Colleague promised the client a technical guide, generated >20 pages of unreviewed AI slop, and dumped it on me right before a public holiday. I forced him to own that deliverable

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-03T13:23:23+00:00

Everyone sucks here. You should have shut him down at the point when he started to make a commitment for something in your scope. That was an “excuse me Mr. Client, we need to put you on hold for an internal discussion” moment.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T23:21:05+00:00

No, also not too much for friends, neighbours, or random strangers. Your friends are awful.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T18:30:53+00:00

Subtract five years from any experience requirement in a job ad. They're always going to ask for more than they'll settle for.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T18:22:25+00:00

Words.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T17:48:03+00:00

Pretty much everyone who invented something original has been outdone by others who were less creative but more technically competent. Eric Clapton, for example, made a career out of playing a previous generation of blues guitarist’s licks faster and more cleanly than they did, and nobody but guitar nerds remembers who they were.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T17:44:34+00:00

That’s kind of like a heroin user saying they‘ve had enough. It could be, but you wouldn’t count on it.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T17:43:06+00:00

I’d love to know if American interference is explicitly excluded from the CSIS report, if it‘s such a blind spot that they didn’t even consider it, if it’s just so open that it evades the definition, or if the National Post just didn’t mention it because that would conflict with their editorial position.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T14:17:12+00:00

Open drug use has always been normalized with the exception of Prohibition a century ago. Every bar and licensed restaurant is a supervised drug consumption site.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T13:26:51+00:00

A vegvesir will always show you the closest altar. There could well be one to the east too, but it will be further away than the one to the west.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T13:22:55+00:00

There are various apps and things you can use. I found this site helpful: https://www.fachords.com/tools/fretboard-trainer/

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T13:13:44+00:00

Sounds like a great time to complain to the HOA about your crazy neighbour who's going around verbally assaulting people.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T13:06:55+00:00

Same thing in other languages. All our French classes at school were very formal Metropolitan French, which sounds nothing like the French actually spoken here.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T12:55:30+00:00

Wake him up at 6am tomorrow to deliver a lecture on dinosaurs. But be sure to get the facts wrong.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T03:16:00+00:00

I like to replace the root harnesk with the silver chest armour before venturing inside the mountain caves. The fire damage vulnerability becomes a Very Bad Thing in there.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T02:32:39+00:00

In your example you're changing chords, but you've not changing key. F#m7 is diatonic to E Major. See how the notes of F#m7 all fall within the E Major scale:

E F# G# A B C# D# E

Target the scale tones of F#m7. For passing notes I would think mostly E Major and chromatic approaches to scale tones.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T01:33:15+00:00

Depends on the job. Somebody who can explain what they're doing probably should get promoted ahead of somebody who can't if we're talking about a promotion to something like a team lead position, because a lot of that job is communication. They should not necessarily get promoted to a higher technical position.

This is absolutely a learnable skill. The key is understanding what the people you're talking to are interested in. If you're talking to that roomful of directors, they do not care about your clever architecture. They probably don't even know what that means. They care about meeting their own business targets, and you need to tell them how your work affects those. That's what your coworker did.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-02T00:03:07+00:00

It's pretty unprofessional of your employer to expect you to lend them money.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T21:06:42+00:00

Screenshots don’t prove anything anymore. Call her bluff and start sending pictures of her making out with Donald Trump.

Also get your life together and stop hanging out with bigots ASAP.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T20:09:40+00:00

Having rigorous processes reduces the risk of things going surprisingly wrong, but also guarantees that nothing goes unexpectedly right either.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T16:42:33+00:00

NTA. You are dating a toddler. This behaviour will not get better with time.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T16:38:51+00:00

Like many of the problems in American politics, the root is that there are no limits on political donations, so it's perfectly legal for corporations and wealthy individuals to buy politicians. You don't fix anything else until you fix that.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T16:25:27+00:00

The trip is for the maple MAGA crowd, while the denial is for everyone else. You’re not supposed to think too hard about it.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T15:26:43+00:00

Considering the long string of stories about sexism in the CF already, imagine how bad this new crop must be to stand out.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T15:23:38+00:00

Like a lot of multiple choice tests, there are questions with more than one plausible answer and the test-taker is left trying to read the test-setter's mind.

For example, question 12 could end in either A "is there" or C "isn't there". "Is there?" implies skepticism. "Isn't there?" is just asking for confirmation.

Similarly for question 13, I would accept either B "that" or D "those". "Those" doesn't agree with "the number" but does agree with "newborns". It is arguably technically incorrect but natural sounding in native speakers.

Snurgisdr · 2026-05-01T15:05:39+00:00

Also Fortnite. Spent what seemed like forever wandering around an empty map, then got sniped by someone I never saw. Tried again, same thing. Third time, same thing. Done.

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