@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy
Career software engineer living something approximating the dream he had as a kid.
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@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyWe gotta do something about this cop-on-fed violence.
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/ice-agent-shot-fresno-homeowner/
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy"Lo-fi Traditional Vocal Sounds Without Any Direct Meaning To Relax And Study To."
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@Lazarou I remember when the Super El Niño Extreme was on the 99-cent menu.
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@wackJackle This but not the way he thinks.
Music streaming services will definitely still exist. But a) more acts will use AI and b) _some_ stores might try replacing licensed Muzak with a realtime synthesizer (no idea how that excitement will pan out).
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy"Hey babe, what you thinking about?" "Oh, you know. Traditional vocal sounds without a direct meaning." "... What?"
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@msbellows Hoping everything works out alright. Medical scares are the worst.
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyReally bothered by how messy some of the packages related to AI agents are. This is the first time I've had to fight through a problem with a downloaded package that ended with "edit the .el file because they called an internal function that got renamed in the emacs core." Like... okay, it's […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyWow... So I went to install treesitter markdown for emacs and encountered the "the latest ABI is version 15" issue. Dealing with that is literally DLL hell. Up to and including "restart emacs because regardless of what it is telling you, the process itself loaded an old .so and won't unload it […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy"What is that?" "It's a Terminator. T-800. Skynet sent it from the future to ensure we create Skynet." "And why is it burning down the Orion Pictures film archive?" "It's been tasked with destroying all copies of the _Terminator_ movies."
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyWHO WOULD WIN?
* decades of research in authentication, authorization, security, and information partitioning
OR
* 1 confused deputy
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy[Joking about cognitohazards while referencing the cognitohazard]
May contain graphic violence
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyI'm not a _good_ writer, but a muse does feel like teasing me from time to time by tossing a good one my way. "He kissed her, and it was cozy and comfortable, like a cabin in the woods. And it was terrifying and unsettling, like a cabin in the woods." (Standard disclaimer: anything I drop on […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy[re: Have you ever tried eating a clock?]
@brouhaha "Have I ever tried eating a... Yeah, I see why that's content-warned."
"... **Oh, clock.** "
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyMy favorite thing about the epic of Gilgamesh is that it is a story that includes the notion that there are some prizes with a price that someone else has to pay that is too high. We could use more stories like that.
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@mike I agree with everything up to completely different approach, and that's my ignorance... I don't really know enough about the space yet to have confidence in any particular direction.
The amount of distance one can cover by adding layers surprises me. But I also know enough history of […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyMy brain: 🎶Sonic Herooooes! (Sonic Herooooes!) Hedgehogs and foxes are savin' the day! Sonic Herooooes! (Sonic Herooooes!) Savin' the world with a kid on the way!🎵 Me: It is 7:30 in the morning o'clock, just ... _why?!_
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyGut checking whether I'm missing something here. Conventional wisdom is that even in the context of a general handler that is supposed to shield a chunk of code from other chunks of code (such as a validation framework where you still want to run all the validations even if one suffers a […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@dlakelan In hindsight, we did fall for the assumption that large centralized architectures built by benevolent dictators would work because we seemed to believe that technical competency and benevolence were hand in hand, and not a particular artifact of a particular, I'm not sure yet […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy@mike This is very true but I think there might be more to unpack here around human epistemology and the concept of Truth itself.
Feed a human being nothing but a false narrative that doesn't match reality, keep them separate from the consequences of that narrative grinding against reality, and […]
@mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gyI need a bus route app that lets me say "yes, I know you said get on the 86, but I got on the 87 because it got here sooner and they all stop at nearly the same place, now replot given that constraint."
