Trust me, bro, it’s The Singularity™. Any day now, bro.

The feds blackmailed and jailed some of the most respected members of the community. That’s kinda when it fell apart.

I’m that die-hard DC fan who has been rooting for them to get their shit together all through the nine million phases of MCU movies. I hope I’m not counting eggs saying this one looks good. The last Superman movie was good, so hopefully they’re getting some momentum.

• Step 1: Figure out why you’re not doing thing.
• Step 2: Take steps to address the reason why you’re not doing thing.

Seems simple, and in a way it is, but in other ways it can be very difficult.

On step 1, I recommend first researching the term “maladaptive daydreaming”. Seems relevant to what you’re describing.

I love Bernie, but good god is he clearly taken in by the LLM Kool-Aid peddlers.

Entangling the government with a teetering industry balancing on a pencil point seems like a really bad idea.

A better idea would be making the bubble pop as quickly as possible.

Council Bluffs, IA. I once had family there and there’s a story in our family. One of them had a radio of some sort that works on trucker frequencies and he overheard a conversation between trucker CBs that went something like:

• “I’ve never been to Council Bluffs before. What’s it like?”
• “Well, if the earth needed an enema, Bluffs is where they’d put the tube.”

It used to be a railroad town, but the railroad pulled out and left economic carnage in its wake. Meanwhile, Omaha, just across the river, is comparatively very affluent with skilled jobs in tech, so Bluffs is kindof “the slums” (casualties of the worst end of capitalism.) and Omaha is all gentrified and hip, which rubs salt in the wound, and those who are still in Bluffs are the ones who lacked the wherewithal (luck, credit (social, financial, or otherwise), mental health, etc) to move to Omaha. Last time I was in Bluffs (and that was even before I knew the rail background story) it really felt like there was just a pall over the whole place. The strangers you saw at the grocery store or whatever just seemed “down and out” in an undefinable way. The local government seems some combination of corrupt and incompetent and the few folks I know of who still live in Bluffs there are racists and MAGA nuts and grifters and (I say this with love) deeply mentally ill. It’s a disturbingly strange and depressing place.

Bah! Ok, yeah. That’s super annoying. Hopefully they move uncharacteristically fast for you.

You sure deleting your cookies wouldn’t fix it?

Very possible it wouldn’t, but it’d be the first thing I’d try.

Necropost much?

Some of these are more than just one sentence, sorry.

“I just do what I’m told. That’s why I’m paid the big bucks.”

“Yeah, I quit <previous position> because the management wouldn’t step in to help me with <problem>, so the team was just completely run by the biggest personalities.”

“They don’t pay me enough to be on call outside business hours.”

“Yeah, I never turn my camera on in Zoom meetings.” (Particularly good if you have a remote position. Triggers scrum people because “Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication”.)

“Oh yeah, all the tickets where I work are super detailed. Really helps avoid distractions like having to go talk to the person who filed the ticket.” (Have you heard agile people “working software over comprehensive documentation” or “a ticket is a placeholder for a conversation”?)

“Why? Oh, I don’t know why they wanted me to do <such-and-such feature>. I just did it because they asked me to.”

“How is the business supposed to plan without the dev team coming up with an estimate in days up front?”

“Yeah, we’ve gotten better with our daily scrum meetings. They’re only like an hour now-a-days.”

“Yeah, we do demos every sprint. They go a lot better now that product doesn’t attend any more.”

“Yeah, <name of most senior dev> is the person who always works on the sprint goal. Everyone else works on whatever they’re a SME in.”

“Yeah, we missed the Big Deadline™. It was <intern>'s fault.”

“I think it would be better for the company to outsource its IT department.”

“Our JIRA board columns and swim lanes are standardized across the department ever since the JIRA Enforcement department took that over.”

And this next bit is just me editorializing. I personally have mixed feelings about agile in general. I’ve seen it completely disregarded to great peril, and I’ve also seen it taken extremely seriously in ways that actively cause problems. (Problems bad enough to be dealbreakers that prompted me to leave that particular employment position.) I also have great respect for the agile coach at that place, but there were definitely things he did that pissed me off too.

So, in the debate of agile vs. not-agile, I guess I think what’s best is for everyone to just appoint me supreme dictator for life so I can teach them all the right way to do things. 🫡

They knew.

Yegge has drunk the LLM kool-aid, and that should very much call his judgement into question.

Just like there was no agreement the last dozen times he said they’d reached an agreement. I’m beginning to think the man may not be entirely on the level.

(/s)

Because white folks already stole everything else from Native Americans.

“Not fair, they’re too smart.”

For sure. But I’ve seen a lot more sins committed in the name of reusing code than in the name of minimizing dependencies.

“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”

I’d think if your dog is too hot, you’d be better off making it a chili dog.

In my efficient capitalism?

(/s)