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.
They’ll start with the union leaders, and work their way down until the organization is broken enough that everybody goes back to work.
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.
Some CSAs will deliver weekly, which may help.
Small farmer here - we keep exactly one less production bird than the maximum legal requirement, as most farmers of our scale do.
My therapist, provided I reach the breaking point at a convenient time when we have a session scheduled.
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.
They tend to shut up when you ask them to actually help in any meaningful, concrete way. They’ll sure protest though.
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.
Me, with 20 years experience making software: yes, totally happy about this. (This makes it much easier to keep up with the latest newfangled bullshit.)
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.
aka “Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”
It just feels wrong to me to take the paycheck and not put my heart into the work.
I felt the same way, until after the second corporate buyout. The company I started with my career with is gone, the company that bought them is gone, and the company that bought them is gone as well. The product I worked on for six years is gone and the company website only exists in the internet archive and a few archived press releases.
I put my heart into it and it’s just… gone entirely.
It’s one of the last times I put my heart into my work, because all that happened in the long run is the board of directors got more wealthy.
The subsequent buyouts (and layoffs) I’ve been through have gone much better for me, personally, because I wasn’t as emotionally involved in the company/product.
I’m at the point now where I’m in a more senior role, doing consulting, and I dgaf about the client’s business or project beyond getting my work done on time and to the required quality. I start at 9, log off at 5pm, get my work done by noon, and enjoy spending more time with my kids in the summer.
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).
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.