he will take your concerns directly to satya microsoft himself

we would be lucky to have idiocracy. president camacho had a huge problem and he found the smartest person in the country and got him working on it. if only we can do that

i can’t wait until the gestapo, and the powers that be, revoke my citizenship and send me to a ice detention center so i can make license plates

One of the pleasant things, though, is that if that kind of thing is on the table you probably have some kind of moral imperative to start doing something about it.

Previously I felt like a hyperbolic nerd, and now I have a whole lot of new friends all working on the same stuff. Wheee. Go team. I hate it.

>But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes

I appreciate that bit of prose.

Fortunately it feels very much the other direction, lately- more folks seeing the dangers, more willingness to take the long bet. Fewer folks at brunch.

That's a bet some of have been taking for a while, though it's oftent felt dumb, and we haven't needed a great shocking occasion to do it.

I can’t wait to put 256 gb of ram in every system I possibly can

tl;dr cbt + exposure therapy

the one Japan blog post recommended the Nikkei 225 while the yen is still dogshit

it took me a bit to figure out my aversion to ai usage in programming, but it comes down to the fact that i like building the thing instead of telling the computer to do it in detailed ways. if i wanted to tell people what to do, I would’ve become a manager

no matter what happens they will still have money to sue people

if ai takes my job, good riddance