Eh, I spend years not-quite-finishing the scripts I'm writing by being slow and careful and deliberate. Sometimes it would be nice to actually complete a project.
We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?
We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?
Interviewing Employer: Where do you see yourself in five years?
Me: In a hermit's hovel in the woods near the mountains, as far away from humanity as I can possibly get. Birdsong will be my alarm, and the chirping of crickets will be my bedtime lullaby. While completely nude I will bathe in crisp spring lakes and hunt with the wolves, dance with the fireflies and run free with the wind at my back.
Interviewing Employer: ...
Me: ...
Interviewing Employer: ... Are you hiring?
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(I hope this brought you a smile! If you're looking for a job currently, good luck!! I'm cheering for you!!)
If i could be any animal, I'd love to be a Sloth or a monkey. Yes, I'm looking for a job. I'd love to live in a nice forest where I could know I had friends who'd want to hang with me.
sounds a bit like my job as night manager of the lower realms of the cooler side of hell:
A cave at the side of a very active volcano, the sweet sound of crows and ravens, bathing in acidic hot water from deep underground. Playing with all the fluffy bats and running with all the fiery (literally) wolves.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Content warning: A European's perspective on US gun violence
Why is a shooting in the USA even noteworthy these days? It's a daily occurrence. People even get killed by "ambient bullets" - NDs and other stray shots. It's just part of everyday life, like obesity and punitively-expensive healthcare.
The news media are already full of headlines about 'heartbreak' and 'desolation' and other such twaddle about 22 grown men being paid more than a surgeon, to chase a ball.
Leaving aside that there are Labradors who will do that for free, a football trophy is not important. Be proud of what your country does - the quality of its free health care system, the high standards of its education system, how it treats refugees, the skill it has at international diplomacy, its determination to halt the climate catastrophe, its equality for all and its tolerance and understanding of difference, its low murder rate, its contributions to science., its treatment of its own citizens. Things that matter.
Remember how the Brexit referendum was won days after a politician on the remain side was assassinated by someone supporting leave, and the whole thing was apparently just forgotten about?
Here is a little blast from the past for all you synthesizer fans out there. Mark Isham - Never Cry Wolf. Fantastic movie with an amazing soundtrack, which often reminds a little of blade runner.
Soundtrack from the 1983 Carroll Ballard film "Never Cry Wolf," with Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Martha Ittimangn...
That was very pretty. The youtube video had some great visuals from the movie, which was great because I've never seen it and now I want to! Thank you for the cool recommendation! :3 💙💙💙💙
@Violet 's monitor got damaged on the way to the Black Valley @demoparty_no party, so in a life-giving-you-lemons exercise, I decided to make it into a one-of-a-kind custom demo platform using the remaining pixels. One soundtrack from @vurpo later and we were in business...
RaccoonViolet's monitor got damaged on the way to the Black Valley demoparty in Norway, so we did the obvious thing and made it into a one-of-a-kind demo pla...
A guy on Facebook reported one of my #COVID19 posts as misinformation, saying that masks have been proven to be ineffective at preventing infections. If you are laboring under the same delusion:
Masks are, if correctly and consistently worn, effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases and show a dose-response effect. - Recent research study https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23
Making #penplotter progress. I had to stop it while it was making the title text because it was doing this weird thing where it kept lifting and dropping the pen making the curves, but all the other line work and text came out great!
What a fantastic way to describe gas vs #solar electric for transportation.
“If you grow an acre of corn, it will produce 900 gallons of ethanol, which will get you about 25,000 miles for a Ford F-150 pickup,” says Carson. “Which is, not bad I guess. But let’s say we put solar on that same acre. It will produce enough electricity every year to drive my Lightning 550,000 miles.”
“the key to a longer, healthier life is no mystery”. Research has long shown that it comes down to five fundamental lifestyle behaviours: exercising regularly, eating sensibly, limiting alcohol, skipping cigarettes and “nurturing meaningful relationships”. This stuff is simple, “somewhat boring” and, crucially, harder to make money from than “trendy supplements, complex-sounding theories and new gadgets”.
