jonhendry

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[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

Car Seats as Contraception

At first I thought this was about how bench seats have just about vanished.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

• came in a deck of cards

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

“On my Substack I am doing non-ideological, data-driven reporting!”

I don’t believe the son of pro-gun propagandist John Lott is capable of doing non-ideological reporting.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 17 points 10 months ago

The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

By the beer standard the most tech-bro-y place I've worked was Swiss Bank Corp / O'Connor in Chicago, a software focused trading shop. In 1994. NeXT machines and Symbolics LISP machines on the private trading floor kind of place, with refrigerators kept stocked with free sodas and beer. Beer was for after 5, except on St Patrick's day, when coolers of beer came out at about noon. Also, Nerf guns on the trading floor.

And yet, at least for the people I know best from there, they didn't turn out to be tech bros. Perhaps there's a generational aspect.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

Sounds like they called it "Turing" in the midcentury law enforcement sense.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 18 points 10 months ago

The real “techbros” are all business people in an actual position of power, not the introverted QA tester just trying to get through the day.

If the QA tester goes home and checks his Raspberry Pi dogecoin mining rig, and is saving up for a Cybertruck, he's probably a tech bro, if only a larval one.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

It's been decentralized.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To be fair though rodents can have pretty huge balls. Like dragging on the ground behind them huge.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure the "frontiers in" journals are all that reputable.

[–] jonhendry@awful.systems 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or he now has the lung capacity of a 15% smaller 18 year old.

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