HR taunting me with emails reminding me I qualify for the new early retirement program.
Retire before 60? In this economy?
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Carl C
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mastodon 4.7.250-something potter, knitter, maker, programmer, tabletop gamer, video gamer, dad. Jack-of-all-trades. South New Jersey, US
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One of the fun things about watching classic Twilight Zone is recognizing actors you know from later films and TV. I often wonder how many I'm missing that would recognize if they were older.
One of the things that bothers me about creators creating their own patronage sites to get away from Patreon is that it offloads a burden onto the patron. I back 20+ creators on Patreon... I'm not going to deal with 20+ custom-rolled patronage sites, associated logins, etc. Patreon brings a big value to the _patron_ in aggregation.
(I know I follow someone who rolled his own. I still subscribe to his Patreon for the above reason. I appreciate that he hasn't left there.)
Gah, almost got into a fight with my VP when he said, "I don't know why your people are having trouble with automation. They don't even need to learn to code, they just need to explain the problem to the AI and the AI will write the code for them."
Looking at reviews on Voidtrain, which came out of two or three years of early access to full release last year, and how they go from "Mostly positive" to "mixed" in the current reviews... it just highlights the typical EAcycle. Reviewers praise an EA game for its _potential_, for the game they imagine in their minds. And then when the game doesn't meet those expectations at launch, the reviews tank.
EA games _win awards_ and then often release to little fanfare.
Does EA harm the industry?
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@fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host This is why I have an 'in case of death" document with three different points of discoverability, plus my family has been told. I have a family-shared set of passwords for key accounts, plus the secrets necessary to unlock my private passwords. My document attempts to list everything I think they'll need to know (cancel) when I'm gone.
Yeah, this is really important.
I often wonder what manual writers are thinking:
"Clean the earbud openings with a q-tip after every use."
Like, sure. Gonna carry around q-tips or a soft, lint-free cloth to clean my earbuds multiple times a day.
I'm sure it's a legal CYA. "Not our fault if the customer gets an infection. We told them to clean the earbuds every time they use them."
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Even if they don't write permanent scripts, understanding Bash better will make them more efficient at the command line. I've seen employees do painfully tedious things by hand because they don't know the basics of shell scripting.
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@dmoonfire@polymaths.social @fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host Yep, your resources are one of my two primary references. And I take your advice in that I don't try to do it all at once... I've got the most important things in there, and I revisit it occasionally to refine and add to it.
Doing mid-year check-ins, and while the team has a "AI & Tooling Adoption" as 10% of their evaluation, I'm concerned about how deep they are in using Gemini to analyze logs, understand the problems, verify troubleshooting steps(!). Especially the ones really new to the job... they should be leaning on runbooks and senior team members, not making it up as they go with AI. They don't have the experience to know when the AI is wrong, and I'm just waiting for our first outage.
I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but...
I'm cheering for the Pope. I don't believe in his God anymore, but the fundamental message of love and compassion is still true. And using Christianity to justify a war, even if that religion were actually true, is wrong.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Chicago Pope is my friend.
Hadestown was amazing. I had no idea what to expect, but I loved it from the beginning, even when I realized I knew this story and how it ends.
Misreading a car rental ad....
"Save Big during Heist month!"
Here's some irony. Harbor Freight's deal-of-the day:
50% off two-pack of Hercules tool batteries!
30% off all Hercules _CORDED_ sanders.
My fancy bananas are not ripe, and I want a banana. 😞
So I'm skimming the web, looking for an alternative to "bitch". Trying to get gendered insults out of my vocabulary.
Suggestions to similar asks on reddit are "motherfucker," "dick," "cunt," "witch," "bitch is gender-neutral."
As usual, reddit doesn't understand the assignment, the idea being not using aspects of being a women (or a man) as an insult.
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@APBBlue@thepit.social Probably for the droids, because they don't normally serve their kind there.
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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family This is the thing that drives me nuts... AI companies saying their LLM "reasons" when they clearly aren't capable of that.
It kind of messes with my head that GenCon is 4 days long now.
And even small local game cons are 3 days.
I remember when the small cons were a single day.
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@idlestate@toot.cat I mean, there are those grognards that live in Emacs.... I was never one of those, though, even though I use it.
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@kyonshi Ubuntu has announced they're putting AI in the OS, so there's that. There was a point where I respected Ubuntu (when they started contributing fixes back to Debian), but I've lost a lot of that respect for them over the years.
Firefox: There's a new release of Firefox, do you want to download it?
Me: Sure!
Firefox: Okay, I'm going to download it in the background, not install it, and just be silent about it forever until you think to look two menu levels deep to see if there's an update available.
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@MyLittleMetroid@sfba.social @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I think McD's quality can vary across the US. Even across my local region. The one closest to where I used to live always had stale buns. Always. Like some manager is mistakenly ripping open all the bun trays to stage them at the beginning of the day, pulling them entirely out of the plastic instead of leaving it to protect the buns.
Then I moved and my new McD's is vastly better. Even the beef seems better, which shouldn't be a thing.
I feel like I should watch Supernatural, but every time I go look at in my queue, I go, "15 seasons? Not today."
Of course, starting my first mid-year check-in for my team and the Oracle-powered HR service is down.
Debian team: There is a poll about AI usage in Debian with 2 options.
(later) Debian team: Now there are 5 options in the poll.
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@kyonshi When I write a job description, and then Talent Acquisition gets done revising it... yeah, they read like that. Like prospective employees are going to be impressed with that kind of thing.
The new trash carts are here! The new trash carts are here!
We switch from cans to a cart system June 1. Finally re-entering the modern era.
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@jkirkendall@wandering.shop I really need to find a comfortable chair/position to weave in.
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@mym@toot.cat That seems to be just electronics stuff. You upload a weather station, I upload a home automation app that talks to it. If I charge money for my app, you can get a cut.
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@kyonshi@dice.camp Man, it's a tough market when you can't even get your old job back. Maybe they thought you were too qualified. That's always a risk I watch for... people who are over-qualifed for my team tend to use it as a stepping stone into another team in under a year.
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And she called, was just running late. But calling 10 minutes into a 15 minute call isn't great.
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@checkervest Yay! So how'd it go overall? You and ex-mentor get along? How were sales? Anything break in transit, or are you a packing pro?