the idea that someone flashes their status by wearing an expensive watch is so beyond me, it's like reading about the behavior of another species. I have never, ever noticed an expensive watch. maybe a cool one, with a lil calculator.
Thinking about how last week's episode, with the time travel, was actually pretty good but made me feel worse about the show because via time travel it was in effect repeatedly posting the question "hey, didn't these characters and their character dynamics used to be so much more interesting?". Anyway about to watch this week's episode and kind of I kind of don't want to
not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible
for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data
and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"
like
no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sabox customer panic so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party baloons emoju by default"
For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.
Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):
made "named arguments" work on the rpc toy, which is fun because go does not have named arguments, and you also can't use reflect to get the names of arguments
thinking about how my industry is piloted by nepobabies and failsons, and the leaders who don't spend 80% of their time sabotaging the product are hailed as visionaries
and well, i'm also thinking about how armies were stuffed with inbred nobility, people who believed they were born to rule, and how they kept getting defeated by military geniuses
have seen a new startup advertising "ci, but without yaml!" and "if it runs on your machine, it passes in the cloud!"
and like i know i'm old but "writing a shell script" and "not needing root to run a test suite" feel like problems that can be solved without writing integration code for a cloud based test SDK