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Back in the later 70s a Chicago three-letter AM radio station used to speed up songs so they could stuff in more commercials. And the DJ would do the parent’s talking when there’s …

I still prefer my pre-2016 Intel Mac since I can do more things that I want to do on it than my newer M4.

As John Scalzi once said, "The failure mode of clever is asshole." [1] That has prevented me from posting what I thought was a clever or cheeky response in case it didn't come acro…

My output as a software engineer is now zero (I'm even letting my JetBrains personal subscription lapse). True, I am now reaping the rewards of having been a software engineer, but…

-100%. With this looming Shiny Toy plus other sub-optimizations at my last place of work, I decided to retire. Didn't want to deal with it.

One of the biggest reasons I left a company was because the CTO and his toady, both coming from company X, made a unilateral decision to switch to X's proprietary and expensive fra…

The company I worked for, a not-for-profit, didn't want to hire juniors because after training them in modern software development techniques, etc., that they didn't get in their u…

(commenting late in the game, so the point may have been made already) I personally believe that "AI" is mostly marketing for the current shiny LLM thing that will end up finding s…

My $0.02 with 708 comments ahead of me. I currently use Windows, 10 to be exact, to play games, and in a VM to run an income tax fat app (since the online version is so much more e…

I had a somewhat repugnant second-level boss whose philosophy was to give people a little more work than they thought they could do to get the best performance out of them, and I b…

It'd be nice if something similar were available to traverse, say, directories of writings in Markdown, Word, LibreOffice, etc., and output a single text file so I have all my writ…

I still have the Infocom game Leather Goddesses of Phobos, complete with scratch and sniff card, and the 3-D (blue-red) glasses for the enclosed comic book. If you don't have VR or…

Move to Texas, specifically the ERCOT grid. Texans love power suckers like bitcoin miners, so AI should fit right in.

This reminds me of John Scalzi's early SF book, Old Man's War. One of the MC's motivations throughout the book was the love of his wife. Apart from the pew-pew aspects, it's one of…

What he should have done was to create a foundation for supplying forks, making him and his roommate the officers of the foundation. They could have then solicited funds, including…

Tiny data point to support: when the PS5 first came out and for what I perceived a long time afterward it was hard has heck to get one, so I lost interest and put together another …

Well, if it "just works," then it wasn't that hard to do anyway. No raise for you.

More like in a year you'll need to subscribe to the 14.99€/month tier to get it to work at all.

I also remember working with punch cards as a non-CS engineering major doing FORTRAN. Then in the middle of the course I discovered the timeshare terminals for another mainframe th…

This is natural progression. The apex predator takes over and over-grazes the land, so to speak, to the point where it no longer supports the apex, so eventually the apex predator …

When iOS introduced the long press, that pretty much did it for me: I couldn't tell what user interface element did what when I pressed on it, so I tried tapping everything. And no…

Oh yeah. Just a little bit of snark-slash-commentary since humans are being treated as profit centers. My FP of 20+ years also retired after selling his practice, as per the articl…

I've already outlived my ancestors, and the world's a pretty dismal place, or at least the US is, so why not let an otherwise preventable disease take me 20 years earlier?

And that is why I don't have any "smart" devices in my house. Except for my Internet-connected bathroom scale. It's been giving me the side-eye for a while now.