Notices by Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net), page 6

How the hell do these people think “mass deportation” of tens of millions of people will look?

You think the tens of millions of collaborators will look up your papers and check your status?

It will be “You brown, you out” or as we saw here in Europe: “You got stuff I want I will turn you in and steal your stuff”.

People are so fucking naive it drives me up the wall.

They fucking lost thousands of children. Over thousand are still fucking lost.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113409555008282023

And I’m getting fucking tired of leftists who are pretending Trump won’t build a whites only seaside resort in Gaza after he’s helped with the genocide.

As a European listening to Americans casually throwing out: “Yeah, I might just vote for Trump since I don’t know if I love Kamala’s face.” Sounds like: “Yeah, I might just vote for Hitler for the lolz”

This election scares the shit out of me.

This lecture is the best I’ve seen in analyzing economic policy in the period after the pandemic and the causes of the inflation we’ve seen. 52 minutes well spent. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112848288174919284

- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.

*thinks*

Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.

Trying to teach the kids that we were silly on the internet before they were even born.
https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI?si=Jh-5z0r-A-GO6_bp

Doing too many things means I simultaneously am kind of bad at everything and also getting way more done. But… the first part is bugging me.

I didn’t even know that there was a word for what I was until I was an adult and read “non-binary” on the internet, and it was like I for once wasn’t “wrong” in the universe.

And today seeing people talking about trans and nonbinary people as “identity politics”… it’s really sad.

We always existed. We’re not new. Is it so much to ask to just be allowed to exist without hiding?

Norwegian politicians annoying me part 2369: one article saying that workers should be penalized for illness (from the fucking Labour Party because why the hell not), while 2 politicians are currently on sickleave because one embezzled money from their party and the others spouse has apparently been planting secret cameras in bathrooms for years.

“About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’”

- Why fix the climate when we won’t live long enough to regret it?

I just can’t. Why the hell is what these people believe my problem???

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/08/about-four-in-ten-u-s-adults-believe-humanity-is-living-in-the-end-times/

Guy on podcast: twice as many Americans, compared to the global population, believe that The Apocalypse will happen in their lifetime.

… that explains a lot, actually

An American guy at a tech conference told me to my face that the only way to fix the climate was for the whole of humanity to fall to their knees and repent.

I stared at him gobsmacked thinking he must’ve been messing with me, but no. This quite prominent guy was not only serious, he felt perfectly comfortable saying it to another adult.

Lookit @b0rk 🫶

Oh wow, there is drama in C/C++ (I said it, sue me 😈) and Rust land where a core maintainer quit the Rust/Linux project because C/C++ people got upset someone came to play in their sandbox.

I think I’m ok doing Kotlin tbh.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1f3scn1/one_of_the_rust_linux_kernel_maintainers_steps/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

People worry that rich people are leaving Norway to avoid taxation, and rich Norwegians are tweeting from Switzerland that they are going to spend their money abroad. Thinking it’s a threat. But if the problem is that the absolute excess of money in the hands of the rich, is ruining the economy for the rest of us… then them not spending it here is good? Good for us at least, not great for the people who live where they took all that money, maybe.

A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.

Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.

Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.

Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.

And they don’t get the hype they deserve.

Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.

Googling “insomnia” is as infuriating as googling “make baby sleep”.

Seriously. Some people should have their keyboard rights revoked.

The way folks talk about the Sahm rule is interesting, because they say “it’s never wrong!”, but… I mean of course it isn’t, it was literally the result of looking at past recessions, it was published in 2019. It feels like people are screaming: look the graph fits perfectly with these data points, and the graph was actually created by connecting those same dots.

Maybe it’s just me. It feels like it’s just me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahm_rule

I didn’t mean this to be a Kamala vs Trump thing, but lol, who is the “too emotional” candidate? It’s not exactly a hard call 🤣

What’s weird about the economy is that it is surprisingly irrational and emotion based. It is possible that the central banks have put us in this position unnecessarily based on weird unscientific theories and assumptions, and it might be that indicators of a recession is what pushes us into a recession because people get scared.

It’s like when people tell me women are too emotional, and I look back at a career full of men in meeting rooms shouting, calling people names, banging the table, storming out and slamming the door behind them. While I haven’t once seen a woman do any of those things.

Economists: people are rational
People: hold my beer 🍺