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having worked there (IBM Consulting specifically) in the last year, at least on my end it seemed like they were churning through everyone, not just the seniors. it felt like every two weeks you could show up to the office and there would just be people missing

i left for better pastures (and nearly double the salary)

i can't believe the media is straw manning me. but actually now that you've said the horrible things i don't wanna say out loud that sounds good actually, let's do that

for a second i thought we were talking about the audio codec and got mildly interested but no

... is someone forcing you to type these comments? use an em-dash if yes, ascii hyphen if no

"but what about proof of stake??!1?” is almost old enough to drive a car at this point

i think you've answered your own question there

"ah, but you see, THIS piece of space garbage came from a totally unrelated space-garbage-launching mission"

If they deal with it using reaction formation (another of Freud’s maladaptive defenses), you get the self-hating nerd, aka the sort of person who joins Sneerclub.

evidently Scott's theory of mind is so malformed he can only conceptualize other men as different (imperfect) clones of himself

i specify men here because we know he considers women closer to viruses or perhaps large parasites

i am continuously reminded of the fact that the only things the slop machine is demonstrably good at -- not just passable, but actively helpful and not routinely fucking up at -- is "generate getters and setters"

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if i could find my old copy of The New Way Things Work, i would absolutely go find the seven-segment LCD section and general-purpose computing pages to post here

we demonstrably have a better grasp of consent than the (rest of the) tech industry at large