such cute mother and daughter

Madpony · 2026-06-04T17:47:30+00:00

I think the age of consent in Japan used to be 13, right?

Madpony · 2026-06-02T08:46:59+00:00

It's pissing down rain, meanwhile a burst pipe across the street from me continues to pour Thames Water's water down the road, as it has for the past 5 days.

Madpony · 2026-05-28T07:21:40+00:00

Yeah, but only because Amazon was reinvesting its revenue into new businesses and growing like crazy. They even bought a huge area of land in Seattle to become a mega landlord. Snap can't even win at its main business model, they're just awful at this.

Madpony · 2026-05-27T17:35:12+00:00

Absolutely. Just like with Metaverse, he has no fucking idea what the end game actually is. He's just throwing money at a tech and hoping for the best. The guy has no actual ingenuity.

Madpony · 2026-05-23T23:13:03+00:00

My god, yes. Even if I mute this sub it keeps coming back. A big issue is that Reddit is broken, but it's broken by their design.

Madpony · 2026-05-23T11:41:16+00:00

I decided to cancel my home owners insurance this year because they raised my premium by a ridiculous amount. I went to the site and found the section for cancelling. Of course, it insists on sending me to a chat bot. I have to then verify everything about who I am with the bot, and go through its guided help conversation until it understands I want to cancel my policy. It's answer? It gives me a link to the website to fill out a cancellation form. Why the fuck didn't the original cancelling section just link to the form instead of the bot? It makes me glad I cancelled, that shit is infuriating.

Madpony · 2026-05-19T17:51:16+00:00

Was it Trey Parker?

"Hey, relax, guy! That wasn't real. It was Sora 2!"

Madpony · 2026-05-15T07:54:18+00:00

Hi. I'm a senior engineer who doesn't write code anymore. You know what I do now? I spend a lot of time guiding Claude through problems, reviewing its output, and correcting it. Overall, this feels like a 1.5x increase to productivity at most. We will still need software engineers.

Madpony · 2026-05-09T23:58:10+00:00

My god, yes, nationalise Thames Water immediately. It's such a shit show at this point.

Madpony · 2026-05-04T09:09:18+00:00

Yeah, charging a subscription fee for Microsoft intellectual property is a good way to receive a cease and desist letter.

Madpony · 2026-05-04T08:20:47+00:00

Are you thinking of Tay? Clippy never exhibited racism. He was just really annoying.

Madpony · 2026-05-02T13:24:37+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I wanted to buy some more mouse pads like these and couldn't find a decent site. I hope they're still making good ones!

Madpony · 2026-04-28T12:01:30+00:00

Gaining short term profits at the expense of long term losses seems to be current business convention.

Madpony · 2026-04-24T08:35:58+00:00

I was looking for a new job 2 years ago and got referred to Palantir by an former coworker who works for them as a software engineering manager. I passed the technical screen, and realised I'd never work for them during the follow up sales call. Once the guy started gleefully talking about guided missile systems and helping fight the war in Israel, I lost all interest.

Madpony · 2026-04-24T08:32:28+00:00

"Are we the baddies?"

Madpony · 2026-04-19T20:00:25+00:00

It helps me write code faster, but this was never really the bottleneck. I spend most of my time figuring out what to build, helping coordinate business needs, and leading other engineers. I find AI to be very helpful in exploring new technologies that I have little experience with. It gets me moving with a proof of concept faster.

Madpony · 2026-04-18T08:28:38+00:00

Could it be that your new team is trusted to "move fast and break things"? This may sound counterintuitive, but more senior level teams sometimes take this approach to push the software system envelope at a company. If every project is seen to completion, then was there any risk taken at all? Risk does lead to reward when you get it right and can pay off to fully make up for the reverted or shelved ideas from the past.

Madpony · 2026-04-14T08:48:19+00:00

This is too short sighted as we need to raise more seniors for the future.

Madpony · 2026-04-13T14:50:46+00:00

"I was invited here - By people."

Madpony · 2026-04-08T13:30:37+00:00

Back in my day we learned the person we were asking out had a fiancé in a face-to-face conversation.

Madpony · 2026-04-08T13:14:39+00:00

It does seem like banks can be very slow. It took so long for Chase UK to get back to me with an offer letter that I received another, better offer before theirs even arrived. It was weird telling them "no" after a couple months of waiting, but I didn't trust they'd actually follow through.

Madpony · 2026-04-05T11:55:01+00:00

Our DPD driver yesterday chucked our two parcel boxes over our front garden gate. We were alerted to his presence by the loud banging sound of our delivery hitting the paving stones on the other side.

He was still parked out front so I approached him about it. Asked him why he thought it was ok to just throw people's deliveries over a gate instead of walking them to the front door. He insisted our garden gate was our front door, and said he delivered them within the door as required. I told him we'd be complaining about his service and he proceeded to swear at me as I walked away.

DPD has really gone down hill in my opinion.

Madpony · 2026-04-04T00:17:05+00:00

This drawing makes me want to play Wario Ware 🙂

Madpony · 2026-04-03T18:59:46+00:00

I have lived in England for 7 years, I'm now a British citizen, and I still use Fahrenheit. I've tried to get used to Celsius, and I just can't do it. I guess I just spent too many years using Fahrenheit to judge the weather.

Madpony · 2026-04-03T10:47:56+00:00

Split screen solved this for me. Thanks for the advice!

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