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- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
My Pre and Kyocera 6035. Never forget.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 2 weeks ago:
People not getting things that seem obvious is an ongoing theme, it seems. We sat through a presentation at work by some guy who enthusiastically pitched AI to the masses. I don’t mean that’s what he did, I mean “enthusiasm” seemed to be his ONLY qualification. Aside from telling folks what buttons to press on the company’s AI app, he didn’t know SHIT. And the VP got on before and after and it was apparent that he didn’t know shit, either. Someone is whispering in these people’s ears and they’re writing fat checks, no doubt, and they haven’t a clue what an LLM is, what it is good at, nor what to be wary of. Absolutely ridiculous.
- Comment on Factually correct number tier list. I will not be taking questions 2 weeks ago:
Not a bad list, but 6/9 being there and not pi or 11/32 is just criminal.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 2 weeks ago:
The idea that moving your finger slightly to support the smoothe functioning of traffic and the welfare of other humans is not “masculine” enough makes me want to castrate some fuckers.
- Comment on I feel attacked 3 weeks ago:
That’s awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don’t forget to stretch.
- Comment on Running monkey 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking, “Glad these are all of the monkey running away. Seeing that running at you would be terrifying.”
Moments later, “Yup, I would shit myself seeing that little guy barrelling at me like that.”
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 weeks ago:
Bet you’re not worth $100+ million. Then you’d get it.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 4 weeks ago:
There’s an entire field of organizational psychology that studies this phenomenon. I have a colleague who has her doctorate in it, super smart person. She gets so frustrated when she gets a call to help solve some org issue and nobody understands pretty much what you just described.
Changing reporting structures and titles only goes so far. At some point you are inside the system and have to observe its rules. Without changing some fundamental piece or pieces you’re going to come to a limit of what you can do. Ever suggest changing incentive structures to match desired outcomes? She has, and won’t be doing it again after being laughed off the job.
If you’re a publicly traded company in a capitalist country I would guess 65% of your culture and behaviors are immovable. And, as of late, I also believe that those 65% are the worst behaviors for humanity.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 4 weeks ago:
#4 three times. The rest seem fleeting (money) or attainable through hard work (strength). Unlike others in these comments, I think being happy constantly would be its own type of hell.
But being tall is like being attractive. It is life on easy mode. As a slightly-less-than-average-height person an extra 6 inches would probably be the most permanent, positive impact any of these would have.
- Comment on Love this 1 month ago:
There are definitely patty cake cool bumps when you become a parent of a toddler and a grandparent of a toddler. In those moments your coolness is off the chart.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
“Shithead”
Pronounced: shi-THEED
Spelled: Shit Head
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 1 month ago:
Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 month ago:
I do this as well. Killed “bruh” in a weekend. The t-shirt idea is next level, though. Kudos.
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 1 month ago:
To be fair, there are tricks to it just like there are tricks for getting better Google results. But “prompt engineering” isn’t a fucking career.
It is evidence of a leadership team that is just clueless.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 2 months ago:
Nothing wrong with appreciating a strong woman. However, that sounds terrifying.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 2 months ago:
Dr. Leah Brahms
“So you’re the one who’s fouled up my engine designs.”
Never been so turned on in my life.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Popped into my head randomly today so I queued it up. The universe sent me that song just so it could be in my ass.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Bette Davis Eyes in my ass.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 3 months ago:
Most relatable comment ever.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 3 months ago:
Ok, going to scream into the abyss here…
I had Netscape on my 486DX2-66 with a 33.6 modem. Win 95, along with ICQ, mIRC, some NNTP reader I can’t recall… You get the picture.
Everyone I’ve told this to thinks I must have been out of my mind. But for a period of time that I recall as months I had some sort of phenomenon where Netscape would stop loading a web page (could take 10s of seconds, you know) unless you MOVED THE MOUSE. Continuously. The animated “N” on would freeze and if you didn’t move the mouse the page would just be blank, or partially loaded. Move the mouse, it resumes. Stop moving the mouse, it stops. I used to have to move my mouse in figure-eights, cajoling the machine to not give up and keep downloading.
You’ll think I’m crazy, too. But when I share this story I keep hoping someone, somewhere had the same experience. And maybe, someone who knows what was going on will chime in on some obscure IRQ conflict in Windows along with some optimization used by Netscape in one iteration caused this bug for a brief moment in time.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 4 months ago:
I want the Palm Pre form factor back. Sooo satisfying to slide that thing open or snapping it closed.
Keyboard was ok but not as good as the BB, IMO.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 months ago:
Your are correct. As far as I’m concerned, the original release was an early beta.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 months ago:
StarCraft. The original. My brain and body is hardwired to play that game. “SCV ready” triggers something. I have a fantasy of retiring in an old folks home and me and a few of my fellow geriatrics fire that shit up and play LAN games until the DNR kicks in.
- Comment on Tough Shit 8 months ago:
Excuse me. I have to go take care of something.
- Comment on Drake 8 months ago:
Best ride of the day.
Um, this thread. This thread was a ride. Not whatever the thread, um, was about. Damn.
- Comment on What? 8 months ago:
And this is the high quality and thoughtful Internet comment I’m going to end my night with. Thank you Internet stranger. There is good in the world, after all.