Each day brings chances to ease pain, share a laugh, love someone, and be loved.
One day, those chances stop coming. What remains are the differences we made, the people whose lives are better because of what we did and said, and the love we shared.
Don't bet on "someday." Carpe diem.
@spaf Semi-relatedly, I was thinking of you as a counterexample when I wrote this last night: https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/116237221070668448
People don't know unless you tell them, so thank you for sharing decades of valuable insight, valiant attempts at humor[*], and IIRC the occasional Ferd Berfel name-drop. You've made my life better and I appreciate that.
[*] I can't speak for others, but _I_ thought they were funny...
I wonder sometimes if the people in positions of authority and influence, writing textbooks like this, if they ever deal with software of consequence? I don't expect every senior CS professor to have worked on DO-138C qualified avionics software for example. But it would be nice if the field as a whole taught students that bad engineering kills people and you need to take quality and safety seriously, at least for the duration of the students' education. Take your work seriously and do your best to avoid shipping shoddy, dangerous code. Have some standards and a conscience. #MinimumViableEthics
Kenton Riley
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