eric shamow

Ahhhh, I think that's right too and it hurts my brain

yes, exactly - but i intentionally didn't use a computer metaphor because I'm not just talking about engineers or tech people. im talking about ari shapiro and your uncle and aunt and your adult nephew

JP @jplebreton@mastodon.social something platforms like this (that started by wholesale copying a decent % of twitter's patterns) really need is "show me a list of who boosted this post, sorted by how many followers they have". when a random person's post suddenly gets a lot of attention it is imperative you help them know where all the attention is coming from. i wasn't being harassed or anything, but people in other cases absolutely will be.

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Discovered github.com/nektos/act which runs GitHub actions locally in containers and dark magic. It just works! No more
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You need to give it an access token of course.

Soo early morning thought…..

Folks see how having the desire and fulfillment of a never disagreeing servant is destroying empathy and cognition

WHEN IT IS A COMPUTER

but don’t thing slavery could be the foundation dynamic that’s destroying America ?

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

This is something that would show up in patch notes for Civilization 10

I think this is 100% it.

They see the product as deterministic, and they imagine that creating art is "solving a problem" in the way that getting something to compile is

they think of writing as work, and think well if i could get a magic box that did my work for me, of course i would use it. and they legitimately do not understand why some people are appalled by the idea of producing content with AI

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

aside from the current meta-conversation this is entirely true within companies too.

I've seen teams with incredible tech get routed around by the rest of the company because they are so convinced of their own master plan that they stop listening to what users actually need.

tbh i can tell when someone has limited experience in the FOSS space because they often treat the userbase as an annoying burden instead of building out mechanisms to make sure they have a seat at the table.

the internet is riddled with graveyards of FOSS projects that egotrip lowtaxed themselves.

The 39 Steps (1935) Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Sco...

Tonight it's letterboxd.com/film/the-39-...

There's really something special about old/black and white films late at night. When the world outside is quiet it's so much easier to fall into something that feels a little heightened and further from present-day reality

Maybe slightly beside the point but I very much recommend the labeler at xblock.aendra.com

To be clear I'm not saying that's the right call, I'm just trying to imagine myself in the situation.

Ideally in a healthy environment we'd be able to retro all this - what I do not see yet is anything that isn't explainable by him being (maybe overly) cautious & uncommunicative.

I'm very carefully withholding judgment for many reasons - and I'm also holding out the possibility that BOTH sides were partially in error - but given the chaotic nature of the communication, I can understand/sympathize with not being sure who to tell and waiting to hear more. 1/

screenshot of a github discussion titled "Attention to all Haters"

pretty good one too

oh man there's a main character on /r/rust for once

Here's the thing. Over the last few days people have wanted to discourse, or play lawyer, or be petty and weird with minutia

Whatever.

It's real simple to me.

Link being permanently banned is wrong. That decision should be reversed.

Period.

Affirming cartoon explaining that everybody does this and it's ok

Explanatory comment adding that I do not wish to invalidate your feelings but rather provide some affirmation

OK DON'T TAKE ON 6 MORE PROJECTS THO 😅

All of which to say, you're not wrong by any means

VMS admins, etc etc. that lineage was never academic or formalized the way development was (although a few folks like Tom Limoncelli took a crack at documenting it), and a TON of it got baked into the fundamental design assumptions of k8s, too.

understand k8s and was there for the whole saga, and can also perceive how absolutely impenetrable and confusing it is.

I think part of it too is that the old ops culture was fundamentally apprenticeship-based - I learned all my Linux stuff from DEC admins who learned their UNIX from 2/

It's absolutely true. I sort of exist in a liminal superimposed space here - on the one hand I'm eternally the outsider (Docker & k8s happened when I was at Puppet and they made me big mad) and I am also the insider (I've run k8s and managed k8s teams), so in my conception of the world, I both 1/

I think the hard thing for him is his schtick is being the gruff, more-correct-than-you, exhausted older brother, which works 99% of the time

But when he's wrong it doesn't leave him space to apologize and back off, and he doesn't seem to have a Mode B

Agree it's super sad to watch.

Love this naming - I talk a lot about the split between coding & engineering. Coding is fun, hobbyist-friendly. Engineering is (often) boring, predictable, and designed for repetitive low-information work at scale .

They both have their place but it's critical for engineering to enter the chat.

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"!

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Friends, I don't mean to be gross and romantic post all over main but

You really can marry your best friend.

And as someone who did it the other way earlier in life, let me tell you. It's worth holding out for.

Mutual trust & understanding do things love can't do all on its own.