David Brady

I think weird thoughts and I tell weird jokes. I write for humans in several programming languages and occasionally English.

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You might have ADD if

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"Which project do I love best? They're like my children--I've already decided which ones I would sacrifice first."

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"Most of HVAC is just fart dynamics with a better marketing department." #ShitClaudeSays

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Monday is starting with a drink from the firehose, as usual. For some reason I'm in high spirits. As my wise mentor taught me: "I'm up to my ass in alligators, but that's great because I'm getting paid by the boot."

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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R I just barely got forced into upgrading from object_oriented_programming_is_an_exceptionally_bad_idea_which_could_only_have_originated_in_california to m_object_oriented_programming_is_an_exceptionally_bad_idea_which_could_only_have_originated_in_california let me catch my breath

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@CorpseKings This does of course assume the player named his high-magic medieval fantasy wizard... Gary.

Which, I mean, it tells a story. "Gary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

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@CorpseKings God Dammit Gary. The rest of the party use his full name at least twice a day.

His famous quote: "I didn't ask how big the room was, I said I cast fireball."

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@Gingerblast We are built on a hardware platform that survived for millions of years by perfecting "stay with the ingroup". Rejecting an -ism or a -phobia does not change that platform. We're wired to fear outgroup. Not a word of shade: I'm glad this dad is finding his way out of bigotry.

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Me to a friend today: "I am not king of the idiots! ...I was elected unanimously in a free and fair election."

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@m1foley Or why it IS. Honestly I'm just in it for the time savings

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Built a lore file for my agent to understand which parts of our technical debt garbage have become repurposed into load-bearing garbage.

It's called FUBARchitecture.md

How's YOUR Monday going?

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@mrexits Make sure v2.0 doesn't port the $300 membership to newer operating systems. Let's Get That Money

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@RespectfulMemes Everyone I know right now is spiderman

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@jshortt55 @unclebobmartin Though that does provide a definitive answer to the halting problem. Eventually.

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@jshortt55 @unclebobmartin By this definition, nothing is or ever will be Turing complete. Infinite tape was Turing's hand-wave around the assumption of *enough* tape for a given problem, which presumably fit into the universe and malloc could run in less than one heat death.

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I said this about self-driving cars 5 years ago, and I'm calling it for vibecoding right now: "we can't trust an AI to do that" is soon going to flip to "good lord, can you believe grandpa tried to do that by hand?!?" We're already seeing it in crypto. Your prod env is next.

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Programming holy wars aren't always about the grand crusades like emacs vs vim or tabs vs spaces. The mark of a true veteran is the long list of weird balkan skirmishes like HTMLParser vs HtmlParser.

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So excited for a new day of AI project ideas breathlessly claiming to 100x all the things that literally say nothing more than do more of what works and less of what doesn't without demonstrating anything.

Hmm. Is this a paying gig I could make an AI write these all day

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My coworkers have to put up with this every day. I'm pretty sure they go home and pray to the gods of At Will Employment every night. (If you're not a developer, that file is encrypted and intentionally not human readable.) 🤣

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Last week on the podcast I talked about how a past employer had a disaster recovery plan to stay up and running if our datacenter got hit by a meteor by having a redundant DC, and every six months we swapped primary DCs to practice failover. I got challenged with "come on, how often do meteors actually hit a datacenter".

8 days later Iran bombed the AWS datacenter in the UAE. That aged like milk still fresh from the carton.