WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html
Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.
My first article from Wellington: it's about some weird things I've noticed about tech people and their weird phobia of observation and empirical thinking.
The tech industry has extreme difficulty integrating information that doesn't have its source in an overtly rationalist process. In practice, this means that we tend to think that if you can't give a logical chain of deductions that proves that something is the case, your information is worthless. The issue with this is that day-to-day, in the tech world and outside of it, the vast bulk of the information we use to make decisions isn't this kind of information.
From the introduction of the 1985 Peter Naur essay that Ashwin Sundar references in my previous post:
"[I]t is important to have an appropriate understanding of what programming is. If our understanding is inappropriate we will misunderstand the difficulties that arise in the activity and our attempts to overcome them will give rise to conflicts and frustrations."
No, as they say, rightly, notes.
As a technical consultant, my experience feels like a fun-house-mirror view of the more common dev experience I read about. I recognize the corporate part, but the technical/managerial divide is strong & set pretty close to the weeds. Some people feel more like they're doing an impression of a software manager.
But it occurs to me that I've not heard ANY mention LLMs or vibe coding at my current long-term client. I wonder what hidden factor has filtered that out?
• $98,329 on a Steinway piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s
• $5,300,000 on Apple devices
• $2,000,000 on Alaskan king crab
• $6,900,000 on lobster tail
• $15,100,000 on ribeye steak in a single month
• $124,000 on ice cream machines
• $139,224 on doughnuts
• $12,000 on fruit basket stands
• Over $60,000 on Herman Miller recliners
Soup kitchens can provide a hot meal to the hungry for an average of $2 per plate
This could have provided about 1,000,000 hot meals to people in need.
Today is MAR 10, aka Mario day. It is also extremely close to the spring equinox.
This implies a cycle of Wario Day (fall equinox), Luigi Day (summer solstice), and Waluigi Day (winter solstice).
Luigi's height and generosity represents the wheat stalk; when we feast upon the harvest we embody Wario's girth and greed.
Waluigi stands for the lean times that come during winter. As the snows melt he is replaced by Mario, whose plumber nature blesses the fixing of pipes that burst from the cold.