Yes I get it some of you have felt anger and frustration when writing or reading code

Some people also feel anger and frustration when writing and reading books

@cwebber She didn't just write like a bot — she delved into the soul of the bot.

I've had it up to here with people who are acting like there's no artistry to writing code

Code has made me feel things many times

RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116443397738540565

I swear to god I know and love this girl, she isn't a bot, she is just good at writing like one

Well sorry let me correct that, she isn't *that* kind of bot

The description breathed excitement. The words brief. Tortured sentences. The use of "the". Every metaphor exaggerated, brought to an truly reverent cadence. The final paragraph was rendered: a breathless thesis on the subject's importance. The comparisons were forced, but plausible, as if a spaghetti maker had been fed papier-mâché.

Reading confirms the suspicion: the writer is Claude. Unmistakable. Irrefutable. Distinctly non-human. An experienced editor sees the tells in seconds. A poet detects patterns before completing the audit. The average reader only suspects a pattern in the shape of the sentences. Yet the feeling is strong enough to elicit concern.

What made this worse was the uncertainty: If the writer was human? Could such writing be intentional? The concern was disquieting. The meta-narrative proved jarring. This is parody — or was it? All signs pointed towards a parody of the parrot.

The writing wasn't a judgement, but a statement. All words constructed, carefully and in jest. The work was over. The rumination upon it had just begun.

@cwebber
Here's a great recipe (obviously use the lentils in place of the ground chuck), but the sauce is easy and really delicious. I mix it up in a large measuring cup, then pour into the cooking onions and protein.

Originally from Gourmet Magazine:

I'd like to submit my Aunt Helen's recipe for "sloppy Joes." They are all-American and a snap to prepare.

SLOPPY JOES SEMMA

1 pound ground chuck

1/2 cup chopped onion

1 cup ketchup

1 tablespoon white vinegar

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1 teaspoon paprika

1 tablespoon dark brown sugar

4 hamburger buns

In a large skillet sauté chuck and onion over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally and breaking up lumps, until meat is no longer pink, about 8 minutes.

Stir in ketchup, vinegar, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, paprika, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste and cook, uncovered, over low heat, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 30 minutes.

Divide mixture among hamburger buns.

Serves 4.

@jzb @jalefkowit When Richard Torvalds announced the Linux manifestio in 1984, the first line of it was "you have to be good and nice to your fellow contributors, otherwise else, the commons cannot possibly work. consider how your voice carries in a position of power"

@jalefkowit Indeed. I'm a big fan of "praise in public, criticize in private". I've seen a few folks in leadership trash people in public / on high-traffic internal mailing lists and that is seriously damaging in many ways.

(Sometimes -- not too often -- I miss being a manager. I like to think I was getting good at it, but I'm not sad at being outside the corporate environment these days...)

The bongo's function was never just about hitting drums with your hands. It was a way of playing that blended human connection with the soul of the rhythm. The drummer drummed. Every note hit—more mechanical than physical. The song was complete; the music conveyed to the listener with clarity.

The bingo is simple: Every bingle bish, bash, and bosh.

RE: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/116438107437415663

If you're managing people, it's always a good idea to give them a regular stream of feedback whether that's "this can improve" or "this is going great" -- probably a bit of both.

1) If you let people know what they're doing right, telling them when something hasn't gone great is usually less stressful in both directions.

2) The world is as uncertain as ever -- you can help people a tiny bit by introducing some clarity on how they're doing at work. In the absence of feedback, people may create their own narrative that isn't as positive as you might hope.

The ratio of people who say they don't need regular feedback to people who really don't benefit from it is like 50:1. Many people will try to appear low-maintenance when they really do need regular checkups.

(I was going to make a "check the oil" analogy, but that might've gotten a bit weird. It's a good idea to stay away from "dipstick" analogies in the workplace...)

The bingus is the bongus. Not just bango—bingo bongo. The bongoes were complete; all bongos bingoed in every bango.

There's an exception if English is not your primary language and you would feel too self-conscious to publish if you hadn't used some editing assistance. This I can understand, though personally, I can tell you I wouldn't mind!

If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

@mntmn @cwebber the shortsightedness is blinding. Just because you can find repairable thinkpads today as lenovo still made them repairable 10 years ago doesn't mean you will be able to repair them for ever, or find them in 10 years.

@cwebber lentils, chickpeas, jackfruit: the holy trinity

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116443195463034222

Once again, I am recipe posting, for those of you who like reading my recipes of things you can make which are very very lazy but reasonably tasty and healthy and vegetarian

How to make: Lentil Sloppy Joes in a rice cooker for almost no effort

You can double, triple, or whatever you want.

- Measure out a cup of dry lentils. Approximately one cup of lentils will make a lot of joes. You can double this trivially
- Put in twice as much water as you do lentils.
- If you want, you can dump in some frozen peppers and onions here. Again we are being lazy here, lazy and sloppy
- LAZIEST OPTION: Add a can of premade sloppy joe sauce
- LESS LAZY OPTION BUT STILL PRETTY LAZY: Add a can of crushed tomatoes and BBQ sauce, or a heaping tablespoon of chili powder and onion and garlic powder to taste, probably a lot of it. Nutritional yeast is also great.
- If you have an oldschool rice cooker where you just push the tab down to turn it on, do that! Otherwise, choose the "brown rice" or "multigrain" setting
- Walk away
- Come back later, you have lentil sloppy joes!

#food #recipe #vegetarian

@cwebber My wife and I are quite proud of the expanding circle of people we have made lentil sloppy joes for, who largely all immediately agree there is no need to bother with beef again for the dish.

@cwebber Especially green lentils; the various colors have different tastes and textures.