Instructions like this make me lose faith in humanity… pic.twitter.com/wfLhnVbL9Q

— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) May 7, 2019

In my experience (and I have a whole lot of it), about 5-10% of regular users are incapable of using their laptop charger correctly the first time, and many of those are incapable of it consistently after multiple attempts and training.

I can’t explain this, but nevertheless it is true.

Docking stations are also highly confusing to users. They don’t understand that they have to plug them in. Got a call one time about a laptop on a docking station not working. First question I asked was, “Is the docking station plugged in?”

The user said, “Oh, we have to plug it in?”

I wonder where they think the power is going to come from?

Fun fact: You can still run 32-bit VMs on a system even if Intel VT-x and AMD-v are not enabled in the BIOS. Had an odd situation where running a VM helped me get around a bunch (like 5) of endpoint security products.

— Beau Bullock (@dafthack) May 8, 2019

Yes! I discovered this a few years ago when someone told me it was impossible to virtualize VMWare on top of Hyper-V. It is indeed possible, but because of the limitations mentioned above (no passthrough) only 32-bit VMs will run.

Don’t ask me why I was attempting to run VMWare virtualized atop Hyper-V. Uh, it was for…stuff.

what male athletes in most fields looked like before widespread steroids/testosterone use. https://t.co/Qz3ng20DpE

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) May 17, 2019

Yes, testosterone had something to do with it, for some athletes, but that’s not nearly the whole story.

Weight training also mattered. Up until even the late 1980s, the conventional wisdom was that athletes should not weight train as it reduced their performance in their chosen sport. Thus, almost no athlete touched a weight.

As that changed, and as training techniques improved, many athletes started lifting weights in the off season and this made them much bigger and more competitive (stronger, faster, better endurance). When a few started doing it and winning because of it, most everyone else had to as well to continue to compete.

Thus, even athletes who never touch steroids are much bigger and stronger than those from the 1960s-1980s.