Alien Nathan Edward

not my experience at all across 3 separate companies. Ime senior engineers are the highest level that still spends most of the day heads down most days, and that’s why I’m gonna stick it out at this level as long as I can.

your company has money for no one above mid-level engineers to be actually building the product?

rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

not sure which ones, but at least one charges you per day for the length of your sentence even if you’re let out early

This, but it’s my ADHDAF ass stacking firewood with my dad. Eventually, when I was old enough, I even got to use the splitter and the sledgehammer. Now I’m a grown ass man and Pittsburgh is technically subtropical so he doesn’t heat the house with wood anymore, but in years of studying I’ve never found a more effective meditation than 3 hours of splitting and stacking firewood.

tldr - you’ll just have to do the conversions in your head now because it’s useful to know where the sun is at different points on the earth when trying to communicate across those points.

the fact that the acronym for Coordinated Lunar Time is LTC tells you everything you need to know about how this will work.

it’s like that time Carly Simon wrote a song about me

throw new SameJokeException();

yeah, PascalCase is the worst

I’ll be honest, I’m kinda hype to see the ragged edge of AI trained on AI trained on AI down a few dozen levels deep. The slow literal disintegration of data outputted by a system that has no concept of meaning, only pattern-matching, is gonna end up building entire cities in the uncanny calley

Oh nnnnooo it’s like Bart, the bear who played every bear in a movie or TV show when I was a kid.

My partner and I went to a nature preserve the other day and had the exact same thought about buffalo. Still furry and warm, still friend shaped even if it has forehead spears. What if your furry snuggle buddy was an entire alive couch?

Memba when they marketed the web as this great big all-encompassing thing where you could find anything if you knew where and how to look? The modern web is like 6 sites chained together in a Content Centipede.

Let them towel you off, maybe get a snack. What’s the worst that could happen?

everything about my life changed when I realized that if something tastes like it needs salt but adding salt doesn’t help, it needs acid.

my grandfather was a wwii veteran, and they took pretty good care of him.

his brother was also a wwii veteran and spent the rest of his life drinking away the horrors he’d seen and scream-sobbing any time there was a thunderstorm.

funny I know 3 people who served and are dead, and one who has just disappeared and I didn’t even serve.

Having schools forward the contact info of low-income, low-performing students to recruiters at the age of 14 so those recruiters can start talking to kids without anyone else’s knowledge and having kindergartners do worksheets with recruiters where they talk about what branch of the service they would join if they could isn’t letting people do whatever they want, it’s grooming children to die for the aristocrats.

what do you know about Marshall McLuhan? I’m hoping it’s not very much, because you seem to be in a really good place to receive what he has to teach right now. Google the phrase “the medium is the message” if you’d like to know more.