Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)

@trochee Dorsey definitely started selling weed before it was legal.

I would like to believe that if I had a billion dollars I would not dress like somebody who always wanted to sell weed but only started after it was legal.

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

(not quite on point but also extremely on point)

Lynch once famously said "... people want me to talk about my movies, but... the movie is the talking".

And ... I'm just in awe of the idea of creating something so thoroughly, of having the conviction that everything you have to say about it is already there in the work. That it's up to the audience to see it.

I think about that all the time.

We've lost David Lynch.

God dammit.

@jwz This guy's been working on it for a long time: https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/deflate.html

The current best looks to be "420 bytes of PNG expand to represent 50 gigapixels and 141 GB in memory".

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

#masculineenergy

Bringing that masculine energy.

This is the “masculine energy” they’re talking about, for the record.

Anyway, our junior engineer edgelord friend here did not read every line of SQLite, MySQL or Postgres before choosing a backing store. I’ll even bet you a dollar they just gave AWS a CC number while saying “actually obviously scale”.

My experience - and this may not be yours but it’s definitely mine - is that the way people who say stuff like this actually make technical decisions is by puffing out their chests like a pigeon and repeating some shit they saw in a hackernews comment last week.

This is definitely how it works in other fields, right? I remember getting my drivers license, and how difficult it was to demonstrate a mastery of not just metallurgy, electrical engineering, urban planning and petroleum chemistry, but also parallel parking. I still remember how impressive it was when everyone was making sourdough at the start of the pandemic - where are you all finding time to learn soil management, combine harvester maintenance and global shipping logistics?

@jplebreton probably a regular frigatebird with a self esteem issue.

The pervasive political illiteracy in the software world runs so deep that people can say things like this with a straight face, expect to be taken seriously, and sometimes _are_ taken seriously.

I have an alternative view: that this is 100% victim blaming, a totally unacceptable worldview for a responsible engineer to hold, and a screaming red no-hire flag.

https://fosstodon.org/@heapwolf/113830136140530054