“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” -Abraham Lincoln

Social media, a gorilla getting shot, two US elections, and GenAI later, we have completely fallen off this one simple rule.

Lemmy, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Tildes

Lotteries are no different than stepping on people. They have to buy into the process, but the amounts allocated from lotteries for education or other grants is outpaced by what is given up in prizes. And many lotteries engage in games and mechanisms to keep people in the feedback loop of pouring money in. It’s a tax on the stupid and the poor.

I firmly believe greed comes from two thought processes: A sense of fear, or a desire for authority. I don’t know if wealth will make you a monster, but it will certainly show what you really are.

Agile has poisoned software development to the point where it’s fine to ship shit products that can be fixed post-release, which of course gives stakeholders and execs the reasons to tie performance and bonuses to shipping, as opposed to routine stable operations.

I don’t know if going back to Waterfall is the right fix, but something has to change. Shipping crap is the new normal. If programmers organize to fight for better wages and conditions, we absolutely must fight to hold management responsible for code quality. Get us additional hours for unit and behavioral testing, assessing and tackling technical debt, and so on.

Its there, you have to find it.

We’re getting awfully close to another World War given ongoing affairs in Ukraine and the Middle East…

He has all the time in the world to be on X as opposed to running his other companies straight into the ground. He’s basically a lolcow at this point, and he has the pull and capital to drive the world into ruin.

Tabasco is alright if you like Tabasco, I usually go for something hotter where I can, tabasco as a last option when my options are short.

That being said, they used to make a bomb ass chipotle sauce.

My general sense of this dude from Shark Tank is he’s an asshole. After reading about him for 5 minutes, he’s definitely an asshole.

Frustrated by this news, Carnegie would later hire Pinkertons to kill his own workers.

That is what CMU calls it college team right? The fightin’ pinks?

I’d say Elon Musk too.

😊

It really is. If you’re white and male.

I paid off my college loans in full in 2019.

I deleted my reddit account.

I’m the first person in my family to get a University degree.

I’ve been sober for four years now.

Jumping Flash for the PlayStation

Local takeaway 100% of the time. You don’t get chain pizza, your employer does it for you.

.local is already used by mDNS/Zeroconf.

Took long enough

Foundation is a surprisingly competent sci-fi show in the second season, but you need to watch the first.

Also of interest: Severance, Person of Interest, The Peripheral, The Returned (French TV show), Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Invincible, Ozark, The Leftovers, Twin Peaks