I was already 5-10x as fast as the average person at knowledge work. And now in areas that are in or near any domain I specialize in for my career, working together with AI I am 1000x faster then others. And that is true even if they use AI as well.
It makes sense, then, that the left loathes AI. It increases inequality enormously.
Say what you will about her career choice, but it cannot be understated how defenseless boomer libtardism is against the Trumpian rhetorical style. If you thought Trump had a major impact on our social order, wait until you see what an entire generation raised watching him does. https://t.co/4GOTrVJ2Nk
— Max (@minordissent) November 2, 2026
“They can cry in a Ferrari.”
Great fucking line. I do not blame her or fault her choices. She’s not my type at all, but If I were that attractive I might consider it too.
It’s nice having a browser that goes back as it should when I click the “back” button.
First time in about 20 years.
That is straight off the NAS disks (no cache) onto an SSD across the network. Yes, that is 1.09GB (not MB) per second. That’s the new TrueNAS we built.
My network is so fire, people.
Shit, ya’ll, I built my own NAS (with my partner’s help) to get away from Synology and their shenangians and I just transferred a 12GB file across the network in a few seconds.
I saw 950MB/s (yes, that’s megabytes) transfer speed. My network is so awesome.
Benching 225 is not that hard if you train for a few years. No juicing required. I don’t really flat bench anymore1, but I routinely did 225 in the army, and it’d only take me a few weeks of training to get back up to that again now since I already work out a lot.
I had a lot of traumatic shit happen in my life.
But the only therapy I need is living well and being awesome. And I do that every day.
One of the reasons it was difficult finding a long-term partner is that not only am I very picky in general (and women hate that1), it’s that I required someone within less than one SD of my own IQ, or we could just not have meaningful conversations. And I value those, so it was a pretty hard requirement.
When I was actively dating, I figured out there were only roughly 200,000 women in the US who exceeded that intelligence barrier.
So, yes, I got very lucky indeed. The number of available, clever, sexy, funny and interesting women with stratospherically-high IQs is always exceedingly small, but I did find one. And completely by accident, too.
Lucky me!
I’m officially CISM certified now:
Yes, I did remove my info in this screenshot. But it’s in and I’m done with that, migraine and all.
I’ve submitted my application for the CISM. Now, it’s waiting till it is approved or they ask for more information.
I got a very solid pass on the cert exam, by the way, despite having a horrible migraine while taking the test. I got a 563. 450 was required to pass. I did that in 43 minutes on a four-hour test. Not too fuckin’ bad.
Now is the time of year our bills are extremely low. We are net producers of power due to all the solar panels so our power bill goes in reverse, and gas heating is not as necessary.
Does not quite make up for the insanely high California taxes combined with terrible Somalia-level government services, but it is something.
It’s always been odd when people have told me that I can’t be as good as I am at reading comprehension, processing and integrating information quickly and just general language stuff because I am terrible at operational math.
And then I totally mog them them by taking a four-hour 150-question exam with a migraine and passing it — again, with a fucking bad migraine — in 43 minutes1. In fact when I came out the proctor asked if I needed a break. I said, “No, all done.” Then she said, “But that’s the long test!” And then something about how she didn’t think I’d be done for another couple of hours. Don’t remember her exact words there because I was both very nauseous and near keeling over.
Trust me, bro, you can put me up against 10,000 randomly-selected people in those areas I mentioned in my first paragraph and I will tear them all apart like they are made of tissue paper. But I still cannot solve a quadratic equation and never will be able to do so.
Well, I passed the cert exam for CISM.
I’m not certified yet, though. It’s one of those “who you know” (and experience-based) certs, so once I get the official results back I have to submit an application and a colleague has to attest that I am awesome (I am). Then, I’ll hold these three certs at the same time: CISM, CISSP and CCNP. There’s likely only a few hundred people in the world (at most!) who have all three of those at once.
Now give me the cash moneys!
I had created two languages from scratch by the time I was 15. One kind of sucked. That was my first attempt.
But the second one was well thought out and pretty cohesive; it could’ve been used by actual humans. Hell, it was used by me. I kept my class notes in it for over a year. Turns out, though, teachers get upset when you hand in a notebook in a language ain’t nobody ever seen before and only one person in the world can read. Heh.
I’m pretty proud of that. Not annoying my instructors, but rather creating my own language de novo with very few outside resources. Just my own big fuckin’ brain and the will to do it.
I did 16 full-hang pull-ups earlier this evening in one set. The most I ever did in the Army was 19, I think. Pretty good since it’s now more than 25 years later.
Not being weak is its own reward.