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V.23 | it/its | demi | machine | no minors! 🔞

British-Australian 🇬🇧🇦🇺 living in London!
Systems Engineer, worldbuilder & writer

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ever just develop a cool worldbuilding idea and realise you just created a completely novel computing architecture

another gem: all of our jira tickets now seem to either be written by ai or lack a description entirely, and people assign them to me without elaborating further

so in 90% of cases i either tell them to piss off until they’ve added some proper information to the ticket or try and figure out what they want in the laziest possible way because if i make a mistake because they gave me unreliable ai generated instructions, that’s on them

my boss’s boss to me: “hey you know we’ve got a company cursor plan, you should slack x so they can add you”

me: “uhhh yeah sure thanks”

and then i proceed to ignore everything they said and never follow up because i’d rather quit my job than start vibe coding

I wonder if the lack of an inner monologue has any connection to being neurodivergent?
perfectly balanced~
but what if I don’t have one
“we said 7 months for the new launch vehicle but now the carb wants it done in 3. god i fuckin’ hate this guy”

Just invented cursed new slang for my world

“Carb” - Slang for a company person/woman/man who is supposed to balance the realities of a science or engineering project with demands from upper management. The name is derived from the “carb” on a bong, which is itself derived from “carburetor”, the part of a car designed to combine the fuel/air mixture.

systemd is genuinely really cool, i don’t understand all the hate it supposedly gets from so called “purists”. the unified kernel image and pcrlock stuff that got added recently is awesome, alongside systemd-boot