rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

"If nobody hires junior programmers then pretty soon we won't have any _senior_ programmers!" said members of a species that has known about climate change for decades but is increasing CO2 and methane output anyway.

Ordinary croissants are overrated. Almond croissants are underrated. Society's view of chocolate croissants is about right.

Yes things are generally worse than they were 20 years ago but we all still live an easier life than 99.99% of all humans to have ever lived, it's worth remembering that sometimes

The 'just learn a trade' crowd at the moment are the same as the 'you need a degree' crowd from 30 years ago. It's stupid to try and predict the employment needs of future. Just pick something you think you'll enjoy, or can at least somewhat tolerate, as a career.

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn

Interactive version
https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

I think the biggest weakness of vibe coding is that you can very quickly code the wrong thing. Some of my most productive moments have been 5 minutes of thinking in the shower, forcing me to re-evaluate my entire plan. But you're unlikely to have those "shower thoughts" if you aren't grinding away at the problem yourself.

You weren't the class clown. You were a fucking cunt who disrupted everyone else's education and disrespected the teacher trying to do their job of preparing everyone for life.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster.

Enlightenment is understanding that I, the person who brings this up at every chance in every conversation, am the monster.

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

Phoning someone is so selfish. You're basically saying, drop absolutely everything you're doing right now to talk to me.

Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!

(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)

Maybe you've had this experience when you walk into an empty room and see all kinds of possibilities, but when the room's furnished all you can see is "Sofa goes *there*", and it's hard to unsee it.

Perhaps if it was just a pile of cardboard boxes with "SOFA" written on them, we might find it easier to let go of that decision?

I've found that prototypes work best when they look like something we'd be happy throwing away.

Took me a while to realize this: All of our buttons and knobs being replaced by touchscreens is one (possibly subliminal) reason behind the rising obsession with mechanical keyboards.

Rayner made a mistake yes, but it also perfectly shows that the working class can't get away with anything while the rich keep avoiding tax like the plague. She avoided tax through negligence and pays a high price. Billionaires avoid tax intentionally and carry on as normal.

The most frustrating thing about the climate crisis is that we have a lot of the solutions already, they just need implementing at scale, and the only thing that's stopping that happening is the fact that it would make a few very rich people a bit less rich

I am cautiously pro-LLM in my own work, but collectively I fear the car is the predictive historical model: small wins for individuals + huge wins for a handful → massive externalities and collective action problems that will take generations to fix.
From: @straphanger
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/115140521581949962

A litre of petrol should cost no less than £5. I know you'll think I'm a joyless prick for saying that but so be it. The world is literally on fire and we're sharting fossil fuels into the atmosphere like they're free and harmless.