When I’m on the phone with IT people from other companies, it’s dispiriting to realize how much more I know than they do.
Sure I’m bragging a little, but I honestly wish they knew more. Their lack of subject matter knowledge makes getting anything accomplished so much harder.
Most people are average. And around half of them are worse than that.
The H1B program should be eliminated altogether, because as it currently functions it is intended to be labor discipline for American workers. Everything else is just a side effect of that, or an accidental benefit.
That’s right. I’ve often been brought in to troubleshoot issues in products and technologies I’ve never used, and in some cases never heard of, because troubleshooting effectively is its own skill independent of any specific knowledge.
Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. Understanding how a system works and how to get to the bottom of things takes a whole lot more. And that’s what I’m good at.
Life on a closed timelike curve.
This is just symmetrical time reversal, which is just an identity. I mean, it couldn’t be any other way. That’s just how the equations work since they are all time-reversible.
To greatly, greatly simplify, this paper is just saying 2+1 = 3 is the same as 3 = 1+21.
This is the kind of issue I guarantee I could solve in less than a day if I had unfettered access, but stumps tons of IT people.
Without having looked at it1, there’s about an even chance I could solve it in 15 minutes or less.
That’s just how I roll.
Neutron star measurements place limits on color superconductivity in dense quark matter.
The Caribbean has been unusually warm. That’s not a good thing.
The Crisis of Gender Relations.
Where the Left Went Wrong on Homelessness.
Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode. Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer. Let Luigi out to take care of some more important business.
Inflation heated up in December, as prices continue to weigh on Americans. “Transitory.”
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real.
This is in counterpoint to a Jessica Valenti piece that I am no longer able to find, but it was about how men are terrible because we don’t do “enough” housework. Though I’ve never had and will never have children, I’ve been in battles over household chores. And often for men, women do not count these things as household chores (even though they in most relationships rarely or never do them), though they are very time- and labor-intensive:
I was told by my girlfriends in two relationships that all these “didn’t count” and weren’t “real chores” because “men enjoyed these things.” It must be some kind of woman script, because yes, they used almost exactly the same words.
My friends, most men do fucking not in fact enjoy doing these tasks and they require a whole lot of time and work to complete.
Also, many women have much higher (unnecessarily high) cleanliness standards. For instance, an ex of mine was upset if the carpet wasn’t vacuumed at least three times a week. And that’s just too much. Yet if I refused to do that in the Valenti accounting, I’d be “not doing my part.”
Fuck all that noise.
Had a rare win, hunting down new employees is not my job.
Exactly. I’ve been in situations like this before. When I offer to pull the logs to show what really happened, then there is a lot of hemming and hawing. And then the complaint goes away like magic.
Gotta do better than that if you want to make IT the blame dumping ground. We know when stuff happened and exactly what happened.
Shocking! Who could have ever imagined this outcome?
It’s amazing how clownishly stupid MBA types can be sometimes. Almost all of the time. When I see a store with all the goods locked up, I immediately turn around and leave. Why bother? I’ll just buy it online with far less hassle.
Obvious.
Why are tattoos so heavily judged in certain professions?
Tattoos demonstrate you have poor judgement; therefore professions where good judgment is required accept them less readily.
Simple as that.
AITBF for not liking when women change their persona when they find out I’m gay?
This is interesting because something I think most women don’t realize is that straight men experience most women as extremely cold and hostile. It really colors one’s view of women. If I didn’t have a good number of close women friends, in general I’d think women are quite terrible — because that’s the treatment most straight men get most of the time. To us, 99.9% of women are experienced as glacial, distant, and mildly bellicose. (And then women go on and wonder why men do not have women friends. Well, that is why!)
Yes, yes, shut the fuck up, I know why all that it is, but it’s a terrible feeling to be iced out because you happen to be male. And I don’t even think it makes sense most of the time because most women (and most people in general) are incredibly terrible at judging actual risk.
But that’s a whole other topic.
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters.
How soda is changing the world.
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature.
How corn syrup took over America.
Prospect Medical Holdings files for bankruptcy after owners took hundreds of millions in payouts. I got to get in in this legal fraud.
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms.
Starbucks ends its ‘open-door’ policies.
What The Navy’s Massive Orca Submarine Drone Is Actually Capable Of.
Balance of Power Shifts Back Toward Bosses. Funny because RTO makes the workers less productive — but MBA types simply do not care about that at all.
NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing.
James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘little red dots’ come into focus.
The Era of Finance CEOs Running Retailers Is Over. Not over, but retailers who want to succeed will do more of this.
Mass Ukrainian Drone Onslaught Strikes Targets Across Western Russia. Nice.
Why it’s so hard to find starter homes in the U.S.
Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call.
The slow death of the California dream. The Romans built aqueducts stretching hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to permit an outbuilding in California — and their aqueducts actually held water. NIMBYs are pure evil. Society-destroying evil.
Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair.
I have no game. For a good number of years, I just asked out a lot of girls and went out on a lot of dates (anyone who said yes, anyone who asked me).
That’s how you do it. It’s definitely harder now, though, where any expression of interest is considered harassment if you’re a man, and you’re also seen as a default rapist.
It didn’t used to be that way when I was actively dating so I wouldn’t be able to do the same these days.
I do understand the Covidians’ anger and sadness over the fact that Covid did not change the world more. Hell, I at least thought it’d lead to federally-mandated sick leave in the US and some other reforms of the medical system as well as requirements for good indoor ventilation. Oddly, none of that happened.
Still, though, that does not justify the absurd Covidian lying about how harmful Covid is post-vax, and for claiming absolutely wacky shit like Long Covid was going to be civilization-ending.
It’s easy to make something into a religion; it’s much, much harder to effect change in the real wold — which is what the Covidians should’ve actually attempted.
