

rip aaron swartz


rip aaron swartz


This has been my experience in San Francisco over the past 15 years. The techbro types, who see technology as a way to get rich, often share the same worldview that life is about “winning” and in this business you “win” if you are smarter than others, so therefore since they are “winning”, they are smart and deserve everything they get (or… take). But, that mentality and their behavior and the culture it creates can often influence humble, empathetic people into that toxic self-hype cycle.


White dude in software here to echo the same sentiment. So many of my colleagues have never experienced any hardship of their own or viewpoints of people with different experiences. They don’t think about how their privilege has helped them get where they are, and how their company culture often subtly (at best!) reinforces their worldview and massages their egos. They’ve never tried to think critically about their “meritocracy” or “libertarian” beliefs and how many people are unjustly excluded from the lifestyle they enjoy.
20 years in software development for me.


Maybe I’ll regret asking, but what could “haiku-level brilliant” even mean?


I have 37TB of media and another 10 in the download queue waiting for storage to be freed up. Which probably would equate to tens of thousands of torrents (or nzbs in my case). So it was absolutely worth my time


Can I get unavailable AI overviews for all my searches? Then Google has a chance to be usable again


Sounds like someone needs to go for a walk


I use it for work so it felt natural to do it at home too. If anyone has time to learn it as a hobby and doesn’t mind a challenge, I recommend it. But IMO you need to already be familiar with a lot of containerization concepts


I use k3s and argocd to keep everything synced to the configuration checked into a git repo. But I wouldn’t recommend that to someone just getting started with containers; kubernetes is a whole new beast to wrestle with.


I hope they meet hexbear soon
“lug around”? the server(s) are 100% in a data center, no way this is a single computer on prem. no company, especially facebook, deploys software that way in 2025


Hey now, some of us Americans are treating him like the dead fascist propagandist that he is


I’m gonna need more red streamers for my Kirkmas decorations


That’s how we know not to do it anymore
Knowledge tells you it’s safe to push to prod in Fridays. Wisdom tells you not to. Experience raises your heart rate at the very thought (though, that might actually be ptsd)
Become a hedge fund analyst or maybe get a job with McKinsey


Oh, so only for discussing topics the authorities consider verboten
suggin on a chili dawg


It’s not that it’s purpose or implementation is unclear, it’s how bad I was at coding 2 years 6 months 2 months last week
Me, I just have never reinstalled my OS partition in 15ish years
This bird was featured in Planet Earth s03e04. Really cool segment