did I help synergize some business solutions, yes

I listened to a twelve year old give a talk about milk cows that put out eight gallons a day and I'm thinking, what did I accomplish

every time I typo something in a terminal I think to myself "but for the grace of god, I could have just run absolutely anything"

When you try to print from google docs, there are several print buttons that are traps that you have to learn never to click

and to then immediately publish that document for the whole team

You do pay attention to what students struggle with and learn about what things need to be explained to others in the future, but it would be extremely awkward to take notes as you're instructing a person about every single mistake they made

and there's a special circle of heart disease hell reserved for people who get stuck working at computers all day

It isn't the wealthy whose toddlers are watching youtube and playing fruit ninja

Computers are for poor people. You don't touch a screen to order at a fancy restaurant, you do it at mcdonalds

It's a totally different software world from the one in which, say, a cheap landlord processes apartment applications.

A big part of the reason game developers have such a different job experience is the product is a luxury good; nobody needs it

A thriving software industry is therefore actually a poverty indicator

@argumatronic.bsky.social Moreover that this is *exactly* what Network is about; people will watch a show about how you shouldn't watch the show

it's driving me crazy how many times Problems have been clearly articulated in fairly well known works (Network, Amusing Ourselves to Death, the whole Snowden thing) that everyone proceeds to totally ignore

You will have been there, and you won't believe your eyes, because your eyes aren't valid academic citations

Since you're a scientist you are gonna want to look at the data, and it's gonna be a tough case that felons are economically viable