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!

I’m sure they’re happy to hear they’re shills to new-hitler as per some internet rando.

“That thing that can be consumed cleanly in the right equipment return 95% of the energy used to make it” – also styrofoam

Assumes facts not in evidence.

America has not

50.1% of the voters seems representative, unfortunately.

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.

independance

Independence

Shutdown: noun

Shut down: verb

You can’t straddle the lane.

It’s a guy who sang a song and it stayed at number 1 on the UK pop charts for the longest of any song ever.

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.

Surviving Mars: Free Earth Radio

I’ll listen to that on eternal repeat through a full day of work.

I love how it went from a pic to a shop to a meme to now merch.

I’d buy it.

However, we can support it as a “non-American Company”, right? Let’s not harm the fine people of Brasil over America’s stupidity.

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?

Um. War ages people; especially if it’s taking place where you live.

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?