Powderhorn

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

It’s only hubris when it leads to your downfall.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

I was angling for a coding role in my last job search. I am not in the area code of a know-it-all there. But here, I just apply 26 years of experience to determine news value.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Dunning-Kruger applies when you aren’t already competent.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

I have been trying for so many jobs, and I never qualified in tech. I’m trying to determine what this now looks like. Journalism is this sort of thing where there is a substantial wall at roughly Sept. 10, 2001.

From here, those aware of how shit worked up to there was not ideal.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Shareholders and journalism do not mix. All this prevarication on the part of the Times stems directly from wanting to goose numbers sted committing journalism. And goosing is a time-honoured first step.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

It’s abundantly clear that we are not going to learn from history.

The really fucking ironic point is bin Laden’s stated goal was to destabilize the U.S., and boy, howdy. No need to enumerate the problems stemming from that.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

We had a far more robust fifth estate 24 yeas ago, and that election is as much as anything what got us started down this path. Before 2000, election results were simply accepted.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Darmok and Jalad …

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Always the sign of a stable democracy.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

A genuine Bob Ross-level happy accident hitting the magma before.

I’m curious where full production at this new plant would leave the nation as a whole, given the 90% for residential usage and 70% of overall use of geothermal. That with extra efficiency is sort of the holy grail for renewables, since batteries are no longer central to resiliency (short of maintenance, of course). 100% uptime at constant output with zero emissions in excess of a nation’s needs would be amazing.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

I had a great conversation with that professor, so a big part of the challenge was keeping the topic to “things a general audience likely doesn’t know but could easily understand in context.”

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

This is an education problem as much as – if not moreso than – a tech problem. Before the GOP gutted critical thinking wherever they held a majority and two generations were able to grow up under those circumstances, a video of any current president rounding up Christians would have been roundly rejected as either satirical or disinformation by the vast majority of the population, owing to the absurdity of the idea.

Once we got to the point of a not-insignificant minority of the population believing that the true power in the United States lies in the basement of a pizza shop with no basement …

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

It’s also then just one step removed from refusing to accept any friends or romantic partners who don’t do exactly what you want at all times because life is supposed to be tailored to you.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Making the decision to fucking go back … That’s its own thing. What I’m looking at is how for some fucking reason, this is all about something other than conveying news.

It’s a good thing I know how to talk to press folk. It’s almost a D/s thing at this point. Couple days in, oh, yeah, the National Science Foundation is there for it.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

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From the story: Business groups opposed to the rule, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have said that the contracts are necessary to protect proprietary information and training, and justify investing in workers who might otherwise immediately jump to a competitor.

No employer in any field I’ve applied in since around 2006 has wanted to do any training beyond operating requisite proprietary vendor software. The expectation is that you’re fully educated in all other skills that might ever be needed, preferably having worked in Rust for 63 years and internal-combustion-engine design since the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Proprietary info has always been need-to-know and, where possible, distributed such that no one below the C-suite knows how all the parts interact, even as those same leaders have no functional understanding of how the parts actually act.

All noncompetes do is drive down wages.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

Mixed bag this week. Like, life went from being stuck in neutral to getting a job (but then not starting today because IT didn’t create my account) and having to navigate healthcare decisions for my dad while also getting back online after an IRS refund actually went through for the first time in years.

Pretty sure I’ve not gone to bed with the same mindset I awoke in for a couple of weeks at this point, and while most of the developments are good, I’m nearly in overload in terms of processing ability. Neutral to fifth only works if you’re already going 60 mph.

Powderhorn, 1 month ago

I went to school with a Palestinian woman when I first started at community college. Smart, friendly and aware of how the world viewed her. That we collectively assume these are terrorists because we’re told to is rather a regurgitation of the three-fifths problem.