if a manager has no metrics for judging productivity other than "is this person physically here" they are useless. even my shitty warehouse boss had metrics for productivity (line count) and he was dumb as hell.

the more I see ai tech bros talking about how there's no hardware barrier or challenge to getting to AGI from where we are now, the less I worry about AGI happening

I am becoming increasingly more interested in the security field

every time i see fighting sports go mainstream, I think, "That'd be a kinda fun way to stay fit", then I see the first punch to the face, and I come to my senses

every time one of those old-guard programmer type tech bros share their opinion I baby vomit a little

Rust is like a breath of fresh air for a tinkerer like myself who doesn't want to re-invent the solar system to write a fast command line app