/infr…
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This is a bit like saying that AoE is cool but could do with some lasers. Townscaper is v well established and has found quite a niche and fandom for itself.
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Is there a story behind the cruel-sounding "Cap table cleanup" heading? It says: > You've got early employees, investors, or a co-founder
> who wants to leave or cash out. Y…
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Yeh honestly being an SWE at FB just killed my soul (in part) because the job became so fixated on quantitative measures and experimentation...what we cannot measure cannot be important, surely....! :…
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> this hypothesis proposes that gay men respond to societal homophobia by overcompensating in achievement-related domains. Reflecting on this possibility, Mittleman suggests that "academic pe…
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A quick hack for this is to create variations and include them in your main trie (with links to the canonical value/object/etc.). E.g. you might create a variation w/o vowels. There are…