I’ve gotten the number of machines I’m actively using down to seven. That’s better than a dozen, right?
Don’t know how many browser tabs I’ve got going, though. I’m not good at math and can’t count that high.
Day: September 1, 2018, 4:22 PM
ALM
Whatever assclownish megaton-level moron made Windows 10’s shutdown actually hibernate the PC needs to be thrown into a fucking black hole. A small one, so sphaghettification is guaranteed.
This means that when someone “shuts down” their PC and turns it back on again, the same problems are still present because it didn’t actually shut down.
Microsoft: When you think it couldn’t get any stupider, turn to us.
Karl (not Marx)
Mining some notes I made on my Kobo a while ago. What I love about Polanyi and The Great Transformation is that he does not ignore the cultural impact of economics and vice versa, as in this passage where he describes the true impoverishment of industrial dislocation:
England’s rural civilization was lacking in those urban surroundings out of which the later industrial towns of the Continent grew. There was in the new towns no settled urban middle class, no such nucleus of artisans and craftsmen, of respectable petty bourgeois and townspeople as could have served as an assimilating medium for the crude laborer who — attracted by high wages or chased from the land by tricky enclosers — was drudging in the early mills. The industrial town of the Midlands and the Northwest was a cultural wasteland; its slums merely reflected its lack of tradition and civic self-respect. Dumped into this bleak slough of misery, the immigrant peasant, or even the former yeoman or copyholder, was soon transformed into a nondescript animal of the mire. It was not that he was paid too little, or even that he labored too long—though both happened often to excess—but that he was now existing under physical conditions which denied the human shape of life.
Wish we could’ve preserved this tradition of economics where one actually strives to understand something rather than obfuscating it in math and jargon.
Inevitable
People are now keen on claiming that self-driving cars are impossible. They aren’t only possible, they are inevitable. It’s a tech that so many are working on, that is not intractably difficult, for which most of the worst problems have already been solved.
And it’s not that self-driving cars are great, miraculous tech, it’s more that humans are terrible, inattentive drivers, and nearly anything is better than that.
I remember when smartphones were “impossible,” when rockets that returned to earth and landed themselves upright were “impossible,” when gene editing was “impossible.”
A whole lot of things that people claimed were impossible are now common. Funny, that.
Bese
I do not condone body shaming. But, as a physician, I also cannot condone people pretending that obesity is healthy. Beauty may be skin deep, but fat deposits go all the way to your internal organs. Be healthy, live well! pic.twitter.com/PJ4dN0E83g
— Mike Simpson, M.D. (@DrMikeSimpson) August 30, 2018
One of the most mystifying events I’ve seen in my life is people claiming that you can weigh 300+ pounds and be healthy.
For a human, that is just not a thing.