Was highly amused at the Product-Engineering quartet alignment meeting the duelling declarations, spoken within minutes of each other, that we need an AI feature to differentiate is from the competition and we also need an AI feature because we’re losing sales as the competitors are all promising one too.
Apple Guy Gruber (I don’t know why I bothered, it’s not like he could have a vanity search going anyway) approving quotes:
Why doesn’t the EU just turn off the web?
(https://www.threads.net/@levie/post/CurnRtuLgv_ CW Threads link)
And I just don’t get it. It’s not the web that vexes the EU, it’s surveillance capitalism. A thing he also claims to dislike in many ways. Calling for TikTok to be banned; a visceral dislike of Facebook; supporting Apple’s privacy initiatives.
I mean, you can’t help but wonder if he just has a grudge because the EU wants to force Apple to make the iPhone fractionally more consumer friendly with standardised cables.
I kinda of love, in a horrified way, the evaluation that middle management is basically glorified high school politics and the solution is drumroll Taylorism. No, not Taylorism like that. Like this.
Saving in order to sporadically remind myself the dangers of systemisation.
I read this one a lot, before every new starter.
Some obvious, some not obvious tips. I can't get past first interview any longer, so...
Look. I’m never going not going to see the worst on anything Peter Dutton says. He’s an amoral monster that would happily see people suffer for a win for his party. But honestly, doing anything but unreservedly apologising for #robodebt, trying to find a way to attack the ALP? Just dumb. The LNP openly broke the law to punish a class of people they hold in contempt, an action that resulted in foreseeable loss of life. There is no way for the LNP to find honour in this.
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I knew this day would come eventually
Checking out my taxes because 🤘. ATO says I can't claim coffee, tea, or milk as a work from home expense. Doesn't say anything about the hard liquor.
Saving this so it will get archived for me as a PDF because Twitter is shitting the bed
This seems extremely cool. I am 100% here for nntp in all its glory and warts.
Every chef or cook I’ve ever met has said, when faced with one of those Cook Your Own Steak stone grills has said “Fuck off, make my steak for me” and yet I have shaved so many yaks in my time.
https://mastodon.flockofnazguls.com/@flockofnazguls/110627127357199666
Tears of the Kingdom is a lot of fun, but boy is it extra fun in the boss battles when the key NPC is supposed to stay close so you can ask to use their ability meanwhile they’ve decided to charge into the middle of a melee.
Blanket ban on gambling ads unreasonable, says the gambling industry.
Yeah, well.. you win some you lose some. I guess they should have bet with their heads, not over it.
Look, far be it from me to question the marketing geniuses of the American film industry, but trying to build tension in a TV ad by having a military guy in the mid-1940s question if there is a possibility the Trinity test could blow up the world lacks a certain frisson of uncertainty.
Stupid brain immediately wants to go out and learn all of these
Like blogging engines and the ironically named distraction free text editors, Jira is perfect for enabling nerds to futz around with setup rather than actually doing the thing the tool is supposed to enable.
A Corn + Beans + Squash garden. The more I think about this, the more I want it. But I'd struggle to find a place for it. I'd never be able to keep it safe from the dogs.
Nat's What I Reckon's Honey Mustard Chicken. It's fucking bastard good
I hadn't been doing my homework for Sydney Technology Leaders and needed to put the meetup.com events together quickly. So I asked ChatGPT to write the text for me, and then because I am me, I asked it "Make it more cynical". Reader, despite my cold dead heart of jade, I was impressed. Not that it produced usable copy, I'm not at all surprised that the plagarism machine trained to trick humans came out as seemingly coherent. No, I was impressed that even I thought it might be a bit much.
Been doing some interviews lately. I have someone else in the room helping who hasn't done many interviews before. Partly because it is interviewing for a role I don't have any practical experience in. I have come to the conclusion that:
a) TAFE should still exist. I mean actually exist, not the shambling corpse the various flavours of neo-liberal governments have allowed to continue to wander the earth. b) It should offer a semester long course, with labs, of how to interview.