Given corporate corruption and excepting atomic weapons, I think the smartphone is the most destructive invention of the past 100 years.
Day: December 28, 2018, 3:20 PM
Never Head
I will never buy wireless headphones (hate them and would lose them in two days, tops) and will never use a smartphone without a headphone jack unless my job absolutely forces me to do so.
Plus, they sound like garbage.
Will explore probably a flip phone for my next phone purchase with some sort of GPS device for directions. All I really use a smartphone for anyway is Google Maps. I haven’t installed a single other (cr)app on one in many years because I find them all pretty worthless and limited.
Probably something like this. Smartphones are of no use to me; they are distraction and annoyance devices, brain viruses, and already I need to grab as much time to think as I can.
On balance, I think smartphones made the world worse.
Ultimatum
Jaffer, I personally know people are now pro-war just because they are anti-Trump
This position is ofc morally reprehensible & indefensible
These warmongers & world policemen who do not put themselves or their children into the wars they advocate should be ashamed of themselves https://t.co/rQ0kbUIPPl
— Trishank โ Karthik (@trishankkarthik) 28 ะดะตะบะตะผะฒัะธ 2018 ะณ.
That seems like about 80% of Democrats now.
And make no mistake: if you are pro-war for this reason, and I find out about it, I don’t care if you are my friend, I don’t care if you are my colleague. I do not care. I will call you a human shitstain, because you are, and all further relations are done. I don’t care what the consequences are.
Tome Time
When I was a kid checking out nearly every book the library had, sometimes I’d choose books that hadn’t been checked out by anyone since the 1940s or 1950s.
My record was a book that hadn’t been checked out since 1929 (I think, could’ve been 1925). I believe it was a biography of Charles Darwin, though the old memory is a bit hazy for things that occurred ca. 1986.
Kubehaha
Now I’m not much of a programmer but I took a look at the Kubernetes code and holy shit, man, what a mess. What a damn mess.
Nested if statements galore, no modularity at all, it’s nearly incomprehensible outside of that (and I can generally read code pretty well), and yeah…it’s about what I expected.
Further evidence that they are solving problems poorly that were already solved or were nixed as being too complex. I’d be embarrassed to work on a project like this.
At least there are comments? I guess that’s the one good thing I can say about that unholy mess.