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This bird was featured in Planet Earth s03e04. Really cool segment

rip aaron swartz

This has been my experience in San Francisco over the past 15 years. The techbro types, who see technology as a way to get rich, often share the same worldview that life is about “winning” and in this business you “win” if you are smarter than others, so therefore since they are “winning”, they are smart and deserve everything they get (or… take). But, that mentality and their behavior and the culture it creates can often influence humble, empathetic people into that toxic self-hype cycle.

White dude in software here to echo the same sentiment. So many of my colleagues have never experienced any hardship of their own or viewpoints of people with different experiences. They don’t think about how their privilege has helped them get where they are, and how their company culture often subtly (at best!) reinforces their worldview and massages their egos. They’ve never tried to think critically about their “meritocracy” or “libertarian” beliefs and how many people are unjustly excluded from the lifestyle they enjoy.

20 years in software development for me.

Maybe I’ll regret asking, but what could “haiku-level brilliant” even mean?

Can I get unavailable AI overviews for all my searches? Then Google has a chance to be usable again

Sounds like someone needs to go for a walk

“lug around”? the server(s) are 100% in a data center, no way this is a single computer on prem. no company, especially facebook, deploys software that way in 2025

Hey now, some of us Americans are treating him like the dead fascist propagandist that he is

I’m gonna need more red streamers for my Kirkmas decorations

That’s how we know not to do it anymore

Knowledge tells you it’s safe to push to prod in Fridays. Wisdom tells you not to. Experience raises your heart rate at the very thought (though, that might actually be ptsd)

Become a hedge fund analyst or maybe get a job with McKinsey

Oh, so only for discussing topics the authorities consider verboten

It’s not that it’s purpose or implementation is unclear, it’s how bad I was at coding 2 years 6 months 2 months last week

Why would you use the Ai dj to feed you songs, when the normal daily mixes, daylist, etc are giving you the same songs without the fake personality injected between them? I literally do not understand. I’m open to your thoughts - it’s just that it seems like an alien perspective.

My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term “Nazi”, but…

Since there’s a lot of nazis around lately, I’m glad you’re learning to control this reaction

So… close the browser window? It’s not the boss of you

Whatever gets ad views

I think I gotta get me a steam deck

… And nowadays they let the LLM help with the bullshittery