Notices by Daniel (mrtazz@chaos.social)

The irony of https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai in my browser and👇🏻in my expenses

"To capitalism, sustainability always looks like underutilization" 🔥🔥🔥

Soon I'll have finished "How infrastructure works" and will (probably) stop quoting @debcha. But today is not that day.

@debcha thank you for writing it! I'm about 2/3 through and thoroughly enjoying every chapter so far!

This passage from @debcha's "How Infrastructure works" is such a truth that often gets forgotten or ignored on the hunt for profit. It's a very familiar and recurring theme in resilience engineering texts and research. And it also rings true for me in this current trend of continuous layoffs that take more and more slack and capacity out of tech systems being maintained (in addition to the human cost) as remaining humans need to do more work in the same amount of time.

@janl ah ja das Berliner ritual morgens um 8:30 die Website im Loop zu refreshen um zu schauen ob sie neue Termine eingestellt haben die noch nicht geclaimed wurden

A Pinky & Brain spin-off for grown ups that always starts with them sitting tired at coffee in the morning:

Pinky: "What are we going to do tonight?"
Brain: "Same thing we do every night. Try to go to bed early"

And then the whole episode is just about how stuff comes up and prevents them from going to bed early.

"If all you have is an MC Hammer, everything looks like you can't touch it"

- ancient proverb