Annoying

Scaled Out

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

I’ve been running TrueNAS Scale on the new NAS, the one that is home-built (not from a vendor). And I don’t like TrueNAS itself much. It’s yet another power user tool that has removed or gimped its most important and useful features for no apparent reason.

For instance, they’ve removed the recycle bin on SMB so that “Previous Versions” in Windows no longer works. I don’t even run Windows at home on my daily use endpoints, but that’s a real loss. And moronic. Their “solution” is to use ZFS snapshots, but this is a totally different tech that is not as easy and is far more dangerous.

TrueNAS also doesn’t handle certain files generated on the Mac correctly — specifically ones with Alternate Data Stream stuff going on — while commercial NASes seem to deal with these files fine. And no, the supposed common fix did not correct the issue.

The GUI is also pretty bad. It manages to be both too simple and too confusing at the same time somehow, and is missing many features and capabilities (many of which did exist previously and were removed for ideological reasons).

Of the major NASes and their OSes/GUIs I’ve used recently, I’d give QNAP’s a 7, Synology’s an 8.5, and TrueNAS a 4. It feels amateurish and like something I used in the early 2000s.

I will keep using it for now but it’s pretty meh.

Power Fail

Chill Annoying

I’m a little bitter because I spent a good while on a substantial project at work that was something I had to learn from scratch (no AI used in this case) and the person who pushed for it…just never used it.

Not a single time, after 8 months. Well, I learned something, but a lot of time wasted there.

Change Shift

Chill Amusing, Annoying

(1) RomeoStevens on X: "@paul__is__here Oh, this one is big and a little harder to describe. There's a thing where some women get used to the feeling of having a lot of power in the socio-sexual space and don't seem to understand that as soon as they exit short termism it becomes much more balanced. Straight up favors" / X

This is correct. Women when they are young have a huge amount of power over their same-age male peers. They are desirable rather than disposable and have just enormous sexual and social control over the spaces they inhabit. They let that go to their heads and believe it does and will hold forever.

But it doesn’t, even though many still act as if it is eternal as they age. However, as men get older and their libido decreases a little — and they gain some wealth and prestige — they learn to automatically discard any woman who sees herself as the prize just because she has a nice smile and a functional vagina. That’s going to be a bad relationship and the man knows it. That delusional woman who still perceives herself as the catch beyond age 28 or so is doomed to cycle through men who realize how horrid she is until she’s an old cat lady.

I’m not on the dating market but if I were I’d be the catch now. And some women never get used to that transition due to the vast sociosexual power they held in their late teens and twenties. They never recover from the loss of de facto power. So in some ways it’s good that men aren’t raised to believe they are some unfathomably great prize. It makes them a lot less entitled.

Cessional Vibe

Chill Annoying, Political Economy

All the clown-ass economists are like “vibecession” and “everyone is doing amazing, they are just lying and deluded about economic problems!” Meanwhile, a hamburger at a counter-serve restaurant that cost $8 before the pandemic is now $17.

And I’m fucking rich! So if it bothers me, it’s got to be absolutely brutal on those who are barely making it. Because even if they aren’t buying hamburgers in restaurants, they still are getting hit with those high grocery prices.

And that’s why people report bad economic sentiments.

Slivers

Chill Annoying

(1) Cartoons Hate Her! (@CartoonsHateHer) / X

It’s hilarious to watch women complain about this. Even women who are at some point in their lives are relatively forward only experience an extremely tiny sliver of the rejection men experience.

Also, you’d have better success as a woman approaching someone when you’re not all teenagers. That would go a lot better with 28-year-old men than 15-year-old boys.

Not like I kept an exact count, but I guess I’ve been rejected by a woman 3,000-5,000 times in my life. And had maybe ~100 successes (got the number, got a date, had sex, whatever). Let’s say 4,000 approaches in whatever form with 100 successes. So that’s a 2.5% success rate. I think that’s actually probably better than average, where it’s more like ~1%. That’s because I am extremely verbally fluent and that gives me an advantage.

But still, 2.5%! That’s not great. And that comes with a lot of danger of reputational damage and women who attempt to ruin your life for merely asking them out.

Women don’t know shit about rejection.

Witnit

Chill Annoying, Political Economy

Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity.com) — Bluesky

Eh, that is only really true for mature companies. For start-ups and companies without a large revenue base stock sales absolutely do finance investment and capex. In fact, that’s the whole fucking purpose of them in the first place! Why would you write something this transparently wrong and stupid?

I hate this kind of smug but incorrect (but correct in some situations) clowninshness. We’ve allowed nitwits and pseudointellectuals to dominate all.

Please Try Harder

Chill Annoying, Tech

Everyone just seems so dogmatically dumb about too many things. It’s why I can’t help but be so insulting.

People claim that there is no future in which AI models improve and that we get better at building the underlying infrastructure supporting them. However, right now, AI runs mostly on chips that were designed to play Half Life and Final Fantasy in data centers built to provide a place for an SAP or email server to operate. And the frontier models are about as optimized as a 1979 Chevy Pinto.

To think all of that won’t get better…fucking ludicrous. Are you even thinking? Are you even trying to think?

Know More

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Wow, the comments on this article about GitHub price increases are absolute horseshit.

Brothers and sisters, all of you are fucking idiots. I say that with love. Love for how right I am.

Price increases are not a sign of the AI bubble bursting or even how much AI “actually costs.” None of what Github is doing has anything to do with that.

This is all a political decision in the sense that this is an attempt by Anthropic et al. to wrest back control from third-party resellers and bring back customers to their own offerings. To be clear, GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is a third-party reseller. It does not develop nor run nor operate its own model and Microsoft has no in-house-developed quality frontier AI.

This is not what y’all clowns think it is, because none of you know a goddamn thing about anything and it’s kind of embarrassing.

Estimating from open-source benchmarks and accounting for all capital/personnel costs, a frontier AI actually costs about $8 per million tokens for something Opus-sized.

They could make massive profit by charging $16 per million, in other words. And that million tokens is enough to drop in a moderate codebase of 30,000–50,000 lines and ask “where’s the bug” or “explain this code.” In other words, a million tokens can do a freakin’ lot.

You understand nothing and know nothing. Just shut up. You’re hurting my head.

Too many people want to believe something that does not match reality and not only is it powerful stupid, it’s boring and tedious.