Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
RT @BassMagOnline
Leland Sklar with an invaluable tip for bassists in the studio
Look damnit, it's obvious that the rune in Renalla's egg was Miquella's, which suggests Radagon may have distributed all the runes to the demigods but Miquella fucked off before Radagon was done, and I don't know why people aren't more upset by this. #ELDENRING
RT @polotek
I've got thoughts about a lot of different things in the blog post. But the very first thought I had after reading it was it's exhausting how much time we spend in tech talking shit to each other. https://charity.wtf/2023/03/09/architects-anti-patterns-and-organizational-fuckery/
He's not just an engineer, he's the most dangerous kind of engineer: extremely inexperienced, insufficiently supervised and full of unearned confidence.
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RT @polotek
People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.
https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1591233043075067907
RT @HeerJeet
Oh no don't arrest Bill Clinton that would be so heartbreaking it's the last thing people on the left want to see don't do it don't do it. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1641845565796253719
RT @DrEricDing
⚠️BREAKING—CDC team falls ill while investigating the health impacts of Ohio train derailment—➡️**7** US government investigators briefly fell ill in March while studying the possible health impacts of a toxic #OhioChemicalDisaster train derailment, @CDCgov confirms to CNN. 🧵
New term proposed! Front-End Pharaoh: A developer who creates front-ends that require the surplus labor of an entire bronze-age kingdom to build and maintain. Someone who doesn't factor in scale of developer resources against the incidental complexity of systems they create.
Remote work cope for a long meeting of limited relevance to me. #cubing
Does anyone besides me look at quantum computer.research, and especially the non-general-computing machines D-Link sells, and wonder if we're just reinventing a really expensive version of analog computing?
Weird things that bothered you as a child? I'll go first:
It bothered me endlessly that pencils don't write black. I don't know if I was craving more contrast on the paper or if I just thought they *should*.
Not very hot take: prompt engineering is just QA with a trendy paycheck #changemymind. I hope historically underpaid QAs are getting bank while the getting is good.
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RT @business
“Prompt engineers” are people who spend their day coaxing AI to produce better results and help companies train their workforce to harness the tools.
They're also getting paid upwards of $335,000 a year.
A thread 🧵
https://twitter.com/business/status/1641089191638441990
Does anyone know if Douglas Crockford has been cancelled for anything? Because I still swear The Good Parts has been the most useful programming book I've ever read, and I need to know if it's a problematic fave or not.
RT @PavelASamsonov
"How would you explain programming to your grandma? How would a product manager describe what they do to their mom?"
My grandma programmed mainframes before you were born. My mom has been a PM since before you started school. Maybe they should explain these jobs to you instead.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Buffalo weather right now: I'm bored. Let's snow sideways at 40 miles per hour!
So I upgraded my mimic tear to +10 this weekend and its been a lot of fun to run around with a wildly op summons at hand but also I feel like a butt because she's better at the game than I am.
Ok seriously, if you call it wooder, don't drink it.
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RT @GrimKim
Yo Philly—don’t drink the water today. Boiling won’t help.
More than 8,000 gallons of a latex-finishing solution spilled into Otter Creek in Bristol on Friday night. The spill includes butyl acrylate, which was one of the chemicals released in the East Palestine train derailment https://twitter.com/phillyinquirer/status/1640012022707363845
https://twitter.com/GrimKim/status/1640062563235840002
RT @StrewthQueen
1977: Anita Bryant, homophobe creampied
2019: Tommy Robinson, racist milkshaked
2019: Fraser Anning, islamophobe egged
2023: Posie Parker, transphobe souped
Don't drink the wooder.
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RT @jesseintl
@CovidDataReport “More than 8,000 gallons of a hazardous solution have spilled into Otter Creek near the Delaware River in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, officials said late Saturday, and the total potentially could reach 12,000 gallons.” https://www.inquirer.com/news/toxic-spill-delaware-river-otter-creek-bucks-county-20230325.html
https://twitter.com/jesseintl/status/1640067395128807424
Joined Nov 2022
