Also, it still counts as pushing straight to prod if your PR reviewer gives it a once-over and stamps it with “LGTM”

Tigran Hamasyan (Armenian piano jazz-metal)

The Gabriel Construct (self-described as art music iirc, but basically just some experimental rock)

Jaggery (avant-rock, cool harp sounds)

Noah Sias (deathcore? Just so fucking heavy idk)

Bent Knee (experimental rock, just an absolutely gorgeous song)

Mel Bryant (indie rock, great hook, cool breakdown)

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No need to search when you already have someone you wanna pin it on.

Look, just because PHP doesn’t have multiple inheritance doesn’t mean you can’t wildly overengineer everything.

If I had to choose one I’d choose one of the ones that’s already going extinct so I could disrupt as few ecosystems as possible

Alternately, is there an invasive species that harms the ecosystems it invades and doesn’t have a non-invasive counterpart? Maybe domesticated cats?

We also experienced an initial explosion followed by a major drop and then steady growth. It’s healthy growth because it shows we’re keeping genuine daily users to compete with natural user churn.

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I think that most core frameworks put a ton of effort into backwards compatibility. Maintainers of smaller libraries and glue packages, however…

Worker ownership of tech firms

That’s $385 for every person on earth

It’s good to know amp sims and VSTs on Linux have come far! The drums still aren’t where I’d like them to be to switch and I’ve tried several times to get Steven Slate Drums and Superior Drummer working with a VST bridge in Ubuntu Studio, with no luck. Still sticking with Apple for now, but at least I finally have Windows out of my house.

Why? I don’t understand what it is

That last one is really common. If people can ambiently hang out and form community in a space, it tends to be an unprofitable use of those spaces, so they keep disappearing.

I think this is most usefully viewed as an anecdote about social control, maybe particularly about how successively teenagers are to it. But that’s also a popular narrative and kind of wishy-washy, so I don’t know how much scientific value there is in recognizing this as an experiment. The only thing particularly fascist about this is the abolition of democracy, but even that as a marker of fascism has its roots in German attitudes toward democracy in the 30’s, which is contextual.

We don’t call most cults fascistic just because they exert social control on their members. And the line between religion, cult, and accepted societal structures are quite thin at times. Like, The Republic in Star Wars was already fascistic in all but name prior to democracy being dissolved, but many will fail to recognize that fact because its aesthetics hadn’t shifted yet. It seems like The Wave focuses on the aesthetics in a similar way that ignores why people would act this way in the first place.

The inflated sense of self is an important way to phrase it. I’ve known execs who weren’t excessively self-confident, but I’ve never met one who didn’t massively overestimate how fucked the company would be if they left.

The risk of running a business? It’s not like owning a company makes you responsible for that company’s loans if the business goes under or something.

You have ADHD? Because this is a pretty common thing for people with ADHD. Resting opens you up to getting locked in by executive dysfunction, but keeping busy and being able to bounce between things that you’re motivated to do lets you hyperfocus through a bunch of shit.

Those of us who work in tech need to have a serious reckoning about our contributions to this sort of dynamic and the sort of social environment it incentivizes us to gravitate towards, maintain, and create.

There also needs to be some discussion of class in tech and how the bull pen tech support grunts are going to have very different incentives from the senior technician making 7 figures on top of mad stock options.

To the tune of We Didn’t Start The Fire