We should be raising and training women to be Valkyries, not weeping willows. We need warriors, not wilters. Third wave and millennial feminism have both failed.

Socrates was the Nassim Nicholas Taleb of his day. Have been reading Socrates lately and it’s so true. Both total jerks. Both often right.

When as a New Year’s resolution people say they are going to read 20 books…this year, I’m like, wait, don’t you mean this week?

Then I’m like…ohhh yeah.

UWP is fundamentally broken and the proof is that microsoft's own attempts to use it are pathetic failures. even the calculator is a piece of shit now. it's slow, it's clunky, keyboard input is flaky, drag and drop nonexistent

— Graviscera (@gravislizard) December 31, 2018

On a top of the line computer from this year, Microsoft’s UWP calculator is slower than a calculator program I used on DOS in 1985. No exaggeration at all. And yes, the 1985 program had a GUI (but no mouse support).

The problem with UWP — or at least a major one — is that it’s built using a slow programming language atop a layer that’s sandboxed atop a layer, atop a layer, atop yet another layer that finally gets to touch the OS calls themselves. This is going to be just incredibly slow. And it is.

it would really be nice if copyright durations were shorter than the lifetimes of the medium the copyrighted material is stored on…

Imagine how much the demagnetization of floppy disks will destroy

— today we are all nicole (@nerionaya) January 1, 2019

It makes me sad sometimes when I think of the computer culture of the 1980s and all of the little programs and applications and shareware that’ll now be lost forever. There’s already quite a lot of stuff that I used then that I can find no trace of on the internet anywhere — not the first record.

Not all of it was great. In fact, hardly any of it was. But it’s part of an important history and much of it is just gone.

I enjoyed Ex Machina not only because it was a great movie, but because it exposed how many people who are supposed to be intelligent are intellectually shallow and just parrot what others say.

So, yes, I like it for snobbish reasons. But mostly because it’s a great film.

It’s nice to see my dainty IT arms disappearing and my brawling arms returning.

My brawling days are done but it’s still nice to have the arms.