@sarahofswords
A frequently-deleted record of random takes on the daily outrages we suffer. Ex-Google, ex-FB, ex-whatever has formed my tech opinions. SRE. Also, miniature painting, Warhammer, foreign languages, and books.
we live in times where some of the population is writing incantations to get daemons to do their work for them, and another part is impeaching the angels to end the world while they worship a wannabe corpse emperor so
let's wizard / mythos this shit
Paul Wolfowitz popping up like the crypt keeper
I want to be able to see Nuremberg 2.0 through the Overton window
(spit take)
what better way to learn about Roman history than to repeat all of its greatest blunders and suffer the exigencies of war and political collapse at 100x speed
war really is how Americans learn geography, if not physics
wonder if that Kuwaiti pilot is thinking 'just two more for ace'
"it would be unconscionable to hold these promising young men accountable for the actions of a few bad nouns
perhaps some kind of age verification on the internet will prevent American racism"
move fast and break things?
no, more like an ork waaaaaaauuughh
what atrocity do they have planned for after market close
this era is 10x more annoying than the early cloud or early linux days because everyone with a middle school diploma can be an armchair expert in anything. this isn't new, it's just accelerated. trick is, as always, to ignore the bullshitters and keep learning & building new stuff
"great word, very old fashioned word, 'fatwa'"
the Captain America mythos started because Niacin (B3) supplements made those men big and strong instead of weak and dying from pellagra due to Depression-era corn mush
San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6
(smacking side of 747): hoo-eee you can fit a lot of bribes in this baby
I am old, so using LLMs and linters and autocomplete and compiler-time checks for code generation and verification doesn't seem awful, it's like sending Bishop to crawl through the access pipe to pilot the dropship
like hell yeah man, Bishop should go!
screen shot of a simple game
OK, dallying with Claude and Rust and I believe I have a fair mockup of a multiplayer version of Asteroids here
adios, von Cheesewhiz
Automate Jira interactions
since we're in the Mirror Universe now, it'd be appropriate if Lewandowski showed up in skimpy clothes and said, "I've always been a Secretary's lover. I like being a Secretary's lover."
how many Eldar are involved
can't imagine that there's a single service tray item in any of the illegal administration planes that doesn't have a camera, bug, or tracker in it.
"Ow! one of these airplane peanuts hurt my tooth."
(looking) "No, that's a surface-mounted GPS chip."
inset photo of the billionaire's toy yacht is 👩🍳💋
"We need simpler houses that aren't bound by the current building codes, zoning, and occupancy laws."
"uh, that's just shanties with more steps."
can't wait for us to combine LLM vibe coding, influencer video algorithms, and social media so that we get
"I'd love to code up more privacy protections but that wasn't trending well, so we're back to anime waifu dress physics for this tax application. Subscribe, join patreon, and star my github."
Ultimate level heel turn
Apropos of nothing here are some of my snapshots of Najaf. December 2003
"Not sure if this is related to LLMs and programming, but," (shrugging) "everyone has to get their licks in."
Ex Machina's world is one where no sci-fi films have ever been made. Otherwise: "Oh, you're torturing things to see whether they're sentient? You sexually exploit them? No thanks. I'll walk the 90 miles out of here. Get a tuna sandwich on the way or something. These robots are gonna kill you, man."
so Oscar Isaac really did have his portrayal of Sergei on the nose in Ex Machina
