I keep hearing "Well, you can't put the genie back in the bottle..." wrt AI from the same people who are promoting it so hard.
If it's so great, why would you *want* to? Isn't that an aphorism for something destructive, or at least negatively impactful?
Also, I just don't agree with the premise.
If it's so great, why would you *want* to? Isn't that an aphorism for something destructive, or at least negatively impactful?
Also, I just don't agree with the premise.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I keep hearing "Well, you can't put the genie back in the bottle..." wrt AI from the same people who are promoting it so hard.
If it's so great, why would you *want* to? Isn't that an aphorism for something destructive, or at least negatively impactful?
Also, I just don't agree with the premise.
If it's so great, why would you *want* to? Isn't that an aphorism for something destructive, or at least negatively impactful?
Also, I just don't agree with the premise.
Don't worry, as a resident of NYC suburbs we're not putting up with the bullshit from people who threaten to leave with Mamdani's win either.
Congrats New York, wish I was still living there to celebrate.
Congrats New York, wish I was still living there to celebrate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Don't worry, as a resident of NYC suburbs we're not putting up with the bullshit from people who threaten to leave with Mamdani's win either.
Congrats New York, wish I was still living there to celebrate.
Congrats New York, wish I was still living there to celebrate.
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Okay now that he’s conceded, it’s time for Curtis Sliwa to hang upside down by his feet like a bat for three years or whatever he does between elections.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Okay now that he’s conceded, it’s time for Curtis Sliwa to hang upside down by his feet like a bat for three years or whatever he does between elections.
The whole "Should millionaires be subsidized to ride the bus/have free child care?" debate is so wildly ridiculous.
If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"
If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The whole "Should millionaires be subsidized to ride the bus/have free child care?" debate is so wildly ridiculous.
If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"
If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
At Etsy, we had an upgrade go out for MySQL with Chef. Meant to go to one server, instead upgraded all of production. During that time, it had to update very tall tables, which mean locking them from any reads or writes. Turned into a multi-hour downtime where we just had to wait for it to finish.
#hugOps story time! Quote this and tell me the biggest incident you ever saw in production. It’s inevitable, it’s gonna happen, and learning from incidents is way better than shitting on people trying to fix them.
I’ll start :)
hazelweakly.me/blog/mother-...
I’ll start :)
hazelweakly.me/blog/mother-...
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
At Etsy, we had an upgrade go out for MySQL with Chef. Meant to go to one server, instead upgraded all of production. During that time, it had to update very tall tables, which mean locking them from any reads or writes. Turned into a multi-hour downtime where we just had to wait for it to finish.
Man, I forgot about MF Doom, shame on me. So good.
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Man, I forgot about MF Doom, shame on me. So good.
"It's a tremendous amount of work to solve problems you're creating".
Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.
Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"It's a tremendous amount of work to solve problems you're creating".
Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.
Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.
I guess now is a great time to get bad opinions out there.
I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.
I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.
September 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I guess now is a great time to get bad opinions out there.
I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.
I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.
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Software incidents are painful, and we're trying to help change that. If you deal with incidents in your work, please help us help you!
Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey
Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey
VOID Survey
The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.
www.thevoid.community
September 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Software incidents are painful, and we're trying to help change that. If you deal with incidents in your work, please help us help you!
Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey
Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey
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The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed.
Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.
Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.
September 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed.
Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.
Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.
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Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
"Will, write the scariest monster for your D&D game"
*Points at Hazel*
*Points at Hazel*
Have you learned about my favorite character prank, the Greek question mark?
It looks identical to a semicolon. Just sprinkle it into a C codebase and have fun
#define ; ;
It looks identical to a semicolon. Just sprinkle it into a C codebase and have fun
#define ; ;
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Will, write the scariest monster for your D&D game"
*Points at Hazel*
*Points at Hazel*
I'm actually kind of a pacifist...
*reads*
Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.
*reads*
Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.
they asked what George Lucas film was #1 in 1977 and he said "Star Wars" and they said it was actually Star Wars IV A New Hope
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I'm actually kind of a pacifist...
*reads*
Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.
*reads*
Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.
Hey, we're going to play some D&D!!
The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.
Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/
The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.
Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/
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August 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Hey, we're going to play some D&D!!
The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.
Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/
The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods.
Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/
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and I am trying to think of how to explain to this man that I literally DO NOT KNOW HOW to not smile when an exercise hurts
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
August 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
and I am trying to think of how to explain to this man that I literally DO NOT KNOW HOW to not smile when an exercise hurts
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator”
and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
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The search for work continues!
- Podcast Editing
- Sound Design
- TTRPG Design
- TTRPG Editing
- Project Coordination
Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most.
Please boost and share! Rates will follow.
- Podcast Editing
- Sound Design
- TTRPG Design
- TTRPG Editing
- Project Coordination
Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most.
Please boost and share! Rates will follow.
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The search for work continues!
- Podcast Editing
- Sound Design
- TTRPG Design
- TTRPG Editing
- Project Coordination
Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most.
Please boost and share! Rates will follow.
- Podcast Editing
- Sound Design
- TTRPG Design
- TTRPG Editing
- Project Coordination
Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most.
Please boost and share! Rates will follow.
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When Github is having its weekly failure but the Github status page says "All Systems Operational"
a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies "
Alt: Bender from Futurama saying "Enough of your lies!"
media.tenor.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When Github is having its weekly failure but the Github status page says "All Systems Operational"
AI in software development feels like we wished on a monkeys paw. "Man, there's so much new stuff every day. I wish we could focus on just *one* for a while..."
August 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
AI in software development feels like we wished on a monkeys paw. "Man, there's so much new stuff every day. I wish we could focus on just *one* for a while..."
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once again saying that your AI can sense your commitment to old view monocausal failure analysis and responds accordingly
August 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
once again saying that your AI can sense your commitment to old view monocausal failure analysis and responds accordingly
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I loooooved chatting with my good friend @ellaceron.bsky.social about writing for her newsletter! Here’s a brief excerpt of me being a real AI hater. Read the whole interview: open.substack.com/pub/ellacero...
August 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I loooooved chatting with my good friend @ellaceron.bsky.social about writing for her newsletter! Here’s a brief excerpt of me being a real AI hater. Read the whole interview: open.substack.com/pub/ellacero...
YouTube has gone so very unhinged with ads. I'm getting two ads (the first 15 seconds and unskippable, and then a 30 second skippable after 5 seconds) every 5 minutes while watching some videos.
Completely untenable.
Completely untenable.
August 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
YouTube has gone so very unhinged with ads. I'm getting two ads (the first 15 seconds and unskippable, and then a 30 second skippable after 5 seconds) every 5 minutes while watching some videos.
Completely untenable.
Completely untenable.
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It’s not you; it’s not a personal flaw!!
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It’s not you; it’s not a personal flaw!!
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...