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This has been my experience in San Francisco over the past 15 years. The techbro types, who see technology as a way to get rich, often share the same worldview that life is about “winning” and in this business you “win” if you are smarter than others, so therefore since they are “winning”, they are smart and deserve everything they get (or… take). But, that mentality and their behavior and the culture it creates can often influence humble, empathetic people into that toxic self-hype cycle.

White dude in software here to echo the same sentiment. So many of my colleagues have never experienced any hardship of their own or viewpoints of people with different experiences. They don’t think about how their privilege has helped them get where they are, and how their company culture often subtly (at best!) reinforces their worldview and massages their egos. They’ve never tried to think critically about their “meritocracy” or “libertarian” beliefs and how many people are unjustly excluded from the lifestyle they enjoy.

20 years in software development for me.

Maybe I’ll regret asking, but what could “haiku-level brilliant” even mean?

http://xkcd.com/1205/

I have 37TB of media and another 10 in the download queue waiting for storage to be freed up. Which probably would equate to tens of thousands of torrents (or nzbs in my case). So it was absolutely worth my time

Can I get unavailable AI overviews for all my searches? Then Google has a chance to be usable again

I use it for work so it felt natural to do it at home too. If anyone has time to learn it as a hobby and doesn’t mind a challenge, I recommend it. But IMO you need to already be familiar with a lot of containerization concepts

I use k3s and argocd to keep everything synced to the configuration checked into a git repo. But I wouldn’t recommend that to someone just getting started with containers; kubernetes is a whole new beast to wrestle with.

I hope they meet hexbear soon

“lug around”? the server(s) are 100% in a data center, no way this is a single computer on prem. no company, especially facebook, deploys software that way in 2025

Hey now, some of us Americans are treating him like the dead fascist propagandist that he is

I’m gonna need more red streamers for my Kirkmas decorations

That’s how we know not to do it anymore

Knowledge tells you it’s safe to push to prod in Fridays. Wisdom tells you not to. Experience raises your heart rate at the very thought (though, that might actually be ptsd)

Oh, so only for discussing topics the authorities consider verboten

That’s about the coolest thing you could say. Thus the paradox of cool

Me, I just have never reinstalled my OS partition in 15ish years

Why would you use the Ai dj to feed you songs, when the normal daily mixes, daylist, etc are giving you the same songs without the fake personality injected between them? I literally do not understand. I’m open to your thoughts - it’s just that it seems like an alien perspective.

Those other species weren’t the authors of the global ecosystem’s demise, even with an understanding of the situation and opportunity to change the course of events

Not really a fair comparison, is what I’m saying.

So… close the browser window? It’s not the boss of you

Oh don’t get me twisted. I oppose the lame capitalists

I don’t mind reading their points of view. I block people that cross lines but overall I appreciate different viewpoints.