Does anybody here do custom ASCII-art animations? I'd like t o commission something — not right away, but soon.
Boosts? Appreciated. Hotel? Trivago.
@Viss mine's been stuck on the enforced-fsck all day so far
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers
https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/
#ai #llm #aibubble #labor #labour #swe #claude #chatgpt #anthropic #openai #noai #stopai #fuckai
@scottwilson yeah, going to need your fax number to whitelist for that please ;)
@simontatham had a live production webservice reporting 4xx errors via a redirected page *saying* 404 or whatever, but with a 200-OK response code.
loadbalancer healthchecks hate this one simple trick
@anon_opin in the UK we celebrate Pi day approximately on July 22nd. it's near enough.
I've written a post outlining what I want to do with my paid newsletter. It's called Jenny's Bench, I'll aim for a post every weekday, and after the first month only one daily post a week and a Sunday summary will be free. Starting next week.
@mattround they had a coffee stall out front last week. very nice coffee :)
also were playing Porgy&Bess quietly
If anyone has a passion for collecting #gaming music (the soundtracks), I found an archive link to so, so many of them:
https://archive.org/details/folksoundomy_gamesoundtracks
Enjoy!
I’m always pleased when Slack appears in the logs. Again, it’s a walled garden and I have no more context than that. But it’s still nice to know that somewhere, somehow, I’m wasting some company’s time.
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