@darius I occasionally reference this talk and analogy when describing my professional arc to high schoolers at career day (I am a high value career day target as a game dev married to a high school faculty member!). Excited to learn why, upon a decade of reflection, it is wrong to do that.

@darius yessss

@darius I still share the idea of your talk with people all the time. It’s such a joy

@darius @jomc

@jomc Perhaps it’s going to take them that long to generate their shitty POD copies.

@djsundog hehehe I also had this thought 10 seconds ago

@darius tbh i was kinda hoping for this kinda move https://web.archive.org/web/20180129012517/http://prodeum.io/

@darius reliving that like the Simpsons Enron ride of broken dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRLlqEvOT8

@darius those were the days

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Ah, the growth of the AI equivalent of the human centipede continues apace!

@darius mad computer's disease is on it's way, then.

@darius this is a serious risk called "recursive pollution." See https://berryvilleiml.com/results/BIML-LLM24.pdf

@ajroach42 How's your C++, technical writing, and general electronics knowledge?

Does https://www.ngscopeclient.org/ seem like something you'd be a good fit for? I have a long list of wishlist items I'm too busy to work on and will gladly throw some budget at someone willing to spend time on it.

This will be the home of my soon to be returning Impractical Computing zine.

It will also be the home of the Impractical Computing web series, if I ever make that.

In the meantime, it's a great way to see a showcase of the kinds of projects that I've worked on in the recent past, and to get an idea of the kind of work I'm willing to do.

@ajroach42 If you're actively looking work on the corporate side of things, more about that on the Work page would help. Or alternately, build out the last sentence in the first paragraph on the "About Me" page. Even if it's just a single line or (ugh, I know) forward to a LinkedIn profile or equivalent.

To my reading, either would help in terms of establishing scope past "I've done large-scale things and know what I'm doing." That part is clear, the "ok, but in what forest" part, less so.

@darius does it mean you have to change your gender?

@darius @jmac Good thing I use multi-factor genderfication

@darius luckily you get a year of free gender affirmation to monitor the situation

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@darius Social media site for women to go to in the woods so they’re safer than on a men’s site.

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I think that's the proper term of address for everyone in the fediverse:

"Good morning, feddy bears!"

@black_intellect Of course.

@black_intellect Cannot believe this is 2024

@textfiles Thanks, I hate it