Have you ever been to PowerShell Summit? It’s the only nerd conference I’ve ever attended where only about half the attendees actually realized they are nerds at a nerd conference. I love the vibe. It’s got style and pizzazz.
That said, the added entry for PowerShell would still be: “You are a nerd.”
Well shit. It’s got me dead to rights on a couple of these.
Kindness can be learned. The difference between being genuinely kind and just constantly successfully mimicing what a kind person would do is - no difference at all, really.
Ultimately, I think people who started as natural assholes make the best kind people - beacuse we don’t just do what feels kind, but we have to examine the results of our attempts at kindness, and adjust if needed.
"The first rule of muppet club is we don’t talk about muppet-what’s that… Oh. Right.
The first rule of muppet club is we have ice cream on Tuesdays.
The second rule of muppet club is - we don’t talk about muppet club.
The third rule of muppet club is we- really? That’s new. No I’m not mad, I just think it reduces the impact. The third rule is we have sherbert on Thursdays.
What’s the fourth rule? Pasta on Saturday? Really. Okay. But there is another rule about talking about muppet club right?"
I think we should bring back web rings, but nobody else seems to miss them.
Edit: I’m so old, I should probably link to what a web ring is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I’m bummed that no one in this thread has an exact duplicate post with more upvotes. Can we make it happen to my post, or is that too childish?
It probably wouldn’t work, but I would warn Martin Luther King’s event organizers or security detail.
I’m old enough that I could have lived in a world where Martin Luthor King Jr was still an active activist in my lifetime. It’s heartbreaking to think about what his loss meant not just symbolically, but in terms of how much better the entire world could have been with almost an extra half century of his influence.
I’ve given up huge piles of cash by choosing to not work for megacorps.
It’s worth it to me.
Confronted with the likelihood that we cannot achieve climate goals.
The current trend line sucks, but we’ve seen plenty of times in history what the ultra rich ignoring the plight of everyone else looks like. Someone please pass the “not with them” list to me to sign when it’s time to chop their heads off.
I wish I was joking, but I’m not. Seriously. I’m not with them. I would like to keep my head while we adjust course abruptly.
Edit: To be clear, I am not advocating. What should happen is that our climate, inequality, and injustice trends get fixed through peaceful cooperation. But our current crop of billionaires don’t show a lot of sign of either wanting that, or having any real awareness of where their current path, historically, goes. Which wouldn’t really be material to me, other than beacuse I’m at risk both from the climate, and from how guillotines historically kill a lot of bystanders.
These made my day. Thank you!
Whatever this is, I need a lot more of it in my life.
I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…
It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s
But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.
I predict that, within the year, AI will be doing 100% of the development work that isn’t total and utter bullshit pain-in-the-ass complexity, layered on obfuscations, composed of needlessly complex bullshit.
That’s right, within a year, AI will be doing .001% of programming tasks.
A thought that may help you enjoy Tron: Legacy - The pacing and style changes are meant to represent the changes in computer technology and specifically gaming, between the eras when the two films came out.
In TRON, there’s a mechanistic pacing that reflects the early computer clock cycles.
In TRON: Legacy, there’s a lot of imagery and plotting around characters trying to find peace, or achieve slowness, or even just rythm - trying to escape the attention starved modern algorithm.
That’s right.
But only because “Vim vs Emacs” is a technically a religious holy war.
It must have been traumatic for that Arch user to discover such rebellion in their child. /s
On a more serious note, if my kids find this post: I hope you know we can talk about closed source software if you’re curious about it - and about maintaining a proper virtual infrastructure to protect the rest of the network from it.
In this thread, a lot of folks who would use their one wish to make the language better.
But I would change “their” to be spelled “the’re” and pronounced “all’y’all’s”.
I hope I do grow up to be more like the rest of you, and make better choices, in the future.
Programming with AI help is like having the expert chef at my shoulder, giving me tips, but he’s high as hell on three different mild altering drugs.
Then he’s like “That cake needs some lemon juice. Trust me.”
And a Python developer is born!
Source: I moved on from an abusive relationship with JavaScript to a healthy not-at-all-controlling equal partner relationship with Python. And four spaces makes perfect sense, once I really considered Python’s point of view…