One nice thing about #literature is how characters and stories can help us recognize and understand patterns observed in real life. Often they serve as a short-hand for commentary. An often cited example is Icarus.
Given #POTUS47 careless comments about Iran, Lord #Farquaad from Shrek is serving overtime the last 9 days.
โSome of you May Die, But it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make.โ
My random thought of the day: do folks who do #perineum #sunning have a plan for getting those hard-to-see areas checked for suspicious moles?
On a related note, are there any #SitcomWriters on Fediverse? Iโve got a great idea for you.
In 15 years, when half of the worlds critical software is LLM-infested, indecipherable vibe-coded spaghetti, and there arenโt enough traditionally-trained software engineers to hire because the entry-level pipeline was strangled in 2025, and people my generation have all retired, wellโฆ
Well just remember I said this would happen.
#VibeCoding #ChatGPT #ScottProgramming #ScottThoughts #ScottEconomics #Year2025
One thing I've taken note of is people are outraged about news items that I don't react to at all.
Both consciously and unconsciously I turn away from some news items because quite frankly, I experience both outrage and empathy fatigue. To protect my mental well-being, there's some topics I turn away from.
Part of this is my natural tendency to prefer to become very informed about a topic before I weigh in.
One concept that I hope most people in science and engineering have internalized is that, for any problem people have studied for decades, there is no simple solution that will comprehensively solve that problem. The problems with simple, comprehensive solutions would've been solved already. What's left are challenging problems where at most, you might chip off a corner of the problem with a simple solution.
One thing I've thought about many times, there needs to be a way to talk about a situation where a person can't prove criminal misconduct based on the known facts alone, but also... there's no way you'd let that creep near your children either.
Canada joining the EU as a replacement for its former economic alignment with the US would be an interesting twist. Or Canada and Mexico could form a Pan-American trade group with nations from Central and South America.
I was thinking last night about how POTUS47's actions, especially tariffs, have been accelerating the US's decline in global importance. As a defense partner, a trade partner, a public health partner, the US has been a leader, but that era may be coming to an end. Expect the EU, China, and India to fill the vacuum.
I really don't know where this is going. It's a half-baked thought at this point and highly speculative.
I just read someone's gripe that USA people assume the Internet is only USA when they say "Happy Thanksgiving", "Happy 4th of July", etc, and they should stop doing that.
Uh, no.
Please feel invited to celebrate the special days on your calendar. I welcome your Boxing, Diwali, non-US Thanksgiving, non-US Labor, Bastille, Obon, Indigenous Persons, Carnivale, Anzac Day, Lunar New Year, etc. I'm happy to receive your well-intentioned greeting at any time.
True story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job & not research it enough to know it means "predictive model" before interview?
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