What a performance.
Clucking
I don’t give a fuck about Jensen Huang’s affairs. I do care that he was probably committing treason by illegally selling restricted technology to China.
You can tell how mentally incompetent Gen Z is because they are moralizing over the stupid affairs and age gaps while ignoring the real issue. Fucking idiot dipshit-ass clowns.
Construct
Does anyone think the newly-elected Dems are going to do anything useful or constructive? I sure do not.
Mainly, they will do what the Republicans have done, just in a different guise: harm the US, themselves, and probably the rest of the world too. It’s only good they were not around when AI came to the fore as strangling that in the crib would have been very bad news for the country.
The Dems will flail around for a few years, then probably Ron DeSantis will be president due to their failures.
Cariño – Therapy
Tiene una vibra muy bonita. La escuché dos veces esta noche.
GRUB – Shake It
Sometimes this sort of scuzzy stuff hits just right. And what even is that lead guitar tuning? This is great.
Terate
It’s a sad fact that even most “educated” people are only semi-literate.
And the rest are worse than that. By any reasonable standard, maybe 2% of the populace is actually literate.
Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers. Evil. Fuck them.
AMD’s Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast.
‘Fjord,’ and the Paradox of Tolerance.
Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal.
The US military seems to be getting nervous about the launch supply crunch.
Rich Country, Poor Citizens: China’s $20 Trillion Paradox.
10-Year Treasury Yield Spikes as Inflation Spreads across Economy, Driven by Ugly Core Services CPI.
Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang.
An American Furniture Maker Tried to Bring Jobs Back Home. It Didn’t Work.
Nvidia’s Disappearing Singapore Sales Deepen Mystery Around Megaspeed.
The Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call.
Need a Lot of Helis
Also, it really pisses me off to an extreme level that we need permission like the below to use our own machines.
Everyone who had or has anything to do with that is definitely being thrown out of a helicopter over Somalia.
Watch This
Apple almost didn’t let me have a developer account because my name is on some terrorist watch list or some such.
Great.
Corpolated
Things I’ve learned after 30+ years in the corporate world:
1) Good work does not speak for itself. No one cares or will notice. You have to tell people about it, tell them again, and then remind them again later.
2) It is a cliché because it’s true: who you know matters more than what you know.
3) The person who tells the story first sets the narrative. Everything else is filtered through that. Related to point 1, be the person who tells the story.
4) Incredibly bad ideas can perpetuate themselves and sustain careers longer than you could ever imagine.
5) Who gets promoted is often more a matter of who complains less or does unpleasant things without flinching rather than who is competent or even remotely capable.
6) Do not get attached to any job or make it your identity. Trust me, your company does not care about you, your company does not love you — and it never ever will.
7) The people at work who you think are your friends will always choose their mortgage and career over you. Do not forget that.
8) Try to do good work regardless of the above. It is about self-integrity, not loyalty to any company.
9) Never treat executive assistants poorly or get on their bad side. Try to befriend them, in fact. They know everything and everyone and can make or break your career.
10) And, most importantly, keep receipts. Document everything. Make notes and send emails about anything substantive. A conversation with your manager that leads to a decision? Send a follow-up email later with the exact details of what was decided. Talk with HR? The same. And follow the same procedure with subordinates. It absolutely will save your ass.
Jensen
I mean, there was a study years ago that demonstrated people would give up their work password for a chocolate chip cookie.
She’s probably more fun than the average chocolate chip cookie, so makes sense?
He was diagnosed with cancer. Then he was told he lost his Medicaid.
California voters defeat billionaire tax proposal that divided Democrats.
High oil prices have led to a dip in global carbon emissions.
Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand.
Global warming near levels forecast for 2040: UVic study.
Scion Is Back! And It’s Going To Sell A Freaking Kei Truck In America.
Smart home devices should work without the internet.
To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA.
Buildout
If I seized power as absolute ruler of the US, after throwing the worst people out of helicopters over Somalia of course, I’d have us go on a building spree so madly profligate we’d all be deaf from construction noises.
We’d have so many trains, transmission lines, nuclear reactors, solar power installations, airports, data centers, factories and research centers that China would look like absolute slackers.
Try me.
Code Boxes
I agree that the days of typing into the little code box to create software are done; only hobbyists will do that after this year or so. It is going the way of the dinosaur about as quickly as dinosaurs did ~65 million years ago.
This is the biggest change to computing since GUIs and perhaps since high-level languages came to the fore. And it’s not nearly over.
Stop Collaborate and Listen
I’m vibecoding a music discovery and information app that does exactly what I want it to do and nothing else.
Before practical AI I never would’ve attempted this. It would’ve taken me 2,000 hours. I’m a terrible developer, so a good one probably could’ve done it in 400-500 without AI. That is still a very long time.
So it’s something I never would’ve even begun in the pre-AI era. But now I have it and it’s amazing.
My music app rocks the mic like a vandal.