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I'm starting my next book which is set to be released in 2030.
"How to write and deploy software without prompts"
Our industry loves to create problems in the name of innovation only to turn around and sell you a solution to the problem we just created.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
― Frank Herbert, Dune
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Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
A little-known #Tolkien fact: after The Lord of the Rings, Pippin got a job as a junior developer at Cloudfare...
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“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
~ Alfred Pennyworth, played by Michael Caine, in The Dark Knight, 2008
the blu-ray boxset of Conan The Barbarian. An insanely buff barbarian holds aloft a shining broadsword, a badass blonde lady crouches with another sword. everything is cool and good
riddle of steel
#BookSky
It's happened: the trimodal nature of software engineering compensation made it to the Economist!
Disappointingly though, they did not link to the original article (they never do AFAIK), they redraw the image, and do not call it trimodal. Feels like "ripping off" my research, not gonna lie.
When Greta Thunberg was a kid protesting for a cause the powerful could white wash they were all saying how mature she was and how the young will save us all.
Now that she's an adult protesting a genocide they rather ignore she's a kid that doesn't know much.
Book buying is a hobby entirely unrelated to book reading
No truer words #booksky
Fight the Empire.
#booksky
Two aliens looking up at a statue of Jesus on a cross. One alien says to the other “You know what we need to do? We need to get the fuck out of here, that’s what we need to do.”
Possibly why we haven’t had First Contact, yet.
HBO Max logos on a yearly timeline 2022-2025 eventually reverting back to the original branding
they tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn’t even matter
Jesus, it really has been ported to everything
In the Star Wars opening crawl style. A star-field background Leo XIV A NEW POPE