I'm hoping there's a documented Email where some underling informs the director that "If you say this, more people will die." Because that will really help with the prosecutions that are coming in the next few months.

I'll be pretty impressed if Elon is the guy with the brain implants. Takes a lot of balls to eat your own dogfood when it comes to sticking things in your brain.

IBM used to talk about how awesome their next mainframe would be, so please don't buy that Honeywell this year! Well, until the DOJ got in their shit about their monopoly. Under the consent decree, they were VERY careful not to pre-announce features for decades after that.

So yeah, this very much has a "So please don't buy an AMD processor this year!" feel to it.

But fuck, sometimes the victims make it so easy to blame them.

In the before time when I was actually wearing pants, I still wouldn't wear a pair of their pants to work. I suspect that I probably could have gotten away with not wearing pants back then, either. At least in a couple of the positions I worked in.

Really? I can't remember the last time Google showed me an orifice, even with safe search off. Bing, on the other hand, will pop up pages of them on even the most innocuous of terms. I do have to say it's much less likely to do so with safe search on. Definitely never forget to include the search words "document preparation system" if you're looking for info on LaTeX. And I was going to be all "Try it with 'Forest of Dongs'", but surprisingly few actual dongs in there. And for some reason, the first result for "Vietnamese Dong" isn't a penis. Maybe pr0n just doesn't work when you're actually looking.

I loved that thing. You could pretend you had social media, but no one ever read or responded to anything. I put skydiving posts in there for 2 years, thought my parents were reading them and knew what I was up to. Then I took my sister and her daughter on a tandem jump. My sister posted that on Facebook and 10 minutes later I get this call from mom, "WHAT DID YOU DO?!!!!!" Google+ was so much nicer. Since it's gone, I'm going to have to build an anti-social networking tool to take its place.

Heh, funny story, we're on the plane and the Tandem instructor asks my niece, "Who did you put down as your emergency contact if something happens on this jump?" and she says "My mom!" and points at my sister. And my sister says, "I put HIM down!" and point at me. And I say, "Well I would rather die in a fire plane crash than explain to Gamma how I got her daughter and grand daughter killed taking them skydiving!" Aaahh, yeah... good times... Everyone lived, by the way.

Pass the Prozac sprinkles for my ice cream.

At the moment I'd say the number is zero, as we've never seen an intelligent civilization in the galaxy. If we ever find one, we can increment that to one. I am counting us in that assessment, given that an intelligent civilization would probably not destroy the only place in the universe where they know for sure that they can live.

Just about 100% of them will also carry a cell phone, which by design is tracking their every move anyway.

Maybe thread preemption will get tighter. I mean, now that he has so many threads to rip. I want to put together a water cooled threadripper desktop, but last time I checked the price tag on the hardware I speced out was pretty close to ten grand. Admittedly a xeon with an approximately similar number of threads would set me back over three times that. I do a fair bit of video processing these days, so I'd be making good use of the hardware. I reckon I'll hold off for another couple of years and see how things look once the Intel and AMD really start waving their dicks at each other.

Yeah, they've kept saying that since the mid '90's. Most of those projects are still failing because the company's managers and product owners don't know how to write requirements. And they especially don't know how to write requirements that someone outside their industry and facing a language barrier can implement to. Every so often you get a manager who actually knows his company's business model and the technical side of things, and those guys would tend to do pretty well with an outsourced project, but they also seem to prize having in-house talent that they can develop, which drives the development costs of all their other projects down as time goes on.

I'd start there. As someone with a successful career in software engineering, my success stems from my ability to understand the business model of my company and to translate the inane ramblings of my manager into software. Until AI can do that, I'm not terribly concerned about my job. When AI can do that, my manager and I will both be out of a job, as will most of the rest of humanity, I'm sure.

Look at him pretending to care about worker's mental health.

Yeah, problem is anyone who actually reads the windows source without proper preparation has their face melt like that Indiana Jones movie. Best they just keep a lid on it.

I kid, I kid. In actuality, the problem is that anyone reading the source would quickly realize that just because someone is paid to develop software doesn't mean they crap unicorns and fairies. You see, normal people like to assume that the people who write their software are somewhat competent. So there's a tendency to, for example, assume your web browser is fairly secure. Or that the company writing it actually gives a shit about security. Having the code available to actually read would quickly dispel those assumptions, people would lose faith in technology and the entire software ecosystem would collapse.

Now... aah, I see you looking at open source over there. Stop looking at open source. Open source isn't going to help you here! Because it also turns that that even though the open source guys say their code is more secure because it has more eyes on it, there are no eyes on it. There are millions of lines of open source code out there. Do you know how many have been audited for security? I'm thinking of a number that rhymes with schmero. No one's paying for that, so no one's doing that. And yes, it's probably slighty more than zero audited lines, but if you divide the number of lines that no one's ever looked at by the ones that someone has, it's close enough to be a rounding error.

Er... so yeah, I guess it's fine if they open source windows.