jubilationtcornpone @ jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works

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You don't know how it works because you didn't study tin foil hat engineering.

According to data from the world’s largest job board, Indeed, demand for IT jobs is rapidly declining. Backend development, testing, technical analysis — all of this is being automated faster than education systems can adapt. Since the end of 2022, global tech corporations have laid off more than 635,000 employees. Behind this figure are engineers, designers, analysts, UX specialists — people who, until recently, were considered the elite of the digital world.

This is not because of "AI." This is because the river of dirt cheap debt dried up and corporations ran out of gambling money to blow in pursuit of the next big thing. I've spent a lot of my career working for non-tech companies who have this idea that they have a massive treasure trove of data which they are sure can be monotized. So, they set out creating solutions in search of problems. Every project I've worked on in the last 5 years has failed for this exact reason. Rising interest rates brought most of the gambling screeching to a halt.

I worked with this guy who sent an email to the CEO containing a diatribe about our boss. Every word of it was true. The boss in question was a complete ass hat. I told him, "I agree with you but you know they're not going to let that go." He just kind of shrugged. He was fired the next day.

Good for him though because that place was fucked up.

I grew up in Northern Wisconsin and you are not wrong.

There are few things more American than reducing a place to rubble and then being like: "Here. We're bored with this so you can have it back now. Aren't you so thankful that we liberated you from your home, family, possessions, health, and everything you've ever known the *bad guys?"

You get a lawn and white New Balances at 30. At 40 you get nearsightedness and additional back pain.

"jubilationtcornpone is a great dev. He closes more tickets than anyone."

QA: "Yeah, Hi. Can you look at this defect ticket?"

Reading ticket details...

Me: "Let me guess. Is [whatshisname] responsible for this?"

QA: "Yeah."

Me: "Get him to fix it."

QA: "I tried. Like four times."

Me: Sigh "I'll take care of it."

QA: "Thank you!"

What kind of idiot can't see the difference between "I'm going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to" and "I'm going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to"?

"In the criminal justice system, offenses involving Tesla's are considered especially heinous."

It seems like the singular benefit is that DuckDB (or similar OLAP models) can quickly handle lots of expensive read queries on large datasets.

It's not a replacement for a traditional RDBMS. I've never used it so I don't know if it's worth the effort to maintain instead of just using a Postgres read-only instance to run analytics queries but somehow I doubt it.

My guess would be that it has a few very specific use cases where it can provide some added benefit. So, I fully expect it to be crammed forcefully into software projects where it provides no tangible benefit for the foreseeable future. Just like cough MongoDB cough.

Canadians: Burn the White House to the ground

Me: "Oh no! Anyway..."

Buying a Buick == Domestic Terrorism

The same group of Americans all worried about the anti-Christ found the one guy who matches the profile and decided to make him President. Twice.

"We're gonna make a fully functioning e-commerce website with only this WYSIWYG site builder. See? No need to hire any devs!"

Several months later...

"Well that was a complete waste of time."

Remember when "The Cloud" was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?

I worked at a place where basically every other department would stand in the lobby at 4:58 PM, waiting for accounting (which was on the other side of the building) to leave. If you didn't wait, the CEO would likely see you from his office window and you'd be getting a "talking to" by your supervisor the next day. I have never before or since worked anywhere where I've seen so much collective time wasting, trying to keep up the appearance of being busy.

This was an American company. I don't miss that shit hole in the slightest.

This is what it looked like the first time I visited the skydeck at Sears Tower. The place was completely dead but I had already paid for the tickets and wasn't going to waste them.

Nothing special. Just my Pixel 9.