I’m gonna go patent Marxism lol. Maybe I’ll patent irony at the same time.

How can you afford to own your own island but not afford a suit that fits?

“Definitely don’t try to blow up our data centers or our Amazon shipping facilities! That would be very bad for us!”

That’s probably why they did it. They know trump is most likely to be shot at by one of their own nuts.

Probably copy-pasted from some other app … which is also lying about data security.

On my first day at a new job in 1998, I watched a guy get escorted out of his office and the building carrying his stuff in a cardboard box. My use of the verb “escort” is ironic because it turned out that the guy had been running a prostitution ring. He’d gotten an 800 number that redirected to his office phone number, and he kept track of everything (names and phone numbers of his clients and girls and records of every arrangement) in a spreadsheet on his work computer. He only got busted because the company upgraded everybody’s PC and had techs look through all the old PCs to make sure nothing important was going to get deleted; this dude had named his spreadsheet something like “call girls.xls” and had it on his Windows desktop.

This seemed amazing to me, but after working there a few months I realized how somebody could get that sloppy. IT Security at this place was fucking lax. None of us programmers had an identifiable boss or anything like clearly-defined responsibilities, or even rigid work hours. I remember one stretch for about a month where in a room with 50 people in it, all everybody did all day was call into the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hotline and try to get onto the show.

Ads on the fucking moon are going to do it for me.

I have the best of both worlds: small house in a car-based community. Sigh.

When it comes to driving a self-propelled crematorium, I’d primarily be concerned about the internal door handles.

aerodynamic efficiency

For internal door handles?

we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks

You mean every company? I never worked for a company that did or would have done anything different.

most engineers don’t really like it because it’s making things harder and way less fun

This is how I felt about managing teams of junior developers and/or offshore teams. Just too much annoying work and the result was invariably shitty. The only times in my 25-year programming career that I enjoyed myself and produced work that I was proud of was when I did everything myself.

Maybe they know we’re cooking ourselves off the planet and they want to speed things up.

Meanwhile the real future was smartphones and MS was like “lol no”.

I remember having a conversation with an MS salesman whose job was to plug Windows Mobile 6.5 … after the iPhone had come out. He had that sad quaver in his voice that people get when they know their task is futile.

Apple has a universal app switcher gesture that is harder to accidentally invoke.

Try teaching your 90-year-old mother to use that fucking gesture. Lol “Apple is so intuitive”.

It’s weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.

The way MS is structured internally, this is like being surprised that some NFL teams win the Super Bowl and some teams are the Cleveland Browns.

So … just as good as any other AI.

Holy fraudulent ads Batman

Eh, as long as the laptops break within one year, it’s not fraud.

outright caste based racism I saw amongst Indian actual employees vs Indian contractors

I worked at the Comcast Center back when Comcast was building a new skyscraper two blocks away. The reason for this new building was that the CC had become jam-packed with InfoSys contractors, like literally five or six developers jammed into one-person offices, floor after floor after floor. The executives – a majority of whom were Indian-American – wanted to see a lot fewer Indians around their headquarters (and they talked about this openly) so they built an entire new building to house them.

What would happen if you trained an AI entirely and solely on Microslop’s knowledge base?