Microsoft is going to discover the joys of the Dead Sea Effect. You know what makes them more liable to leave? The money’s nice, but it’s because they’re talented.

You know what’s left once all the talent has evaporated? Just the salt.

That’s my solution.

My office gets chilly often. I may need to get a fluffy hoodie too.

It’s gonna get repurposed into a pillar of our surveillance hellscape, attempting to weed out people who are guilty of precrimes or thoughtcrimes

You’ve created an entire narrative around this. That’s impressive.

Canada just announced Anthropic’s going to have a massive data center in one of its tiny maritime provinces, likely enticed to the region via hand outs from the govt

Nova Scotia, but contrary to the assumption of government hand-outs, it is being hailed as the largest privately funded investment in the province’s history.

explain what you’re spending it on and why, giving it a business reason and a project to associate the costs to

I love these chilling effects

Yes. Refactoring for clue will be a huge growth market; and so many people will be just unable to fill those roles now with the mental degradation.

I feel like we’re co-workers, with how perfectly that timeline matched the day-job’s progression.

We’re at “did you take the seminar on looping that uses tokens like a firehouse so you can use less tokens? Why are you using too little (/not enough) tokens, and why is it not magically 10x-ing all of your (fucking ansible) config?” Or some shit.

But it’s a fucking container.

So - speaking as a former security guy - no.

Yeah, so fuck them.

I just saw someone call it “cuck coding” (vs “vibe coding”), because you just sit there.

This would make meat proxies Code Cucks instead.

I bet some projects will get more tolerance and love than others, based on value and utility. The kernel will get more, and Systemd will get less.

of that generation

Ouch.

I think ‘we’ have about 20 years left in us. That’s long enough for an entire new pet language to be born, surge, wane, and then die. …or 27 entirely new web frameworks.

which one is the violent one? I have to know!

I’m non-container - too much time in security - but that’s a wicked workflow. Well done.

You updated f’jo with renovate? Badass.

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Can you bullseye womp-rats in this T-16 back home?

Ev’s

EVs. Save the apostrophes from over-harvesting.

harms

Have we forgotten how to pluralize mass nouns? Back to the 2nd grade with you!