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  Modern AI enables those of us who are uncreative, tasteless and with absolutely no talent and all — to achieve barely mediocre things.

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  I'm sorry but I don't think anyone is able to be "obsessed with the mission to simplify finance and payroll administration, while ensuring compliance through smart automations" unless there's a short circuit somewhere in their brain that needs fixing.

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  How WordPress assumes people do things but don't align with reality at all: - You actually want to use the Posts feature to write news or blog posts - Authors and columnists log in themselves to type things into the editor - Gravatar is a great idea and we all want to use it - We want to get comments and pingbacks to our sites - XML-RPC is the way of the future - Nobody would ever want to lock or delete users from a CMS - A web app should always have write access to its own runtime fi...

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  I don't hold grudges but one time we had a new CTO who got the whole team upset, bullied the team lead and decided that everyone is suddenly full stack. Fast forward four months later and everyone on the team had left besides that one guy who depended on the position to keep his visa. (I still applaud the front-end dev who simply didn't show up one day — good for her.) Add two months and that stupid muppet appeared on a podcast episode titled "how I built a kick-ass team".

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  I honestly think that the US cutting off the international humanitarian aid agencies and NGOs that I used to work for caused more harm to my bottom line than the proliferation of LLMs.

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  Software developers — We have resumes showing how we can navigate between domains, frameworks and languages — we have written recommendations praising our technical and interpersonal skills — some of us even have portfolios and public facing work examples and volunteer time on open source projects. Why are we the only group of workers that needs to take a whiteboard exam or do intensive homework in order to prove our skills during interview processes?

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  The second most annoying thing on the Internet is people who adopt Icelandic names but don't ask a native speaker to check their grammar first. Also, please stop using my culture as a cover for your white supremacy.

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  Marketing people are so dumb about measurement units. What about selling power banks in amp-hours instead of kilo-milli-amp-hours? Would that be too easy? Dumb fucks.

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  I learned soldering before all that led free crap and it annoys me to no end.

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  The LinkedIn feed is basically just people with titles like "senior expert staff deep-learning cloud marketing consultant" going like this: "Before forming a strong opinion about heroin, I recommend giving it an honest try and seeing whether you can get the same results people are talking about. I say that as someone who has repeatedly resisted change and now I can't even get out of bed without the thought of having one more hit."

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  I haven't even finished my first coffee and I almost sprayed it all over my desk over this wonderful LinkedIn take: "Senior developers don't know more than junior devs, they just retrieve what they know faster" Buddy. I probably work slower than you. That's not the point. A senior dev knows that your KPIs are unrealistic, that the company is crumbling within the next two quarters and does not take pizza as bribe. We've seen all of this before. But do hire an optimis...

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  Some pictures from the memorial in Berlin today. Please PM for media licencing.

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  Hey nerds. Tell me how I make Fedora/Gnome stop reading three-finger taps as a middle click. It's needlessly annoying.

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  So they're going to go all in with racial profiling and close Vietnamese owned nail salons like they've been doing back in Iceland?

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  If you're worried about your project manager not prioritising web accessibility or someone up the chain calling you an "activist", just start framing accessibility as "the agentic browsing experience" and "GEO optimisation". Suddenly making it about machines not being able to hijack information from your site effectively instead of actual human customers makes you the most popular developer in the office.

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  Please tell me how your AI generated NextJS site performs better than a WordPress or Joomla site made and run by someone who knows what they're doing. I would also be curious about any accessibility and usability testing that the people preaching for those things are doing. Here's the performance metrics for my slop-free WordPress site while we wait. I can remove the WooCommerce cart from my site to get those 4 accessibility points back if you want.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/116923520058180639 When nothing is left but pornography and spam, all the LLMs get to train themselves on is pornography and spam.

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  Having a good mix of American and British followers, I'm tempted to ask if I'm actually pronouncing the following words wrong: - Sewing, which I pronounce as soowing because sowing is a different thing. - Mountain, which I don't pronounce as moun'in because then I sound like an old lady from Atlanta - Costco, which to Americans has a silent t, but I've heard British people pronounce with the t.

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  Germany: "We need more skilled workers!" Also Germany: "If you don't get a doctor's note on the first day, you're fired!" Also, also Germany: "We need more doctors!"

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  Observation about Germany: Heat pumps are left wing and "woke" as far as German politics are concerned. German politics have however not figured if installing air conditioners in public buildings and hospitals is a left-wing or right-wing talking point and therefore German politicians don't know how to approach the subject. However, it is perfectly normal to send bespoke-built police water cannon trucks to public events for cooling them down.

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  My personal opinion is that UNIFIL should have been allowed or even mandated to shoot back years ago.

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  The greatest business idea of the 21st century is a massive computer system that answers your questions by rephrasing what some guy on a forum said 8 years ago. It also makes cartoon porn.

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  Due to its lack of a proper ORM, n+1 queries are a virtually unknown concept in the #WordPress space but very mch present as a problem. You may be able to use the built-in WP_Query interface (or WC_Product_Query) but it is extremely limited in its capabilities. For those not in the know, an ORM is a software library that takes care of generating SQL queries from calls that use constructs from your programming language.

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  Went to Vapiano. Left my 'tism headphones at home. Wish me luck.

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  RE: https://icy.wyvern.rip/notes/amyi98szgt5xq23y Floor eleven, please. — Entschuldigung das habe ich nicht verstanden. — ELEVEN! — Okay. Playing Trapped in a Box on YouTube Music

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  Berlin just had a confirmed ebola case.

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  The AI destroyed our systems: It's sinister and coming for our jobs. This is what the future brings. It's breaking out of confinement. The intern dropped the database: Because our IAM policies were bad and we should have more oversight. Just be more careful next time.

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  Serious question: Has referring to yourself as a freelancer become akin to saying you work via Fiverr or UpWork full time?

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  Ubuntu Launchpad was up for a good hour tonight. Sadly I missed the window.

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  @chris The Book of Revelation is basically describing hell as a very large music festival. I bet Metallica and Pantera are headlining. See you in the mosh pit.