Just a reminder that nothing lasts forever, and no company—not matter how powerful and profitable—stays that way forever.
If you looked at the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) list of companies that were there 100 years ago, almost none of them are on there now.
For a a long time, the one exception was General Electric (GE) but this is no longer the case. After more than 100 years, GE lost its space on the DJIA.
In fact, the original GE no longer exists. General Electric has just split itself intro three separate companies—becoming a shadow of its former self.
GE Aerospace still trades under GE, but GE’s health and energy divisions are now separate entities entirely.
It’s the end of an era. I’m sure Thomas Edison and Jack Welch are spinning in their graves.
Today is the day bunDad decided I was born in, he doesn't really know the specific day and I was too busy drinking mommy's milk to care 🦫 anyway I'm three years old 🎉 :DsaprvingLua: (1 of 4)
Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks — a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.
NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itself 🫠
Some old blackhouses in the Scottish Highlands weight their thatch down with stones. These ones made me think of those theme park rides where people dangle from a track.
That one in the front has just seen what's coming.
Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.
Is #icetodon a thing year? It should be. I'll start.
@Ruth_Mottram It's a bit hard to see but these were right up against the flowing water, not quite touching but right at the surface. I'd never seen this before. From a few years ago 🙂 #Icetodon
I love the idea (OK not really, it is cruel) that people that do not have an internal monologue are in fact NPCs... 🙂
I have an internal monologue, but also have other mental processes - seeing (computer) code in my head in, sort of, multiple layers, and debugging code in my sleep. My monologue comes in writing and reading, and planning what I will say/type, but I also am able to come up with ideas out of thin air without "wording" them through in my head.
@revk That's really interesting. I'd definitely think Let ex equal three... I wouldn't think the curly braces like that but otherwise..
Programming for me definitely involves internal monologue. It's "words" same as writing or reading anything else to me, I think. Lines of code do kinda read like sentences.
I always think it's really neat how people's minds all work so differently even when doing the same tasks. My mum "sees" spoken words as written ones somehow. She's good at word games!
I thought I would be mega productive today and get some writing done and get my courses in order for starting teaching on Monday.
But instead, the farrier was able to come early, so I helped out with the hoof trimming, then realized that the heated animal waterer was frozen and I've been trying to troubleshoot that ever since. Taking an anti-grump hot chocolate break inside now, then heading back out to frantically try to fix it before pipes freeze... -20C forecast for tonight ☹️
It's fascinating how there's perhaps a correlation between the virus causing widespread brain damage and collective ignorance and giving up fighting the virus.
By the by, there's a theory that one of the root causes of World War II, the Holocaust and other horrific human behavior was long-lasting brain damage from the Spanish flu.
Hypatia (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. Hypatia constructed astrolabes and hydrometers, but did not invent either of these, which were both in use long before she was born. In March 415 AD, she was murdered by a mob of Christians led by a lector named Peter.
In the lab, doing stuff. Bought this deck from a coworker years ago. At first glance, it needs new belts (the old ones turned into goo), new capacitors and some new lights. #Sansui#TapeDeck#VintageAudio#InTheLabDoingStuff
@tubetime Wow. Just wow! What a read! 😳😲 Incredible. I feel like I'm a kid again having just watched the Thunderbirds film where Zero-X has to be landed.
Last week's spectacular #OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between #EffectiveAltruism (#doomers) and #EffectiveAccelerationism (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.
At #supercon I was checking continuity while soldering, but couldn't hear the beeps well. @maketvee found it quite amusing that I held the multimeter to my ear with my shoulder. His image and captions are pretty funny, but he may also have inadvertently launched my new career as an LED hotline operator!
There is a story to go with my #photOctober2023 image for today & I'm going to post that before posting the picture, for reasons that should become obvious.
The themes: knot and kitchen utensil.
I had nothing suitable so thought I'd take a few minutes out to take a new one.
Then I sat wondering how I could tie the two themes together & thought it might be funny to take a photo of an angry banana wielding a spatula (kitchen utensil) & restrained by string (tied in a knot).
The current state of scrollbars is, on the face of it, objective evidence that the people who run tech do not give a single solitary fuck about usability or UX https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html
@baldur I don't have perfect vision but it is perfectly fine with my glasses. I have no issues seeing things day to day, my vision isn't a problem.
Except for those damn tiny pop-up scroll bars. Its bad design. This happens to me far too often:
I want to skip down.. hover the mouse around... Where's the scroll bar slider? I can't see it, it's too small. So I click randomly and hold down to make the page scroll to where the mouse is clicking on the scroll bar, then slide it to where I want.
It's insane the way you have to fall asleep reading the absolute worst fucking news from all over the world about apocalyptic scenarios playing out and then just get up the next day and go to work like "so anyway how are we doing on our quarterly goals?"
@malwaretech I don't think it's controversial to say this is an unjustified war crime. But we should say this to the Israeli government too.
We have to acknowledge shared humanity. Israeli is about to commit genocide of Palestinians. Their army officer called the whole population "human animals". And they are the occupying force with way more ability to kill innocents than Hamas ever could - safe in the knowledge that when they kill innocents, the west turns its eyes aside.
