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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
@xxclusionary, on Twitter -
I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
Duran Duran, Is There Something I Should Know -
I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Author Archives: David K.
Biblesplaining to the Pope
There’s an entire global psyop happening now that is trying to make it seem like ending poverty is the entire point of Christianity, and it’s not. Nothing could be further from the truth! That’s what “the poor you will always … Continue reading
Claude.AI on The Book of Job
I’ve been using AI to research scripture lately. I’m asking it questions posed by sudden, crippling physical ailments, mental anguish from the betrayal of decades-old friends, and spiritual emptiness because, after decades of a close walk with God, He has … Continue reading
Today, in How Long Does it Take?
How long does it take to spin up a Linux VM in Azure? Turns out that’s three days, with two failures from the automated system, before it gets sent to an actual person. Mind you, this is a bog-standard RHEL … Continue reading
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spinoff movie has been scrapped
The Ferris Bueller spinoff was set to follow the same-day adventures of the valets who took the Ferrari on a joy ride. Source: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spinoff movie has been scrapped The sequel should have been Ferris’s kid taking … Continue reading
Woman Embezzled $600K Spanning 19 Years from Indianapolis Parish – MinistryWatch
On February 14, U.S. District Court Judge Chief Tanya Walton Pratt sentenced Marie Carson, 72, of Indianapolis, Indiana, to two years in federal prison for wire fraud. Court documents said that from 2008 to 2021 Carson illegally transferred $573,836.59 from … Continue reading
Developer Deep Dive—ESO’s Class Identity Refresh – The Elder Scrolls Online
ZeniMax Online Studio’s Combat Team shares their core philosophies, goals, and planning surrounding the future of ESO’s classes. As it stands, subclassing is objectively stronger than “pure” classing by a large margin for several reasons. This is mostly caused by … Continue reading
Sony, Amazon, Facebook, and You
Total time spent on this: about an hour and a half. Expletives uttered: several. Dents in my table from throwing my phone: one.
The Death of the Promise of Equality
This case isn’t really about child trafficking or pedophilia. It’s more than even that, as if that’s not big enough already. It’s about holding people in power accountable to uncontroversial and unequivocal laws. It’s about the supposed blindness of our … Continue reading
Reddit is a Psyop
“Reddit is a CCP-funded deep state psyop against a very specific demographic, and nothing on it should be taken at face value.”
Where Are the Apps?
We’re coming up on a year since the general availability of public LLM’s which are supposed to make everyone master coders. Where are all the amazing new apps in the App Store that have been created by just describing what … Continue reading