I mean, that’s how it works. H1B was never, ever, ever intended to be a permanent residency program. Why are we supposed to care that a program that’s working as intended is working as intended?
Clowns
Barely Recall
Remember, this is the same person who tried to tell us how things “really” were during the 1990s while being 0 years old in 1990 and nine in 1999. In other words, she barely recalls the 90s.
Butt (heh) yes, there was a time when a big butt on a woman in particular was considered unattractive even if she was skinny. This view had started its slow decline by the mid-90s (when this person would’ve been five-ish) and had disappeared nearly completely by the early 2000s. I do remember otherwise-normal, healthy and good-looking women being made fun of for having a big butt, though, during the 1980s. So yes, it was a thing.
People confidently telling you how shit was that you lived through. Just annoying beyond all reason.
Inapt
What point is this worthless tweet even attempting to make?
1920s Immigration:
Some money better than no money. Some food better than no food.
Old country: No money, no food.
America: Some money, some food.
It doesn’t make lack of labor laws good or the job market amazing.
Idiot.
Uncontained
The main problem with containerization (which alas I’ve been using a lot of lately) as created by devs is that it only cares about one thing and that is: Can I transport a near-approximation of my machine somewhere else and run it?
Security? Who gives a fuck! Networking? I know what an IP address is, that’s all you need, right? Maintainability? Someone else’s job. Troubleshooting? Works on my machine, and now you have my machine!
It’s a terrible technology designed by the incurious, coded by the inept, and promoted by the incompetent. But we’re stuck with it now.
Resp
That can’t be right. I spend like 1-2 days every 2-3 years sick with a respiratory infection. And that has been true my whole life, not just when I began working from home. In fact, I don’t know anyone who is sick that often from respiratory infections.
Before I posted this, I asked a close friend who will tell me absolutely anything honestly how often she gets sick and she said, “Maybe one or two days a year.”
I think that number is just made up by covert Covidians to support their doofy but now-irrelevant agenda.
Democlown
It’s interesting how right before capable AI was released many people were generally of the mind that anything useful had already been discovered, technology had stalled out, and that we were done with progress in that realm.
Well, so much for that. It was always clownish; now it is once again demonstrably clownish.
Let Me Help You Out This Helicopter
Some clown-ass dev thought they knew better than you so they broke standard tools and conventions to “help” you.
Maison du Crack
Anyone who believes that is smoking ALL the crack. Below I will explain how you can lie in plain sight and get away with it unless someone has a giant fucking brain like I do.
First, this is based on own earnings, i.e., per individual. The enormous gap between Silent/Greatest gen and everyone else is mostly due to women entering the paid workforce. Half the Silent Gen “median person” was a non-earning or low-earning (almost always a woman) spouse. That means there are a bunch of non-earner zeros on the left side of their medians. That further means that their individual labor earnings crater, necessarily. That’s obviously not because a 1955 machinist was poor, but because the median adult then included millions of women with almost no recorded labor income. So that is just a simple composition effect they are using to lie there.
By the way, I’ve read the papers these charts are poorly cribbed from. One of them says the exact opposite of what’s presented here in fact. Check it yourself. There’s a reason it’s called (in part) “Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled?” Why each generation earns more is largely based on the fact that each generation works more because there are more of the pool in the labor force.
Another major deception here: the inset chart series is post-tax, post-transfer. Thus, it imputes the market value of public health insurance (Medicare/Medicaid) at the cost of providing it. Healthcare costs exploded during the past 50 years. National health expenditures per capita rose ~3.5% per year in real terms. Because those costs are booked as income to the recipient, rising medical prices mechanically show up as you getting “richer.” Which is, you know, fucking ridiculous. But a good way to lie for econs. They do it all the time.
Another one: The big chart uses CPI (in 2019 dollars) while the paper uses PCE. Pew just recently showed real median wage growth since 1999 lands at anywhere from 11% to 22% depending just on which inflation index you choose. Those clowns chose the measure that made their point look the most rosy. Also, of course, during that time, housing and education outran inflation by a lot. A single economy-wide deflator averages a representative consumer’s basket. It is really fucking not the basket of a 26-year-old, which is dominated by rent, first-time home prices, tuition, childcare, and medical, which are the exact categories that rose way out of proportion to general inflation.
And, lastly, Gen Z is the least trustworthy part of that whole set of absurd lies data-wise. More of Gen Z is still in school and for longer, so the ones with recorded earnings at 20–24 are a selected slice of the population. Often, it’s those with parental help, nepo babies, athletes and otherwise-abnormal people that skew the stats a lot.
In other words, these are shoddy lies that nevertheless will hoodwink most. You can fool most of the people most of the time with crap like this, but me nearly none of the time.
Nice try, though. I had to spend three entire minutes thinking about it, which is two more than usual.
Put Folder
I ws looking at Navidrome for personal music streaming but then saw this.
That’s a dealbreaker. This software is written by younger Millennials and Gen Z who don’t know what a fucking directory is. Despite their clownish ignorance a folder structure is the best way to handle a lot of data and probably always will be. Not all music is tagged or tagged accurately. Putting it in a damn folder is the quick and dirty way to organize it easily.
You know tons of people have asked for it if they put disclaimers all over the place about why they won’t do it. Because they are fucking idiots. I logged into GitHub to complain about it to them. I know it won’t help, but it made me feel better.
FA Falling
That was another tard-ass Fat Acceptance “truth.” Diet is better for losing weight, of course. But exercise also helps. Always has been true, always will be.
Backxactly Ackwards
Castro Podcasts — Things I got wrong: Support.
Castro is an opinionated app and I’ve thought a lot about what we’re building and what we’re going to work on next. It’s unlikely I’m going to implement the request. If I did, by catering more to persnickety power users, we run the risk of alienating newer users who don’t know how things work. But our power users probably aren’t going anywhere, at least they’re a little harder to shake, and alienating new users is the death of the product.
This is exactly backwards. But I think the piece accidentally reveals a fundamental misunderstanding that is very common to people who create software. The reality is that your power users are the ones who funnel new users to to you. Firefox never would’ve taken off without its power users; I personally got hundreds of people to use Firefox, many of whom never would’ve heard of it at all without my influence.
When they decided to kick their power users in the teeth for largely made-up post-hoc manufactured bullshit reasons is when that software began its long usage decline. The Mozilla clowns blame the power users (at least in part) for this, but in reality it’s those users who told them what would happen if they made the bad decisions they did. And they were right, as I’ve pointed out before.
Dustin’s counterproductive reaction — as it almost always is — is a power and pride thing. Power users are often completely correct about what would make your product better for everyone. But that rubs many creators the wrong way because it means more work, and someone else having at least some measure of de facto control, and that someone saw something that you did not. It means the software becomes less yours if you let someone tell you what would in fact work better for them. And many people (such as the Firefox devs) just enjoy having control over others.
I have nearly no idea what Castro is or what it does. It seems to be about podcasts, which means I’d never touch it. But Dustin’s contentions really misunderstand what power users offer in a software ecosystem, and what it means to alienate them.
For instance, I can tell that I’d never use Castro at all even if I were into podcasts because any creator who makes a point to shit on power users is one whose product I’d not even consider in the first place.
Too Tat
Correct. It’s also culturally-defensible (and defended) self-harm in a way that cutting and anorexia are not. It’s just mental illness; has nothing to do with the claimed “owning my body” or “keeping away evil men.”
Though it is pretty hilarious when it does in fact repel those top 1% men they think they deserve. Love that. It makes me laugh a lot at how very enraged the horribly-disfigured tattooed women become when they realize that has happened.
The Nincompoops Who Say NIH
Containers, especially the Linux (as opposed to the FreeBSD) variant, are inherently less secure by nature than virtual machines.
Also, FYI, we sysadmin types can spin up VMs just as quickly as containers and have been able to do so for 20+ years. It’s just devs didn’t know anything about it and couldn’t control it, so they reinvented something we could already do — but poorly and very insecurely.
Spread
I’ve been seeing a lot of doofs lately claiming that some study proves the Dunning-Kruger Effect isn’t real.
Just as with generational differences, of course it’s real. It’s just not easy to capture in your little science spreadsheets. There is a difference.
Dis Respect Dat Respect
Fuck this clown-ass nonsense.
Being consistently late is a moral failing and it is disrespectful. You are implicitly telling me that your time is more valuable than mine. One of the reasons I am almost never late is that I do not presume to believe my time is more valuable than anyone else’s. And I am one arrogant mofo so if I value your time just as much as my own, you can show me that courtesy as well.
I just stop dealing with people who are consistently late. It is literally not worth my time.