Posts by mhoye@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B23NEIbHkwJQm4IO3s by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T18:25:26Z
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We're an AI first company. Our mission is to streamline your experience and let you turn ideas into execution at the speed of thought. To join our team make PDFs out of your cv and cover letter, upload the PDFs, then retype all the text in the PDFs into more textboxes. Copy/paste is disabled. A question that is illegal to ask is mandatory. <>[]{},%#$ characters forbidden. Accents forbidden. The back button breaks everything. You have been logged out for inactivity. Click here to restart.
(DIR) Post #B23O4e4ZASrAQZx5ii by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T14:21:13Z
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The idea that programming is about generating code makes exactly as much sense as the idea that cooking is about generating shit.
(DIR) Post #B23O4fS02pCAhXvJsu by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T16:25:54Z
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Followup: The persistence of the idea that computer science is about computers is ironically a manifestation of the two most notorious problems in computer science.
(DIR) Post #B25Z61coZcpBZkkgKm by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-08T21:14:42Z
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Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo. "I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."The grin on her face.
(DIR) Post #B277BpsyixGMVJDMsi by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T16:20:43Z
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@futurebird “If coinbase wants it then it is bad” _is_ the reasonable argument.
(DIR) Post #B2B8ZjeQQvXuhhCuVk by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-11T14:55:03Z
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@futurebird @david_chisnall I mean… if AI could do what it promises, why are these companies hiring?
(DIR) Post #B2BBNnFPXFxEFIVJpI by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-11T15:26:14Z
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Can’t get over the fact if you click next on the right screen this place’s secure admissions process just gives you someone else’s name and personal info and lets you in.
(DIR) Post #B2E35nKYGvdj8ChA6y by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-13T00:37:45Z
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@futurebird graph theory and primes are absolutely gateway drugs
(DIR) Post #B2ICGKa5B8i5N5tkUC by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T00:39:20Z
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@futurebird for a while there, no joke, computing was flirting with upper and lowercase zeroes…
(DIR) Post #B2JWK7B39EOfCTENQu by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T14:07:21Z
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It's kind of amazing that James Cameron made Avatar and it was the biggest-selling movie ever except it left zero cultural footprint and nobody ever talks about it, so Cameron got mad and made two more Avatar movies, making billions more dollars and nobody ever talks about them either. The man is has weaponized the Mandela Effect and we can't even talk about how effectively he does that because of how effectively he does that. An invisible hole in the zeitgeist. Financial-extraction antimemes.
(DIR) Post #B2QzNN1geqvVjl1fqy by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-18T13:40:08Z
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Ladies and gentlemen, a bad pun billions of years in the making.After years of painstaking research and construction, the Borexino neutrino observatory - 1400m under Gran Sasso mountain - has observed, for the first time, the neutrinos produced by a theorized carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle in solar fusion, or CNO neutrinos.Before this result, scientists could see no neutrinos.Thank you, thank you. I'll be here until the heat death of the observable universe.https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/after-nearly-a-century-elusive-cno-neutrinos-are-finally-seen-from-the-sun
(DIR) Post #B2YZ4WYtw9XIGXassa by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T21:56:43Z
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Wearing 2+ hoods:
(DIR) Post #B2YZxaeyP0vqu0gwKG by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T22:20:14Z
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@futurebird Like, a hoodie plus a jacket with a hood? I don't think of myself as fancy, on the head-covering front.
(DIR) Post #B2YbwX7uFmw1Ywqfce by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T22:42:30Z
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@futurebird … let’s file that under “baffling fourth thing”.
(DIR) Post #B2c8SxqEFAsTgvy4DQ by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T14:17:53Z
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Increasingly angry so many people are happy to say "well what did you expect, is anyone surprised by this, why don't you have backup plans, it's your own fault," whenever a corporate IT system wrecks somebody's life for clicking the wrong button. It's sanctimonious victim blaming and it's one hundred percent bullshit, a symptom of a deeply immature industry getting permission to fuck up from an army of deeply immature people. Reflexively shilling for corporate negligence should humiliate you.
(DIR) Post #B2c8T3lqCOvu53xeD2 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T14:54:51Z
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Industrial paper cutters will glide through bone like putty. Hobart mixers can easily pull an arm off. But somehow it's _impossible_ to hurt yourself with those things accidentally, and there are a million other examples out there of heavy, fast-moving, razor sharp tools running red hot all day every day, operated safely by people with half a grade school education because we decided that guardrails and safety interlocks are better for society than saying "I told you so" over and over again.
(DIR) Post #B2c8T9qJcg4qug6J16 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T15:01:06Z
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But somehow out here there are computer-touchers willing to look at an incident where somebody clicks one checkbox in error and loses years of their professional life, and say "well it's your fault for reasons?"What would it take, in your head, for you to believe the company that built that checkbox, that owns every byte of code and all the infrastructure behind it, has a duty of care? That maybe that company has a positive moral obligation to people, and even - gasp - society?
(DIR) Post #B2c8TG9KAuqcTN2ZTk by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T15:09:41Z
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What would it take for you to believe that we have an obligation to get past the choice of wringing our hands or washing them. That we have a moral duty to rise above gesturing vaguely at entropy while excusing negligence with sanctimony. What would need to happen to you, for you to stop believing that these pervasive abdications of responsibility, these systemic moral failures are somehow unavoidable, and start recognizing that they're inexcusable?Do you need to wait for the day it happens?
(DIR) Post #B2cWK5NLGDs5LrkuAq by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T19:54:57Z
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In conclusion, here's the blog post and I'm just going to block people doing this in the future. https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/01/24/obligatory/
(DIR) Post #B2caGEYNavqCTWKxQ8 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T20:30:04Z
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"We estimate that the Metaverse could generate $4 trillion to $5 trillion in value by 2030."Happy three year anniversary to McKinsey's "A CEO's Guide To The Metaverse".https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/a-ceos-guide-to-the-metaverse