Flight attendant: Is there a doctor onboard?
Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a Media Server Programmer to help are they?
Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Dad: Go and see if “doing a projection study" helps
When I was at Meta, I asked the hardware team what I should read to learn the details of modern consumer HW development so I could work more effectively with them. The consensus was that there really isn’t good literature; you just have to “be there”. Has anything emerged since?
There’s just something calming about feeling the wiggling cat ears on your head and petting them when you’re stressed. Like this is how we were supposed to be. Something has been taken, denied us. A kind of fantom genetic yearning to retvurn to a quadruped mammal in the forest.