Notices by Ludic 🧛 (ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club)

Two comments on that Google Form re: trying to start a recruiting company that doesn't treat everyone like dirt:

"I am afraid of Factorio"

"You had my at Factorio"

Ah, the duality of man

I just tried to use the AI features in Airtable and Google Sheets to get this non-profit a quick win before I wrap up for the day, because their medical performance is more important than my vendetta, and god DAMN that shit was absolutely fucking useless. Even as a hater I was kind of astonished.

AirTable in particular, holy moly, fire your AI people.

The only thing that made the final cut was a single ChatGPT-generated Google Sheets formula.

Someone just told me I'm "not the second coming of data engineering Jesus just because I wrote code once and got popular for swearing a lot in a blog".

How do I effectively rebrand as data engineering Jesus to irritate one specific person

@iris_meredith has gone unreasonably hard:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/altman_dunce

I've had a few programmers from third-world countries reach out, and a persistent problem is "buying even a used laptop is $500, which is extremely expensive in my local currency".

Anyone have any giga-brain ideas on the cheapest possible development environment that doesn't freeze up? We'll not stress about the availability of parts in different parts of the world for now.

@jacques Including anything in the design that isn't useful in pure information theory is wasteful. The whole database should be one long string with carefully chosen delimeters if you aren't a coward.

(Also this made me laugh very hard)

Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/

Future posts will be about the dystopian hellscape that I conjure into being at my own business.

@inthehands "couch that looks like ivana" is extremely funny but also so fucking cursed that I am extremely glad that you didn't do this.

@evacide I got invited to AI4 because they literally wanted one person who would swear about AI.

@cchelberg It may have been provoked by a conversation we had, around the idea that corporate culture venerates the trans community to incredible heights, but frequently have no friends with that identity and they rarely, if ever, hire them.

My consultancy is 1/6th trans by a selection algorithm of "who do I like playing board games with that can sell SaaS", which means that corporations are less inclusive than me literally not even trying.

Iris Meredith is a reader that reached out months ago about how job negotiations mysteriously break down the moment employers realize she is trans.

She's now choosing violence, has started a consultancy that does software/DEI work, and just dropped this bomb that will probably get her banned from LinkedIn.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/dei_original_sin

I suspect many here will appreciate it or find it thought-provoking. I've never had a trans colleague despite all my employers paying lip service 24/7.

@Dan It's very hard, but we do our best to support her! I think prior to getting onto Mastodon + meeting Iris, I really didn't appreciate these things as much as I could have. Being brown in Australia comes with minor issues, but it's still easy to be well-paid (in a cog-in-the-machine don't-let-them-give-white-people-orders sort of way). Whereas trans people get hate all the time when I stumble into conversations amongst the general population.

FIAT currency is worthless and you should all buy my cryptocurrency. You can tell it's useful because it's worth so much FIAT currency. ♾️

Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

@inthehands My girlfriend, a vet, introduced me to a very wholesome show called The Elephant Whisperers that I think you'd love.

It also comes up very infrequently because I am not an exemplar of Indian culture, but the two main subjects of the film remind me of my grandparents, which is nice!

Great news everyone! I've written a post on technical work being commodified inspired by a man that embedded thermometers at various points in a chicken breast and then proudly sent me a graph of heat by cook time:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-failed-commodification-of-technical-work/