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It is a poor craftsman who blames their tools, but I wouldn’t be so poor if these tools weren’t so shit.




The Major: “Fighting retreat at first light”

Me alone in the trench the morning after next, woken by German voices: “Oh no!”



Due to inflation I now leave at 3:30


Not long before AI just tells me to google it, or read the manual.



And a haunted skeleton masquerading as a media mogul.


And a coffee shop which is widely loved but functionally is just a powerless figurehead.



Make it fade out after 5pm friday and fade back in on monday at 9am.

Charge them extra for working outside of business hours



You obfuscate your code with random dead ends and weird variable names.

I obfuscate my code just by writing normally because I haven’t learned how to write properly.

straightens tie

We are not the same



That is fucked, but I think workers of all ages can be exploited. In my case, working a few different jobs from age 13 to 15 alerted me early to the exploitative behaviour of employers, and I’ve been very diligent in asserting my federal, state, and contractual rights in employment ever since, and to help and insist that co-workers do too.

In fact, I think this lesson is best learned by child workers, because at that age, the value of the lesson is high, and the potential stakes of asserting ones rights are low, EG as a child, if the child is sacked for asserting their rights, they only lose their pocket money. As an adult out in the wild, this could mean risking their income which pays for rent, family, bills, and other critical expenses.






Yeah but all the other jobs don’t leave you with crypto debt up to your eyeballs. I have $83k in credit card debt that I used to buy LUNA.






Programmers who have to deal with data I/O and SQL regularly need to use a spreadsheet to examine, columnize and validate data manually, so that data structures are confirmed to be correct. Nobodys programming in Excel per se, but its still a ubiquitous tool that we use on the regular.


It should be, and should always have been defaulting to the “dont fuck about with my data” setting.

Because there really aren’t too many scenarios where I want my barcodes abbreviated to scientific notation.



DECaf is a pseudo abbreviation for Dangerously and Extraordinarily Caffeinated.

It has a higher KDR than a Panera charged lemonade.







EDIT: To any three-letter agencies who might be reading this post, I was uploading Linux ISOs and scientific research papers. I would never dream of uploading copyrighted material…

Shit, this guys good!


If you have a jpg or png file, you can upload it to Google drive, then right click and open in Google docs, and it will OCR the text for you.


100% onboard with this. Just like imgur before it went shit in like 2014. Free uploaders get basic hosting, limited to 1080p, 5 min videos, max of ~5gb uploads, low-priority authentication/verification/approval, monetization/in-video advertising not allowed.

Subscription for 1hr videos, 50gb storage, streaming (50hrs/mth) monetization allowed.

Premium subscription for 4k, arbitrary length, 500gb (can be increased as required for additional cost)