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• Post #4246164

  A group of rich old men was sitting at an outdoor table I was walking by this morning (I work in an affluent neighborhood). I overheard them teaming up on one who was like, "maybe the global warming thing is real, like it's the ozone or something?" I walked over and was like, "hey guys, just letting you know that the Ozone thing is fixed. We got together, changed what we put in refrigerators, and solved it." One guy was like, "I bought a TON of the old stuff and st...

• Post #4201435

  "The smoke in the air will meander through the sky on Friday, worsening conditions in some areas and improving them in others." - NYTimes Has anyone else noticed more and more of NYTimes' writing makes no sense? Smoke never improves air quality. Bad sentence formation. It feels like I spot spelling, logical, or grammatical errors almost every time I read the paper now, and it used to be a real 'gotcha!' moment.

• Post #4201434

  Sometimes I have terrible ideas that I wanna get out there mostly for fun, but also as a warning. Today's Bad Idea: Testosterone Gummy Supplements: "Chews Violence"

• Post #3901985

  "We asked Billionaires what their plans are for the next decade..."

• Post #3885216

  It's hard to do the math, but I'm pretty sure that a much more effective way to exert influence would be to forget about 'buy nothing days' and talk of 'general strikes'... and instead to organize a mass coordinated 'retirement savings pause'. Just pause the guaranteed stock buys that tens of millions of people do every month through their 401Ks and let the market try to cope without the automatic robo-purchasing of these stocks.

• Post #3755754

  I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes… We spoke about the Save America Act, the latest strikes in Iran, and how FIFA is going. He told me it was imperative that 'Lindsey Graham go before he does, for reasons'.

• Post #3724873

  I don't know what to do about the volume of meetings. I'm supposed to be doing nuts-and-bolts work, but my calendar keeps getting crammed with meetings. Like, I'm down to one or two 'two hour blocks' a week sometimes. I haven't showered or eaten and it's the end of the day. I'm peopled-out from work and have an overflowing to-do list to end my week. Is this just How It Is? Are modern jobs just sort of an eternal daily ritual of meetings? I want to actually do wor...

• Post #3698584

  Getting sleep is amazing. Why didn't anyone tell me about this?! (Everyone told me about this)

• Post #2039983

  I am not a CPU designer, but I do use computers for 15 hours a day, and nobody is making a good CPU for me. I want a 4 or 6 core CPU, with the same number of threads, where the focus is on single thread performance. I do not want to buy a 16-24 core beast to get a lot of premium-binned high-clocking cores at once, I do not need that. I am almost never 'waiting' and when I am, it's for single threaded things to complete. Give me a 4P/2E or even a 2P/2E system with a beef...

• Post #2039982

  WHY DOES A DELL DOCK COST $625?! IT'S LIKE, $15 WORTH OF PARTS.

• Post #2039981

  If there's so much demand for AI, then why is every hosting vendor BEGGING us to rent their GPUs, and why can I get GPUs shipped quickly at MSRP? Those aren't indicators of high demand, they're indicators of insufficient demand.

• Post #2039980

  I spent most of my life learning how computers work, to the point where I can often intuitively feel out things that are sub-optimal. I spent uncountable Saturday nights alone with a screen, understanding the work of the greatest minds of the world. I dedicated my career to bringing my skill-set to the non-profit sector instead of exploiting it for raw dollars. I know the LLMs can 'make code', but I do not want my work to take the form of "arguing with a junior over cha...

• Post #2039979

  Something I've had a lot of difficulty trying to understand and express in modern America is how I find the typical "upper middle class" norms pretty unfulfilling and gross. Like, I don't want to 'yuck' anyone's 'yum', but I'm not terribly interested in having a big single family home with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, a perfect lawn, an SUV, and an army of wage slaves to tend to it all while...

• Post #1242801

  A salesperson trying to sell my boss 'managed services' said "nobody likes writing parsers" and I had to cut him off. "I do." I'm starting to wonder what the heck everyone imagines an engineer's job should be. Apparently I'm supposed to *want* to just sit back, go to meetings, shuffle reports, and ask vendors to do anything more technical than sort rows of spreadsheets?