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This weekend was my second date with a really sweet guy! I cannot remember ever feeling so alive.

Do you have evidence of leaders in the organization making hard choices to do the right thing?

This went from a hard yes to a soft no and I don’t know if it’s soul crushing but it feels super crappy.

megabool is_boy(const Coder *coder);

Just a heads up you forgot a word between “you” and “me” I think

I’ve been wondering the same, so hard. I feel like at this point I’d like to see a comparative study of the job of people that see it VS the job of people that don’t.

I remember some twenty years ago when I finished college I had this internship that turned into a summer job afterwards. Prestigious organization in fancy skyscraper. Our teachers were a bit nervous about it since it was the first time the got the org to accept interns and made it clear we should be extremely grateful and well behaved, or else.

Godfuck the job was boring. This massive tentacular place had a million subdivisions doing roughly the same thing in a different region but somehow each had enough torque to get to have their own little website with a different interface design and a handful of different fields. Our job was to rewrite backends from [boring old basic MS tech] to [shiny new overengineered MS tech]. Dozens and dozens of roughly alike but not entirely identical backends. After months of work there was still at least as much to do as had been done. The architects in place had no desire for harmonization or reuse. They knew be heart the features the seemed to rewrite periodically in a fancier ways.

Sometimes I wonder how many places feel like that, how many programmers embrace the repetitive churn, oblivious to the affront against the very core of software this represents. If these are the ones that see it.

If I had to guess I’d say some corporations specialized in fucking up ecosystems bribed him. As a result they will enjoy a short term increase in profits (or at least in stock market valuation) from being able to conduct business unchecked.

I’m far from having the final say on anything at my org. They’ve just decided not to embrace the slop. Sorry you’re in that kind of your company. Just be careful with skill atrophy.

I suggest you design the core bits of your project, actually fucking program it yourself, see what works and what doesn’t, review design, and repeat. (This is a programming community.)

It puts the beauty in the ugly

they say “thoughts & prayers” but it’s just prayers

I think this paragraph from Nature’s article is very relevant:

The company has not revealed all the precise details and steps of how it did this, nor the name of the AI system that achieved the result

Ah yes, yet again an AI company achieves a great thing “by AI” with a perfectly opaque model in a perfectly opaque way. Why don’t they show their users how to unleash the full potential of their product? Reproducibility or GTFO.

He’s such simp for any dictator he meets. What an embarrassment.

A pet project with a sufficient incentive (here, friends) is a perfect opportunity to pick up a new language too!

Garbage In Garbage Out

I’m touched you chose to share, and I see better what you mean. Don’t you think for a second you’re hijacking or whatnot 😊

Hey big hugs friend I’m happy for you being well on your way to self discovery. It’s the hardest, and the best gift we can give ourselves.

Yes, yes and yes!

Although I can be picky with movies and anime since I’m just ridiculously skittish. Horror is a big no~no.

I love programming! Been doing it for twenty+ years and always learning. I’m toying with awk lately although it’s been hard to focus so progress is slow even for such a simplistic language. I kind of miss experimenting with opinionated languages like haskell or Common Lisp to heal from the web dev work.

I play no multiplayer games yet but I have a mind to get into FFXIV. In the single player department I’ve been enjoying Witch Spring R lately :3

Absolutely! Lately I’ve gotten support for nail painting from the wonderful women at the Blahaj transfem community, including Nikki’s :)

Good point about the mid-life crisis being valid. I really dislike the mockery made out of it. I’ve had to deal with that prejudice from the ex and it stung more than it should have.

You’re absolutely right about being open to my daughter. She’s 18. If I wasn’t open to her about my struggles and about my own queerness than she probably wouldn’t have felt safe enough to share with me that she’s my daughter and not my son.

Thanks for the good wishes and reassurance, it means so much.