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April King

on the perils of being named after a month

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Siguza

@april okay but can we talk about how the two of you managed t secure the "april" and "may" handles on GitHub??

April King

kudos to google for offering a free option to keep AI out of search results

Luis Villa

@april no, no, it'll keep *their* AI out of search results, not everyone else's. Which might be the worst of all worlds.

April King

me: hey big companies, can I download all of your copyrighted movies and music and images in case one inspires me to make something someday?

big companies: lol no get rekt

also big companies: btw we're downloading and using all of your copyrighted works to stuff into our machine learning models

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Andy

@april The worst thing, is that this is the reality. All my data is being kept "hostage" @ Facebook, because i refuse to accept their new terms in Europe, and there's no way i'm paying them to stop doing so either, because i bet we will see a "scandal" in the future, where someone leaks intel about their "dark secret private data profiling". I just don't trust big tech companies like them. I guess i never truly have been lol 😅

snep

@april when a corporation says no, they mean yes. You actually have permission to download everythint you want of theirs and they can't actually do anything about it.

0ddj0bb

@april yeah now more than ever piracy is sooooo legit

April King

tech be like:

hiring a staff engineer: one req, six hours of interviews

promoting to staff: a ten page promo doc requiring months of effort, feedback from dozens of colleagues, and approval by six layers of management

… and then we wonder why the average tenure is so short.

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Dave, N8SBE

@april After literally YEARS of dealing with the internal BS, including having the company change hands/get bought out repeatedly, so then HR had to re-do everything (including moving the goalposts repeatedly), I FINALLY got the promotion I've working at for the last few years. I'll be retiring next April, so there's that, I guess.😆

Philip Mallegol-Hansen

@april @josh Careful, if the powers that be realized this inequality, they would just make the interview match the promo process - certainly not the other way around.

April King

big middle finger to the universe, but especially to the colleague who made my bones hurt by pointing out that the `z` in `tar -xvzf` hasn’t been needed since version tar 1.15, released in 2004.

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Jernej Simončič �

@april The only time you still need z/j/J is when you pipe something to tar.

Noah Gibbs

@april Well, but, it's not like I'm going to memorise a *different* tar command line.

Wes Kennedy

@april wait.

I was having a good day until I saw this. 🤦‍♂️

April King

I don't remember which parent suggested having ChatGPT write bedtime stories based on their children's prompts, but I owe you a lifetime of free drinks.

April King

upon further reflection, I am going to ask ChatGPT to write all my children stories in the style of the Brothers Grimm

April King

taking a brief moment to crush on Susan Kare.

as NeXT employee #10, she invented many GUI elements and iconographies that we take for granted today.

and she invented Monaco, one of my favorite fonts, alongside Chicago, San Francisco, and Geneva.

oh yeah, and Clarus the Dogcow.

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beingextorted

@april Not belittling anyone's achievements as this is awesome...however, I could not care any less about fonts.
My thought process...I power up a machine and it functions, all is good. if it doesn't, the expletives I mutter only act as a vent while I stumble and plod my way to the next carnival of frustration. The type of font, and whoever imagined the code for it, well...I just don't care. That still holds true for me 50 years since my first hands-on introduction to computers.

gentlegardener

@april goodness. The history of #NeXT- has it been written? Those were the days.

Groink

@april Also, those are some rocking nerd kicks. #NewBalance

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