ChickenLadyLovesLife
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- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 day ago:
TBF this was all more than 5 years ago when the job interviewing process at most IT companies involved just putting a moistened finger underneath the candidate’s nostrils. Apparently the programmer job market is pretty horrific these days, although I wouldn’t know since I drive a school bus now.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 day ago:
How about an example from the last 40 years?
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 day ago:
“Jimmy Page wrote Stairway to Heaven when he was 23, but I learned to play it at 18.”
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 day ago:
You had me until “unless”.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 day ago:
MS is waaaay too big to fail.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 day ago:
I was thinking Microsoft employs clever people
As a programmer, I’ve had numerous colleagues who have ended up as software engineers at MS. They were mostly either unbelievably lazy or extremely incompetent. The rest who were both ended up there as managers.
- Comment on What was I thinking? 2 days ago:
I shave my head. I have to shave it every two or three days or I look like a mangy old dog. I wait until just before I go to bed to shave it, at which point I’m too tired and I tell myself I’ll do it in the morning before work, which of course I never do. So I end up shaving it once every three weeks, and spend most of the time looking like a mangy old dog.
I eventually hit upon the strategy of shaving a small patch somewhere on my head before I go to bed, which forces me to do the rest of the job in the morning before work. Except that I usually forget I did that and often go to work looking like a mangy old dog that somebody tried to shave before giving up. Fortunately I’m a school bus driver so I only scare children.
- Comment on American public transit 3 days ago:
I used to bike to work when I lived in Louisiana. It was fortunate that my office was a block from the YMCA, so I could shower and change after my ride in. The downside was that the Y was the hangout of the fat old white men who worked at the courthouse and like to lounge around naked on the couches in the locker room, laughing and making jokes about sending black men to Angola prison for decades for crimes they probably didn’t commit (these were judges, prosecutors and public defenders talking about this shit).
- Comment on American public transit 3 days ago:
I had a few years where I rode the train from a stop a mile from my house to a station literally in the basement of the building I worked in. A 55 minute ride where I could read peacefully or nap, absolute heaven. I didn’t even like moving to WFH because I missed the restaurants in the city.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 days ago:
I used to even have props for some gags
Imagine trying to convert people and you run into fucking Carrot Top.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 days ago:
I used to canvas door-to-door for a public interest group, so I almost always give them some cash and offer them water and a bathroom break. It was an absolutely horrific job and I’m sure it’s even worse today. I still want them to move the fuck on as quickly as possible, though.
I still remember the best interaction I ever had going door-to-door. We were raising money to help fight rising insurance rates, and I was talking to one old guy standing next to his truck. He listened to my spiel and then said “I’ll tell you why insurance rates are so high: it’s because the n*****rs are burning the cities down.” I said “well that’s what we’re fighting, sir” and he gave me $25.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 days ago:
I like the solicitors who put their sales brochures in ziplock bags with some rocks and toss it onto your driveway. It gives me rocks to throw at all the other solicitors.
- Comment on World would be a better place 3 days ago:
“I’d let you in, but I prefer Mormons. They have better porn.”
- Comment on one bright second 3 days ago:
conscious energy systems or something
Like Kevin Spacey? Ew.
- Comment on one bright second 5 days ago:
I suppose you could wish for all genies to be instantly annihilated. Maybe toss the GOP in there for good measure.
- Comment on one bright second 5 days ago:
This is the main reason why, if you come across a genie in a lamp, you should probably not wish for immortality. You’re gonna be hellafuckin bored for a loooooooong time.
- Comment on Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents 1 week ago:
I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing
Because many of us are fucking morons. I had one colleague who was writing the control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Despite being way past the deadline and way over budget, the client asked him to create a special version of the software so the machine could be used with Little League teams. He decided to do his first test of this version on a field with actual Little Leaguers on it, which resulted in a 125 mph knuckleball (no spin at all so incredibly erratic in flight) a foot above a 10-year-old kid’s head. Which resulted in the only time in my programming career that I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between two people (my boss and the client).
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
When I read that shit as a kid, I thought Asimov’s laws of robotics were like natural laws, so that it was just naturally impossible for robots to behave otherwise. That never made any sense to me so I thought Asimov was just full of shit.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
Limbed Lugubrious Motherfucker
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
I want my AI to sound like a Speak & Spell.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 week ago:
Excuse me? Comcast belongs on that list.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 week ago:
Stalin’s regime was really reactionary
Even this is a charitable description. The best term for Stalin’s regime is “despotism”.
- Comment on Dangerous crow 2 weeks ago:
I shave my head year-round and I grow a long beard in the winter. I just can’t figure out how to handle the transition well. Like, here? Maybe here? Fade it? I dunno. A goatee solves the problem but nothing says bitter old dude like a baldheaded goatee.
- Comment on Dangerous crow 2 weeks ago:
As a man, my wolves are hairless and my crow has no feathers. The problem of what to do with my hair would be nice to have.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 3 weeks ago:
Another exploit is to start your own journal and “publish” shit-tons of your own papers. When I was in grad school I was involved in evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy’s entire CV (which was massive) consisted of papers published in journals that he was editor and founder of. He probably would have gotten away with it except that he also listed his editorship of these journals in his CV – like, we didn’t even have to do any research to expose it.
Amazingly enough his application was not immediately tossed out, and he was even flown in for an interview. That is modern Anthropology for you.
- Comment on xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements 3 weeks ago:
As an undergrad, I did all the coursework and thesis writing required for a BS in Physics and a BA in Anthropology, but my college had a policy of not granting dual degrees. For no reason I can remember, I chose the BA in Anthropology. Since I ended up as a programmer, this decision was almost meaningless, except for one job where our billable rate was dependent on our degree and there was a $15 an hour difference between a BA and a BS. This difference translated into how much I was paid, although after stewing over this for a month I threatened to quit and they upped my salary. The joke was on them anyway: it was College Physics and not University Physics!
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t been able to find this again, but there’s a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1’x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.
BTW a fun fact: the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau word combining “gigantic” and “enormous”) dates to WWII or earlier. I’d always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.
- Comment on Good one! 3 weeks ago:
I was a camp counselor one summer and while processing a bus of arriving 7-year-olds one kid got off, pointed at me and said “if you give me any trouble, I’m gonna bite off your head and shit down your throat”. I couldn’t stop laughing.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 4 weeks ago:
I went to Lowe’s the other day and bought a couple of drill bits. While there, I looked at some cabinet pulls – didn’t buy any or even picked any up, just walked past them and looked at them. That night on Amazon I got ads for drill bits and cabinet pulls. I assume it was something linking store footage with my phone data, but who knows. Maybe I got the neural implant already and the implant makes you forget you got the implant.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 weeks ago:
PC game “Lemmings”
Best game of all time IMHO. “I’ll just try one more level” followed by the sunrise.