Notices by Random Geek (randomgeek@masto.hackers.town)

@siina i keep warning people but NOOO

@skinnylatte for most of the 90s I don't think I knew anybody who was.

But I was living in a liberal arts college town, so that could be a factor.

@glyph all of python’s success as a general purpose language and now its future feels stapled to that of AI.

I like my little customer service rituals ("hello how are you," "this is yours," "thanks and take care") because—well—because I like little rituals.

They also provide little checkpoints to pause and confirm all is well before rushing to the next. I pause so I can go faster.

If I cut out my rituals, I'd be so much slower. I've tried.

Kinda wish I got a higher res image, but still. Pretty nifty sunset and the clouds saying "F this particular spot right here."

#Tucson

A known thing, but I’ll say it anyways: credit scores are weird and stupid.

The month after I start paying on delinquent bills, my FICO drops 70 points because I have too much debt?

The debt is less than it was last month. Whatever, magic number box.

*mumble* *grumble* opaque algorithms

@socketwench was the article written by an eight year old grandparent?

It was a good day at work.

I shared that I have family from Finland, and my new Ukrainian coworker was very excited for the opportunity to talk smack about Russia.

@tinydoctor I was thinking more RSK

Robert Semple Kennedy

@lanodan @cwebber just imagined a turtle drawing a program interpreted by a turtle running on a VM drawn by a turtle rendering on a virtual display drawn by OW MY BRAIN

LOGO or zoological. Either way.

@cwebber can we solve it in Logo? No reason. I just thought it would be cool if the solution involved turtles.

@inthehands @jenniferplusplus oh. I think this culture tone—and my sort of willful distaste for it?—are a major part of why my brain decided an indeterminate break for professional tech was called for.

@laescude @skinnylatte well dang.

You can't imagine how much I hoped this thought habit was confined to the US.

@skinnylatte It's absolute madness. Something along the lines of "being aware of racism is racist"?

I bumped into this thinking from someone several years back who I suddenly no longer wanted to pursue a romantic relationship with.

@raganwald @mhoye silly me not being intimately familiar with fascism or dystopias and on first watch thinking that the ignorance and incompetence were just color, not load-bearing requirements.

@villares @orbita isn't it weird how often thought leaders use "democratization" when talking about centralized resources metered out on a pay-per-transaction basis?

@villares that interpretation of democratization—removing skilled work—yeah. Immediately made me think of a quote by Isaac Asimov in 1980.

Let Skype rest in peace, and let us all thank Teams for, years ago, relieving Skype of the burden of being the worst chat app on the planet.

Just described model-generated code as "instant technical debt" and I have to make sure not to use that in a job interview.

Installing a Node-based application via `npx`.

Quite a bit of deprecated, no longer supported, moved, no longer maintained, and sunset notifications.

Cherry on top is at the end "Your Node.js version n is not supported. Please use n-5 (recommended), n-3, or n-1 instead"

I am not filled with confidence.