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You sound successful relative to where you could have ended up.

I was in Jutland, in Northwest Denmark recently, and the backstory of that place is that a thousand years ago it was covered in thick pine forest. Medieval people cut the trees dow…

Not sure I'm totally understanding here, but it sounds like LinkedIn turned on (probably AI-based) porn scanning on messages, there was a false positive, and the guy wasn't able to…

I apologize, but I'm trying to parse what you're saying and I can't seem to find the meat. I understand you're trying to insult me or whatever, but are you trying to say anything r…

I don't think I actually asserted anything, but let me give a shot at explaining: The model is that higher values of G/B are better, where G is good years per capita and B is bad y…

Do you have another model that changes the answers?

I'm on the fence about whether I agree with this. The way I see it, if you look at beavers, ants, or trees, they change the landscape but they do it based on behaviors that are enc…

> The entire system has been acting as if GenAI was right around the corner. To be clear, I think it is. It's just not going to be a hologram of a wizard in a room you can ask a qu…

There was a movie that came out in 2001 called "Artificial Intelligence", at a time when we were still figuring out how things like search engines and the online economy were going…

I've heard people say that, but the SSA's FAQ says otherwise: "Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies? A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN)…

I googled that recently, and it sounds like: They don't get reused. There are about 70 years left. The government is punting the problem to future people and there's no solution ye…

That's good to know - thanks! My astigmatism one is definitely special, because it takes an extra two or three weeks to get it from Costco, but I didn't know there was an orientati…

I wear soft contacts and one of my eyes has astigmatism. I've never understood how a symmetrical lens can correct an asymmetrical eyeball. Another strange thing I've seen is that a…

If you ever get a chance to play with a magnet fishing magnet, it's fun to see how many straight-up magnetic rocks there are lying around, too. Probably not meteorites of course...…

I think the answer is that much like an ad for a car or a mattress, the cold call isn't meant to take someone from zero to full interest, it's to find that one person in a hundred …

It's minimalist because if the system is unstable you don't want to have to do anything fancy like open a window or look up a bunch of localized resources, as those could run into …

The crabs analogy isn't a good one, because they evolve independently to play well in a common environment. GNU/Linux is a rewrite of Unix that avoids the licensing and hardware ba…

Part of the gap that still exists is cost. A cloud service that isn't constrained by your local resources can do more as far as password cracking or applying AI to the password pro…

Writing your own simple programs and debugging/disassembling them is a solid option. Windbg and Ida are good tools to start with. Reading a disassembly is a lot easier than coding …

When notepad hits an unhandled exception and the OS decides it's in an unpredictable state, the OS shuts down notepad's process. When there's an unhandled exception in kernel mode,…

That one's kind of come full circle, though, since a "photo shop" was a place you could go to get photos printed, altered, etc. since the late 1800s.

Go back a couple of years and the BBS scene was that times ten. Imagine if everyone in this thread lived within 20 minutes drive of each other, knew each other's real names, and mi…