I think the root cause is the complexity.
Split the problem into manageable chunks, then attack the chunks. Apply recursion as needed.
This is part of a more senior skillset, as some times a senior will be breaking up the problem and assigning the smaller pieces to other devs.
I can’t connect to my car’s audio with Bluetooth, and can’t afford to replace the car stereo with one that supports Bluetooth - it’s just not a priority. When I upgrade my phone, I’ll stay with an earphone jack.
Doom - we upgraded to 16MB of RAM so we could play it through Windows 95.
Win95 wanted 4MB and Doom wanted all 8 that we had, so we had to exit, reboot, and go to DOS then run it manually.
My therapist, provided I reach the breaking point at a convenient time when we have a session scheduled.
they will be playing the edgy music we listened to in grocery stores.
Green Day is muzak in the local dead mall.
Bought concert tickets for October. Total cost for tickets was $195.20. It’s not a local show (ie: the bands have recognition beyond our town), so we have to travel to the city - 4 hours plus a $75 ferry. Plus overnight stay and food in the city. And we need a sitter to watch the kids, overnight.
So we’re pushing $600-$700 for a concert. That’s a “once every few years” thing, when we’ve saved enough and the band is one we really want to see.
Local shows are rock cover bands on a Sunday evening, usually, but I work Monday at 6am.
When you think about it, there were a lot of populist movements growing through Twitter. It probably pissed a lot of wealthy, powerful people off.
Then Musk and Zuckerberg were called to private meetings with the president, weren’t they? And Twitter was taken over and shut down. Then Threads, owned by Facebook who is known to help out law enforcement quite happily as well as track everything, takes off as an alternative.
Mass death will also slow down global climate change.
Keep in mind that the “them” that gets more resources includes most of the western world, traditionally.
I was using chatGPT to design up a human/computer interface to allow stoners to control a lightshow. The goal was to collect data to train an AI to make the light show “trippier”.
It started complaining about using untested technology to alter people’s mental state, and how experimentation on people wasn’t ethical.
I suspect that as things get worse, more people will be focused on personal survival vs stopping the rate of change. Sometimes these will be the same actions, sometimes they won’t.
Laser cutter control software is windows only, just haven’t had the time/energy to rip out the entire control system and rework it to be open source.
Once they stopped working at Twitter, they stopped existing to him.
Getting some gains out of it, but I’m still limited by the fact that I can’t put anything proprietary into any AI tooling. Not motivated enough yet to roll my own.
For generic Q&A/searching, templating, etc, it’s been a decent stackoverflow replacement.
Bluetooth speakers for music in the kitchen, attached sound system for steaming TV, over-ear noise cancelling bluetooth headphones for desk work, over-ear bluetooth ear protection headphones for shop/yard work, earbuds for shopping/etc (fuck store muzak).
Learned the default account password and figured out which teachers had not changed their password from the default. Learned that all teachers had access to a share drive with all student records. Read through a lot of information.
Did not look at porn on school computers, because wtf?
At grad event, in front of elderly relatives, was called out for looking at porn on the school computers, other student was credited for breaking into all systems. More pissed about the latter.
Triple-check that our mortage is paid off in the event of my death, so that my wife and children will have a place to live after I (sole breadwinner) am gone.