Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

she/they (pl)
breadthcharge.net/

the first line goes in Cohost embeds

🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:18 PM

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 9:52 PM

watching a talk someone linked and all i can say is:

I've learned a lot more this decade about architecting complex distributed computer systems in large organizations by sleeping around as a trans lesbian, than jblow has commenting on the orange website

choose the better life

https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko

you'll lose programmer hitpoints watching this though if you know the last 7 years of tooling or infrastructure developments.

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 10:13 PM

even brief parts of the video above hurt me. for reasons unbeknownst to me, i feel the need to share that pain further.

fair warning, you may want to watch in an incognito session to avoid tainting your recommendations.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:18 PM

the popcorn helps numb the pain

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Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 9:56 PM

That "Language Server Protocol" is a chapter in "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" right there alongside "The Bronze Age" and "The Space Race" is the most orange site–brained thing I have ever seen. Holy shit.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:01 PM

oh just wait until he says facebook and twitter have had no new features in 5 years.

yeah, for english speakers. but also scale lmao.

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 10:03 PM

Wait... language server protocol means you're running a set of distributed services on your computer and that's a new thing? Oh, dear fuck.

sighs in DCOM

I hadn't gotten to the FB / Twitter part yet, but I'm already at blinking red levels of programmer HP. That damn video is an infohazard, I swear.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:04 PM

it's a good lesson on how small game dev teams often are, and how much writing a lot on hacker news keeps you from reading anything worthwhile

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 10:07 PM

Dear fuck, maintaining one fairly specialized DSL and its editor integrations took a team larger than many indie game dev studios. I'm not dismissing the work that goes into games, not by a long shot, but it'd be real fucking nice if people like Blow didn't dismiss the whole rest of software engineering in return.

And yeah, huge +100 to the orange site being an absolute circlejerk.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:09 PM

oh no its worse than that. he's a ~prolific (in terms of posts, not his actual rep) and well respected poster there, with a body of work spanning a full decade and change on the site. People take his advice. Society suffers.

it's impressive how much he's lost from that.

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 10:12 PM

This is why we can't have nice things (well, one of a truly horrifyingly long list of reasons, but I digress).

reflectronic @reflectronic3/19/2023, 10:13 PM

people who walk around hating on Assorted Technologies are genuinely stupid programmers. naturally, programming "influencers" are prime offenders ("influencing" is much easier than being responsible for actually making things), but the sentiment is very normalized. god, i hate how normal it is for programmers to balk at everything they do not immediately understand. "this shit's stupid, this is fucking dumb, that was clearly made by inbred neanderthals." it's been like this for 40 years and and it is very demoralizing

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 10:20 PM

the thing you have to realize is that the rate of growth of the field/industry means that half of the entire field has at most 5 years experience, year after year. That number's rough, but it's somewhere around that. maybe a third as things slow down, last I saw was 2019

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 10:24 PM

Dear maths, that's a horrifying insight. Honestly, though, I suspect it's even worse in niche areas... coming from a quantum computing background, I'd put it at like two years? Maybe three, tops?

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 11:05 PM

what really gets me is AI as a field like, existed. But I see almost none of the names from them in what it is today, and instead, people who joined it in like, 2017 are now thought leaders because they work for big business and its just. mm. there's probably a word for this but it's a specific kind of horror-rage

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 11:08 PM

All by way of agreement: for fuck's sake, where is anyone mentioning Hinton and contrastive divergence? None of this shit could possibly exist without the work that ended the first "AI winter."

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade3/19/2023, 11:08 PM

All by way of agreement: for fuck's sake, where is anyone mentioning Hinton and contrastive divergence? None of this shit could possibly exist without the work that ended the first "AI winter."

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 11:13 PM

💰

reflectronic @reflectronic3/19/2023, 10:59 PM

maybe i'm just a naive kid and i'm not getting something here. but does that really mean the brainworms are necessary? does every technological discussion have to be poisoned by some guy who sees any mundane technology he's been trained to hate as a spawn of satan? can we fix this?

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 11:01 PM

no, but it does mean that a lot of companies only have at most 5 years of experience except for the people building it, and people who do best there get big titles and the illusion of experience, but really they didn't wander enough to find most of those were solved an easier way a long time ago.

and are treated the same as anyone with it, when it comes to what people are recommended to learn from and act like, because everyone else is busy doing their thing

reflectronic @reflectronic3/19/2023, 11:19 PM

ah, i see. their hubris is rewarded; the brainworms replicate themselves. and this industry is imploding in slow-motion because of it. excellent, excellent

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 11:56 PM

that + if you're loud and boisterous you tend to be the one making the problems everyone else is busy fixing instead of speaking at conferences themselves.

fictive @artemis3/19/2023, 11:13 PM

I've learned a lot more this decade about architecting complex distributed computer systems in large organizations by sleeping around as a trans lesbian, than jblow has commenting on the orange website

this is so fucking REAL we are out here running asterix over complex layer 2 VPNs so we can make normal-ass phone calls that dont suck in current year

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/19/2023, 11:53 PM

i simply sidestep this problem entirely by never using the phone

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