Sentient Loom

Paying is optional at most Canadian convenience stores. Because Canada is fully communist. And the hospitals pay you!

What a stupid, useless toy.

designed to help people at home

No they weren’t lol. They’re nothing but a gimmick. I know there’s a lot of good programming in there… but I doubt it solves any problems. It’s basically a walking NFT.

Instances plural? Are there other instances?

I’m probably not going to read the article. But there’s currently just one bluesky instance, so it’s 100% centralized, not decentralized at all.

Jack was talking about the “protocol” at one point… I don’t think that matters at all right now. It’s just another social media site!

Narayama Murthy was a mistake.

Tens of thousands of radioactive fuel fragments escaped from the Dounreay plant between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches, the coastline and the seabed. Fishing has been banned within a two-kilometre radius of the plant since 1997.

Since 2008, over 2,300 radioactive particles have been recovered from the seabed, with 351 removed by a remotely operated underwater vehicle this summer.

The most radioactive of the particles are regarded by experts as potentially lethal if ingested. Similar in size to grains of sand, they contain caesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, but they can also incorporate traces of plutonium-239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years…

The plant’s operator at the time, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, was fined £140,000.

Oh that’ll teach em.

I still think we should replace much of our fossil-fuel energy with nuclear, but let’s never call it “green.” Energy comes at an extremely high cost. This kind of thing makes it hard to advocate for nuclear (although I think we have safer methods now).

That’s really amazing. Their joke article was hilarious even as a joke. But the fact that they really bought it is beautiful.

I thought that was a joke. But regular news sites are running the story. So maybe it’s real?

I forgive them. English is a complex beast.

It sure do.

Teams is the name of the application, singular.

Teams *are the name of the application, singular.

Microsoft Teams *are dogshit.

‘Unusable’ social media apps.

We try to discourage siloization of projects and emphasize cross-training

This is how my work has been and it allowed me to touch every part of the repo while still a junior dev and gain lots of experience. So I also like that. But lately I’m trying to specialize more and go deep into things, and I like the idea of being an expert on something. So I appreciate the trade-offs.

all bets are off with offshore contractors. Some want to learn, some simply don’t care and will do the bare minimum.

As a guy who was replaced by offshore contractors, and who hasn’t had a single interview in 7 months while offshore contractors are (probably) still getting lots of work… I find this observation both heartening and disheartening.

Everybody in my team gets to own something.

Oh I like this.

That works when the docs are good and clear. Otherwise, we’ll have to revert to communicating with each other for brief periods while the chat-bots train themselves on the new data.

My phaseout of Chrome was complete a long time ago.

Nintendo are the baddies