The bespoke short-lived solutions angle is an interesting one, to be sure.

I wonder how many orgs will back themselves into a corner thinking their product will be short lived but it ends up hanging out for a while, as you mentioned.

Honestly this feels like an extension of this Agile/Scrum madness we’ve been dealing with since the mid-2000’s. Instead of the next quarter, we’re only building things with a view of the next two weeks.

Now it’s measured in hours, and even then we can give a prompt to an LLM and have a half working thing to throw away after it converts that PDF to a CSV.

I worry about the craftsmanship leaving this field. Engineers used to push back and for good reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

This thread is full of people imagining that he committed war crimes in Iraq, but it’s also very likely that he once had discipline, the threat of consequences, formal training in weapons, use of force, the rules of engagement, and the concept of restraint.

It’s far likelier IMO that when he joined law enforcement, and particularly ICE, he felt that he could be less restrained.

The U.S. is unreasonably stupid given the wealth

It shits me to tears seeing Bush’s reputation being rehabilitated. He was and is a fascist. In November 2004 I decided to leave America when I could. Happily living in a more decent society now.

Perhaps you are the wellest of all

Build quality for Dell is down over the past few years

What’s the movie on the right with Stellan Skarsgård

Also box/irukandji jellyfish, stonefish, brown snakes, eshays, and ice addicted bogans

Me too. I break out to google with a !g when necessary, which is maybe 1/3 of the time depending on the subject (maps, technical)

The propagation of these ideas will lead to the maiming and death of children

Very inconclusive evidence for these working! Stomach pH is about 3

Here in Australia the police saying this would get a stern talking to unless they were in NSW

Most people: what if the baby grows up to be the next Hitler?

This fella: how much will this increase the light pole grease budget in Philly?

I see a lot of kids locked into their phones. It looks like a classical addiction at this point - causing problems and negative emotions but unable to stop. Glad to hear at least that they know.

Weird way to spell Linux Mint

The shooter could have been a trans communist furry and it would be a speck of dust against an overwhelming weight of evidence that the far right, through history, are responsible for severe atrocities.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrNS2zbTZg