Trump is Making Health Care Unaffordable Again.

Homeland Security Relaxes Species Requirements To Join ICE. OMG I love those images.

No, Gaza Is Not the Worst or Deadliest War by Any Measure.

Prices in the Machine. AIโ€™s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, itโ€™s already happening.

The missile meant to strike fear in Russiaโ€™s enemies fails once again.

Men are physically stronger than women…This is not a “harmful stereotype.” Unless you’re nuts.

The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

To Get a Manโ€™s Attention, Meow Harder.

Wokeness as respect redistribution.

Sticky Boom

If I were a woman alone on the street, I can’t think of anything scarier than a buncha obviously-Islamic men approaching me.

Too bad they can’t carry big-ass guns in Europe. I used to be against concealed carry, largely. But a woman has no hope against that. She needs the boomstick and to lay down shots non-stop till they Quran-thumping asses drop.

Micro Milli

In the main, developers attempt to implement microservices because they have no networking knowledge and do not understand the huge latency of network calls compared to a local call. Concomitantly, they believe that a millisecond is not much longer than a microsecond1. (In fact, a millisecond is 1,000 times longer than a microsecond.)

From this nonchalant cluelessness, much pain is caused.

  1. I’ve had a developer say this to me directly in person

Flee Fly

Well, that’s very sad — for the elderly people and for my friend who recently moved to Switzerland to get away from this shit and the constant state of fear she lived under due to North African and Islamic economic migrants.

Where will she have to flee to next?

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.

The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last.

Seeing a Moleculeโ€™s Quantum Shadow.

Modern cars are spying on you. Hereโ€™s what you can do about it.

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? Only the hundred or so largest companies in the US need microservices. The others, it’s a huge waste.

The Printer Tracking Dot Scandal.

And mainstream sources, especially those targeted to women, didnโ€™t address obvious things, like the fact that some women were more attractive than others, and that men predictably liked certain traits in women on average, like fit bodies, curves, natural-looking makeup and long hair (the fact that not ALL men liked these things was presented as proof that these generalizations meant nothing.).

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings. Clownish.

Target’s layoff push exposes corporate America’s cold new normal.

AI Hihi

A common mistake I see is that people now believe that all AI is an LLM. However, there are tons of other types of AI (not an exhaustive list): search algorithms, game-playing agents, recommender systems, robotics control, computer vision, classic expert systems, optimization, etc. Many of those precede modern LLMs by 40+ years.

When people hear “AI,” they think ChatGPT. But I had a colleague who was working on AI email spam filtering back in the 1990s. So this stuff has been around a while.

Glancing

It’s a strange thing that I can look at an email for around 1-2 seconds and determine if it’s phishing and/or fraudulent just at a glance and many of the users I’ve worked with over the years couldn’t determine the same thing if they spent six months attempting to figure it out.

It is amazing sometimes the differences in people’s abilities.

Opportunity Cost

It’s annoying to think about how much better and actually-used and useful Firefox could have been if the devs had concentrated on making it distinguishable from other browsers rather than attempting to shape it into a third-rate Chrome clone. That was never going to be a successful strategy as many, many people including me told them over the years. In fact, I even got banned from all of Reddit for laying out the case in very clear terms. (And no, I didn’t violate the Reddit TOS. I just got the ire of every Firefox dev because my predictions started coming true).

Firefox was the last bastion of the old internet. Now effectively dead; a walking corpse that’ll fall into the first pit it stumbles across. It could’ve been different and the path there was fairly clear, but the devs chose a direction that granted them the most power rather than empowering the users.

And that was their grave mistake.

Flat Out

Hong Kong firefighters searching through 2000 flats like these to look for survivors.

One of the many reasons I dislike living in apartments or condos is that if a fire starts, you’re fucked. You can’t get out. By the time you know about the blaze it’s often too late.

In a house, you can just break out a window and jump out. Even if you’re on the second story, you might fracture your ankle or something but you’ll live. Good luck jumping from the 23rd floor of a tower.

The fight for local Windows accounts mattersโ€”here’s why.

For what he does say, i think Spengler is more or less right. Concur.

France joins Europeโ€™s military service bandwagon.

A stranger messaged him on Facebook. It was the start of a nightmare that cost him $280,000 A dumbass does dumbass stuff and then the expected end result occurred. Also, in IT with only $280K in savings at 52?

A search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.

Is Americaโ€™s jobs market nearing a cliff? Has already gone over, really, no matter what this article claims.

American Consumers Have Had It With High Car Prices.

Big Paychecks Canโ€™t Woo Enough Sailors for Americaโ€™s Commercial Fleet.