Posts by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
(DIR) Post #AWQDa9jR1SIOTlxque by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-06T17:19:08Z
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Some problems solve themselves
(DIR) Post #AWTqOVBJvUS7DSJyiW by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-08T11:24:17Z
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Many of the trans influencers who have spent the last months insisting that we’re living under imminent threat of “genocide” have said absolutely nothing about the ruling shutting down major parts of Florida’s SB 254 implementation.You would think that after months of fearmongerint that Florida is forcibly detransitioning every trans child in the state, there would be a little more celebration when that turns out not to be true.There isn’t, because doomerism drives engagement.
(DIR) Post #AWTqOX4IuY1p4H3P3g by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-08T11:34:30Z
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The sheer lack of civic responsibility being shown by these figures is depressing. Months of nothing but pessimism, FUD, and nihilism wreaks a significant mental health toll on trans people.What’s sickening is some of these people brag about the engagement their posts are getting in private chat groups.
(DIR) Post #AWTqOYvW0CBcpaxPdY by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-08T11:37:19Z
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Trans people deserve more than a constant stream of hate coming from our own. We are beautiful and most of the world agrees.Nihilism has no place here.
(DIR) Post #AWTwlz69SjfmO0U4tE by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-08T12:52:54Z
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@SuperDicq except that's not how it works, because it's not just "not doing a genocide." In many cases, these rulings are setting the stage for much stronger trans protections than existed before.
(DIR) Post #AWTxMAD7cl03H9zof2 by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-08T12:56:56Z
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@SuperDicq the way it works is like this, consider tennessee for instance.A year ago, nobody had ever tried to ban drag, so courts have never ruled on whether drag is free speech or not.The law passed attempting to outlaw drag. That's bad!But the Trump appointed judge looked at it and said, naw, this is blatantly unconstitutional. He then ruled that drag is protected.That means that, at least in that district, drag is explicitly protected by precedent.
(DIR) Post #AWVnJ5FT0SfJn8uBvc by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-09T10:18:00Z
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@ZDF @daniel Ausländer machen nur einen Tippfehler und ganze Deutschland korrigiert sie, danach spricht wie so
(DIR) Post #AWu9U25V7l8MpGuSXo by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-21T00:45:56Z
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The Arkansas trans care ban has been struck down by the court after an 8-day trial, making the earlier preliminary injunction permanent. Trans wins again.https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183344228/arkansas-2021-gender-affirming-care-ban-transgender-blocked#
(DIR) Post #AWu9U6WaczBAaRc9K4 by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-21T02:12:51Z
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@ScruffyJunco @NorCal_Lynne no, that’s not what a federal judge means. This decision is binding only in Arkansas, and it will be appealed to the 8th Circuit, which covers a few other states as well, and if the appeal from the fascists loses (which it will), then the decision binds those few states.However, although the decisions are not binding in other districts or circuits, this does not mean it is not useful. Other districts can and will use this rationale for making their own decisions.
(DIR) Post #AWu9U8jmOuuzRvni9w by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-21T02:14:45Z
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@ScruffyJunco @NorCal_Lynne federal judges preside over federal courts, which hear cases pertaining to federal law, cases with certain interstate components, or cases that have to do with federal protections or constitutional rights, among other things.
(DIR) Post #AWu9UBCvDXPx6tS0rQ by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-21T02:15:30Z
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@ScruffyJunco @NorCal_Lynne even though federal law ostensibly covers the whole country, it can be interpreted differently in different places. This is by design.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVJ7PG46ondxfUW by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-22T23:46:17Z
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It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate
(DIR) Post #AWyLVJnwhu8WvZrdnU by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:01:39Z
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I’m not going to exhume the old ridiculous debates over the word “engineer,” but I am going to say this. I studied aeronautical and mechanical engineering and computational mathematics in university, worked as an aeronautical engineer for several years, and have also worked in software for many years.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVKbZjNprPV5H9c by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:01:40Z
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Nothing, no single thing I have done in the entirety of my career in software has matched the difficulty or rigor of my third year coursework in my aero program, which was less complex than what I did professionally.The only aspect of software development that came close was safety critical software, which unsurprisingly follows standards that emerge from electrical engineer practices.Modern software development lacks the rigor, depth, and complexity of physical engineering.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVMDBl1W6ORgpQ8 by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:01:40Z
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This is not a flex.This is saying that the management practices and work culture that we have developed for software development, which are perfectly suited for that space, are equally in magnitude unsuited for designing physical systems.Every aspect, from testing to user experience to documentation and more.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVNrHdRBPV5SMYS by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:01:40Z
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It’s sad, because the former billionaire CEO of OceanGate had more than enough capital to do it the right way. But today’s billionaires pull themselves up by moving fast, eschewing rigor and expertise, and discarding all of the cultural philosophies required to make an engineering team work right.Doing things rigorously doesn’t earn you the big gains today’s billionaires seek. This sub design was simply virtue signaling to other billionaires.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVPfetd4Z7c26iG by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:06:17Z
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In Engineering school, regardless of your discipline, you’ll be taught about the time someone fucked up and killed people. Software has these studies, too, but far fewer of them, and the culture of the field is completely opposite from what we see in other fields.Every so often I talk about THERAC-25 and ask if people know about it. A lot of people do, and the response is usually something like, “oh yeah the software was bad.”The mindset is that it was lack of competence, not lack of care.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVRYzrMvqzWvobg by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:09:09Z
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This I find troubling because it presumes that defects can be resolved through sheer skill, despite the fact that the software industry’s own research shows this not to be the case. Nevertheless, the myth persists.You bring this mindset into building a submarine and people are going to die.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVTP90yEuhYKyWm by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:12:28Z
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When you learn about engineering failures in school you quickly understand that it’s not that people were unintelligent, it’s because they were careless. And good engineering practice builds layers to make sure that carelessness doesn’t propagate.The rigor of engineering is not the technical complexity of the problem space, it’s everything else around it.In other words, literally everything the silicon valley grindset devalues.
(DIR) Post #AWyLVV9GWyj66svK3U by emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
2023-06-23T01:40:01Z
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Addendum: not every engineer works building safety critical systems but almost every engineer is educated to do so. On the other hand, few software programs have this in the curriculum and it’s very easy to work in software without a related degree or even no degree at all. This is a meaningful difference.