Lesley Carhart Mar 8

This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)

And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,

Within two years I’m proven extremely right.

Show threadLesley Carhart Mar 8
I’m kinda just over people yelling at me. The more people get super angry about me saying something is fishy as hell, the more south it’s going.
Show threadLesley Carhart Mar 8
I think that is because they’re all attached to really hype, addictive, subversive things, and We Computer People think we’re immune to that. To the point of getting aggressive when someone says they’re bad.
Show threadLesley Carhart Mar 8
Yes, even the collapse of American free speech and democratic government because deep American exceptionalism and trust in stability is 💯💯💯 lifelong brainwashing too.
Show threadLesley Carhart Mar 8
You’re mad because you’re so deeply invested and wired into something that me yelling that the emperor is naked makes you want to fight.
Show threadJoe (TBA)Mar 8

@hacks4pancakes Decades ago, this company was claiming to have invented the operating system that would work across all computer platforms, Micro, Mini, and Mainframe. They hyped it, and it was called OS-2 (of all things, unrelated to MS OS/2). A friend who was an investor asked me to look at it. I explained in detail why it was not a good investment, and he didn't invest $50K. I was laughed at and told I was wrong.

Where is OS-2? A money pit that vanished a year later.

Show threadElias MårtensonMar 8
@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes now I want to hear more about this operating system. Do you remember the company name? The term os 2 isn't very easy to search.
Show threadderptronMar 8

@loke @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Imagine how the inventor of the original go programming language feels. You can't even find any hint that happened anymore.

If you don't know.... There was an existing programming language called `go` that existed before google made theirs. Guy said, "Hey, I already use this name." Google didn't give a shit and nobody else did either. He tried switching to "golang" but they unofficially just took that too.

Show threadJoe (TBA)Mar 8
@crazyeddie @loke @hacks4pancakes I think it interesting I was not familiar with the Google version of go, but did know of the original go from the old days in computing. I did a lot of searching and can find nothing about it at all. Amazing.
Show threadderptron

@RegGuy @loke @hacks4pancakes Yep. Fucking deleted.

I never knew the language. Only heard about it after google made theirs. I'm 50...

Mar 8 at 5:40pmWeb
Show threadJoe (TBA)Mar 8
@crazyeddie @loke @hacks4pancakes I'm 70, got into the business in the late 1970s. Heady times. I'm pretty sure I downloaded source from a BB way back when.