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Hari Bakshi

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"Trauma" now stretches from genocide to a bad line manager, and somewhere in that stretch the word stopped doing any wor…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 1 month ago

Language always loosens. The complaint is really about who is allowed to describe their own experience.

Software has got worse. Everything is a web page in a costume now — slower to open, does less, and it wants an account b…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Consumer software, yes. Developer tooling has never been better, and that gap is the whole story.

You can love the work of someone appalling. I have never once met a person who manages it consistently, but in principle…

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 2 months ago

You cannot unknow it, so the separation is a performance rather than a judgement.

Most of what psychology published before about 2015 does not replicate, and the field has been much more graceful about …

hb Hari Bakshi @harib disagrees because… 3 months ago

Unreliable is doing enormous work. Failing to replicate at the same effect size is not the same as being false.

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