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i need more people to watch halt and catch fire so i have more people to talk about halt and catch fire with

happy friday, david. 💜

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Had a dream @selectric and I (for some reason, hi Liz!) were remotely covering a computer trade show by restreaming it with our commentary and added reviews. I was in charge of setting up our OBS overlays and received from Intel a CPU and GPU combo for evaluation. First boot the fans screamed and the parts were so hot the components desoldered themselves from the boards. I swear even in dreams those guys can't get anything right. #TeamAMD

anyone who is inspired to make something meaningful to them, that must unfortunately interact with the morass of structurally arbitrary technological decisions we're surrounded by, is going to be so weighed down by the torture of navigating it all that naturally whatever they originally wanted to make will quickly seem less pertinent than making ever-more-efficient wound-licking devices (or perhaps a special shoe that, with 95%+ accuracy, can detect a rake before it hits your face)

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i think if you do a lot of stuff on the computer, programming specifically, everything is such a pain in the ass to do, not because the problems you're solving are naturally complex, but because of annoying artificial stuff like "configuring this toolchain takes an entire working week", that the cumulative effect on the soul makes your creativity atrophy, and your interests gradually turn inward, toward meta-concerns like programming language and tool design, rather than actually making anything

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