James Tharpe

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Dad, wonder junky, software engineer, atiismist.

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Websitehttps://www.jamestharpe.com

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

I think public education is now dead in Florida.

"Not only are teachers now packing up their classroom libraries, but children are being told they are not allowed to bring any books from home to school."

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/01/my-heart-is-broken-florida-teachers-ordered-to-remove-or-block-classroom-libraries-or-face-felony-prosecution/

'My Heart Is Broken': Florida Teachers Ordered to Remove or Block Classroom Libraries or Face Felony Prosecution

Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being ordered to remove or make inaccessible libraries of books inside their classrooms or face possible felony prosecution, as the district responds to legislation Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law prohibiting any books that have not been thoroughly vetted by a credentialed librarian. The law, which went into effect …

The New Civil Rights Movement

Google likes to claim it loves the web. Google fucking broke the web.

Cookie notices on every fucking website? They need those because they use Google Analytics or Google Ads.

Recipe sites that go on for fucking days? That’s because Google penalises websites when you leave too quickly, and they can’t show as many ads.

Obviously-bullshit machine-generated “content” designed to entice you to click ads? That’s because Google Search is a monopoly.

I’m so tired of Google.

🎶 doo doo doo, lookin' out my backdoor 🎶
As a distributed systems researcher, I’d like to thank the House of Representatives for demonstrating that leader election protocols can’t be guaranteed to terminate.
Of all the social networks that have come and gone, none have been better than NNTP
I can't wait until #ChatGPT can read all my email and boil it down to the handful of statuses and next steps I actually care about.

After working as a Software Developer for 14 years now, Scaled Agile / SAFe / Enterprise Agile is the best methodology I have seen if your plan is to burn out your teams as fast as possible.

Combining short sprints with long-term-planning while taking away autonomy from the team is not agile, it is just a lot of unmovable fucking deadlines in short succession.

Fiddled with Node memory limits and Gatsby CPU limits to no avail.