Pavel

I remember when phone companies wanted cool people to buy their phones so their ads would show cool people doing cool things with them.

Now they're directly advertising to unhappy losers who are trying to escape the reality of their lives.

People Across The US Are Tearing Down Flock's Traffic Cameras - Here's Why - BGR Rapidly growing surveillance tech company Flock is seeing many of its cameras in cities across the U.S. be torn down by concerned citizens, and here's why.

“To date, the company's tech has been deployed to identify activists, track abortion visits, stalk women, and reinforce racial profiling. Security issues further exacerbated privacy concerns after activists discovered Flock accidentally exposed live camera feeds on the internet.”

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” r...

Oh hey it's the same cohort that's impressed by LLMs

i only like when these posts come out because it shines a brighter light on how even pre-ai, developers are conditioned to cut corners and make lazy mistakes under the corporate speak of ”efficiency” and “automation” which is funny because of how punk rock a lot of them think they are

writing about how you got fucked by using an ai is an effective way to find community and get attention among other ai coding enthusiasts. this is typical information gathering and sharing for these folks, they are numb to the dunking by outsiders because outsiders are not their demographic

Average age of troops fighting in

WWI: 24

WWII: 26

Korea: 22

Vietnam: 19

Iraq: 27

Afghanistan: 33

WWIII: 84 years old

bill buxton wrote an entire book to address the problem that on a computer, less polished looks more polished, and so stakeholders will assume that what you're showing them is much farther along than it actually is so you have to spend effort making it look sketchy

www.amazon.com/dp/0123740371

the reasons bosses seem to glom on to AI is partly because it's potentially cheaper labor, but also because giving orders in semantic language to an entity that then does the work is a boss's POV. If you want a graphic illustration, as a boss, you ask for one, and someone else makes it.

exactly!

frankly it is unfair for anyone to hold being weird and off-putting against me

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This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.

You load 16 server racks, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St Peter, don't @ me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

Ehhh, the content is what drives the form, so lorem ipsum tends to produce pointless artifacts just like AI

It is faster not to.

Process friction is my #1 jam

cover your own ass; the impetus behind Agile came from the goalie problem of waterfall development: when something goes wrong, the immediate cause gets the blame. The goalie is blamed for the other team scoring; engineers get blamed for missing deadlines.

Hence, no need for problem framing.

If they are going to do that then they might as well just write out the scenario and not have visuals. Part of the learning comes from the making; thinking about what needs to be drawn.

The other good reason not to do it is that the AI generated cartoons all look the same and make me want to vomit.

When my synapses are congested, nothing clears them out like some vindaloo

the purpose of a pilsner is what it does

cracking open a stafford beer with the boys

Integrating bullshit engines/ Like-My-Outputs next token preditors into any environment related to maintaining the access to and security of data was basically only ever going to be a mistake

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There's an ecosystem that of glommed onto Agile incorporating Lean and Scrum things to various extents, but they fail precisely because the roots of Agile are a COYA maneuver for low trust environments.

"Give me requirements in small doses, and I will ship them" is how Agile wants teams to work.

There is no user story grooming in the Agile manifesto.

I am very comfortable saying that if someone doesn't know how to run critique, they are not a good UX designer.

cache me outside girl

This is another good point that bears repeating; go read the Agile Manifesto and behold the absolute lack of problem framing.

The developers wait for "customers" to give them "requirements" that can change unpredictably, without wondering why customer needs (which are usually STABLE) change.

this is a very good thread. the point of rough drafts is that by creating them, you *learn about the nature of the problem you are trying to solve* and your new understanding shapes your strategy

Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.

I don't understand how we have to beg people to get vaccinated while other people are fine shooting themselves up with untested compounds for unproven "gains" risking god knows what

you were finally going to read them! any minute!

i'm in ur base closing ur tabs