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@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Judging by his "clever ploy" and actual favorite books he's definitely an actual Ayn Rand guy. My response to this test is to be nice, move on from the subject, and never engage with them again.
@jmoiron @bryanl Oh no, you're keeping the candle lit for the good old days
@jmoiron Maybe it's just a generational gap, but I find it really sad that most of tech twitter has turned into generic empty-calorie influencer culture.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Current headline on BBC dot com:
"'Middle East erupts' and OBE for Queen's funeral horse"
@jmoiron RT @StreetsblogNYC: That's so funny, Governor, because this is what autumn in New York CITY looks like to us, thanks to you killing congest…
@jmoiron.bsky.social The most tiresome aspect of tech industry discourse is that no one can seem to acknowledge that there are other legitimate parts of the industry where their preferred methodologies don't work.
@jmoiron Glad to see people start to explore this angle.
IC work *is* team work. All that extra code you write at home spends time that, in an office, could be spent on spontaneous but valuable socialization: mentorship, cross-team networking, filling in gaps about business/product, etc ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Would be interesting in a sci fi context, an intergallactic power struggle over the long dead corpse of an ancient advanced civilization that produced refined materials long enough ago that they've decayed into low-background form, eg. for use in the magic mcguffin that can "end ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social This recent SciShow episode brought up "low background lead" which I was not aware of, but is really cool! It's lead that is old enough to have lost nearly all of its 22y half/life trace radioactive isotopes to decay.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0A9...
@jmoiron.bsky.social I'd happily use this site much more if more of my network moved over to it so the news has been good.
@jmoiron @glcst Haha me neither
@jmoiron @glcst Xc
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@jmoiron @billychasen Like trying to cancel a subscription outside.of California.
@jmoiron @calebspare Unbelievable that "staged a coup" does not refer to the guy who urged his goons to attack the capitol.
@jmoiron @copyconstruct Valley culture is a cocktail with more narcisism than empathy.
@jmoiron @ibuildthecloud @AlexJonesax I think @calebspare said it best regarding features like this (paraphrasing), "I want this, but I don't want other people to have this."
@jmoiron @chimeracoder @GovKathyHochul Begging for a mayor and a governor who isn't scared of the Subway.
@jmoiron @eatonphil Very nice, hear a hint of Desafinado in there.
@jmoiron.bsky.social So upset with Hochul's congestion charge political malpractice that I have been strongly considering finally adopting a party affiliation so I can vote against her in a meaningful way.