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edyoung

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I work at Microsoft on Azure but the corgi is my real boss

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carnage4life, to random
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When people say “history will judge X unkindly” I try not to remember that there are 1500+ confederate monuments in the U.S. today and Christopher Columbus has a national holiday.

edyoung,
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@carnage4life I'm not even sure now if X is a variable or a literal in this sentence.

cstross, to random
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This is explosive: Brexiteer ultras pushing a (non-working, failed to reach clinical trials) COVID vaccine tried to get MI5 to spy on the staff of the science journal "Nature", fomented an anti-science campaign via the Daily Telegraph, and createdand spread a conspiracy theory falsely blaming a Chinese biowar lab for creating COVID:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group

This was the British equivalent of Trump's Ivermectin grift.

edyoung,
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@roygreenhilt @cstross The saddest part is: the number of people who will change their minds after this prediction fails? Approximately zero

bruces, to random
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“This has been going on for nearly a decade, where people have been saying this is the year where it’s going to be huge – and it keeps not happening.... it has nothing to do with technology, but with human reticence to wear something on our faces"

https://www.itpro.com/technology/why-2024-wont-be-the-year-of-ar-vr-mr-xr

edyoung,
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@bruces people are clearly willing to wear regular glasses, but things which obscure your vision to the point where a tiger could sneak up behind you are always going to be a problem. Whether there's some middle ground which is both technically feasible and humanly acceptable is the question

briankrebs, to random

Yes, X, something went wrong. Something went very, very wrong. WTF else is new? OMG how I don't miss this platform.

And no, it's definitely not my fault. We all know whose fault it is.

edyoung,
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@GossiTheDog @briankrebs the old SRE joke is: if you have 95% uptime, you have a lot of problems. If you have 99.5% uptime, you have a few problems.

If you have 100% uptime your monitoring is broken.

dabeaz, to random
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My kid has finally reached the age where's he's taking a math class that I've actually taught. I'm now his worst nightmare.

"Dude, I would take off all points for the way you just wrote that answer."

"What?"

"Penmanship."

(annoyed stare....)

edyoung,
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@dabeaz This is so classic. My kids typically try to cram their working into tiny spaces, scribble numbers, don't keep the columns lined up, and then are surprised when they get the answer wrong. But if I tell them "it would be easier if you just wrote more neatly and used more space" they look at me with truly withering scorn.

davidbrin, to random
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A dangerously toxic fad among some uber-rich males who dream of emerging from luxury fortresses after some "Event' torches civilization - then ruling over any survivors. This cult could self-fulfill in ways that wind up disappointing them. See more -

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/09/prepper-lords-intend-to-leave-us-in.html

edyoung,
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@davidbrin I enjoyed this SFnal exploration of that scenario. Also discusses "keeping the security loyal".

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_03_23/

Spoiler: it doesn't work out so great for the rich guy

dan, to random
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I have spent the last couple years working with product groups and learning many interesting things. For example, that nobody can agree on whether the datacenter region in eastern WA is called West US 2 or US West 2.

edyoung,
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@dan I have just been deploying software to two regions which are definitely, officially called "Italy North" and "South India". Bah.

carnage4life, to random
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I thought layoff season was over?

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/google-layoffs-hits-hundreds-on-recruiting-team-as-company-meaningfully-slows-hiring

edyoung,
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@carnage4life It's possible to lay off so many recruiters that you are then unable to hire anyone else. Not that I have ever worked for a company that did something so braindead.

kevinrothrock, to random

I think the “Steve Jobs” movie’s orchestral score (by Daniel Pemberton) is one of the best to play while writing. Tron Legacy is another winner. Any other nominees?

edyoung,
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@kevinrothrock The Moon soundtrack is killer https://spotify.link/QYcH4Ei12Cb

az, to random
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i'll never get over the intense special interest required for someone to post this on imdb

edyoung,
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@n3wjack @az Curious: how's that work then? They run the A/C current at 24 or 48Hz or something?

jdnicoll, to random
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What if instead of grant-style wages, employers provided workers with accumulating loans?

edyoung,
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@jdnicoll Not sure I follow - you mean company says "IOU an extra $x000 at x% interest" every month?

I'd have to be extremely confident of the company's solvency and reliability to sign up for that...

aral, to random
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We call it capitalism because greedy shortsighted self-destructive shitfuckery is too much of a mouthful.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent

edyoung,
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@arose62 @jhavok @aral It seems like most people responding to this story are responding to the headline, or what they imagine the story to be, rather than what actually happened. It was part of a clinical trial, and wasn't repossessed by an evil corporation, it was removed because nobody was able to safely maintain it. Let's watch out for capitalist fuckery but I feel like this story is not the clear example it is being made out to be.

edyoung,
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@wurzbacher @aral It was part of a clinical trial. The device never got to full approval and the company folded. It was removed for safety reasons, not repossessed for financial reasons.

edyoung,
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@ianchanning @arose62 @jhavok @aral Sure, but we have to recognize that a possible side-effect of raising barrier to entry is that the implant may never have been developed at all. There's always going to be some tension between safety and possible benefit in a trial situation.

dabeaz, to random
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Think the time has come to downsize my large library of Python books. I used to collect most of them to have on hand for people to look at during courses, but at some point it got out of hand. Now they're all out of date and taking up space.

edyoung,
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@dabeaz how many meters of Python book do you have?

kennzaney1, to random

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read

edyoung,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite @kennzaney1 the article has been doing the rounds at least 4 years and has been reposted on so many occasions I'm not sure what the original source is.

cstross, to random
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What is this "Labour Day" the Americans are nattering about on the interwebbytubes at present?

Wrong answers only, plz.

edyoung,
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@cstross It celebrates Hungarian strongman Gyorgy Lábor, who single-handedly defeated a regiment of British soldiers during the War of Independence. He celebrated his victory by eating many of his foes grilled over an open fire, an act still commemorated today.

carnage4life, to random
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The generation gap is real 😭

edyoung,
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@jwhevans @carnage4life

cstross, to random
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Mitch McConnell appears to have had another mini-stroke or severe aphasia incident at a press event:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/30/mitch-mcconnell-freezes-struggles-to-speak-in-second-incident-this-summer.html

What I want to know is, if he's now had two events in front of the cameras in as many months ... how many more is he having in private?

Man's ill, and it's much worse than the news coverage indicates.

edyoung,
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@kurtseifried @cstross I think the electorate already pays way too much attention to how people sound and how smooth they are saying it, so I'm not much in favor of placing even more emphasis on that. Having something sensible to say is more important...

carnage4life, to random
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“Whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

Mindset is everything and believing you can win is usually the first step to actually winning.

edyoung,
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@ninavizz @carnage4life apparently similar adages go back to Roman times
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/03/you-can/

But "Possunt quia posse videntur" isn't as catchy.

It's semi-nonsense, of course, halfway on the road to Manifestation and other claptrap.

"If you think you can, maybe you can. If you think you can't, you'll never try" is more accurate but not as catchy or inspiring.

edyoung, to animals
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carnage4life, to random
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How are we still reading headlines about people getting rug pulled for millions of dollars after “investing” in some shitcoin in 2023?

It’s like some people love losing money.

https://www.theblock.co/post/247576/pepe-team-members-stole-15-million-from-multisig

edyoung,
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@StartupNextDoor @carnage4life Exactly. Many classic cons involve persuading the mark that they are pulling a con of their own. Nobody innocently invests in a token called $PEPE actually imagining it is the future of finance - they just think they can time the rug pull and get out ahead of it.

edyoung, to random
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Spotted in Hearst Castle. Somehow they managed to do a 1 hour tour without once mentioning Hearst was a Nazi-enabling shithead with significantly more money than taste.

regehr, to random
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to justify use of space at a university, you use a unit similar to current density: unit of research expenditure per unit of area per unit of time ❤️

edyoung,
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@regehr papers per acre per semester

AliceMarshall, to random

The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity
The elite are trying to whip everyone back to the office to avoid a commercial real estate crash.

https://www.okdoomer.io/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad/

edyoung,
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@adamr @AliceMarshall I think the story behind "back to the office" is even dumber. Companies have no idea what is productive and what is not, and just blindly follow trends without the slightest idea whether they 'work'. Examples: open plan offices, tech companies each firing 10% of staff, sprinkling AI on everything, etc etc

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