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  I watched a ton of standup comedy specials yesterday, and I have confirmed by belief that in general, women and queer comedians are far funnier than straight men, with Hank Green being an exception to the rule. (Patton Oswalt was okay too.)

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  Damn, we’ve lost both actors to have played Pavel Chekov now. 😞

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  LLMs are marketed to us to take care of the hobbies we’d like to do ourselves but can’t because the simple act of existing during late capitalism consumes all the time and money and energy we’d otherwise be spending on those hobbies And then we’re supposed to be grateful for that #morningthoughts

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  I am not a coder these days. I direct Claude to do nearly everything. I am told this is the way, this is what the company wants, and I do it, because I know how bad the tech job market is. I’m still able to generate passable code because I have those decades of experience to look over the results and say, “Hey, no, that’s wrong, fix that”. It isn’t great but it’s Good Enough™️. But I know junior devs are being fucked over. They won’t get those years of experience that I did when an LLM does what...

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  In Balatro: I finally beat purple stake using the blue deck! And I reached ante 12 too! (Not in the game same, that’d be madness.) The reward for ante 12 is bullshit! Been turning to some of the other things I still have to unlock, like a 100,000,000 chip round score. I still need to get the last planet card (for Flush Five) too. Plus there’s all the challenges, and unlocking higher stakes for the other decks… but I’m starting to burn out on it a bit. I may need to take a break. There’s only so...

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  I just had a coworker literally use the excuse “we’ve done it that way for 25 years and it works fine, so there’s no need to change it now” My man, you’re relying on the frontend(s) to do business logic and send sane results via the API to the backend, which will happily accept any old thing no matter how nonsensical it is. There is ABSOLUTELY a need to change it now.

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  Medicated or not, the ADHD brain was not designed for eight hours a day, five days a week. It just wasn’t. #neurodivergent #adhd

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  Ah yes, my favorite video card manufacturer, NVDIDA #retrocomputing

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  Nice to wake up to another post by a “real programmer” scoffing at senior devs who are using LLMs because we are mandated to do so lest we are fired for “not fitting into the company culture”. Just wait until you too have been completely burned out by decades of corporate bullshit, attempting to write elegant and legible code only to be essentially told you’re being too much of a perfectionist and should be banging out MVPs as fast as possible to meet unrealistic targets. Just wait until you’v...

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  My team has an impossible sprint deadline to hit by Thursday. I am out of Vyvanse, and since my doctor uses MyChart like most of the United States, I can expect my refill request to be acknowledged in… a week, maybe? Who knows? I can try to call them and end up trapped in voice menu hell and waiting on hold, I guess. And of course the house is still a total fucking disaster. My feeble attempts to clean and declutter barely maintain the status quo, at best. I am more than burned out. I am carbo...

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  The “software development industry” I wanted to be a part of was dead and buried before I even graduated college.

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  Last night my daughter had a crashout about how she doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life, what to study, or how to get a part-time job. It was very difficult to find the words to support her, since I’ve been feeling much the same. In my case, I have a job, of course, but it sure isn’t what I’d hoped for at her age. Meanwhile I’m trying to walk the line between assuring her that we’re here to support her, but also pushing her to keep trying things, keep applying to jobs, keep research...

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  I know I’ve posted things at least once before, probably more, but while I absolutely do not condone the fact that my moderately wealthy uncle totally flipped out over a decade ago, abandoning his entire life and family to go join a desert cult… I do understand it. (But yeah, really dick move. I looked up to him, and he deserted his wife and three daughters, leaving them to pick up the pieces. I don’t care how tough things seem, you don’t fucking do that to other people.)

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  Spoiler-free review of Strange New Worlds S04E01: It was really quite good. I hope it can maintain this level of quality!

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  Yesterday I learned my brother-in-law just up and quit his software development job because he was totally burned out, and now he’s just screwing around developing what he wants on his own terms. He could afford to do this because he lives alone with his cats and never does anything, so he has FIVE YEARS of money saved up.

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  I was a total fucking idiot this morning and stabbed my palm with an X-Acto knife while stupidly trying to remove supports from a 3D print Went to urgent care because it was deep, got a cleaning and liquid bandage Then it started bleeding again two hours later So back to urgent care, where they did way more liquid bandage and a big gauze bandage That was eight hours ago I’m allowed to remove it now but I am afraid of it bleeding again, so I’ll probably leave it on all night Anyways the mor...

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  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party @trixter@retro.pizza Well, three out of four ain’t bad, I guess

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  God, these was an original Voodoo2 card up on eBay for $149 a few days back, and I passed on it. That was a mistake. #retrocomputing

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  I have followed r/LeopardsAteMyFace ever since Trump was reelected. I’m not sure I can keep doing that. Yes, it provides some catharsis and schadenfreude, but so many suffering people there use the caveat of “I regret my vote and this administration is literally killing us… but the other side would’ve been worse”. They’ve learned absolutely nothing. Plus, for the few that do realize that the Republicans have become the literal Nazi party: I can’t take pleasure in their suffering and fear anymo...

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  I thought I found an antique fixed-blade utility knife when digging up the backyard… but it turns out Stanley No. 199 tools have always just looked like that. Boo. Well, I’m still getting the materials to try and remove the rust via electrolysis.

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  “I’m not just a dad, I’m a DUDE*” * Dad Unable to Discipline Effectively

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  “I’m not just a dad, I’m a COOL* dad” * Criminally Online Old Lunatic

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  I’m thinking a lot about the “firehose” this morning: my compulsion to find sources of stimulation. I can’t speak for all #adhd / #AuDHD folks, of course, but for me, “running out of internet” can be a very real annoyance. Hitting the top of all the feeds I browse, then feeling the discomfort of _boredom_, where the minutes drag on like days. But the opposite, an unending firehose, leads to tunnelvision and hyperfocus. Responsibilities start getting neglected. I detach from other people. I get...

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  “Chat, are we unable to cook due to an impending food shortage”

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  “If you don’t do [amazing thing], someone else will do it first and you’ll have lost your one chance” — common intrusive thought, even at my age #AuDHD #neurodivergent #giftedburnout

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  My brother just called me to wish me a happy birthday, and we talked for a long while. Talking with him can be tough, because his views are a good deal more conservative than my own. He knows and sees his privilege, and wants to go good for all people, but gets really angry about people saying “all hetero cis white men are evil”. I point out that very few people actually say that, and that it is more about the systems of power and oppression that were created, perpetuated, and bought into by a l...

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  I can’t believe how large this mystery snail of mine has gotten! #aquarium #snail

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  It’s time again to share this absolute classic video. https://youtu.be/M_ZRsf9sneQ?si=l0WVEsvsKiDhEISN #starwarsday #maythe4th

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  I see Trump voters who are severely hurting from his policies, and they’re enraged at what he has done or hasn’t done, and invariably they or some replier will say “but Kamala would’ve been worse”. And I truly wonder what it will take to fix this nation. If it even can be fixed. And that little voice in me says “this country is getting exactly what it deserves, let them burn it to the ground”. But this is unhealthy. It is lazy. It abandons the innocent and the marginalized and the desperate. F...

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  For the second time in three months someone has tried to use my personal information to open a new checking account. This time they will be unsuccessful because I have a fraud alert on my credit report, but it is unnerving to know my info is out there, permanently.