I thought 90s internet would be forever then the iphone came and the internet got corporate shillings

now the surveillance state is coming... verify ID this, save the kids (as if they care about kids)

can we go back to the 90s internet. our own blackjack, and hookers! no verify, no paypal/internet money. only grassroots memes and wholesome trolling

I thought 90s internet would be forever then the iphone came and the internet got corporate shillings

now the surveillance state is coming... verify ID this, save the kids (as if they care about kids)

can we go back to the 90s internet. our own blackjack, and hookers! no verify, no paypal/internet money. only grassroots memes and wholesome trolling

does it simply look pretty to me cuz I made it?

does it simply look pretty to me cuz I made it?

how common is getting betrayed by people I wonder?

I wonder if I'm too paranoid outside of typical statistics because of subjective experiences

like learning some rich elite chick's sister was married to a hacker... and the hacker helped her family. and I'm here sitting like. I dated a hacker once. I felt like he wanted me to incriminate myself so he could blackmail me into marriage (he shared with me that that's how his parents were together... probably forgot he shared that). I got too paranoid and started talking to him less after that lol. though to be fair he never did do anything malicious against me, just dumb childish things sometimes

I think a lot of people just don't betray you because they just don't have the means by which to do it, too. like they just can't comprehend ambition, not that they're actually loyal to you. but this also makes them pretty lame pack-mates

I was too paranoid to take workplace related "opportunities". like someone inviting me to another job. because during computer science all the dudes would try to con you into going out with them or for nudes. so they'd say they have something you want so they could drag it out and then "negotiate" so that caused trust issues in me in regards to job networking. if a guy won't even show you his homework that he got a good mark on and you didn't on yours, and I just wanted to know what the teacher was actually looking for, would be hell in terms of jobs where you're bound by contract and monetary dependency, and any notion of pushing back is insubordination (nor does HR ever work, I found for toxic workplace stuff). so you're fucked if you're "close" to some dude enough for him to actually want something like that from you to where he's devising these things, or if he thinks you owe him because you "only got the job because of him", in my mind anyway

is it as grim as I think?

... you know the thing that kicks me most about the epstein emails

they talk way more to the point, more honestly even in their day-to-day plannings (ei being allowed to bitch that someone changes their mind a lot without getting fired), than all the corpo-speak emails and co-workers I had. that's so depressing

even pedos get better rights to expression than programmers

lol AI worms hahahaha

if AI replaces all the humans what will the humans do do you think?

went off the beaten path and the beaten path beat me

when time is a metaphor, the world is an oyster

the year is 2026 and I still don't know what AI/LLMs are useful for

other than wasting your time

instead of resolutions russians are like "how you meet the new year is how you'll spend it"

so you're effectively tricked into putting your resolutions into effect but also to enjoy yourself 😏

i think i'm realizing I liked the act of programming but had no passion for software... or taking over the world like all those techbros

weirdly enough reading autobiography of benjamin franklin is making me connect weird things. Got any favourite old-timey books you found to be enlightening?

well designed / written code is technically vanity 🤔

if they say jump,
don't ask how high: that's insubordination

necessity the mother of invention

or boredom?

that feel when you bought something years ago and today you realized it's more modular than you thought

awww hell yeah

like little christmas

> Fred is a college student who was so preoccupied with getting a term paper “just right” that he dropped out of college to work on it for an entire year to avoid the horrors of turning in a product he wasn’t entirely satisfied with

reading a book on emotional intelligence and it's quite dystopian that it's funny. I got the name of it from a highly sensitive person book praising it (so you'd think they would be sensitive and empathetic, and be able to perspective-take and all that jazz)... he also keeps talking about how cognitive capability doesn't mean better social skills but better social skills means better cognitive ability. lol

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> One of the more surprising job arenas where emotional intelligence makes a competitive difference is computer programming, where the rate at which the top 10 percent exceed average performers in producing effective programs is 320 percent. And those rare superstars, in the top 1 percent of programmers, produce a boggling 1,272 percent more than the average.9
“It’s not just computing skills that set apart the stars, but teamwork,” says Spencer. “The very best are willing to stay late to help their colleagues finish a project, or to share shortcuts they discover rather than keep them to themselves. They don’t compete—they collaborate.”

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> After hearing me give a talk on emotional intelligence, the CEO of a company—one of the ten largest in its market—told me in confidence about why, instead of grooming his chief operating officer of many years to take his place as CEO, he fired him: “He was extraordinarily talented, brilliant conceptually, a very powerful mind. He was great on the computer, knew the numbers up, down, and backward. That’s how he got to be chief operating officer.“But he was not a brilliant leader, not even particularly likable. He was often brutally acerbic. In groups he was socially awkward; he had no social graces, or even a social life. At forty-five, he had nobody he was close to, no friends. He worked all the time. He was one-dimensional; that’s why I finally let him go.
“But,” the CEO added, “if he could have done just five percent of what you’re talking about, he’d still be here.”

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so you knew he was smart because he collaborated / taught you how he thought... and this isn't the only excerpt where the author praises overtime, commitment, etc. but then the guy gets fired for having no friends. lol

what's this called: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... (images broken on devrant again)

opposite of feature creep

fake knowledge era

everything suuuuuucks, faaaawk

every time I correct the AI it gives me compliments

and it keeps giving me fuzzy feelings now

but I'm a robot. this isn't supposed to happen. get out of my head!

look at worse codebases / children to feel ok about mangling yours!

*tries to avoid using refcells* fuuuuuck

all cuz serde can't serialize them well but I can build a custom serializer/deserializer. I'm not sure this constraint is worth it

on one hand I would love to just build something entirely in enums with no traits or RC or refcell but on the other hand this is proving to be too hard

I miss grooveshark

had radios people voted on the next song. a chat that was filled with programmers that just wanted tunes during their workday. those were the days

now it's either Spotify or defunct if it's anything similar to that

if a job says AI I firstly have no idea what they're doing and secondly I don't want to participate

I don't know if I'm being too judgmental. just seems like a fad

you know how in video games you press an input key and your character starts clipping through things or the camera malfunctions... or you walk into something and get stuck in a wall or just spring right into the sky?

they wanna put that into IRL cars now. no direct control over the parts, but only through software intermediaries...

I need a generator and rust doesn't have generators... sigh

"extra unstable feature" on nightly 🤪

that feel when you're comforted by nobody getting back to you