I have this feeling it’s more like a mentalist mind-trick.

We are fed so many inputs from so many sources, we don’t notice the influence, but we end up thinking about such and such, maybe talking about it with other people and suddenly, lo and behold! the algorithm presents us with an ad for the very subject that was on our mind! Mind reading! Magic!

But just like a Derren Brown subject, we just picked the card he wanted us to pick from the beginning.

I reckon the only thing preventing us from being completely subjugated is the amount of actors trying to influence us simultaneously, as we flock through our attention grabbing sources.

Which is why the consolidation of media is such a worrisome phenomenon. One dude controlling an entire network of sources means you are constantly under the same influence.

And then you get MAGA.

I wonder what’s next?

Seriously, I was new to frontend and using jQueryUI back then and it took me like a few seconds to lookup the term and parameter so my autocompletes wouldn’t DoS my backend. I’m amazed to see shit like this in prod.

Why does it sound like you’re writing plugins for Keycloak?

Nice read, thanks! Reminds me a bit of “when sysadmins roamed the Earth” (IIRC).

PTSD flashbacks to the codebase I started on in 2008 which had… I don’t even remember. Like six or seven levels. Fucking nightmare. I did a printout of the analysis Doxygen gave me and it ended up as a 4x3 meters poster ;_;

Looks like authentic euro Chinese food, yeah.

That’s not funny, that’s fucking amazing.

I’m more shocked by the shite installed on that poor phone than on the look of the icons. They look deliciously fluffy :) Make them squishy / reactive to pressure and you got a deal!

Haha! Yeah, that’s pretty much it :,D

The way I see it, if you bother me to do a PR, you bet I will give it my 100% Either that or I just refuse to do it.
Half-assing it would only hurt my image. And then it would be a bother because whatever I didn’t catch would very probably be some shit I would have to hunt down anyway later down the line since I’m the guy they escalate things to in the team :/

There is a great concept in Transhumance Space where I-forget-which-flavour-of-religion has their members accept a companion AI that is trained on the scripture and will question/advise the believer’s decisions throughout their day. I’m quite surprised this one hasn’t come true yet, as we literally have all we need to do it right now!

It’s part of the class package. We auto-resolve issues under a certain level of difficulty just by being nearby. Pretty nifty.

B-but don’t you want AI in vi?

I never get bored of discovering yet another software that gets broken because someome put a dollar sign in their password…

For real, I thought he was going there. Like : the AI keeps trying to fight off the coders messing with its perfect code so it keeps generating junk code to protect the actual code.

If you tested whether those files had healthy seeds on the Net, that would actually be a pretty cool idea. But I have some rather rare Linux ISOs that definitely don’t get seeded anymore so those I would want to not lose and actually backup.

Terragrunt?

Oh I remember years ago my project manager worried I was not at my desk typing and I had to explain to him that my brain was constantly thinking about the code. Even while on breaks, even at night, 24/7 essentially. It took time to convince him but thankfully my senior knew I wasnt bullshit ting because he was seeing my code. I did burn out after two years, obviously.

Sure, but I’ve a guy working with me who’s supposed to have ten years xp in the tech we use, and he’s pretty fucking useless.
Meanwhile the young front-end dev who didn’t know any of our tech turns out to learn everything we throw at her after one explanation. Pure tech eval would’ve meant throwing her away after reading her cv.

Telling me your blood type or astrological signs is as useful as telling me your certifications and years of experience, these days.