Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

Bret Stephens is also upset, so today is a good day.

Pittsburgh has such an uninspiring mayoral election going on right now.

In related news, I love the smell of cardamom

Today's hell is a use-after-free in a unit test because *something* in this infra code (I don't know what) thinks it's an immortal singleton, and that assumption doesn't hold in a unit test with multiple test cases.

Nah, he really hates dogs.

Well he certainly thinks so

I am so glad to live in a codebase where linker errors are almost impossible

Next thing to do is sort out my backup solution for the server.

The desktop will stay Windows because gaming and CAD and stuff.

Ugh I feel this one.

Nothing is sacred

VOID