The haircut that Ilene Graff had in this promo shot from Mr. Belvedere was pretty common in the 1980s. And without a doubt, it was one of the worst women’s hairstyles of all time.
She’s the one on the bottom right, if you did not immediately take notice of that hairpocalypse.
I’ve noticed that too. Makes me laugh every time. You know AI is going to trounce all when even the AI haters can’t stop using AI.
I got a surprise check from the US Treasury.
A refund of $14.53 for who knows what; it did not say. Trying to decide if I should retire with the windfall or blow it all on a Ferrari. This Ferrari specifically.
The Incel’s Veto and Other Observations.
Wow, an actual sane comment from a woman on this topic. Usually it’s something like, “A 25-year-old dating a 23-year-old is definitely always rape!” or some such absolute nonsense.
That said, the DeBoer article is largely boorish and boring rehashed crap.
The left’s belief that there has been no evolution/selection in Homo sapiens over the last 10,000 years is one of most fundamentally clownishly delusional bits of dipshittery I’ve ever heard of.
I spent $25 on a bit of nostalgia and will confuse the heck out of some youngsters today.
That’s right. But if you were lucky enough to have an AdLib sound card back in the day, you could avoid IRQ hell altogether that often came with having a sound card and a modem in the same box. The AdLib didn’t require an IRQ at all. I was not so lucky (my dad was, though), so getting my modem and sound card to play nicely in a new build was always a day of jumper-swapping. Some things certainly are better now.
I truly do not miss IRQ shenanigans.
Women typically give terrible, useless advice to men about dating women.
However, men typically give worthwhile advice to women about dating men. Why? I think it’s because men (as the approachers) absolutely must understand women and what they are looking for, while women are under no such obligation. Men come to them; they need to do very, very little.
Was just realizing this dichotomy. Well, life is never fair.
What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?
This post is wrong, but it is wrong in an interesting way. That is, it posits all these possible future states of AI bubble popping, but begs the question1 by assuming there is a bubble at all. This reminds me of people talking about the “cloud bubble” back in 2013-2016. Well, there wasn’t one. AWS, Azure and others printed money after that “bubble” proved not to be anything of the sort.
And the funny thing is that if this person is correct and the bubble does pop, AI will then be cheaper than it was before. Because that’s what happens when an excess floods the market. See housing post-2008 for a recent-ish example.
Real AI is probably the most useful and efficacious tool we’ve gotten in the computing space since the GUI. At the very least. My guess is that it’ll end up being more consequential than that due to spillover effects.
Oh, by the way, by “interesting” I meant “clownish.” Because that’s what the piece is. Doltish bien-pensant non-thinking.
Ian Welsh (and his ilk) claim that strength is worthless and “just for show.”
But I just did a minor bit of home maintenance that I would not have been able to do when I was weak, and that my partner (though also quite strong) was not able to complete as she was not quite strong enough.
So I’ll take my “worthless” gym strength over being a feeble and wrong doofus any day of the week.
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
I have some bootleg DVDs I bought in China, too. Their descriptions are also of a similar nature, but not this epic.
One of the best feelings in my career I’ve ever had is when I was doing part-time work for a small company — handling their networking, infrastructure, and all tech-related stuff outside of programming.
The owner called me up in a panic saying the company would probably have to cease operations because all their data was completely gone, encrypted by ransomware. The owner was taken aback when I laughed and said I’d have them back up in a couple of hours, max.
And I did have them back to full operations around two hours later. If in my field you do not have great backups, you have nothing. And my backup game is beyond solid. I will never lose your data if you put me in charge of it, or allow it to be lost.
It’s just not gonna happen.
I worked helpdesk and near-helpdesk for many years, and I’d say maybe 10% of users know undo and redo (CTRL+Z and CTRL +Y on Windows). It might be less than that these days as real computer users dwindle. It’s nowhere near 100%. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s likely 2-5% currently.
When I was in the Army in the late 1990s, I told some North Florida goofus that I had been in combat in the Vietnam War at Duk Say Quak. And he believed me. I was 20 years old and the Vietnam War ended in 1975. You do the math.
I wasn’t trying to steal any honor. I just hated the guy and figured he might be too dumb to notice. He was.
I see what they are getting at, and I understand it just fine, but the biological textbook definition of heritability [h = Var(genetic) / Var(phenotypic)] is almost worthless even in the scientific context in which it is used — because it doesn’t answer any important questions. It is explicitly designed to avoid those, in fact.
The whole area has been so corrupted by attempting to route around even thinking about possible racial differences that it trashed itself.
A girl at work called me “magic” today. She knows what’s up.