Posts by patcharcana@furry.engineer
 (DIR) Post #Ato6mtmmwh20eL0lGK by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       The same people who think that bread is "just" flour, water, salt, and yeast think that coding is "just" putting enough of the right words in the right order that you get the output you want from a terminal.Unskilled labour was already bullshit the first time it was uttered, but now that you've bought into it, they want to unskill yours too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4E6IctiOhIVOTgawa by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       I wonder how different the world would be if the abrahamics had landed on a "search of the truth by means of interrogation of the mysteries" tract instead of a "conform to the ruberics or burn in hell" tract.Not that there's a religion on the planet immune to abuses (that's the nature of institutions) but I feel like it'd be harder to weaponize if it was framed as an esoteric pursuit of the Perfect Knowledge of God instead of "you accidentally checked the sin-boxes we care about this week, get legistlated"
       
 (DIR) Post #B4GGKUM4W8LBKuOcrI by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       Jealous of the americans and their private, for-profit healthcare system, but you live in a civilized country?Own pets! You will not regret voluntarily making yourself subject to the veterinary health industry.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5aLqBZYJkhL5BLibo by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       Hey, remember how I said getting my keyboard to work right on macOS would be a simple matter of changing a few of the keymappings on the QMK firmware?Turns out, since the last time I worked with those mappings, QMK has completely changed how keyboards are defined and laid out in the source files.So fuck me I guess I'm just not allowed to build any firmware at all until I completely redo all the work I did four years ago, because their automatic translation layer doesn't fucking work either.
       
 (DIR) Post #B89a0xGrfZ7DiIKKWm by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       Aaron Swartz didn't die so that Sam Fuckin' Altman could get away with this shit.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8nhq8rgRu8TW9wu4e by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       Me: Boy, flush-mounting that into the floor is going to be a pain in the ass.The humble Master Carpenter: *whacks it roughly into place and then just uses a hand-plane to make it flush to the subfloor*
       
 (DIR) Post #B8nhqBw328PR2Z0vnE by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       To be fair I can do that trick too. I lost track at the main tech job I had how many times someone asked me apologetically for data that "would be a pain in the ass to find" and all you needed was like, 10 minutes to tune a SQL, Splunk, or grafana query.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8ni0eyduZ6q0YDfRQ by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       Or for that matter how many times I heard "hey I know it takes forever but can we do risotto for family meal today" only to demonstrate that, with adequate tools, there's no meaningful difference in the effort required to make one serving of risotto from the effort required to make 30.
       
 (DIR) Post #B92ouIdTQxHBVLTyPw by patcharcana@furry.engineer
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       @Rairii I used to joke about how it'd be nice when the pants fell off this tech to be a real engineer who can more or less write your own job specs but there's not enough cash in the entire economy to make me want to clean up after this.