• Non-IT group bought very expensive application.
• Contracted with 3rd party to maintain app/infrastructure (also STUPID EXPENSIVE)
• 6 months of planning between purchasers, app vendor, and contractors
• 6 months of rolling out/installing/configuring application
• realize infrastructure is already obsolete and cloud vendor is about to remove support for it. Updates required ASAP
• Vendor and contractors are not able to complete updates
• Expect me to fix everything for them (despite not being involve in any of the above)
• Contract not voided (they are still getting paid) despite me needed to solve all the problems

OOP is dumb and wasteful

/ducks

When I try to explain what I’m working on at work to my wife…

What sucks is that there are so many fantastic substacks (e.g. the.ink (Anand Giridharadas), Lucid (Ruth Ben-Ghiat), Robert Reich, Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson), etc

Wow! That’s way closer than I realized!

GNU Hurd?

You mean having Nvidia pay OpenAI $100billion, so OpenAi can spend it on Nvidia GPUs isn’t a brilliant idea?

Goldbug got removed at the same time all the Gold from Fort Knox was cleared out.

Everglades National Park

quick and dirty:
https://patrickgpt.negativenull.net/

The worst thing that ever happened to software development.

I rather enjoyed the first episode!

NSlopia

My favorite was when they tried to do a D-Day landing, but in the Robin Hood world (Robin Hood, 2010):

with Self Driving by Copilot

There are several places other than just the back of the neck, I don’t recall where though.

Botox was first made for migraines. Usually the injections are in the back of the neck.

Calvin’s grandfather