I think running a gas stove while driving is wrong for so many reasons.

An ice cream truck is … Freezers. You stop, scoop, score, move on. Taco trucks need to stop, heat the ovens, and in like an hour can start taking orders.

It’s not the same.

Awww, there you go, Mitch Hedberging so fast.

Everyone gets to be one of the 10,000 when they need to be.

Sounds like we should ensure people are not trusting Ai for their answers, and also maybe be sure they’re asking questions properly. There’s nothing that brings in better answers than a question asked properly.

Oh, this is gonna be exciting. THINK of how their reading comprehension is going to soar. We have to be great sources of info and we have to write properly, but we’ve got this. We can represent a great community. Right?

skookum. It’s borrowed from, like, old Aboriginal trade language. It means “deal’s done” - with its own hand-brushing gesture - but it also means “strong” or “resilient”, I think.

And now it’s almost a common ‘Canadianism’ – if your Newfie buddy says " 'At’s a skookum blow we gots, b’iys", you know there’s a sad BC Ferry-tale on the way, and you’re not getting Over tonight.

Stop calling me Moist.

Seeded is, indeed, the most worthless of adjectives.

… until someone uses ‘literally’ as an adjective; and in that moment you are enlightened.

“senior” roles.

5+ years experience.

Wow. It better be extremely deep and broad experience if they’re in a position to mentor others; and even then.

Maintenance. The concern is maintenance.

Sometimes when you’re celebrating someone’s judgement, don’t shit on their judgement.

Mr Stallman needs to be considered from all sides before deciding whether you’ll follow his lead. He’s not without some toejam.

Look at Sweden, again dunking dunking on the rest of us without even trying. ;-)

I lived on an island in the North Pacific for years. I worked on the ocean in a floating house and working on aluminum catwalks a few feet above the water all day.

If course I don’t know how to swim. If I don’t have a floater coat on, I’m fucked. If I do, I bob and hope for rescue. But have your lines in place if you’re out in weather because the ocean does not give a fuck. In the North Pacific, your lifespan is the water is measured in "well fuck"s.

I lived near a lake as a child. I could hold my breath for so long. I dove a lot. Never learned to swim.

Swim lessons were expensive and we were poor. Swimming is essentially a pastime of the privileged and we were not. Same with skiing. Same with hockey and football.

Meh.

Shutdown: noun

Shut down: verb

You can’t straddle the lane.

I’ve said it before, but this is a 20-year-old problem.

After Y2K, all those shops that over-porked on devs began shedding the most pricey ones; worse in ‘at will’ states.

Who were those devs? Mentors. They shipped less code, closed fewer tickets, cost more, but their value wasn’t in tickets and code: it was investing in the next generation. And they had to go because #numbersGoUp

And they left. And the first gen of devs with no mentorship joined and started their careers. No idea about edge cases, missing middles or memory management. No lint, no warnings, build and ship and fix the bugs as they come.

And then another generation. And these were the true ‘lost boys’ of dev. C is dumb, C++ is dumb, perl is dumb, it’s all old, supply chain exploits don’t exist, I made it go so I’m done, fuck support, look at my numbers. It’s all low-attention span, baling wire and trophies because #numbersGoUp.

And let’s be fair: they’re good at this game, the new way of working where it’s a fast finish, a head-pat, and someone else’s problem. That’s what the companies want, and that’s what they built.

They say now that relying on Ai makes one never really exercise critical thought and problem-solving, and I see it when I’m forced to write fucking YAML for fucking Ansible. I let the GPTs do that for me, without worrying that I won’t learn to code YAML for Ansible. Coding YAML for Ansible is NEVER going to be on my list of things I want to remember. But we’re seeing people do that with actual work; with go and rust code, and yeah, no concept of why we want to check for completeness let alone a concept of how.

What do we do, though?

If we’re in a position to do so, FAIL some code reviews on corner cases. Fail some reviews on ISO27002 and supply chain and role sep. Fail some deployments when they’re using dev tools in prod. And use them all as teachable moments. Honestly, some of them got no mentorship in college if they went, and no mentorship in their first ten years as a pro. It’s going to be hard getting over themselves, but the sooner they realise they still have a bunch to learn, the better we can rebuild coders. The hardest part will be weaning them off GPT for the cheats. I don’t have a solution for this.

One day these new devs will proudly install a patch in the RTOS flashed into your heart monitor and that annoying beep will go away. Sleep tight.

Noah’s reboot didn’t work

A goat-farmer who piled all his livestock on a raft when the river flooded, and whose story has been embellished so much it’s nothing like the original? That Noah?

Setup: noun (set-up)

Set up: verb

You need to pick the right lane, man.

Screenshot the image on screen and feed the snap into the app.

“person leaves as planned in previous proclamation” is terrible news. We’ve heard this before.

till

Plough? Cash-drawer?

Don’t worry: people just ignore the btrfs horror stories like they do the ceph ones. That makes it okay.