Oh. This is seriously cool. Thank you.

Oh! You meant Moore's Law is asymptotic!?

Yes! That is key to the joke I was making.

When I say Big O, I'm talking about the slick jazzy anime about rejecting true love and living with heartbreak because we believe a lie about our own superiority. This is always true, no matter what the discussion context. If I happen to say anything remotely relevant to mathematical Big O, that is just a deeply weird coincidence.

Sweet.

Fantastic summary. For anyone wondering how to get really really valuable in IT, this is a great write-up of why my top paid people are my top paid people.

Write more robust code.

Sure, I could read a book about best practices and Big O...but...What if we just table the idea for a few iterations of Moore's Law instead?

As a SteamDeck player, does this mean I can start saying I use Arch, by the way?

This gives off a strong "I have black friends." vibe.

Those are all a signs of a curious mind, which is a big plus. There's also signs of not being a team player, and my job is to build a team.

So it all depends how the candidate communicates themselves.

The sweet spot is finding a new team member who is sure they'll convince my team to change tools, but is committed to embracing our current tools until they win over the rest of the team.

As fun as it is to see Everett thump someone, the bits where he takes a well deserved kick in the ass are even better.

I'm a fan of us all controlling our violent tendencies, in real life, but it's a giggle in comic form.

Ubuntu was a big part of my path to full time Linux use. I adore everyone who has contributed to Ubuntu.

But also, Snaps are bullshit, and are why I replaced all my Ubuntu installs with Debian.

Canonical doesn't get to pretend to be surprised by the backlash for pushing an unnecessary closed proprietary platform on their freedom seeking users.

I still adore everyone at Canonical and in the Ubuntu community, for all they've done for the Linux community. Y'all still rock. Thanks!

Real world experience can help, but what we have now is also too stupid to recognize when it's succeeding or failing. It just greedily gobbles up inputs and feedback indiscriminately.

There's currently no way to know if the necessary advancement, to advance independently of humans, is 2 years and 2000 years away.

Even so, nature tells us that advancement probably isn't coming at all. It's not needed, so long as there are billions of humans available to partner with.

Yeah. That's the difference people don't seem to understand.

AI is perfect for stuff that's just made up bullshit anyway.

Probably the first of many (companies that will do this.)

Perhaps Intel feels that return-to-office mandates aren't effective, while the savings are substantial from no longer needing to own a massive building.

Yep. Intel is committed to hybrid with no mandate.

We've made their point...a person can survive fireball by making the three death saving throws. Exactly how a fine pile of ash and dust can!

I had a job like that early-ish in my career.

I taught myself so much random tech stuff while I was being ignored for 8 hours each day.

I still love that boss. They were great.

...

I'm just realizing that's probably how Miles emerges as a miracle worker in DS9.

The screenshots sell it well. That's some funny stuff. I'll check out the demo.

I'm ignoring this problem, myself, right now.

Whenever I run certain flatpak commands, it nags me about a setting I haven't bothered with yet.

I would share that message, but I've been ignoring it.

Are we just not going to talk about this one?

...

Yeah. That's probably for the best.

Makes sense. Google has been replacing skilled engineers with tail-eating AI regurgitation engines, which are getting progressively worse as they eat their own shit.

But I've been told those regurgitation engines are about to get really smart and replace all skilled labor.

So maybe it'll be fine.

Or maybe, as we've already started to see, more and more useful stuff will only be available via the Internet wayback machine, until they kill it.