An early morning surprise all-hands, with an ominous "don't come to the office today" and no details.
If you survive that heart attack, you're treated to performative PR jargon over Zoom, taking no questions.
Instructions to wait quietly for half an hour to see if you receive the "you're fired" email.
Watching your peers accounts wink out like dead stars in Slack.
And then you have to go back to work and, what, give delivery estimates?
Not a shred of humanity anywhere in the process.
@gsuberland a really good support team will tentatively back channel escalate with “this guy says X, should we escalate them” but that only really works in tiny startup teams at relatively low volume.
@gsuberland unfortunately it’s often to distinguish between “this person knows what they’re doing, escalate immediately skipping basic triage” and “this person has cobbled together a wildly inaccurate hypothesis from 18 different forum threads, do not escalate without triage”.
Just had an offer accepted on the flat I’m currently renting, leaving me equal portions of excitement and trepidation.
@pikesley Blue Monday, so called because of the colour people’s faces go explaining about PR agencies.
@Edent You could probably reduce it further by tokenising the 50 most common words down to greyscale values, maybe 45 or so as you'd then need *further* values as control codes to embed those tokenisations at the start of the image (or cheat, and do that out of band). I briefly made a start on trying that and then realised I have several more useful things to do today than implement a janky compression algorithm.
@avdi maybe, but I gave up after five or episodes of increasingly incoherent not very funny comedy.
After several years of “oh, I should get round to sorting that” in the past five days I’ve been officially told I have ADHD and unexpectedly started buying a flat after my landlord put it on the market. Tune in next week as I get remarried and adopt a dog in my speed run of being an adult with their shit together.
so, if you had an .af domain, does that mean you just got tali-banned?
everyone loves .af, the fun domain name that everyone is positive af about! haha [five seconds later] we regret to inform you the domain is being used to fund the taliban
@russss curious whether India has a very dense electricity network or is just much better mapped than the rest of the world.
I am one (1) day into trying to buy a flat and already I’m wondering whether it would be better to just resign myself to renting for the rest of my life.
Fully expect someone to request that I fax them details at any moment.
I have entered the world of trying to purchase property, which is apparently being run via some sort of time portal from the 1990s where nobody is able to use email.
It has been A Day. Recovered from it by spending three hours straight watching For All Mankind and I’m deeply thankful for being able to lose myself in some excellent people doing stuff in space TV.
@pikesley in fairness they’re not wrong, but it is truly terrible advertising for OpenAI that the version of their product most people interact with is awful, and they keep the good version locked away where no one is going to find it because they bounced off.
Once again thinking about the film version of Children of Men and how scarily prescient it was, while hoping one day we’ll get past the current madness so I can once again watch it as a great film rather than a documentary of the next ten years.
@gsuberland I couldn’t agree more, compounded by the fact you join a server and are immediately added to every single channel with push notifications turned on. Nobody needs that in their life.
@Edent that looks like the height of quality compared to the absolute dross you find in Roblox, which is probably the closest thing we have to The Metaverse in reality.
@james@strangeobject.space ugh, really? I literally just started giving them money.
@pikesley I genuinely have no idea. Just saw the thumbnail and title. To further not narrow it down it was a middle age white dude surrounded by RGB LEDs.