I wanted affordable insulin so I could live, but a Bernie Bro called me a "neoliberal" so I've decided to die a horrible death instead. https://t.co/x50SqwPXXY
— DrLearnALot🌹 (@DrLearnALot) January 27, 2020
Yeah, the “BernieBro” phenomenon is “someone I dislike disagreed with me.” To most liberals, that is a death threat. Having had a gun in my face, I know what a death threat feels like. It fucking isn’t slightly negative words on Twitter.
I love having good backups. Crucial license file got nuked today and I was able to restore it from backup in less than five minutes. Drop some ransomware on me and I won’t even notice it. Company will be back up in an hour.
Love all the shows that are like "you were in the military, you must know the importance of following orders"
It's like, dude, what the military taught me was how to GET AROUND orders that didn't make sense
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) January 28, 2020
I was in a paratrooper unit, so what the military taught me was that orders are for people and units who need that sort of thing to complete their mission. We didn’t really have orders as most civilians think of them; we had missions and capabilities. It’s hard to give orders to units whose whole job is to be dropped behind enemy lines with minimal support and equipment, who have to improvise to do anything, and who are often separated from any command structure.
What IT people think:
โI need to control program updates and approve them because Iโm uniquely intelligent and totally have the time to validate other peopleโs software.โWhat that looks like after 3 years: pic.twitter.com/RJjLHFhplq
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 28, 2020
Ok, this is all painfully true. Why do you have to tell such hurtful verities? IT people run around fixing problems other IT people caused. Though to be fair, that is true of accounting, the legal profession, politicians…humanity.
Joe Roganโs Bernie Sanders endorsement revealed something important about the American left.
I am not a deontologist at all, which is I think why I break so hard from modern liberalism. And I think liberals are actually only deontological in leaning when it doesn’t benefit them, but are fine with a deontology violation when it does – such as nearly all pseudo-libs think it’s just peachy for Hillary Clinton to cozy up to the vile Henry Kissinger.
Hereโs how that disagreement plays into the Rogan controversy. Shortly after the Rogan controversy broke out, Sanders fans started pulling out references to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and arguable war criminal whose counsel Hillary Clinton welcomed in 2016.
By contrast, Joe Rogan endorsing Sanders is nothing at all. Kissinger is one of the biggest war criminals in history. Rogan has a podcast where he occasionally says something that mildly questions absurd trans ideology. The differences are…vast. Rogan isn’t to my taste and is pretty misogynist. But he is nothing like the vast evil that is Kissinger.
We told them that Clinton was a bad candidate and would lose and they ignored us. We are telling them Biden is a bad candidate and will lose and again they are ignoring us. Next they will blame us because nobody would get off the couch to vote for Biden in the general. https://t.co/YOnyBWv4GC
— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) January 27, 2020
There are no circumstances in which I will vote for Joe Biden. Fuck what John Scalzi, the wannabe-Republican, says. His opinions are as tepid as his books.
Nominating Biden will be an enormous mistake. He will never win the general. Never. And that might be the whole point.
The world and its manifestations is either illusion or reality.
Either one is a tragedy.
People don't understand that you can be the BEST athlete in the world and not have worked any harder than the 10,000th athlete in the world.
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) January 27, 2020
Especially at the elite level, genetics matters a lot more than hard work. Personality, too, which also is about 50% heritable. In other words, I could’ve worked ten times harder than Michael Jordan and I still wouldn’t have ever been able to play basketball even 1/10 as well as he does.
Just because people hate it doesn’t make it false.
For Mac Pro, Linus has a good summary of industry reactions so far.
Basically, this is a machine for an extremely narrow professional segment who refuses to move away, and also earn enough money that price is irrelevant. Everyone else, this is not for you.https://t.co/H5XnrZuHIi— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 26, 2020
People have just no idea how much real professional equipment costs. Let’s look at just monitors for a moment. Here is a (of a line commonly used in the industry) reference monitor that retails for $39,000. It’s only 4k.
The Apple Pro XDR display is 6K instead of 4K, also HDR, and the most expensive variant is only $6,000. It’s a fucking bargain, in other words.
Always goofy morons coming out of the woodwork to expound on shit they don’t know a fucking thing about.
This is what gets me. If you threaten my life and person, guess what, you've earned a call out. No email/name mask for you, buddy, own your hatred.
— EF (@ef21345) January 27, 2020
A call out? I’ll be calling out your name to wake you up as I’m standing over your bed with a big-ass knife. I want you to know it’s me before you’re done.
Here's your periodic reminder that basic research is only "useless" until it suddenly becomes the most important thing in the world. 20 years ago, coronavirology was an obscure sub-field the public never heard about. Good thing we funded it anyway. #nCoV
— Alan Dove (@alandove) January 24, 2020
Constantly hearing both conservative and “progressive” mooks screech about how we are funding “useless” research really pisses me off. No research is useless, really, because we never know exactly what matters. Often we don’t know something is relevant for 100 years or more. Simply put, most people aren’t very smart or very curious so they can only imagine 15 minutes out, if that. Often not even that.
As the author of "Networking for Systems Administrators" I can attest this XKCD is 100% true. #sysadminhttps://t.co/ehSIh7Jcd8
— Michael W Lucas / Michael Warren Lucas (@mwlauthor) January 24, 2020
Yes, true. Networking problems is where the rote troubleshooters (can Google a little) and the real troubleshooters get sorted out. Issues associated with networking are 10x (at least) as hard as any problems with servers, OS, storage and the like. You absolutely cannot get by with Google. What answers are there are often wrong. You can’t even rely on vendor documentation. No, you have to be looking at the packets and understand what they are doing, why they are doing it, how routing and many other technologies work, and how they all interact together.
Networking is where you get into the deep magic.
Hollywood backs up a dump truck full of money at your front door to make any movie you want to make. Whatโs the movie?
— Kyle Summerville (@Damn_Fine_Kyle) January 26, 2020
Idea I had for a long time about how human consciousness as we know it resulted as a complex form of parasitism by another organism. In the future, some people choose to have this invader organism expunged from their bodies and brains, and it results in a new form of human that is essentially a philosophical zombie that experiences neither pain nor pleasure.
The first movie would consist of the discovery of this organism and the emergence of this new type of human, along with how the older humans are starting to be outcompeted by this “original” human.
The second film would be detailing the degradation of material existence caused by this massive change, especially for the parasitized (fully conscious) humans. This would be by the lack of any true ability to experience pain or pleasure that the de-parasitized humans possess allow them to be more productive than parasitized humans.
The third film would detail the inevitable war and eventual departure of all de-parasitized humans from the planet, out into space, as they can withstand far more casualties and loss due to their novel nature (and thus innovate new tech far more quickly as a result).
Last shot would be my protagonist (played by Margaret Qualley in my dreams) gazing out on a vast fiery sea of fusion rocket launches as the de-para humans depart, saying something like, “There won’t be enough room for them out there, eventually. They’ll be back, and we’ll still be the same.”
Many women long for the invisibility middle age and beyond bring. Many then find they dislike it; being unseen, passing unnoticed and unremarked, isn’t as attractive as it had seemed before experiencing it.
Most men, though, know invisibility intimately from the start of grade school and only achieve any sort of notice briefly, if at all. Most average men wish they could at least sometimes receive even 1/10 the notice that even the most mediocre women frequently get.
But, as human nature goes, men probably would also dislike it after a short time.
Was just thinking that the main reason Naomi Wu is disdained and punished is because she is one of the few technologists who does not pretend to be asexual and does not act like a prude.
I wrote the above before I went to her Twitter and saw this great thread:
I know how I look to you, I'm not stupid. I look like a whore. Not "sex worker" because when I walk by White ladies they don't say "sex worker" they say "whore". Often loudly. There's no point in being polite or saying it's not like that because those are the words used.
— Naomi Wu ๆบๆขฐๅฆๅงฌ (@RealSexyCyborg) January 26, 2020
This is liberal white feminists, mostly, attacking her, too. Often those in the technology field. I know it sucks when someone is both a far better techie than you are and better looking to boot, but come on.
Not everyone should have to dress up like burqa-clad ascetics to fit into the tech world. And note again that this is all women punishing her, not men. Wu might run into different problems with men but not like she does with techie women. Women really, really hate Wu.
As for me, she is one of my favorite techies because she’s not a prude and does not countenance white feminism at all.