Smells like… Breakfast.

“Mister Falcon”

Well maybe next time you’ll think twice before you put noms in the trash.

“Huh. What’s this? A spur of the moment Teams meeting with some VP whose name I barely know? Ah. And there’s HR. So it’s THAT meeting.”

Yet another example of media conglomerates and sympathetic governments helping increase the awareness and sophistication of piracy while doing almost nothing to prevent it. Good job guys! Slow Clap

My childhood did suck. If you offered me $1M to go back and relive it, I wouldn’t do it.

That said, it’s pretty common for people to feel like their younger years were the “best years of their life.” Some of that comes from being ignorant of or not having to deal with adult level problems. Some of it from just how the human brain stores long term memories; by creating a lot of shortcuts and glossing over details.

One thing I’ve learned is that life is hard. But being hard doesn’t also mean that it can’t be good.

You don’t know how it works because you didn’t study tin foil hat engineering.

According to data from the world’s largest job board, Indeed, demand for IT jobs is rapidly declining. Backend development, testing, technical analysis — all of this is being automated faster than education systems can adapt. Since the end of 2022, global tech corporations have laid off more than 635,000 employees. Behind this figure are engineers, designers, analysts, UX specialists — people who, until recently, were considered the elite of the digital world.

This is not because of “AI.” This is because the river of dirt cheap debt dried up and corporations ran out of gambling money to blow in pursuit of the next big thing. I’ve spent a lot of my career working for non-tech companies who have this idea that they have a massive treasure trove of data which they are sure can be monotized. So, they set out creating solutions in search of problems. Every project I’ve worked on in the last 5 years has failed for this exact reason. Rising interest rates brought most of the gambling screeching to a halt.

You get a lawn and white New Balances at 30. At 40 you get nearsightedness and additional back pain.

“jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone.”

QA: “Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?”

Reading ticket details…

Me: “Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?”

QA: “Yeah.”

Me: “Get him to fix it.”

QA: “I tried. Like four times.”

Me: Sigh “I’ll take care of it.”

QA: “Thank you!”

What kind of idiot can’t see the difference between “I’m going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to” and “I’m going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to”?

Pretending to care about baby photos isn’t hard. Keeping up the act when the baby isn’t in remotely photogenic, now that’s award winning acting.

“In the criminal justice system, offenses involving Tesla’s are considered especially heinous.”

It seems like the singular benefit is that DuckDB (or similar OLAP models) can quickly handle lots of expensive read queries on large datasets.

It’s not a replacement for a traditional RDBMS. I’ve never used it so I don’t know if it’s worth the effort to maintain instead of just using a Postgres read-only instance to run analytics queries but somehow I doubt it.

My guess would be that it has a few very specific use cases where it can provide some added benefit. So, I fully expect it to be crammed forcefully into software projects where it provides no tangible benefit for the foreseeable future. Just like cough MongoDB cough.

Buying a Buick == Domestic Terrorism

Sure. I’m not sure how much my advice is worth but I’m happy to offer it if it will help you out in any way.

management is the same.

Always has been.