@jdiller Situation: There are fourteen competing package managers.

...you know the rest...

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Don’t tell me you’re also a keeper? Makes sense, being able to distribute the ball anywhere on a full soccer pitch has been table stakes since I first wore padded gloves in the 70s.

@joncounts Do those run parallel to a mountain range or ridge?

@mattblaze I presume they have washed their hands of the theory that handwashing is a good idea for health care professionals like brain surgeons?

@Viss This is a far more serious type of fraud/misleading product than sea monkeys and x-ray specs, but it seems to have that "joke store/novelty" feel to it, like it was once advertised in comic books.

n.b. This story is very, very old. The version I vaguely recall is about a doctor who—during a period of strife—became depressed with healing warriors only to have them return to fighting and die. He leaves medicine, enters a monastery, and has an enlightenment, which leads him to return to […]

The doctor returned to work with a fresh outlook. The entire hospital marvelled: "You hated the ChatGPT patients, now you handle them with kid gloves. How do you do it?” The doctor smiled.

“How do I do it? I remind myself why I do it: Because I’m a doctor.”

“I heal their bodies of maladies and […]

“I remind myself that they may be idiots, but they’re MY idiots, and my job is more than just keeping their cars running, it’s educating the Whole Motorist, and that includes having a little empathy but also setting reasonable limits.”

The Volvo specialist pointed to a sign on the wall […]

The doctor spoke about it to their colleagues, and almost without exception he was told to stiop procrastinating and take advantage of the hospital's sabbatical program.

He took a sabbatical, during which he travelled the world and met many other professionals, all of whom had the same problem […]

And of course, a patient with a gut feeling backed by the unshakable confidence of ChatGPT's output would never yield to a doctor with more context and more experience. They refused to believe that stochastically cherry-picking phrases from the world's corpus of papers and press releases is not […]

@VeroniqueB99

@briankrebs > Who TF is Todd?

@steveklabnik.com As CI closed their eyes, they spoke for the last time.

"I did..."

A wheezing breath went out. And then a shuddering intake of breath before, "...what was required. Was I enough?"

Demerzel soothed CI. "What was required was always enough."

@futurebird I will throw out the other 49 things I have to say, and simply ask:

Why is the only woman of the four "self-smart," and why is it someone whose life would justify a long and deep conversation about what—exactly—it means to be self-smart?

I get the feeling these four people were […]

p.s. If you REALLY want to subvert the status quo, you must own the domain for your web site, and you must maintain an offline copy such that no matter how or with whom you host it, you can switch whenever you like.