My jazz combo is getting some lessons from a conservatory student and he had us sight read a tune he wrote. I asked him whether he gave me C sheet vs Bb sheet on purpose and he was like “yeah man this is gonna happen to you a lot as a trumpet player” what a legend

If I did everything people say you should “just do for 10 minutes every day” I would have second goddamn full time job

Omfg I won an online game of Warcraft 3

“spec driven dev” doesn’t make sense. It’s unnatural to do armchair thinking vs just coding some tests and functions and let the implementation become obvious through that. Its like a painter not being allowed to touch the canvas before the whole painting is in their head. Nobody works like that!!!

I wanna be in a history book with a picture of me working in my IDE with a caption like “A Luddite software developer programming in an ‘IDE’ circa 2026, this way of working would become obsolete within the next year (Colorized)”

Every year at the World Press Photo post-it wall, there are a couple of these fuckass post-its complaining about how the exhibition is “too negative”. To whoever wrote this: this exhibition is not for or about your ignorant ass

Can anyone explain to me why it seems impossible for parcel shops to be open at their listed opening times?

It’s absurd but the Super Auto Pets sounds are kind of a trigger for me because when I got fucked up in a bike accident and was depressed in Germany I was just watching SAP videos all the time. A clip of SAP played on my phone just now and I was like wtf turn that shit off man

Check this out man, I got my horns enchanted

In a classic jazz quintet it’s clearly like drums -> tank, bass -> healer, trumpet/sax -> DPS, piano -> DPS (off-heal). Right?

Have I been sleeping on Betty Carter? What an amazing singer

This one goes crazy for linguistics, I think almost every gen pop belief about language is wrong in some way. eg that sign language was invented (it wasn’t) and stuff like that.

Waarom hoor ik de term ‘causaliteitsmafia’ zo vaak recent? Wat is het alternatief voor causaliteit? Gewoon YOLO conclusies trekken zonder adequate verantwoording?

Just had an epic interaction. Some guy: “Did you order this weather?” - “No man but if I did I’d like to return it.” Guy: “luckily we got houses and stuff” - “Yeah man”

Sick picture of me playing jazz with friends just dropped

I got UFO50 on the switch, god what a masterpiece. Makes me feel like a kid again playing these old school hard af games.

Ohhhh mijn fucking god kan IEMAND autoscaling aanzetten bij de belastingdienst

Oké misschien is dit naïef: <10% rendement —> belasting op daadwerkelijk ongerealiseerd >=10% rendement —> belasting op fictief ongerealiseerd rendement 10% Kies percentage hoe je wil op basis van eerlijkheid/belastinginkomsten/whatever. What am I missing? Dit lost alles op toch??

Als iemand van ShinyHunters dit leest: jullie hebben m’n IBAN gun Robin Hood stijl

I’m now viewing content the way god intended: via an RSS feed. Anyone got recs???

I’m now viewing content the way god intended: via an RSS feed. Anyone got recs???

So incredibly frustrating about working with AI in non-R&D industry: business comes to you with a use-case that has no data and no clear business value a priori and expect you to cook up something of value. In these cases often the best you can do is just zero-shot and pray…

The best thing about @rmcelreath.bsky.social ‘s YouTube lecture on statistics is the jokes and also the fact you can’t hear/see the class so it sounds like they’re just no-selling every single one

Ik snap niet dat de NOS ervoor kiest de meest dodelijke saaie sporten uit te zenden (skischansspringen, langlaufen) en niet epische spannende sporten (curling)

Waarom heeft niemand het hierover

I love that companies keep your data for 5 years for no reason: in case there’s a massive data breach a year after you’ve left the company they can still fuck you over!

Season 2 episode 2 of Andor is so hilariously bad… It’s obvious it was written during the writer’s strike.

I love the Olympics man… it’s chock full of narrative. Underdogs, rivalries, sacrifice it’s got it all.

I’ve got a new Minimalist Program: don’t hang out with human traffickers

Im getting pelted by recruiters on LinkedIn but it’s literally all horrible consultancy jobs that pay terrible

Why even allow me to pick a pick-up point if you’re just gonna deliver it to bumfuck nowhere anyway?

We desperately need a EC president who is a) not of noble descent b) not from a DACHS country (Luxembourg is spiritually DACHS) and c) not 68 years old. Ursula von der Leyen is the embodiment of the old stubborn out of touch Europe. Imagine if we had like a charming Irish guy in that role.

Rob Jetten be like ik wil niet met de PVV regeren behalve als ze allemaal een nepsnor en een regenjas dragen.

Noem mij een liberaal maar die vermogensaanwasbelasting is echt het domste idee ooit. Lekker je beleggingen van 20k moeten verkopen om belasten te kunnen betalen. Newsflash: mensen met 20k op een rekening zijn niet de oorzaak van de vermogensongelijkheid!

TIL you need an internet connection to use icons in PowerPoint. Fun!

Ze gaan Marco Kroon naar Groenland sturen

I suggested some names for the company band before I left it due to being too boomer, and now they chose one of my suggestions!!!!

Het is zo ironisch dat vacatures in het bedrijfsleven letterlijk vragen om academisch werk en denkniveau, maar in de praktijk mensen die academisch ingesteld zijn als nogal lastig kunnen worden ervaren

I feel like the only thing keeping the hyper-rigidity in Germany alive is the gospel that in other countries it MUST be worse, why else would there be all those rules and 0 flexibility?

Bla bla how much do you think about the Roman Empire? Uhh not much the Republic is much more interesting.

I just got an invite to a mandatory workshop about ‘storytelling’ and the email is clearly written by ChatGPT, including em-dashes. I love corporate.

Lotta people complaining NS / Schiphol cant handle snow that falls yearly in Nordic countries... maintaining infrastructure that can deal with 3 days of snow simply costs more than the damages this weather causes because it’s so rare. It’s the efficiency of capitalism we keep blabbering on about.

The funniest thing about Swedish people is they genuinely don’t hear the difference between chair and share

Ecclesiastical pronunciation pmo so much bro

Can someone explain to me why I thought I looked snatched this morning when I checked the mirror before leaving and just now I saw myself on a video and I almost have to throw up. The mirror is the real me right???

In corporate you’ll sometimes that if you’d leave devs to themselves nothing would ever be finished and that’s why you *need* scrum masters/product owners/management, and I’m just like brother what do you mean? Leave the nerds alone they build shit the world runs on like Linux and make it for free!

New favorite hobby is lowballing Germans on Vinted

Seeing D66 adopting these BBB deserters its obvious they never played Mount & Blade: you don’t want these disloyal lords who defect all the time in your faction, sure they’re easy to recruit and it’s nice to have ~300 extra troops early but they will eventually start quarreling and demanding fiefs

I had a whole plan to solve the door puzzles with the symbols in hogwarts legacy and then I found a note that literally has the answer key… oh

Wat is er aan de hand in Syrië? Utrecht is een grote rwina met auto’s die Syrische vlaggen vieren