I hate the idea of LLMs being used as a way to diminish human expression and reduce it to serial magic eight balls, and all. But I gave my Stack Overflow contributions, as meagre as they are, to humanity and to a collective knowledge. Trying to petulantly take that back from the community because the host is also going to give it to OpenAI would be a pretty shitty act.
Our old television died and I had to replace it with a high definition. It makes everything look like it was filmed in the cheap. It can’t be that everything I watch is soap opera level bad production. Is high def really this bad?
Looking around the rest of the audience of this Nick Cave gig I’m wondering what they’ve been doing for the last two hours since the 16:00 meal service?
All unhappy agile teams are alike. Each happy agile team is happy in its own way
Being better about asking for the right thing to the right person at the right time
At the risk of it including a line like "Being a massive sook arsehole is a-ok."
Am I a thief? No, it’s ethics that is wrong.
How do other people stop their brain yelling at them all the time?
As someone who struggles with focus control this would a really valuable thing to do. Parking things but having a record of them being parked, rather than forgetting until the next time, would alleviate stress and also make me more effective in the moment.
It is the slowing down, not reacting, and writing it down that I also struggle with though.
Employer had a bunch of old Apple equipment around that we can’t really hand to new employees any longer, even if we were hiring. So I arranged with the org to just give it to any employees that wanted it. No charge, just take it away so I don’t need to pack it up in a fortnight when we move offices. Took names and then handed it out.
Unfortunately we didn’t have any chargers to give with the laptops nor keyboards/mice to give with the desktops. Bemused at how multiple people managed to make it seem like I was ripping them off 🥴
Another look at the intercontinental cable laying industry, 28 years after Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Motherboard
Neal Stephenson's epic article from 1996 on the trans-continental cable laying industry.
Never mind not going to make it. I’m unconvinced we as a species deserve to make it through the Great Filter.
Look. I am going to read the first Jack Reacher book now.
But only because Max Gladstone referred to it as "Murderbot for Dads", the kind of juxtaposition I am here for.
Guy at work said he and his fiancee are house hunting and having to decide between having a dog and location of the house because they can't afford both. Is time-sharing of dogs a service being offered to millennials? For $25 you can take a dog for a walk for an hour and play with it, throw a ball for it, and clean up its shits. I have two dogs and there are days I would pay someone to take one or both for $25 for an hour.
Colleagues were posting their pictures of the eclipse earlier this week and I thought to have a laugh by posting one as well, taken from Sydney.
So I googled “Sydney Moon” for some images I could use. I needed something like the bridge or the opera house in the image to make the joke obvious because it’s mostly Americans I’m dealing with here, they still have trouble with seasons.
Anyway, that’s how I learned there is an adult entertainer with that name.