Notices by David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)

This one actually IS on my team, which as far as I can tell is the unicorn of tech jobs:
* manager I like
* teammates I like
* almost all work is open source
* reasonable work/life balance
* remote-first (though this spot is in London)
* work is both interesting and useful to the world (make software harder to surveil + more efficient!)

It’s still a megacorp but as far as I can tell this is as good as that gets.

https://discuss.systems/@steve/113507026874179924

@quephird I always wanted to make an NES emulator that appended all the state to a permanent record and then had a time slider at the bottom so you could scrub through your play history

@inthehands me, extremely sleep deprived: wait why would coffee machine parts go in the clarinet

<rubs eyes>

Ohhhh

@inthehands I kinda wonder how much the “lsd microdose for productivity/innovation” trend feeds into this. My notes from trying 90 micrograms (which is probably higher than “micro” but still firmly below significant visual effect levels) were that the experience included

* feeling excessively clever
* being extremely suggestible
* feeling vaguely worshipful in a nonspecific but religious-feeling way

Entheogens gonna entheogen?

@inthehands now we just need wookieeepedia.org for wookie electrical engineers

@inthehands if this is a Wendy’s then fly me to Neverland

The lack of AC is killing me but this room where I’m staying on vacation almost makes up for it

@inthehands Disco Elysium! Somehow a group of depressed Eastern European communists managed to ship a long philosophical ramble as a really good game.

@thedansimonson @inthehands incidentally, this is why the nrx/eacc/“dark enlightenment” crowd worries me so much. There’s a lot of lonely nerds out there who are convinced that a) they’re exceptionally clever, and b) they’re immune to propaganda, simply because mainstream propaganda mostly isn’t aiming at them. Seen too many friends get lured in :/

@inthehands

Vodka cream sauce always looks so neat when the cream isn’t fully incorporated #cooking

@inthehands @phausler speaking of unseen barriers 😿

Pretty much every time I’ve encountered someone who thought they were stupid it was actually one or more of
* tiredness
* fear/anxiety
* genuinely difficult problems
* executive dysfunction
* lack of information
* lack of practice
* lack of training / poor training (topic experts are often not teaching experts)
* negative preconceptions about themself becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy
* time pressure

I’m pretty skeptical “stupid” is actually a thing
https://mastodon.social/@abizern/113181865941601628

@inthehands thanks for this. I was seeing some “working class is right wing” nonsense being reposted onto my feed

@crazybutable @inthehands oh I have one of those handy actually. CRLF line breaks have absolutely catastrophic unintended consequences due to being the only two byte ASCII grapheme cluster.

Hi new followers! FYI this account is currently being rehydrated after being in storage while I used cohost, but it will probably settle into mostly cooking, cat pictures, and socialist urbanism, with only occasional stuff about Swift.

@quephird 💯💯

@mcc @mark @BillyGlennHoya and it goes even further than magnets! Chappell Roan sings about not only not knowing how kaleidoscopes work, but knowing she'll never know

@savinola this is a kinda weird suggestion and idk if the premise will be workable contextually, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_Stand_(video_game) is kind of exactly this? It's basically "unfamiliar medium stakes social situation simulator"

@quephird @inthehands hey this is still not NEARLY as bad as the time a friend half jokingly suggested adding type inference to ObjC by parsing compiler errors, automatically adding type casts, and trying again.