This is the same sort of energy as the continually misunderstood “deploy/don’t deploy on Friday” argument. The point, to me, is that 1. You should be *able* to deploy 2. You automated it, so it’s low risk 3. You’re human about it and CHOOSE to not deploy on fridays, holidays, or before vacation

If you haven’t, read this post too, and Charity’s. If you squint hard enough you’ll realize I’m actually secretly agreeing with both of them 😇

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

The video of my talk from Houdini HIVE Equinox is now up! All the technical secrets of Ambrosia Sky's fungus system, explored in punishing detail www.youtube.com/watch?v=89qL...

how much u wanna bet there were engineers who were screaming and yelling about changing this for years but it was never prioritized by decision makers and now ppl are prob gonna get PIP’ed

Some Other Time by Lapalux still has a stranglehold on my brain all these years later

Important addendum: every step of the way, when asked if there should be an abstraction layer, the bosses have said "no we will never support another cloud provider"

TELL EM AGAIN TELL EM TWICE Katrina Sandy folks need to know

on top of the us-east-1 outage the power got knocked out for my entire neighborhood and I’m missing all my meetings 🙃

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

One Battle After Another was such a PTA film but the standout for me was del Toro entire cast was stellar but his performance was effortlessly brilliant

it's funny how their 'big tent' only extends right, never left, and how they always blame its failure on dirty hippies refusing to come inside, not their own embrace of TERFs, fascists and other exclusionary demographics

In my experience, it was only a consensus be/c voices which even questioned it were forced out of the room At $lastjob I was required to interview people on the basis of their AI fandom. If you _liked_ AI but had some skepticism, you weren't welcome. This is what you get when you hire that way.

keep this man as he is at all cost

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

I've had a lot of roles where people wanted to hire me because I'm very good at systems thinking, and they wanted more of that in the org, but that wasn't what the org incentivized or rewarded or encouraged. Good for the band for being clear about what they needed, and good for him for hearing it.

the way I shouted “when did they have babies?!?!!” at my Silksong playing kiddo when I saw my fav character’s brood

finally tried Watanabe mode in Yōtei and I don’t ever want to leave

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

swisher is a huge mark

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

This lady deserves the presidential medal of freedom once the place is back under adult control and im not kidding

I've seen a dozen quotes of this saying "the cops aren't really woke, idiot, they just know which way the wind is blowing" and yeah, man, that's the point

If the next president isn’t deadly serious about a thorough policy of Denazification, the next president is gonna be a Nazi, I don’t make the rules

I really need people to understand that refusing to seat fascists is an antifascist act that protects democracy & is not the same as fascists refusing to seat antifascists to destroy democracy—in the same way that finding a guilty person guilty isn't the same as finding an innocent person guilty.

Not enough people high fiving the dude who shouts "You Fucked Around And You Fell Down" in his face

heated flooring kicking on for the first time this season

(in best Garth Marenghi voice) Scottish Mist

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Wrapped up BF6 campaign and firing up Still Wakes the Deep before I get back to Yōtei

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

sleeve appt confirmation came in and I smashed that button so fast, cannot wait to suffer for 8 hours 😂🫠

older woman: “hello fellow terrorist” 😍🥰😎

SEGA sub-branding appreciation post.

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith which is a dangerous assumption tbh

Yall never had to deal with stems and seeds weed, and it shows.

THIS. I kept telling colleagues that fat is protective and an important repository of resources. The "lean" concept was lifted from the Toyota production system (see also kanban, kaizen, "just-in-time," etc). But orgs are not auto plants, and even Toyota has had to add in more fat over the years.

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.

currently looking at what should be a _small_ change that is far more complicated than it needs to be because of the Siren Song of Over-Abstraction

I never miss a Double Fine game. They aren't afraid to get weird in exactly the ways I love

This post is 2 months old and I wish more people understood it