thwarted ☢️

@thwarted.bsky.social

An Eldritch Abomination • Gentleman Hacker • Artifex • Opifex • Artificer • Digressive Anecdotalist • Rhyparographer • Raconteur • Acerbic Fabulist • Inventor of the Pocket Sandwich

It makes a lot of sense that it takes less time to download the gigabyte worth of nvidia drivers than it takes Windows to install them. I know it's not building or relinking anything, because Windows doesn't come with any dev tools, so wtf is this thing doing?

The battlefield is littered with the bodies of devops and developer-tools startups, crushed under the pressure of the larger pile of dead cryptocurrency startups, soon to be buried under the mountain of AI wrapper startup corpses.

When we create the next gold record to put on a space probe to represent humanity to some extraterrestrial civilization, it needs to feature the tossed salad and scrambled eggs song sung over the Frasier end credits.

When Spider-Man molted at the end of Brand New Day, revealing that inside the Tom Holland shell was Tobey Maguire, that's when I knew Disney figured out how to merge all the multi-verse Spiders-Man into one.

The minor plot point that Mr Preston married Missy, a girl that went to San Dimas High, in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was put in there solely for the Oedipal Complex joke during the Freud portion of the final presentation.

Vibe-coding LLM-booster videos are like watching someone play Middle Manager Simulator. Reading updates, asking what the next steps are, saying to do those next steps. Doing it by voice from the park and in your car. Patting yourself on the back as if you were somehow contributing.