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hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 05:35
@lmorchard @mwl it would remind him of sand
so very good at keeping the Dark Side amped up
hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 06:51
@Binder good of you to leave a slot for the man who got no sign
The Man Who Got No Sign - YouTube
hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 08:27
@WuMargaret at that stage you had an option to get it or not, and some went with “not.”
Some of it was access, but I absorbed everything I could from computer magazines at the library so it wasn’t just access.
But where I raise my eyebrow high is somebody five or ten years younger than me getting frazzled at a computer — forgivable, computers suck — and then apologizing with some nonsense about being too old for tech.
So ultimately I guess it’s the folks who accept powerlessness and the blame for it.
hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 10:56
I get her frustration at finding the bugs in the tools she uses, because I know why — it’s because she’s actually putting the tools to use, exploring their capabilities and learning their limits. That’s where the bugs gather.
But how to explain that to her non-technical coworkers, for whom pretty much the whole deal is unspeakable ancient magick humans were not meant to meddle with, and her exploratory speed bumps are just proof of this.
hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 12:39
quite pleased to be working at one of those places with a lot of learning resources
as opposed to the shops where you spend six months there, folks ask what you do, and all you got is “I dunno. Stuff? Sometimes things?”
hackers.town: 2024-08-15 Thu 22:33
a large soda with dinner did not make drowsiness easier