JJ Wolverine @jjwolverine@computerfairi.es
jfc the internet is wall-to-wall Game of Thrones spoilers this morning. Good thing we watched the new episode on time for once!
Photos from Berlin! Such a cool city! https://photos.app.goo.gl/6s2cgP2oLoR5UPz87
Back from a lovely week in Berlin! The bathroom scale is very unhappy with me now.
Asked for my deposit back finally. This should be interesting.
if you think that you and your partner of multiple decades have run out of things to fight about, try asking them if you should swallow pills by doing it pills-first or water-first
me: "maybe I should try to take a break from alcohol for a few weeks, I'm worried about what it's doing to my brain"
my brain: "I think we both know what's going to happen with that idea"
tmw you realize that you've become good at spelling the word "bureaucratic" without having to look it up... this is not a good thing. >.>
it's becoming increasingly a stretch to call this "winter" anymore. We might have to face facts.
At an all-day conference with my boss. He spent most of the afternoon slowly eating my bag of potato chips because he didn't realize that his chips were hidden behind his laptop.
"and thou shalt know thine true bureaucratic enemy, for they shall spell 'HIPAA' correctly and not believe the US health privacy law to be 'HIPPA' as the layman oft does"
i suspect 80% of my entire career's accomplishments could have been done instead by a shell script that prints out "don't prepare for scaling problems you won't have" over and over
JJ Wolverine
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Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.
Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.
Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".
The hostess now actively prevents us from seeing the menu at our local Italian place. "They don't need menus, they get the same thing every time." (Okay yes we are a LITTLE predictable)
There are interaction designs with severe discoverability problems (tooltips, the clipboard) that were so useful that users overcame their drawbacks. Your new UX idea isn't one of those.
i regret my choice of checkout lane
ugh my old job called to "get my advice", but it turned out to be another attempt to drag me back into the same tired old regulatory fights they've been chasing their tails about for four years. And now i can't sleep. >.>
tbh these days my standard for being impressed with a banking or e-commerce website is "Doesn't have Javascript bugs which actively corrupt basic address, phone, and credit card information as i'm trying to type"
LOL TurboTax, how do you get these wacky ideas in your little head...
