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The alarm bleating, Dosnak realised he hadn’t slept all night. He rolled over in his hab-unit and let his fingers dance across the heads-up display of his Neuralink augmented virtual screen. The screen illuminated his hab-unit and his face, pulsing gently in time with his alarm. The alarm faded quickly as he set the toggle to the off position and he slid toward the entry of his hab-unit pod. It…
I have a fairly deep relationship with film and media which has developed since I was a child. The Goonies (1985), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Blade Runner (1982), anything made by John Woo. The list is comprehensive. I even watched some movies and shows that weren’t from the 80s! These could include Ex Machina (2014), A Bittersweet Life (2005), The Wire (2002-2008), Generation Kill (2008), Better…
In my previous writings, I droned and dribbled about how strange the workplace is. This is particularly true for an office environment , and doubly so for the cursed few of us who work in Tech. It seems that themes of incompetent leadership, buzzword salads and extreme variation in skill level in regard to position title are commonplace across a myriad of disciplines; software engineering, data…
Thus does the Enemy seek to crush our spirit, for our souls are our most potent weapon. - Adepti Mechanicus from the Amalanthians 9.41, 41st Millenium I’ve taken a deep breath prior to the start of this article today, and it can be aptly wrapped up quite briefly, with the following error exception I wrote in Python 10 minutes ago: I haven’t been happy for quite some time, at least in the realm of…
INTRODUCTION The scattered and refracted light of the sunset over Rubicon-III was a sight to behold, I thought to myself. My Core thrummed gently while in low power mode as I approached the designated AO attempting to avoid detection. The Nachtreiher allowed quick and nimble maneuvering over otherwise difficult terrain. I regulated my thrusters down onto the AO and saw no enemy vehicles, only a…
My first job during high school was running the till at a local grocery store near my parents house. The interview process was essentially me walking to the store after school one day with a printed out CV that had ‘I don’t how to do anything, yet’ written on it in fancier words. There was no real job description or any criteria to meet aside from some common sense of ‘yes, I can unpack boxes when…
From my enfeebled understanding, computer systems are inherently complex but not entirely impossible to understand, at least a basic level. For example, several distinct operations of a computer can have real-world, simple analogous ways of interacting with them. For example, a file, in essence, is a document which is very similar to a piece of paper that has writing on it. If one were to scribe…
I have considered at length, my place in the world and how this may relate back to my general well being and happiness. Acknowledging that being employed will encompass a significant portion of one’s life in today’s ecosystem, it does make one pause and ponder the potential overlap of work-life interactions. Within the tech-sphere in which I work (as a half-baked engineer, mind you) I’ve…
A late afternoon on a Thursday, I encounter a fellow colleague; Bob continues to hurriedly schedule various meetings for stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering for the engineering team. Bob initiates a standard, human-like communication protocol: 'Afternoon, Paul.' he says. 'Hey, Bob. How are you?' I reply. 'Doing alright Paul, you know how it is.' he chuckles dryly. I do not, in-fact,…