I'm in a cramped, spider-filled room in Fiji with a sick cat because the non-profit clinic here doesn't have space to board all the animals, surrounded by hundreds of dusty boxes filled with medication volunteers brought in, adding validation to a spreadsheet that tracks when all currently boarded animals are due for vaccines, and it is the most useful thing I've done in my whole career lmao

I only realized today that Curtis Yarvin is the idiot I formerly knew as Mencius Moldbug. I can't believe tech oligarchs are taking cues from a dude that named himself Mencius Moldbug. This dumb son of a bitch is out here giving himself the most Wormtongue/Peter Pettigrew-ass name and they're like "Ah yes, thank you for your wise counsel, my trusted vizier"

Star Trek question: I have a vivid recollection of Quark saying something to the effect of "When the going gets tough, don't give up. Just quit." But I cannot for the life of me track down the episode this happens in. Am I having nerd hallucinations? Please, help me, there is no nerdier place I can go to for help.

Great news everyone! One of my co-founders put together a post on our company blog about seriousness in tech work:

Data Engineers Should Be Held To The Same Standards As Bakers

Why the hell do we accept IT projects running late when we expect our baker to get the damn bread out on time every single morning?

It's the first thing he has written for us, so if you liked it, it'd be rad if you dropped him a message or something on LinkedIn (so sorry I'm asking you to go on LinkedIn)

I just tried so, so hard to use GenAI for the venerated "rapidly do easy project in language you're trash at". I was writing a quick mobile app for a researcher at Uni of Melb as a personal favour, got like 30% of the way further than I had any business to... ... and then had to stop and just learn how to do it properly, the old-fashioned way, and I think I've mostly wasted time not doing it that way. I'm impressed I got that far but also it fell so far short of saving me real time.

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When I am an employee, employers are like "you have to accept Scrum". When I'm consulting, employers are like "oh, you must be elite, you're using something that isn't Scrum" This industry has brain worms

We're panpsychist guys, of course we immediately become confused about how to answer coherently when someone asks me if think LLMs are conscious

@npub1f8zu...vfds is a genius and I can't stop laughing. All I said was that the phrase "stable of engineers" was funny and he came out with this fucking masterpiece

Stable of Delivery Professionals

I've had a few programmers from third-world countries reach out, and a persistent problem is "buying even a used laptop is $500, which is extremely expensive in my local currency". Anyone have any giga-brain ideas on the cheapest possible development environment that doesn't freeze up? We'll not stress about the availability of parts in different parts of the world for now.