"I worked from home today" is code for

I did 4x the amount of work that I could have done from the office because I worked uninterrupted for 8 continuous hrs in the comfort of my own home (while I may or may not have been wearing pajamas) surrounded by snacks @AcademicChatter

— PhD Diaries (@thoughtsofaphd) October 7, 2019

I am not in academia, but my productivity when I work from home is often 10x as high when I’m in the office.

No interruptions works wonders. If executives and companies actually cared about profit and productivity, they’d want nearly everyone to work from home. But they don’t; they care about power.

Apple’s war on their users continues apace.

I am no fan of iTunes, but this is correct. There is now no desktop operating system or browser that is aimed at the non-droolers — not even Linux. Cockbag fuckwits got control of all, and there is no escape.

And remember, auto-negotiation is NOT a cable health check. It could just BARELY support the momentary 100Mbps or 1GbE signaling.https://t.co/l2VxmpAaBs https://t.co/rZZQ2s2ToD

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) October 9, 2019

Ha, yes! Have argued with people about this before, many times.

Them: “But it negotiated at 1Gb/s.”

Me: “Sure, but that’s just what speed the ports can run at. Let’s try manually setting it to 100Mb/s and seeing if the connection works correctly.”

Them: “But it negotiated at 1Gb/s.”

Then we try it and sure enough, works fine at the slower speed. Cable can’t do 1Gb/s, but the ports can. I wish more IT people had a better model for what’s actually happening in the real world. Never mind the users, they will never know anything. But IT people should and they don’t all too often.

That we don’t have a permanent presence on Mars is inexcusable.

Notice that I didn’t say “colony.” Colonizing Mars at our current state of tech is impossible, and Mars is a bad colonization candidate. But not having a research and “failsafe” station there is a huge mistake.

The earliest noise complaint in history also concerns a bad night’s sleep. The 4,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh recounts how one of the gods, unable to sleep through humanity’s racket and presumably a little cranky, opts “to exterminate mankind.”

A++, would worship. I like this god.

I think it might be time to start hoarding more things than plastic straws and utensils. If “progressive” eco-fascism comes, as I expect it will, many goods will become unavailable.

If that does hit, I’d also expect it to cause about 2-4 billion deaths, not even associated with climate change, so there’s that.

I love my husband. He is perfect in every way. Except one. He doesn't like caramel. I don't understand how anyone can dislike caramel. 😩 pic.twitter.com/Urn2HTZoRv

— Janie Larson (@RedQueenCoder) October 8, 2019

I don’t dislike caramel, exactly. It’s okay. But if given the choice between something with caramel and without, I’ll almost always choose sans caramel. Caramel to me is something you add if the food otherwise wouldn’t be good, like high fructose corn syrup.