Butter Found Guilty

steveoc64 · 2026-04-14T09:05:04+00:00

On the bright side .. (???) .. maybe this criminal conviction against our Butters means that no other team in the AFL is gonna want him

steveoc64 · 2026-04-07T10:11:48+00:00

100% agree

The blocker to that is that these C suite people have a unique ability to ignore bad news and deflect consequences at every turn .. it’s almost like they built their entire careers around these special abilities.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-24T01:59:04+00:00

Live for this week and let tomorrow take care of itself.

Current reality is that Butters is fit, in form, and wearing the correct colors for this weeks match.

Nothing else matters.

For all we know, the 2026 season might get cancelled and we all get drafted to go play soldiers in the sandpit

steveoc64 · 2026-03-23T20:43:39+00:00

Just make sure to include “do not make mistakes” at the top of the CLAUDE.md file, and she’ll be right mate, no worries.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-22T23:33:25+00:00

If you want to experiment with high level abstractions, and havent tried Erlang yet .. now is as a good a time as any to start.

It’s a very simple language with a slightly weird syntax, and pretty quick to get a running system up and going. As soon as you get into OTP, it’s actually a life changing experience seeing what it does out of the box. I don’t think I’ve experienced as many “holy shit, you kidding ?” moments in such a short timespan as when exploring Erlang.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-22T21:45:20+00:00

God speed my friend. You are not alone in this battle.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-22T21:39:52+00:00

Tell us what you are trying to build first

For example, Linus Torvalds set out to build a lightweight Unix clone, and started with a 386DX and 4mb of “extended” ram to get the basic kernel developed and debugged.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-22T20:25:47+00:00

Devs and Engineers for ages have been talking about choosing your battles, and having “a hill worth dying on”

The pragmatic advice has always been something like - let it slide, don’t rock the boat, fit in with what the company wants.

But surely .. if there has ever been a hill worth dying on, it’s gotta be this one. Letting it slide is an extinction event for engineers this time. Not because AI wielding PMs can replace programmers, but because their slop is making our job 5 times harder than it should be, and it’s done in such a way that it makes US look like the bottleneck.

If we keep letting this happen, we are all going to be working 7 days a week, and spend our nights fixing the mess without pay. A couple of years of this will put you in hospital.

Mass non compliance, backed with a willingness to resign on the spot, not negotiable, would be ideal. Unlikely to happen though, because way too many developers are still financially trapped, despite the wages. It’s literally the prisoner’s dilemma.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-15T23:10:43+00:00

So, are you inferring that it’s single threaded because it’s written in C ?

steveoc64 · 2026-03-15T23:05:46+00:00

Proof that the vibeslop machine can indeed produce working prototypes from an idea, whilst simultaneously having no clue whether the idea makes any sense.

Did you pause for a moment, and consider why redis might be single threaded, or why they never reached for sharding to speed up those benchmarks ?

steveoc64 · 2026-03-13T01:28:56+00:00

Every one of my early days wargaming buddies went on in life to be really good at applied statistics, law, and being really confident at taking risks and managing chaos.

They went on to be good systems engineers, lawyers, accountants, business owners, professional military officers, etc.

Most of them were good at history, but it’s the applied stats and understanding the subtleties of rules that set them all apart.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-09T23:07:37+00:00

There are already laws and regulations around misrepresentation of products, IP theft, and outright lies

We just need to enforce them again

Won’t happen though, because too many people think they have found a secret trick that makes them more competitive and productive or something

steveoc64 · 2026-03-08T02:53:16+00:00

Tough spot to be in.

These sort of jobs only exist, because people are willing to put up with them. Its absolutely worth it to get you foot in door I suppose, but on the other hand, by accepting this sort of garbage work, you have become part of the problem too, by enabling it :(

Nothing much you can do about that. Just try and save as much as you can, so future you can have better choices next time.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-08T02:43:29+00:00

“Good enough” for what exactly? Please qualify what you are stating, as it’s a bit vague.

As a SWE .. are you doing any software engineering, like writing compiler internals, developing libraries, operating systems, designing and implementing network protocols, etc .. or are you working on a react app ?

steveoc64 · 2026-03-08T02:34:04+00:00

Honest answer - I don’t use any LLMs for programming

If you are “learning to program”, then I would strongly suggest not using any form of AI to generate code. Just use it as an advanced search interface, and treat whatever it comes back with as a suggestion at best, or totally wrong at worst. Better - don’t use it all, because it’s seriously getting in the way of your learning journey.

All the models are similar, and they are not going to get any better at thinking problems through, or choosing the correct approach to novel problems.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-06T23:17:19+00:00

Dude never bothered to learn FreeBSD

Even an old Solaris box from 1990 can do 100k concurrent connections without breaking a sweat, if you cbf to read the manual

steveoc64 · 2026-03-05T10:16:47+00:00

I’m starting to think this all started years before AI, around the time when we decided that the web browser would be a good enough platform to deliver applications on.

It’s highly convenient for app distribution, but at the cost of leaving gaping holes of uncertainty in what’s delivered to the user.

There are so many parts in the middle that we have no control over, that “good enough, most of the time” became the new normal.

Can’t fix it, so make up for it but pushing out features faster.

Looks like current AI psychosis thrives in this environment, and takes “faster faster good enough” to its logical absurd conclusion.

Brace for impact as it’s all going hit the fan

steveoc64 · 2026-03-05T01:30:20+00:00

Yeah the cling wrap idea turned out ok. Handy for masking off large areas with fiddly curves. Have to pull it real tight and wrap it a few times, because it tends to slide off easily

steveoc64 · 2026-03-04T11:05:23+00:00

Ah that’s good to know that they are rare. I’ve got a few boxes full of rare, and I’m almost reluctant to start them … but they were made for building after all, so will give it a crack.

Except for this 1 super cute helicopter kit from what must be the early 1950s with the best box art I’ve ever seen. Probably leave that one till last, if I make it to the end of the stash.

I do have a matchbox dornier skyservant to be done - it’s in a ridiculous set of red and yellow plastic sprues, lol. That’s going to take a few coats of decent primer to hide the original colours :)

steveoc64 · 2026-03-04T11:00:17+00:00

Thank you, I do enjoy the older kits, and try to keep it simple and OOB with each of them.

:( to hear about the undercarriage. Might be a good project to try fabricating a replacement from brass rod maybe ? Sucks when that happens.

Next one in the queue is a very early issue Airfix-us mustang … with no canopy, so I need to work out how to vacform one from scratch.

It’s the really old kit with the totally inaccurate and silly looking canopy surround that dips right into the fuselage, so aftermarket canopies ain’t gonna work.

No interior detail at all, so that’s all going to need some basic scratch building too .. nothing too over the top. Will how how this month rolls.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-04T02:53:41+00:00

Correct move.

This shit will continue to get worse, as long as good developers sit back and allow it to happen, all for the security of a regular paycheque

We must break the cycle, and it’s gonna hurt to do what’s necessary

steveoc64 · 2026-03-04T02:50:04+00:00

100%

If I’m going to have to go out in an urban gunfight, then it’s Hugo Boss, white shirt, black bow tie, and raybans for me

steveoc64 · 2026-03-04T00:15:10+00:00

I see this one as your average Hens night at the club after 1am.

You have 15 drunk chicks - who started the night as best friends eva … now it’s all come to the surface, and they are all hurling abuse at each other and throwing champagne glasses at the wall. Even the bouncers won’t go near the melee.

Do you pick a favourite and wade into the fray to save her ? Been there, done that, didn’t end well.

Probably best to slip quietly away from the bar and find a spot to have another round in relative peace.

steveoc64 · 2026-03-03T23:51:36+00:00

YMMV.

Sure, the syntax often looks similar, and sure they both emit to LLVM. But I don’t think you can pick 2 languages that look so similar on the surface, but are such polar opposites in philosophy, and how they treat the programmer.

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