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• Post #4224013

  Of course, starting my first mid-year check-in for my team and the Oracle-powered HR service is down.

• Post #4224012

  Hadestown was amazing. I had no idea what to expect, but I loved it from the beginning, even when I realized I knew this story and how it ends.

• Post #4224011

  I often wonder what manual writers are thinking: "Clean the earbud openings with a q-tip after every use." Like, sure. Gonna carry around q-tips or a soft, lint-free cloth to clean my earbuds multiple times a day. I'm sure it's a legal CYA. "Not our fault if the customer gets an infection. We told them to clean the earbuds every time they use them."

• Post #4224010

  Debian team: There is a poll about AI usage in Debian with 2 options. (later) Debian team: Now there are 5 options in the poll.

• Post #4224009

  Doing mid-year check-ins, and while the team has a "AI & Tooling Adoption" as 10% of their evaluation, I'm concerned about how deep they are in using Gemini to analyze logs, understand the problems, verify troubleshooting steps(!). Especially the ones really new to the job... they should be leaning on runbooks and senior team members, not making it up as they go with AI. They don't have the experience to know when the AI is wrong, and I'm just...

• Post #2551276

  @Binder I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but... I'm cheering for the Pope. I don't believe in his God anymore, but the fundamental message of love and compassion is still true. And using Christianity to justify a war, even if that religion were actually true, is wrong. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Chicago Pope is my friend.

• Post #2414972

  So I'm skimming the web, looking for an alternative to "bitch". Trying to get gendered insults out of my vocabulary. Suggestions to similar asks on reddit are "motherfucker," "dick," "cunt," "witch," "bitch is gender-neutral." As usual, reddit doesn't understand the assignment, the idea being not using aspects of being a women (or a man) as an insult.

• Post #2414971

  When you "schedule a call" and there are no explicit instructions about you calling them... that means they're supposed to call you, right?

• Post #2414970

  I feel like I should watch Supernatural, but every time I go look at in my queue, I go, "15 seasons? Not today."

• Post #2306675

  My fancy bananas are not ripe, and I want a banana. 😞

• Post #2306674

  Here's some irony. Harbor Freight's deal-of-the day: 50% off two-pack of Hercules tool batteries! 30% off all Hercules _CORDED_ sanders.

• Post #2306673

  It kind of messes with my head that GenCon is 4 days long now. And even small local game cons are 3 days. I remember when the small cons were a single day.

• Post #2306672

  Misreading a car rental ad.... "Save Big during Heist month!"

• Post #2306671

  The new trash carts are here! The new trash carts are here! We switch from cans to a cart system June 1. Finally re-entering the modern era.

• Post #1935800

  When did Bash become like Perl, "not suitable for anything but one-liners"? People writing Python scripts when a simple Bash script will do. What's worse is that people are using AI to learn to code, and AI is injecting _opinions_ into that. Gemini (the AI I am required to find a use for at work) told me that Bash is only useful for one-liners, and my co-manager also said it wasn't worth teaching the team Bash. My team _lives_ in Bash all day long...

• Post #290225

  for @ziphi (I didn't expect this to blow up, and a lot of people here don't like bluesky links, but here's the source: https://bsky.app/profile/skyladawn.ca/post/3meqwdtphrc2w)