Mastodawn

Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.

Evan Freeze Mar 2

jcoglan Mar 1

RE: https://lingo.lol/@thedansimonson/116156498254821672

this is also why LLMs are not "another layer of abstraction". do you need to read the asm output of your compiler every time it runs? no, and having to do so would substantially reduce the value of said compiler

Evan Freeze Feb 28

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Feb 28

Zohran Mamdani had +38 approval upon his election. In under 2 months he’s:
•Secured universal childcare
•Paid New Yorkers $30/hour & survived a blizzard without disruption
•Remained wholly honest about the massive budget crisis NYC faces
•Demanded Hochul tax billionaires instead of working people
•Got Trump to commit $12B to NYC for affordable housing, and
•Did it ALL without corporate money

His approval is now +48.

Almost like working people love public servants who fight for working people.🤯

Evan Freeze Feb 22

Harley 🐝🌿Feb 21

- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

Evan Freeze Feb 21

Matt Weagle Feb 21

If you support your team defining declarative and actionable PRDs, instituting TDD, an expectation of ADRs, time to align on source naming and repo organization, regular time to eliminate flaky tests, a holistic and incremental delivery pipeline, sensible technology defaults, designing decoupled architectures, providing a feature flag mechanism, clear separation of concerns to facilitate system decomposition, the establishment git commit gates, production traffic-shaping capabilities, building a culture of continuous learning, and retros that provide learning and mentorship for juniors, I can almost guarantee that code production will not be the bottleneck.

Evan Freeze Feb 20

phooky Feb 17

AI is already dead; we are pivoting to crabs. Within 5-6 years 80% of all jobs will be crabs. Begin hardening your dermis into a tough durable exoskeleton now or be left behind. Economic carcinization is coming

Evan Freeze Jan 31

SnoopJ Jan 30

thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

Evan Freeze Jan 7

JA Westenberg Jan 6

All we have are Mussolini cosplayers who can’t make the trains run on time, Rockefeller LARPers who can’t build a refinery, and Nikola Tesla tribute acts who’ve never shipped hardware. History will remember this as the age of the cover band. We are ruled by guys who watched a YouTube documentary about Napoleon and said “I could do that” but meant the hat.

Evan Freeze Jan 6

John Jan 6

I wish we had spent the last 26 years teaching people that the reason the 2000 bug didn't destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because *we caught it* and *spent thousands of hours fixing it* BEFORE the year 2000

Because within that little perplexion - people thinking the problem was a hoax because it was fixed before it destroyed shit - is an encapsulation of the current era of Western politics, including COVID mitigation, lesser evil politics, fascism, and crime rate hyperbole

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Evan Freeze Jan 2

I found the final needle drop super heavy-handed

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