

I read it in Kelsey’s voice, and then after your comment I re-read it in Norm’s voice.
Thanks for that.
I read it in Kelsey’s voice, and then after your comment I re-read it in Norm’s voice.
Thanks for that.
fucken
Bone apple tea!
Look at Sweden, again dunking dunking on rest of us without even trying. ;-)
I lived on an island in the North Pacific for years. I worked on the ocean in a floating house and working on aluminum catwalks a few feet above the water all day.
If course I don’t know how to swim. If I don’t have a floater coat on, I’m fucked. If I do, I bob and hope for rescue. But have your lines in place if you’re out in weather because the ocean does not give a fuck. In the North Pacific, your lifespan is the water is measured in "well fuck"s.
I lived near a lake as a child. I could hold my breath for so long. I dove a lot. Never learned to swim.
Swim lessons were expensive and we were poor. Swimming is essentially a pastime of the privileged and we were not. Same with skiing. Same with hockey and football.
Meh.
Shutdown: noun
Shut down: verb
You can’t straddle the lane.
I’ve said it before, but this is a 20-year-old problem.
After Y2K, all those shops that over-porked on devs began shedding the most pricey ones; worse in ‘at will’ states.
Who were those devs? Mentors. They shipped less code, closed fewer tickets, cost more, but their value wasn’t in tickets and code: it was investing in the next generation. And they had to go because #numbersGoUp
And they left. And the first gen of devs with no mentorship joined and started their careers. No idea about edge cases, missing middles or memory management. No lint, no warnings, build and ship and fix the bugs as they come.
And then another generation. And these were the true ‘lost boys’ of dev. C is dumb, C++ is dumb, perl is dumb, it’s all old, supply chain exploits don’t exist, I made it go so I’m done, fuck support, look at my numbers. It’s all low-attention span, baling wire and trophies because #numbersGoUp.
And let’s be fair: they’re good at this game, the new way of working where it’s a fast finish, a head-pat, and someone else’s problem. That’s what the companies want, and that’s what they built.
They say now that relying on Ai makes one never really exercise critical thought and problem-solving, and I see it when I’m forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won’t learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember. But we’re seeing people do that with actual work; with go and rust code, and yeah, no concept of why we want to check for completeness let alone a concept of how.
What do we do, though?
If we’re in a position to do so, FAIL some code reviews on corner cases. Fail some reviews on ISO27002 and supply chain and role sep. Fail some deployments when they’re using dev tools in prod. And use them all as teachable moments. Honestly, some of them got no mentorship in college if they went, and no mentorship in their first ten years as a pro. It’s going to be hard getting over themselves, but the sooner they realise they still have a bunch to learn, the better we can rebuild coders. The hardest part will be weaning them off GPT for the cheats. I don’t have a solution for this.
One day these new devs will proudly install a patch in the RTOS flashed into your heart monitor and that annoying beep will go away. Sleep tight.
I think it’s unlikely that Canada would formally resist and hold the border for long…
The border will fall very quickly, and that’s just expected given the 10:1 outnumbering and the amazing weaponry. Our best play is to let that fall quickly and fight a resistance, should it come to that. It’s gonna be horrific.
Have we applied the same scrutiny to HFCS or refined Sugar itself? Or does sugar get a pass because it was the first plant processed for its sweetness?
Working without the largest collection of complacent consumers is gonna be a difficult little pill to swallow. I think countries like ours are building half-assed contingency deals and still half hoping some effort will reign in the stupid in time.
Noah’s reboot didn’t work
A goat-farmer who piled all his livestock on a raft when the river flooded, and whose story has been embellished so much it’s nothing like the original? That Noah?
comm
commerce? Communism? Communications ? Committee?
So fetch.
Setup: noun (set-up)
Set up: verb
You need to pick the right lane, man.
costing running all of this in AWS
The cost will be oh, so much more than you’re expecting. I have not been at a shop where they didn’t later go “oh shit. Repatriate that stuff so it doesn’t cost us a mint.”
So, like, the normal way, then?
You forgot “day-Kals”, stress on the second half. #ohCanada
Screenshot the image on screen and feed the snap into the app.
“person leaves as planned in previous proclamation” is terrible news. We’ve heard this before.
This is funnier as a twin.
till
Plough? Cash-drawer?
I’m stunned you don’t understand why this is a problem.
This was absolutely trivial stuff before the great Y2K layoffs, so if you can’t figure it out, ask someone who was releasing software professionally back then.
And please, if you learn something from this, try to help others.