Come on… admit it… everyone recognises that last one.
Too strapped for time.
Too strapped for cash.
Who’s got time to deal with such abstractions like the next pandemic.
Too strapped for time.
Too strapped for cash.
Who’s got time to deal with such abstractions like the next pandemic.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Come on… admit it… everyone recognises that last one.
Too strapped for time.
Too strapped for cash.
Who’s got time to deal with such abstractions like the next pandemic.
Too strapped for time.
Too strapped for cash.
Who’s got time to deal with such abstractions like the next pandemic.
shocking that i can be 100x more productive in a codebase that uses standard coding conventions for the language and doesn't have 40,000 generics based abstractions relying on inscrutable type inference to work in any capacity
shocking how that works
shocking how that works
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
shocking that i can be 100x more productive in a codebase that uses standard coding conventions for the language and doesn't have 40,000 generics based abstractions relying on inscrutable type inference to work in any capacity
shocking how that works
shocking how that works
You can't have a real conversation about shit going on in real life if you're too scared to say the damn words to describe it
You're not speaking truth to power through cutesy abstractions and memes that trivialize the shit we're talking about
Marshall your anger and fucking say the words
You're not speaking truth to power through cutesy abstractions and memes that trivialize the shit we're talking about
Marshall your anger and fucking say the words
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
You can't have a real conversation about shit going on in real life if you're too scared to say the damn words to describe it
You're not speaking truth to power through cutesy abstractions and memes that trivialize the shit we're talking about
Marshall your anger and fucking say the words
You're not speaking truth to power through cutesy abstractions and memes that trivialize the shit we're talking about
Marshall your anger and fucking say the words
I know I’m a massive fan boy and can’t shut up about @oxide.computer buuuut, you should really, really watch this talk by Bryan.
It’s tremendous.
”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”
It’s tremendous.
”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I know I’m a massive fan boy and can’t shut up about @oxide.computer buuuut, you should really, really watch this talk by Bryan.
It’s tremendous.
”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”
It’s tremendous.
”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”
Good abstractions hide the irrelevant and simplify the essential.
Bad abstractions hide the essential and complicate the irrelevant.
Bad abstractions hide the essential and complicate the irrelevant.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Good abstractions hide the irrelevant and simplify the essential.
Bad abstractions hide the essential and complicate the irrelevant.
Bad abstractions hide the essential and complicate the irrelevant.
Human Nature is a spook / abstractions and a bourgeois concept
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Human Nature is a spook / abstractions and a bourgeois concept
The lies can work when they're about abstractions or something distant, which few can evaluate themselves. Vaguely-defined voter fraud in another state, for example.
The lies falter when they try to tell the public that something many are directly experiencing isn't happening. See also: COVID.
The lies falter when they try to tell the public that something many are directly experiencing isn't happening. See also: COVID.
I was really worried about this basic idea. Propaganda being able to overcome facts on the ground.
But I think they picked the wrong fight here. Inflation, shutdown, deportation. These aren’t fooling people.
Maybe an “insurrection” following violent protests would have been a better issue.
But I think they picked the wrong fight here. Inflation, shutdown, deportation. These aren’t fooling people.
Maybe an “insurrection” following violent protests would have been a better issue.
The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The lies can work when they're about abstractions or something distant, which few can evaluate themselves. Vaguely-defined voter fraud in another state, for example.
The lies falter when they try to tell the public that something many are directly experiencing isn't happening. See also: COVID.
The lies falter when they try to tell the public that something many are directly experiencing isn't happening. See also: COVID.
ICYMI: "Still, the embodied complications of an accelerated puberty are more interesting, and more frightening to me, than the well-trodden sci-fi abstractions of what makes a human."
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
Alien: Earth - Unwinnable
It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.
unwinnable.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
ICYMI: "Still, the embodied complications of an accelerated puberty are more interesting, and more frightening to me, than the well-trodden sci-fi abstractions of what makes a human."
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
This is it exactly. SNAP and the ACA are abstractions to them, but the airports are very much not.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is it exactly. SNAP and the ACA are abstractions to them, but the airports are very much not.
That famous decision where a fellow USA gen x person who likes normal USA gen x music is doing nostalgia and then asks what you've been listening to and do you be normal and say "I still love Pixies as well" or do you be honest and say "I mostly listen to electro-chaabi street rave abstractions."
Hazlom, by Aeson Zervas
9 track album
heatcrimes.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
That famous decision where a fellow USA gen x person who likes normal USA gen x music is doing nostalgia and then asks what you've been listening to and do you be normal and say "I still love Pixies as well" or do you be honest and say "I mostly listen to electro-chaabi street rave abstractions."
"Still, the embodied complications of an accelerated puberty are more interesting, and more frightening to me, than the well-trodden sci-fi abstractions of what makes a human."
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
Alien: Earth - Unwinnable
It’s difficult to be scared of something that you’re maybe rooting for.
unwinnable.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Still, the embodied complications of an accelerated puberty are more interesting, and more frightening to me, than the well-trodden sci-fi abstractions of what makes a human."
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
@nochshorn.bsky.social digs into the real fear of Alien: Earth:
it's no coincidence that marginalized people are drawn into movements like this; the 19th century spiritualists were conspicuously female. mystification is a process of obtaining agency, and that complicates any simple dismissal of AI spiritualism as ignorance
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
it's no coincidence that marginalized people are drawn into movements like this; the 19th century spiritualists were conspicuously female. mystification is a process of obtaining agency, and that complicates any simple dismissal of AI spiritualism as ignorance
man #sequelize is crazy, Thanks for handling all my migrations and abstractions like its nothing. Absolutely in love with this lib.
#JavaScript #nodejs #orm #MySQL #mysqldatabase
#JavaScript #nodejs #orm #MySQL #mysqldatabase
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
man #sequelize is crazy, Thanks for handling all my migrations and abstractions like its nothing. Absolutely in love with this lib.
#JavaScript #nodejs #orm #MySQL #mysqldatabase
#JavaScript #nodejs #orm #MySQL #mysqldatabase
“Abstractions in Mono”
#monochrome #classicmono #blacknwhite #flower #orchid #closeup #macro #raindrops #bloomscrolling #photography #photographersofbluesky #dew #photographer #abstract #art
#monochrome #classicmono #blacknwhite #flower #orchid #closeup #macro #raindrops #bloomscrolling #photography #photographersofbluesky #dew #photographer #abstract #art
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Out side of calc one I can think of ~1 time I have used it. Principally limits are taught because it is an important step in your math maturation to get to those sorts of abstractions.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Out side of calc one I can think of ~1 time I have used it. Principally limits are taught because it is an important step in your math maturation to get to those sorts of abstractions.
Which has changed some of my opinions, tbh—I think there’s more room for informational/empowerment prompting that can get people further than I have, but at the end of the day you still have to be able to understand what it does even if the abstractions simplify the day to day.
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Which has changed some of my opinions, tbh—I think there’s more room for informational/empowerment prompting that can get people further than I have, but at the end of the day you still have to be able to understand what it does even if the abstractions simplify the day to day.
"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus
latest development in the robot vacuum control system is that ive built enough abstractions to be able to say "make robot A follow robot B" and its pretty funny to watch one try to clean while the other keeps bumping into it
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
latest development in the robot vacuum control system is that ive built enough abstractions to be able to say "make robot A follow robot B" and its pretty funny to watch one try to clean while the other keeps bumping into it
The second episode of my new Don't Imitate Understand podcast is out! In it we talk about an important skill that leads and devs should have: the ability to be Abstraction Breakers.
Web dev is an ecosystem of leaky abstractions. Good architecture means understanding them. 👇
Web dev is an ecosystem of leaky abstractions. Good architecture means understanding them. 👇
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The second episode of my new Don't Imitate Understand podcast is out! In it we talk about an important skill that leads and devs should have: the ability to be Abstraction Breakers.
Web dev is an ecosystem of leaky abstractions. Good architecture means understanding them. 👇
Web dev is an ecosystem of leaky abstractions. Good architecture means understanding them. 👇
Hey, we play Dixit at ours as well. Lovely imaginative game and my kids enjoy it as much as my wife and I do. I love how it helps them form and bridge together abstractions.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hey, we play Dixit at ours as well. Lovely imaginative game and my kids enjoy it as much as my wife and I do. I love how it helps them form and bridge together abstractions.
The 2008 crisis is archetypal. Real people buying mortgages carry real risks, which can limit returns. So invent abstractions that supposedly separate investments from underlying risk (the "stuff"). Of course, you can't really do that forever without the messy stuff reasserting its felt presence...
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The 2008 crisis is archetypal. Real people buying mortgages carry real risks, which can limit returns. So invent abstractions that supposedly separate investments from underlying risk (the "stuff"). Of course, you can't really do that forever without the messy stuff reasserting its felt presence...
Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Striking contrast with the seemingly endless supply of op-eds, cable news appearances and Substack posts where eminent pundits inform us that normies don't care about airy abstractions like authoritarianism and the rule of law.
what the fuck is wrong with your son, haley
![Nikki Haley supported legal, merit-based immigration as part of a pro-business platform. Her son wants to close the border entirely. Nikki Haley believes “it is not that Israel needs America — America needs Israel.” Her son thinks “Israel is just another country, and if they want to have a better relationship with the United States, they need to stop interfering in our politics.” Nikki Haley believes in an expansive foreign policy. Her son wants to end all foreign aid “as long as we have unemployment, people below the poverty line, medical debt, and bad schools.”
These domestic ills aren’t abstractions to him. “My friend group from high school, all graduated, great degrees from great schools,” he says. “It’s been a year and a half, and not one of them has a job — not one. So I’m angry at that, because I’m having to try and help my friends get jobs when their parents got jobs immediately — not just after graduating college, but out of high school.”
Statistics bear this out: in September, the share of the long-term unemployed, those who’ve been out of the job market for more than six months, hit 26%, according to The New York Times, much of it driven by recent graduates. The jobs that are available for recent grads are often precarious or temporary. “So when you see a bunch of foreigners coming over here to take jobs that [my friends] wanted,” Haley says, “they have every right to be pissed, and I’m pissed for them.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreigrrzdfznc4oe6p67wgzsozmeydqriteds6nthrlnptse5fhwuiri@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
what the fuck is wrong with your son, haley