therefore - fuck all’em

Narcissism is scary and ridiculous thing. I actually know a guy who desperately wants to get a Nobel Literary Prize because “he deserves it!”. Except no one rightfully gives a fuck. He’s an old timer who ended up migrating to US after WW2 with a whole can of worms and then some regarding his national identity. Depending on his mood he’s either Ukrainian or American, I’d say he’s 100% narcissist who is all about clout. Dude never made it as a writer and gained notoriety in Ukraine due to his outsider status first and yet he’s so vain it is kinda morbidly funny - like he insists he’s the most experimental Ukrainian writer (even though he disregards every other writer as primitive and retarded) or that he did this or that first (like who gives a fuck?). But even with all these “accomplishments” he struggles to publish anything in Ukraine because wants publishers to cover the expenses and give him “the bag” for their trouble and when he fails at that he blames it on “Ukrainian people being ungrateful”.

what baffles me is how blatant the big tech behaves. it is comically Bond villainesque. even big oil and pharma don’t act like that - at least they try to play-pretend they’re good guys (albeit everyone sees through their bullshit)

If that’s ain’t gaming system then I don’t what is

A colleague of mine had a habit of dousing espressos upon having anxiety episodes. Naturally, she ended up having a cardiac episode (not an attack but something similar) a couple of years later and now she doesn’t like any form of coffee

exactly - and then they deny they did that and follow it up by posting the videos of the deed from couple of angles without batting an eye

it is even worse when someone is actively destroying clean water sources. Back when russians blew up the Kakhovka dam - there was a huge crisis because it wrecked the entire ecosystem and disrupted water supply for a couple of months. Before everything got worked out and the new infrastructure was installed - everything was running on makeshift water storages and filtering systems and the likes. So what russians decided to do? Send some drones to blow it up for shits and giggles.

don’t order used SSD.

that’s why duckduck gang 4 life

that word is so loaded for me - literally every time someone uses it regardless of context I remember The Godwinns theme and feel really old.

Wired clickbait, sigh

I see. Thanks for clarification. I never worked with COBOL myself but have couple of folks on the team who worked with COBOL in banking back during 2000s who still have full-on vietnam flashbacks over it. I guess the COBOL they worked with was an older iteration than you described.

my only experience with it was for code cleanup - since those tools save me from bitching and moaning from the team - let it rip

You sir are hardcore.

It has its moments, but you are absolutely right - 25 years ago Wired would’ve torn modern Wired a new one for their clickbait speculative thinkpieces.

Its Freemium, at least it was like that. Using COBOL should be regulated by Geneva conventions at this point.

nowhere, I just relayed my personal observation regarding vibe coding in Ukraine as one of the examples

Wired pushing corporate agenda is happening.

PASCAL!

yikes