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programmer, (former) moonkin, nasty woman, geek

@bananabull's geekier half

would give left pinkie to work at #nasa, building stuff at #prisma until then

🇺🇸​ in 🇳🇴​ #trondheim, vestkyst bestekyst

formerly @ellotheth@mastodon.technology and @ellotheth@bsd.network, also @gemma@phpc.social

#php #golang #reactjs #typescript #linux #git #devops #webdev #backend #programming #prisma #womenintech #cycling #trailRunning #gravelcycling #uciwwt #norway #dogs #gaming #gameing #destiny2 #valheim #nobot

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i tried to read excerpts of this essay from @Crell to my hubby and i got so choked up i couldn't get the words out. this is what i felt at the end of last year, when i decided it is what it is.

 At some point soon, I will have to figure out how to work with AI coding tools if I want to stay in the industry I've put my entire adult life into. But more importantly, I will have to figure out how to live with myself every time I consider the tons of CO2 and gallons of water involved in every function I write from now on. See, I can't just say "it is what it is." I will feel that cost in my gut every fucking time. Whether I'll be able to swallow it and accept (as I do for Amazon and Android, after long resisting them) in order to find a job, I don't know. If not, it won't be a tight labor market that forces me out of tech, but every fucking one of my colleagues that decided "it is what it is, ethics don't matter, it's not worth fighting the billionaire VCs that have fucked up everything else they touch already."
If you have already shrugged and said "it is what it is," fuck you. It is exactly that attitude, that lack of care for ethics, that lack of interest in the global implications of our work, that is literally dooming our species. And by forcing -- yes forcing -- everyone to join you in your uncaring attitude through shear force of numbers is abusive. It's despicable. As I learn how to work with AI coding agents, know that I will be thinking ill of you the entire time. Not because I don't get to write for loops, but because you have made yet another part of the economy impossible to engage with ethically.

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the feminine urge to ignore overspecification from a clanker because you just don't care that much and then manually rip the whole thing out when it overspecifies the overspecification

people complaining about people complaining about partial stage coverage need to understand that

  • the host broadcaster not showing the full stage is exactly the problem, and
  • full stage coverage is the norm for the Tour de France.

#watchthefemmes #tdff