Senior PowerPoint Engineer

Senior PowerPoint Engineer

@ryxcommar.bsky.social

Senior document signer @ Docusign, prev: lead risk manager @ Alameda Research

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Choosin Texas and Stella Lefty's Boston feel like they exist in a sort of cultural dark matter permeating the fabric of the zeitgeist yet entirely invisible to me. America B feels too proximate and tangible, this is like America C or D to me.

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“spreadsheet people”

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

People can’t just say this for literally years now and have the products it creates only positively affect spreadsheet people. Most people have profoundly negative experiences with this product because its utility remains pretty niche but targeted to the capital class.

He is right. Getting fired for misgendering your trans coworkers is more of a detriment to some people than the collapse of American democracy is. That is a true statement. That's how a lot of people vote lol.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter

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Yeah well I would kill them in the marketplace by offering superior quality service at affordable prices

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

"I would kill my enemies with kindness :)" Yeah, well, I would kill mine with electronic air-burst fuzed 155mm rounds.

learned what Frechet inequalities are today and I'm really mad because this Frechet guy was born in 1878. Euler and Gauss did superhuman work predating this guy's birth and this guy has a concept named after him that is so obvious that I didn't know it even had a name.

I feel like in math if everyone's like "oh yeah uh we kinda just forgot to name this" they should give it a really generic name. The last name named stuff should fit the vibe of the decade in which it was named.

Video games are incredibly underpriced, and the stinginess of gamers is a big reason why so much of the industry is slop and why game development is a terribly underpaid career. Adjusted for inflation, Mario World 3's MSRP of $49.99 in 1990 is equivalent to $128 today. We must retvrn.

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The best games today are so much better than the best games 2-3 decades ago. Elden Ring is the best video game of all time and it came out in 2022. Celeste is a better 2-D platformer than anything Nintendo ever put out (honorable mention to Yoshi's Island though). They should cost triple.

The fact that the best games of all time are recent-ish games and are so underpriced doesn't preclude the fact that the vast majority of the game industry is slop. Exceptions that prove the rule. You can only make good games with wage slave Japanese salarymen or passionate irrational maniacs.

Platner should drop out obviously but bigger picture I don't know how you balance out the fact that the median voter in swing states is a lumpenprole mildly racist loser who vote based on the beer question and the fact that the candidates who appeal to them are by and large also losers.

I'm not sure what the ratio is among Platner fans in media who have malfunctioning vibe detectors and genuinely liked him vs those who clocked the bad vibes and thought "yes, this is what the idiot swing voting masses want." I honestly can't say I'm completely unsympathetic to the latter.

Given how much Shapiro won Pennsylvania in 2022 by-- a higher margin than Fetterman!-- there's a good argument that you didn't need to send some salt-of-the-earth oddball to the US Senate and hopefully that happens this year in Maine too.

One must imagine that the Declaration of Independence would have been signed electronically had the technology existed. And Nick Cage would have never been able to steal it with Docusign's enterprise grade security and encryption.

This is why I wake up in the morning. Myopic critics pan my life's work as just building some SaaS company. But how many SaaS's have been instrumental to matters of war and peace? Without Docusign, thousands more would needlessly die. At Docusign, we are literally saving lives.

Unless the Sharia law compliant S&P500 ETF also waives its rules (and hopefully the word of God is more timeless than the S&P500's index inclusion criteria), then this is one way to avoid SpaceX IPO exposure. Alhamdulillah

Fundamentally a limitation of my time being a finite resource but also a function of me being unable to say some placating bullshit in meetings and having a mild sense of humor to stodgy upper-mid-level self-serious people.

the stock market is funny because the largest global supply chain shock since a deadly worldwide pandemic is worth -0.2% but a single blog post speculating about a new technology can stone cold stunner SaaS companies -50%.

so Theophite leaves Google and then just a few months later they have a massive Gemini related security fiasco (wrt leaky project scoped API key permission boundaries) that seems to be from poor but deliberate decisionmaking with a concerning fact pattern. Coincidence?

Pinterest started recommending me Snoopy stuff because a girl I'm flirting with likes Snoopy stuff and I pull Snoopy pics from Pinterest. But today it recommended me "Snoop Dog" [sic] and I guess I can see why it did that but that's an extremely different thing.