The interesting question is not the choice between diversity and merit, but how you attract and select the most meritorious candidates in a setting where your company overwhelmingly skews towards one demographic, given that people are more likely to hire others that are similar to them (and conversely, potential candidates are not likely to join companies when there are no people similar to them).
An easy way is to anonymize the interview process. Strip out identifying material in resumes. Conduct Zoom interviews with camera off and a voice modulator. It'd be harder to anonymize performance reviews while working in person, but the application process can be pretty robustly anonymized.
> Contrary to what we expected (and probably contrary to what you expected as well!), masking gender had no effect on interview performance with respect to any of the scoring criteria (would advance to next round, technical ability, problem solving ability). If anything, we started to notice some trends in the opposite direction of what we expected: for technical ability, it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women.
(No, this isn't because of your views — we don't care about them and barely know what they are – and yes, we ban accounts with opposing views in just the same way, if they break the site guidelines the way you've been doing.)
Gumbo does not disclose anything about what group with special privileges you're supposed to be a part of and that's the entire point - I don't want to know. I don't care if you're black, white, or purple. Don't care about your gender, sexuality or personal life either. Never did, never will.
Which is precisely why bringing up minorities when you are just an anonymous jumble of letters and the attempted guilt trip is a bunch of insufferable manipulative hooey. It is not a "fair question" by any stretch of the imagination, you know nothing about me other than I don't subscribe to your garbage worldview.
You already exposed yourself as an insufferable bully with this: "The only people I’ve talked to who oppose DEI efforts were either blatantly sexist/racist"
Nice try. You go place burdens and play these games with people who have patience to put up with your nonsense. Strain as hard as you will to be offended and oppressed, no such luck bud, and absolutely nobody called you any names either.
I don't need you to be upset, your emotional state does not concern me one iota.
Talk about a lack of self control. You are extremely out of line.
You obviously will disrupt every workplace and gathering with tantrums and false accusations whenever you don't get your way. Tough cookies, you ain't getting your way with me no matter what.
"If you don't agree with me you are a bad person" is the most childish kindergarten bullshit imaginable. Take a look in the mirror, enough woke sharia. Enough.
I don't think this is a matter of merely re-shipping the same products. For example, if you look at poultry, the Netherlands imported 240 M€ worth of live poultry and exported 2300 M€.
Punitive damages are not a thing in a large part of the world. In particular in the European countries where Paypal or some of its subsidiaries reside.
The reason you're getting downvotes is because your comment is irrelevant. The point of the article is the transition of passwords to passkeys. Minimizing the number of accounts you have has absolutely nothing to do with that. If the point of the article was about optimizing your online security posture, and passkeys as a method for that, then your comment would be more relevant.
The reason no one replies and just downvotes, is because we don't want to clutter up the discussion with even more irrelevant comments. Usually I'd do the same, but for the chance that you are really commenting in good faith and not a troll, I thought I'd present you with a learning opportunity.
It's fine that you found that to be the singular "Point" of the
article. Discuss that if you like. But no, sorry, articles do not come
stamped with "This is the point from which you will not diverge". My
remarks are both relevant and valid and I do not wish you or anyone
else to tell me what you think the "Point" of the article is. These
comments are made in good faith (please don't bandy specious
accusations of trolling) to address what I and many others consider a
widespread misunderstanding around password security.
I agreed with you, but I kept quiet because I am not a sensible person and I didn't want to make you look bad. But yes, my immediate reaction to the article was "just don't sign up for things, have a small number of passwords for a small number of vital things, no problem."
Somewhere I have a page in a notebook with 20 or so passwords written down (in the basic cipher I've used since I was 12). If this was stolen, after some effort, the thief would be able to access things like ... a forgotten Github account, my abandoned efforts to learn from Duolingo, and a Reddit account I haven't used for two years. I would be mildly irritated. I am happy with this arrangement.
> my immediate reaction to the article was "just don't sign up for
things, have a small number of passwords for a small number of vital
things, no problem."
I recently interviewed a bunch of people in the age range of 30 to 70
on "personal cybersecurity". A surprisingly large number, no, in fact
the overwhelming majority though the same way as you... once you get
to the limits of your memory with passwords it's dangerous and
counterproductive to reach beyond that and it's time to cull and
prioritise according to "attic theory" :)
Unfortunately many online services don't make it easy to delete
accounts, nor do they time out after a sensible period like one year.
> Somewhere I have a page in a notebook with 20 or so passwords
written down (in the basic cipher I've used since I was 12)
Before anybody tells you that "using a basic cipher" is weird or
eccentric, maybe half of the over 50s I spoke to, all regular folks,
told me they use the same paper notebook kept in a safe place at home
plus some obfuscation. Also about "two dozen" (24) accounts seems the
average pool.
Any more than that and I think the system is working backwards,
placing an undue security onus onto the person and not the service.
Passkeys have their use (I keep some super important pass phrase
protected ssh keys somewhere physically safe). And some people need
to maintain a very large collection of access tokens, like if you're a
system administrator and that's your job.
But I think creating a tower of cards that enables people to maintain
over 300 accounts for casual, personal use, is a disservice and
actually encourages bad security practices.
It's unwatchable. I'd cancel Prime because of it, if I didn't want the shipping. What is the real purpose of them limiting the stream? It can't be because of pirating. The movies and shows show up on the torrent sites BEFORE they even hit Amazon Prime. So who's going to "Record" it there? They are only hurting their customers.
In the context of their blog post, it's assumed that the reader has some knowledge of web technologies — if you can print data to your own webpage, you can also exfiltrate it.
It's not reasonable to expect the author to explain _every_ underlying technology involved since that was likely not the scope of the post.
Sure. But if I remember correctly the cable ends are both male, so it was never the device that got bent. In some sense weakness on the right part is a feature.
Once you’ve been involved in repairing them, you start to insist on the sane approach - cable in the wall, connected to a faceplate which has a plug on the back and a plug on the front. That way any damage can be repaired without re running the cable.
Besides the actual hardware, I think the biggest problem is the software implementation of trackpads in Linux (at least in libinput/Wayland). Even running Linux on my Macbook, the trackpad experience is vastly inferior to macOS.
I don't care too much about gestures, but mostly about stable palm rejection and proper acceleration curves. The current implementations sadly provide neither.
One of my complaints with the older framework is that the trackpad scrolling is REALLY fast and AFAICT there's no way to change tbe speed on stock Fedora
You don't think that having children is a selfish decision in itself? I have thought long and hard about whether I want kids or not, and ultimately I concluded that I should only have kids if I myself really wanted to raise kids (regardless of say, whether my partner wanted to have kids). Kids do not ask to be born, and life is not a guaranteed net positive.
