Technically I’m here because people keep getting basic shit wrong and hate it when I try to help them learn something. Now what were you saying about that liquid hot magma?

Also PRISM. Maybe the third—wait, wrong side of the array—worst.

My appreciation for this meme is fully delocalized, kind of like the electrons within the aromatic ring.

No, you should absolutely not use it. Send it to me asap for safe disposal; I have a fully equipped facility to process it safely and thoroughly.

P(doing math/doing meth) = P(doing meth/doing math)*P(doing math)/P(doing meth)

More of the latter than the former, unfortunately. But, well Boris met his demise with his hubris so perhaps imposter syndrome saves lives.

I work in a dedicated room in my house (remote developer). During the day I don’t really need to turn the lights on—windows and a skylight. The sun sets and sometimes I really just don’t notice. My wife will come in at some point and scold me for working in the dark, claiming it’s bad for my eyes (as if staring at a screen all day isn’t already).

I actually rather enjoy that rather not-subtle marker of the passage of time and how entrancing “the zone” can be such that I fail to even notice that.

Perfection.

git checkout -b final_version_revised2_REALLYFINALTHISTIME

git commit -am “holy fuck I hope this really is the last edit” 

git push

Moses was Vesemir!

I’ve worked for startups too; everyone does everything all at the same time! Let the chaos reign! But it is fun in its own way.

I work for a large company now after the startup I worked for was acquired. Hierarchy, bureaucracy, layers, we’ve got it all. For worse and for better though, it allows me to focus and specialize on what I’m awesome at and furgeddaboddit (ahem! delegate) the stuff that I suck at to those who excel at those tasks.

No, this is incompetent management.

Senior engineers write enabling code/scaffolding, and review code, and mentor juniors. They also write feature code.

Lead engineers code and lead dev teams.

Principal engineers code, and talk about tech in meetings.

Senior Principal engineers, and distinguished technologists/fellows talk about tech, and maybe sometimes code.

Good managers go to meetings and shield the engineers from the stream of exec corporate bs. Infrequently they may rope any of the engineers in this chain in to explain the decisions that the engineers make along the way.

Bad managers bring engineers in to these meetings frequently.

Terrible managers make the engineering decisions and push those to the engineers.

Questioning the science that generated the science is science. See also: recursion.

Green Skittles

Well well well. I’m trained as a biochemical engineer and turned my career into AI engineering, working at a space company. So when Skynet launches the bioweapons of mass fuck against humans, I guess I was the supervillain after all.

That thing that gets routinely ignored by every starship captain ever?

Can confirm; definitely wanted to kill myself while studying PChem and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.

Warp drive will really fuck up a lot of civilizations.

It’s just a fancy list of fancy lists! :D