Day: December 20, 2020, 5:47 PM

But It Was

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I’ve been fat and weak, and you know what? My body was the problem. It very much was. I couldn’t do the things I wanted to do. I felt vaguely out of sorts all the time, which I didn’t even realize until I lost weight and then got very fit.

Only someone who has ever been a lump, used to their limitations and restrictions, could think this. Because I’ve been both and I can definitively say that my body was the problem and it was worth a lot of effort and time to fix it.

So, yes, your body is the problem. What you do with that information is up to you.

More On Less Off

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I read this typically-moronic Moira Donegan piece about PornHub but strangely, ever after fairly extensive searching, could not find any piece of hers about the vastly-greater destruction Facebook wreaks on our lives, republic, and world.

Surely that must exist, you’d think. Of course, since the harm of Facebook is so enormously larger. I mean, Facebook basically caused a genocide. But, spoiler alert, of course this piece does not exist. Because that’s not what putzes like she is actually care about.

Why can’t these types admit they just are prudes, are deeply scared of sex, and would use any excuse to destroy any aspect of that and to harm sex workers? It’d just be so much easier for everyone.

(Note that I have no special interest in PornHub. I think I’d been there maybe three times, mostly just clicks from Reddit, and once was to watch some comedy video about a chicken. If it disappeared I would not even notice. But I do care about clueless prude dipshits doing clueless dipshit things.)

Kebab

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Everyone’s searching for the secret knowledge, what no one else knows, in an effort to make sense of the world.

But it’s all already right there in the textbooks you don’t read and the scientific papers you don’t read and the summaries thereof you also don’t read and the books on systems you of course don’t read. Etc. ad infinitum.

I used to go easy on the ignorant and the dipshits. But more than ever this state of dimwittedness is a choice and thus it’s also my choice to skewer you all mercilessly and ceaselessly.

Less Of This

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Back to the ’70s with Serverless.

What’s old is new again. Just as I have been saying.

Microservices have trouble scaling, and they are very complex. Most companies that employ them have no need for them, but the systems and programming languages they employ are sufficiently lacking that this stacking of complexity on top of complexity becomes a necessity.

Micrososervices and the complexity around their tooling reminds me some of where virtualization was 15 years ago, except there doesn’t seem to be any maturation at all. I think this is partly because this area is driven by developers rather than infrastructure people, and developers need that complexity for continued employment.

Serverless is even worse, which is why cloud vendors love it even more than microservices. It means poor performance, poor scaling, and really huge bills for you. This is why It’s! The! Future!

Like The Song

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The people calling for civil war and such are just cosplayers, but unfortunately the kind that can escalate their gun and tough-guy cosplay into becoming real. That’s pretty likely, in my estimation.

Like the old song says, gotta get out of this place.