I worked at a company which did the gay pride logo switch.

I know it doesn’t mean much from people but the ones who pushed changing the logos were from our LGBT employees.

what’s funny is that I built that into my routine and I try to have conversations during family get-togethers

My parents seem to have broken that routine when smartphones came about will check their phone at the dinner table … my brother just has Reddit out all the time and scrolls if he feels the slightest bit bored. His kids are watching YouTube on the TV but they like talking … but he doesn’t feel the need to engage. His wife doesn’t seem to be all that engaged. Could be either due to him being on his phone all the time or doesn’t have much to say …

I still don’t know what mogging (sp?) is and I’m not sure I want to …

To add onto this, I had to look up:

Daguerreotype[note 1] was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used from the 1830s to 1850s. “Daguerreotype” also refers to an image created through this process.

What is minimalism to you? (asking sincerely)

In case anyone wasn’t aware. Eminem wanted to make the final rap battle a little more “real”. So he struck up a convo with Anthony Mackie and chatted and then used it in that final rap battle.

Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/i9C7IlZRDDg

Reminds me of when I did group “men” therapy and the guy running it recommended we all read Jordan Peterson.

I don’t think he had any ill-intent, but I was like – eww … I stopped attending and hope they all stuck to that one book and only that.

I knew some bad devs that didn’t have CS degrees. They joined because they thought the money would be good and the companies wanted to reduce labour costs.

It’s really hard to explain to someone what loops are that doesn’t get it.

However some of the “worst” devs that I’ve worked with aren’t incompetent coders. They’re good “coders” that are fucking shit to work with. They refuse to fix their own bugs, blame you for their mistakes, ignore your feedback and management fucking loves them and gives them carte blanche. I’m talking over ten years ago but we implemented some cache system who refused to publish their docs online to “strengthen” relationships with their customers. Anyways, the dude implements it, doesn’t document anything (much like the product itself). Days past after implementation and I see what looks like a cache bug and I say, “Sergii, can we look at this together?” His reply? “No, I’m sick of looking at it” … I go to the manager and he says, “yeah I get what he means, I’d not wanna looks at it either” … great.

Yeah, for some reason there’s some real moral outrage required specifically for pizzacake. It’s not enough to dislike her comic but it seems like they need to vice signal as well.

and robot dogs!

Not a desert but Vancouver is perfect for the screen! https://youtu.be/ojm74VGsZBU (Every Frame A Painting - Vancouver Never Plays Itself)

lol, yeah how could I have forgotten the Claude ads already, good point

I genuinely don’t think Google wants to do this. I think they’re doing it because they’re forced to by the other LLM competitors and are looking for competitive edges.

I think they would prefer to route you to those websites where they can sell you ads.

Agreed. I’m British and became a Canadian Citizen when I was 9 and moved back and forth a lot between the two countries.

When I moved back to the UK when I was 25 – I actually had to get used to hearing and saying “maths”. I remember going to school in Sheffield when I was 14-15 and I must have heard it there but it still shocked me as an adult.

It’s more of a British phrase although Numberphile did a deep dive on the root of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZCECvoaTA.

Why’s this need to be on the LLM? They control the app, can’t they just make a tool call out?

wtf is this kurzgesagt? they do history? omg thank you!

I’m so blind when I was playing Control for hours and just couldn’t figure out how to advance. Turns out the way I was looking at the corridor made me blind to the exit on the left and just kept going to the exit on the right. Don’t get me wrong, almost no one has this issue, but I find a good way to get caught doing stupid things.

It’s more than that for me. I typically hate doing repetitive tasks but I love automating them and seeing my scripts or apps run or just checking a dashboard feels better.

I won’t get into too much of a rant about this, but I’m in DevOps but I used to be a full-stack dev (as in doing nothing well).

My UI lead is just SO proud that he doesn’t need to write any code by hand and can show you how to do it too! Guess what he doesn’t do? Doesn’t fix up or speed up the website. We integrate with two of our sister products. One of them by sharing our UI packages through our private NPM repo and the other by iframe. Both are done so poorly at a fundamental level because our NPM packages are just SO poorly put together that if you spent any time looking at the output, you’ll see that it’s like typescript but not really. It’s not CJS nor does it really do ESM. Our sister websites needs to use another bundler to import these packages.

Our website is just slow too. Forget about deferred stuff or tighter bundles or reducing the page load times … just putting out more with AI is the key now. Let’s just forget about fundamentals.