V0ldek @ V0ldek @awful.systems

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Always has been.

Ok but how detailed can we get then

Слава Україні. The world has failed you.

I hope at least CPT does not have daylight's savings

What is controversial about Kolmogorov.

"Very well, we shall resume in an hour" will never not crack me up

But it was written about Microsoft specifically. What's your point?

White people are late sometimes too...?

almost every person in tech (...) to deal with the fertility crisis

Why would we be listening to "tech" to deal with "the fertility crisis"? Why is "tech" concerned with "fertility"?

Stay in your fucking lane, will ya. How about mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages to address the growing crisis of open-source development? The crisis of newest C++ standards not being implemented in the popular compilers quickly enough? The crisis of Node.JS existing?

If you keep telling young men (which most programmers starting out are) that this language is so dangerous, so scary, of course they’ll start using it

I always suspected that I wasn't a REAL MAN™, but I didn't know that me learning programming through C++ and being like "well this shit sucks, what the fuck, there has to be a better way" was one of the first symptoms.

referring to Colored People’s Time

to the what now? What cursed horror beyond my comprehension am I going to learn today?

I worked at MSFT between 2021 and 2023.

The Growth Mindset is very much just a gaslighting tool. To be honest I didn't get the culty vibe from it while being on the inside, on the other hand no one ever tried to make me to read Satya's stupid book (thankfully).

One important thing I just have to talk about is The Layoffs. If you ask me about "Growth Mindset", or indeed if I ask around my former MSFT colleagues about the first thing that comes to their mind when they hear it, it will be that time when, not even a month after the massive 2023 layoffs where MSFT fired 11,000 people, we were told by management at a Townhall that it is time for us to "apply Growth Mindset and move forward". I remember very clearly that they tried to spin it as if the layoffs were something that just "happened to us" and we had to move on, as if it was a hurricane that hit the office and not a deliberate act of management to cut costs. It was fucking amazing to hear that from them after I had a literal panic attack due to the uncertainty after the first wave of firings.

I made the decision to quit not long after. When I was leaving the genAI brain rot was already in full swing. The stuff about autoplaging Connects is just a great affirmation of my decision, that company is fucked.

Maybe if we funded them better they'd be able to tackle larger projects.

The orcas were trying to send us this message for a while now

$2400 is hardly a number compared to whatever we're already spending on genAI so fuck it

I want someone to fork the Linux kernel and then unleash like 10 Copilots to make PRs and review each other. No human intervention. Then plot the number of critical security vulnerabilities introduced over time, assuming they can even keep it compilable for long enough.

UbisoNFT

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O

And he would often pump-and-dump, E-I-E-I-O

With a wallet here and a wallet there, Here a pump, there a dump, everywhere pump-dump,

Old Donaldson had a grift, E-I-E-I-O.

My money is on glorification of colonialism. It's this weird idea of rugged pioneers taming the land and building a Free(tm) community outside of the existing system. Shows up all the time with libertarian cranks, and probably not accidentaly does it often include claiming land from an existing population say somewhere in Oceania, because colonialism without robbery is just sparkling migration.

Also see that libertarian town that got destroyed by bears because they didn't want to regulate garbage disposal.

This is twenty percent logic, ten percent myope

Fifteen percent concentrated power of cope

Five percent incel, fifty percent lame

And a hundred percent reason to forget his name